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Neat picture:

The First Ever Walmart (1962)

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Hard to imagine that from this simple image emerged a supermarket global empire.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
My only point is that when a company makes record profits and expands every quarter, there was once an understanding that employees would reap the benifits too. Our tax dollars subsidize Wal-Mart on several levels. I saw a statistic that said in 1965 and 1975, a person making minimum wage made roughly 20k a year in today's dollars. The same job today pays 5k less. You can't become mgmt at Wal-Mart without starting at the min wage end, and you can't afford to live starting at min wage. So Wal-Mart shows it's employees how to file for govt assistance. Our taxes pay for Wal-Mart full-time employees to eat, while the Walton heirs are worth 20b each. I don't fault Wal-Mart for making money. I do say fuck them for paying lobbyists to "persuade" congress to keep the min wage low and to raise snap money so that they can pay their employees [Mark May], forcing them to use their food stamps at Wal-Mart. It's a ridiculous circle jerk.

I also find it absurd that every grocery store I know of gives employees some kind of discount on food. Wal-Mart doesn't. Because they know if you're working there, you're most likely getting food assistance, and they're not trying to cut tax payers any breaks.
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I remember working there about a decade ago. They decided to cap what you can make hourly. Fuck Walmart.
 
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Best Buckeye said:
I'm thinking that everyone of you guys wish you were as smart as Sam Walton, and had their money.....
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I don't think anyone would confuse Sam Walton with an incredible intelligent person. He's a man that started a business that just so happened to prosper.

As for the Walton money, I can guarantee that if I had said money, I would relief myself of 99% of it. That much cash just seems like an incredible burden for one person.
I will also guarantee that with said money under my command, there would be a large assortment of communities, Especially in Ohio that would be receiving incredible boosts to their local economy.
 
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Buckeneye said:
I don't think anyone would confuse Sam Walton with an incredible intelligent person. He's a man that started a business that just so happened to prosper.

As for the Walton money, I can guarantee that if I had said money, I would relief myself of 99% of it. That much cash just seems like an incredible burden for one person.
I will also guarantee that with said money under my command, there would be a large assortment of communities, Especially in Ohio that would be receiving incredible boosts to their local economy.
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I doubt many of us would be so ruthless and effective at preserving that bottom line, so We probably are not smart in best's book. Thank goodness.
 
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The Waltons are really good at wealth accumulation. Probably the best. If life were a game of monopoly, we'd all have probably flipped the board over by now and quit. In fact, several small business owners do just that when another Walmart breaks ground in their neighborhood. But at least they can get a job... at Walmart.
 
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