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To: tejek who wrote (502555)	8/7/2009 5:51:33 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575538

The only one who makes a decent wage in a Walmart is the store manager; the rest are on bare subsistence pay. That's why they stick to small towns for their stores. What you say is not true, however, why in hell would Walmart pay more to these people than they're worth as employees? Walmart is in the busines of trying to sell stuff for the least money they can and still make a profit. That is their business model. It would be stupid for them to blow what they save on volume purchasing and warehousing by overpaying their unskilled workers. Pretty obvious you have never run a business. There is an opportunity for all who want to work at it. I have a friend who is in top management at Walmart. He started out with nothing more than a business degree (and barely got that) -- working as a department manager within a store. 30 years later, he is wealthy. Even though he didn't have any particular skills when he began. You are also wrong or lying about why Walmart's presence in cities is limited. They have tried to get into almost every larger city, and have done so in many -- but haven't been able to make headway in some like LA, DC, NYC, Boston, Chicago. The reasons they are not in these cities vary, but there is a common thread amongst many of them -- strong labor presence, impossible zoning (which Walmart's setup demands changes to), and large anti-Walmart activist communities. It is okay. Walmart, that "poor old Arkansas company", literally kills the competition -- WHEREVER IT GOES. So, if locals don't want it, they shouldn't get it. In small town America, they are usually welcomed because the jobs are sorely needed. Recently, one of the old, smaller Walmarts closed in Brinkly Arkansas because it just didn't fit their operating model any longer, and wasn't worth upgrading to one of the new stores. The residents there were all decrying what a loss Walmart would be for the community. Just depends on one's POV.