http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/1 5/walmart-to-close-154-s

>>61079777
Well arleast they raised wages for their employees you shitlord


>raise wages to $10 an hour
>destroys your company

>>61079882
It's because the CEOs and their 2 best friends refuse to take a pay cut.

Your solution is to keep wages low as inflation rises until your workers starve to death and die

Yay Kmart!

>>61079777

Sounds like

When walmart is CLOSING stores, they you know shit is hitting the fan

>>61080452
I feel like there are some serious problems in the American economy but nobody is really addressing them. Shit is hitting the fan everywhere around and nobody is really paying attention to it.

>>61079777
There are three walmart centers in my town. Twice they have relocated (built a new store at another location) and re-opened them.

>>61080545

Especially

>Dollar plummeting
>Liberal government doing nothing
>Le weed man PM taking lavish vacation
>Already have 10,000 shitskin dependents on our soil
>40,000 minimum more to come
>Everyone brainwashed things are good, and refugees somehow equal an award

>>61080545
it doesn't effect the rich that much, why would you expect your politicians to care

Department stores are an outdated model with online shopping happening. This is nothing to be concerned about.

>>61079988
Even if all the people on top dramatically slashed their salaries to give to the rest, the resultant savings would only result in a puny increase for the workers

obama should let the markets do their magic and hand the disaster to the republicans.

>>61081266
>1.75 increase from 7.25 to the new wage of 9
>the stores closing are affecting 10k workers
>that small pay raise over 1 year for those 10k workers equals out to 36.5 million more a year

Fuck raising the minimum wage.

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>>61079777
Good. Wal-Mart's employees are the shittiest scum that exists. I hope they all end up at McDonald's, another company that needs to close down all its locations.

Fucking faggots. Good riddance.

>>61081415
doesn't mind that taxpayers subsidize slave labour wage jobs?

oh well, if capitalism doesn't work you'll just have to starve

>>61081846
Get rid of the subsidizes also. There are too many people and a few need to die off so that there can be a more streamlined efficient system of living.

Blame amazon

>>61081901
Edge lird

>>61081901
it's not just burger joints and big box stores.

the problem with capitalism is eventually you run out of taxpayer money

>>61079988

Yeah you're retarded if you think that would have covered the cost of the wage increase.

>>61079777
harsh news.
its like closing 154 public toilets in Germany

>>61082549
>the problem with capitalism is eventually you run out of taxpayer money

You joke, but that's a thing. Businesses are just as apt to use government welfare as people.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/#2715e4857a0b6f4798ea7cd8

Walmart could not survive as a business if Uncle Sam didn't have to feed its employees.

What does this mean for the south?

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I don't remember the last time I bought something at a retail store.

I just buy everything online now, literally everything, like fucking deodorant etc.

This Malagus is only the beginning

>>61081846
Please. The minimum wage in Japan is 3 and their prices are much more inflated. Why so much entitlement?

Aw shit nigga. I will have to plan my suicide soon if this affects my store because I've worked there for eight years and no other employer will be able to match my hourly wage of $15...

It's been fun bros, but there's literally nothing else I can do...

>shuttering Walmart Express stores
its fucking nothing

Who cares.
>Walmart is evil, all corporations are evil
>We need minimum wage jobs.
Pick one, libs.

>>61083055
it's all of them, from energy production to football stadiums

corporations build offices around MI ect. so the can monitor the taxpayer funded research.

>>61079777
Good riddance.

>>61083724
>MIT

>>61083661
I'll take the first and give everyone a basic guaranteed income.

Check mate, retard.

Internet shopping is killing WalMart.

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>>61083506
That at least makes this terminal walmart associate feel a little more at ease. These express stores were are convenience stores in food oases that arent as "intimidating" as a large store. I got a story that makes /pol/ laugh and working people like myself rage

>wife works as a hairdresser in the front
>this 19 year old girl comes in
>asks what she does for work/study
>claims she has "anxiety" and gets autismbux
>complains because she had to shop at walmart vs a smaller local grocery chain
>wifes face when

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>>61079777

God trips confirm the end

>>61079777
Simple Union busting.

>That's the story.

>>61079777
>Walmart Express
i wonder if it will affect the one near me. It hasn't even been open a year yet. I'd imagine it doesn't do well because not only is it less than 10 minutes away from THREE walmarts and in a very small 'city' its also literally across the street from the nigger part of town white people know to avoid. You can see a literal crack house from the parking lot kek

>>61083887
Where is the basic guaranteed income gonna come from?

>insanely high taxes
>unlivable low guaranteed income

>>61079777
so what happened to them being special secret prisons as was all the rage in the tinfoil hat wearers list of inane ramblings just a few months ago?

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>>61084172
Yeah, you can't fuck around with the U-word. We had corporate on our ass at my store after some fuck was expressing one too many Ayn Randian platitudes.
>>61083887
>basic guaranteed income
it's like you niggers want to become r/selected animals.

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>>61083887
>guaranteed income

Fuck off shill go shove you marxist agenda up your ass

I didn't know Brazil had Wal-marts

>>61079777

The fucking retards just built a new one a few miles from mine. They're fucking retarded with how they build shit where they can to attempt to squish any form of competition.

>>61084464
They have rebranded names globally, not just the "WM".

>>61084499
They have also said they are still going to continue on with opening 300 new stores world wide. I have no idea what the fuck they are planning on doing

Walmart simply has too high of a store density, and their prototype "Walmart Express" store model failed. Most of the closures are the "Walmart Express" stores, and the rest in the US are midsized ones.

Nothing to do with the economy or wages for employees, purely to do with optimizing income/square foot.

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>>61079777
> obligatory 'happening' thread music

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rIos0ya-yss

>>61084620

No fucking clue. Here in Tulsa, there's a lot of them within a mile to several miles of each other. The one they just built is in between this Walmart and a Supercenter in Sapulpa, and that one took an assload of business away from this store, to the point we almost closed.

We need a snow storm here to bolster sales....Fucking mismanaged with a Kiwi CEO.

>>61082781
I think you're being unfair to toilets as those are actually beneficial to society as a whole.

>>61084909
What the fuck were they thinking when they hired Greg Foran from New Zealand?

>>61079988
>he thinks the CEO makes 5B a year

>>61084991

I hear his voice on the radio every fucking night, taunting us. Kiwis are as bad as Strayans.

>>61080863
dont worry, a year from now when you are in a recession people will be more aware

>>61084404
>quit walmart
>now work at union chain

weeeeeee

>>61085135
So do I, met with a "shut up you kiwi fuck".

You submit your Walmart Radio DJ audition yet?

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>>61079988
>HURRRR DURRR LE CEO/CORPORATE BOOGEYMAN

CEOs work under contract. Termination of the contract requires payment known to the Economically uninitiated as "Golden Parachutes".

Corporations are not infallible, they can fail just like any other company or Empire. You Millennial retards never heard of Safeway and Montgomery Ward for a reason.

>>61085352
How is it on the outside?

Fuck rapemart, I say close them all. Such a shit tier company.

>>61079777So what will be done with all the empty buildings?

>>61080545
Do you think the government will want to induce panic like that?

>>61085757
They are huge to accommodate multiple businesses if they wanted to.

>>61085633
You would have welfare lines around the block and more, along with a few hundred anons such as myself because I don't have a GED/skills at 30...

>>61085126
Even of they did make 5 billion a year it still wouldnt cover raised pay rates for the slaves

>>61085958
Why the fuck not? You're 30 fucking years old. I'm 29 and went to boot camp 3 days after high school graduation and just got done with my associates, and I was slacking off with my degree. What were you doing your entire 20's??

>>61086120
Thank you for your service

>>61085757

There is some sort of tax law or something that actually makes it more profitable to leave the buildings empty than sell them or use them for good. Odd I know but these places will most likely just rot away.

I grew up in the south and Have seen towns literally go to shit. Sometimes they convert the buildings into multiple units for other businesses but the problem is the rent on shit is so fucking stupid that you can't start a small business and get storespace. So it'll be a hibbets or some other overpriced piece of shit store for a while then that will close and eventually it'll just be a run down eyesore.

What they should do is partition off the inside and have it be a sort of mini-mall for various small businesses and self employed people. Like a flea market but a little bit higher scale. With affordable rent.

>>61085366

Nah, don't wanna move to Arkansas, they'd probably remove my ass after a year for fresh talent or some shit.

>>61086120
well la ti ta
throwing around your associate's degree like king nigger, and boot camp? real stand up guy

>>61086120
dealing with my family's collapse/homelessness until I said fuck it at 23.

Without getting too much into it, I have no reason to get my GED because CC is $17k for an associates and I don't feel comfortable borrowing money from the government. It would help if I had any career interests/dreams, but it's too late to start now (add the fact that I doubt I would have the thick skin required to deal with SJWs and required humanities courses).

Nonetheless, thank you for your service to the country.

>>61084404
>Ayn Rand
>pro union platitudes
typical education and reading comprehension skills of someone who works at walmart

>>61081028
Politicians are not there to be served, but to serve.

>>61086877
lol

>>61085442
I go to safeway to buy groceries all the time you fucking American mongoloid.

Back to reddit, moron.

>>61086539
What have you done with YOUR life?

>>61086955
If they are not then there is a flaw in the system.

>>61079777 THREAD THEME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx06XNfDvk0

>>61087089
republicans only care about what the rich want. if they talk about the working class, it's a side issue

>>61079777
>America bitches nigs and meth heads don't get paid enough
>wal mart pays them more
>America bitches that the company did exactly what they asked

Why isn't economics taught in high school

>>61087793
Democrats are no better.

people are finally starting to realize that walmart fucking sucks

>>61088250
Millions of dollars of rebranding and embarrassing "testimonials" of associates cannot sway public opinion as it seems....

>>61079988
You Berniefags are always so fucking funny... the CEO salary is like 30 Million a year, that is not enough to support even a single store. Even if you cut the CEO and board salary to nothing it won't help the company by enough to matter on the scale that they operate on.

>>61080863
I can't wait for the Canadian rapefugee crisis to start.

>TWO WALLS

>>61088059
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pji_IX-UacM

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>>61088754
DOS WALL SENOR DONALD

Well they just shut down a non 24hour Walmart near my house after building a 'super walmart' and it's open 24/7

I've worked at Walmart before as a teen, it wasn't a fun experience but that's probably why I quit after a month

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>>61081625
You aren't wrong.....

I agree with a lot of those sentiments, but feel it is in poor taste to say so. I work with a lot of Walmart employees, and McDonald's employees.

Good people might have to use these bottom rung jobs as a transition when something goes terribly wrong, but the rest of them have mental deficiencies or personality disorders.

I'm glad they work, even more glad I don't have to work with them. Please don't release them into the job market. They might accidentally end up higher on the food chain and it could take years of poor performance for them to settle back to the bottom

>>61089000
Do you work in job placement or something?

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>>61086348

I've seen old Walmarts become medical centers. It's actually a very good way to repurpose them. All the electrical and plumbing is up to par, they can afford the rent, they are conveniently located and have large parking lots.

Supercenters could easily be used as malls or trade fairs as well

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>>61081625
>>61079777
I've always thought walmart mcd and other huge low wage employers should hire teens and young adults first not fucking single mothers and immigrants.

>>61089878
muh wage labor laws

>>61089380

No, just a contractor who works in commercial environments. Have to work with these people in an informal way so I really see how they act as employees. Dollar General is a weird one- it seems to be an even mix of pretty decent people and mouth breathers that Walmart wouldn't hire

>>61089878
Very true. A problem with that is it would take a generation of shitty service and poor food quality for kids to catch onto the idea of doing a good job for it's own sake. Imagine growing up and being afraid to eat out because every time you do, stomach cramps and diarrhea are on the horizon