Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

Well the thing that gets me is that you go in dirty stores with unstocked shelves and Walmart STILL wants to cut labor. it’s madness.

When will they figure it out? You have to pay a living wage to get decent talent. And you have to man the stores to get sales. They only half staff the stores and because of that, the building and the merchandise isn’t taken care of. Then, predictably, sales tank. Then they complain that labor costs are too high and keep cutting. So it spirals down.

I mean, if you’re only going to half staff a store to the point that it looks like c-ap, just shut it down. You’re actually whizzing away more labor dollars by half arsing it than you would be by appropriately staffing the store or closing it altogether.

And this is to say nothing of how all these zombie stores reflect on the Walmart image. If the customer came first, we would make different decisions. Period.

I quit shopping there when they stole $3200 worth of accrued sick hours from me, just because of the switch to PTO. I can assure you there are many out there that won't shop at Walmart anymore due too their treatment of employees and their c-appy understaffed stores.

Customers ask why we are working Christmas Eve and the answer is obvious because you are there! If customers aren’t there then Walmart would close on New Year’s Day and Easter. And Thanksgiving !

The customer and the cash flow reign supreme! The same could be said for the wage: if customers didn’t support Walmart because the wages are too low then Walmart would raise the wages. However, they can continue to pay as little as possible if the customer keeps coming back!

I quit shopping at Walmart because of this. I'll shop absolutely anywhere else now.

The breaking point was the last time I went to a Walmart (in Hudson, NH) to get a motorcycle battery. The whole store looked like absolute shiat. Empty or half-empty shelves in most departments. Product sitting on the floors in the aisles, or hanging off the shelves. Entire departments that looked like they had not been zoned for over a week. Hardly an associate in sight anywhere.

Got to the automotive section (which looked like c-ap), and the interactive machine that tells you which battery to get for your vehicle was broken. Luckily, there were two of those, so I used the second one that was working.

Then, when I went to grab the battery, there was only one of the right size on the shelf. Sitting there, with no box. Yeah, out of box with the box missing. That would have worked real well in the self-checkout line...

At that point, I said "Phuck Walmart", went to Interstate Battery, and have not stepped foot in Walmart since.

This stuff does matter.

If anyone is waiting for customers en masse to collectively take up the social cause of helping retail employees, well, you better pack a lunch! The whole reason Walmart (as but an example) continues to cut staff and their hours, and deprive their customers of anything resembling a quality shopping experience is.....wait for it, WAIT FORRR IT....... bada-bing! The customers keep coming back for more of it!

The only thing that will ever sway those or any other similar business practices back into decent human ethics is if the cash river gets dammed. And people stop shopping there. That's it. As it is, Walmart currently has no reason to change.

Simply put: If you don't like what a business is doing, don't support it. ......................... But with Walmart? That will n e v e r happen. Because people would far rather complain than change.