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Wal of Shame

gnat on 2002-04-06T03:37:22

Wal of Shame is a list of most egregious Wal-Mart wrongdoings. Part of Wal-Mart Watch. If you're not in the US, you're not expected to care :-)

--Nat

walmart==evil

gav on 2002-04-06T03:43:06

I can't really say anything good about walmart. They are the world's biggest company. They are evil.

My uncle calls shopping at walmart on a weekend "the american experiance", packed full of rednecks and families with screaming brats :)

Re:walmart==evil

TorgoX on 2002-04-06T03:52:32

My uncle calls shopping at walmart on a weekend "the american experiance", packed full of rednecks and families with screaming brats

Yeah, people from the working class are a drag! I don't want to know they exist!

Wal*Mart Shoppers

chromatic on 2002-04-06T07:51:30

My theory is that they're unfortunate souls damned to wander the grand universe that is Wal*Mart. They're all connected, you see, and that's why they're always full of the same people, no matter where you are.

I'd write a short story about it, but my name's not Jean-Paul, Albert, or Eugene, and I don't live in mid twentieth century Europe. Ahh, the angst.

Health Benefits

delegatrix on 2002-04-08T20:23:16

I'm not defending Wal-Mart, but I wondered about this one. The site says "Only 38% of Wal-Mart employees have company provided health insurance--compared to a national average that shows 60% of employees are covered by company plans.

Interesting. Does this mean that only 38% take advantage of health benefits or that 38% are eligible for them? I would imagine that many women and students who work there participate in a spouse's or parent's plan. Senior Citizens are covered by Medicare. According to Wal-Mart stats, 14% of its workforce are seniors.

Actually, 70% of employees age 18 to 64 at firms with greater than 1,000 employees participated in employement-provided health insurance plans, according to the latest Census figures.

64% of all people were covered by some employment-based plan - their own plan or a relative's.

The better figure to compare against would be the average percent of employees at a firm that choose health benefits.