And you singled out the South because...?
It's where Wal-Mart is from and they dominate the market down there.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Mar 26, 2010 6:15:21 pm PDT #19056 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
javachik - Mar 26, 2010 6:16:11 pm PDT #19057 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Perkins, that page is very, very misleading. For example, it states that 95% of its employees have healthcare. What they fail to tell you is that only a fraction of that number is actually through Walmart. Most of its employees who have healthcare are on Medicaid or other sources.
Also SIX months before you're allowed to enroll in their healthplan? And a year for part timers? Gah.
sarameg - Mar 26, 2010 6:16:16 pm PDT #19058 of 30001
Such a clusterfuck it all is.
Yup. And they do do the full time, it's just carefully allocated.
I do wish everyone would stop calling it Obamacare. For one thing, that's polarizing. For another, it's polarizing and calls out the crazies. And it ain't great. A start, at least. TO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE OMG TYRANNYFASCISMHITLER.
OK, sorry, just channeling the crazies.
Lee - Mar 26, 2010 6:18:24 pm PDT #19059 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I was using that to point out they do hire full time people.
As I said, I know they have issues, but frequently there is exaggeration involved.
smonster - Mar 26, 2010 6:19:03 pm PDT #19060 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Though nearly 95 percent of our associates have some form of health insurance,
I wonder how many of those are on Medicaid? My source was a social worker friend who told me about a former client put on "medical leave" while being pregnant because otherwise they would have had to rehire her into a different job with worse benefits.
javachik - Mar 26, 2010 6:20:03 pm PDT #19061 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Full time people who work 34 hours a week for about $9 an hour.
There's a reason I shop at Costco and won't set foot in a Wal*Mart.
sarameg - Mar 26, 2010 6:20:19 pm PDT #19062 of 30001
Low prices happen at a cost of something...
God, I'm in a shit stirring mood.
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2010 6:25:18 pm PDT #19063 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
That's....not network TV.
Well, yeah. "Corporations are killing your kids" wouldn't be able to sell any commercials. "You lazy parents are killing your kids" can. (The first episode, there were several fast food commercials. The second one, the only food commercials I noticed were for pasta sauce, but I wasn't totally paying attention.)
javachik - Mar 26, 2010 6:27:10 pm PDT #19064 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
The book by Ellen Ruppel Shell called "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture" is a really good look into it, sarameg.
Amy - Mar 26, 2010 6:28:18 pm PDT #19065 of 30001
Because books.
The Walmart here is the only store twenty or more miles in any direction with a lot of things people need -- affordable clothes and housewares, for instance. They also carry groceries, and it's one of only three grocery stores in town. And in the winter here, when the routes either north or south aren't really fit for travel, that's a big thing.
It also employs a hell of a lot of people, which is a really big thing -- we have entire strip malls standing empty.