Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

[Fosco33]

Check out the free videos at cnn.com regarding a woman in Utah shopping at Wal-Mart...

How do you not realize you're pregnant? Being serioius, how fat do you have to be? How could there not be any pain during delivery? Umm, that's just a really sick image.

I'll never understand some people...

[the_idle_threat]

Two of our favorite subjects, together at last!!!

Gore to address Wal-Mart executives

By MARCUS KABEL
AP Business Writer

Former Vice President Al Gore will take his campaign against global warming to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. next week, speaking at Wal-Mart headquarters to executives seeking to make the world's largest retailer more environmentally friendly, a company spokesman said Friday.

Gore will talk to a quarterly conference of Wal-Mart managers working on ways to implement Chief Executive Lee Scott's plans to make the retailer a leader in cutting emissions, energy use and solid waste and selling more environmentally friendly products.

Gore will speak about global warming, the subject of his recent documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," Wal-Mart spokesman Dan Fogleman said.

The daylong meeting Wednesday at Wal-Mart's Home Office in Bentonville, Ark., is a quarterly gathering of 14 individual groups it calls sustainability networks, which include Wal-Mart managers and outside experts.

Each network works on specific areas, such as logistics or food, to put into practice a broad environmental initiative launched by Scott last October.

In recent months, Wal-Mart has taken steps including doubling the number of organic food items in its stores, reducing fuel consumption by its fleet of 7,000 trucks and installing energy-saving light bulbs in stores.

Wal-Mart is taking the environmental offensive at a time when it is under attack from organized labor and other groups for its business practices, including employee pay and health benefits.

© 2006 The Associated Press.

[MJZiggy]

I read an interesting article the other day that says that Wal-Mart will begin offering organic foods, and if after that happens, organic foods suddenly become very popular, then Wal-Mart is likely to be given credit for making organics widely available (imagine how three major grocery stores introducing organic lines had nothing to do with it).

[Deputy Nutz]

Well, son of a bitch Walmart has finally done it. they have gone organic. they are going to have a whole organic food section.

Now I will have a reason to go.

[Fosco33]

Well, son of a bitch Walmart has finally done it. they have gone organic. they are going to have a whole organic food section.

Now I will have a reason to go.

Good stuff... nutroll you can steal a hell of a lot of fresh lettuce - at least once!



Not that I condone theft as retailers build it into they're margins, but this is one interesting idea that Wal-Mart has put forth.... yes, I agree with this position it makes fiscal sense, uses Pareto principles and costs taxpayers less through policing.

Report: Wal-Mart loosens shoplifting policy

No. 1 retailer will only press charges if shoplifters take at least $25, in change to zero-tolerance policy.
July 13, 2006

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/13/news/companies/walmart_shoplifters/index.htm?cnn=yes

[Zool]

Ridiculous. 80% of the items at Wal-Mart are below $25. I'm just gonna walk out with stuff. If they stop me, I will hand it back and be on my way.

[Partial]

On a tangent, when I worked at best buy they built several hundred thousand dollars into their budget for stolen shit. I remember at the end of the year every employee walked away with like a 600 dollar check because they were under the budget for stolen goods. It was awesome!!

[MJZiggy]

Nice that they gave it to you instead of calling it extra profit for the store.

[Fosco33]

On a tangent, when I worked at best buy they built several hundred thousand dollars into their budget for stolen shit. I remember at the end of the year every employee walked away with like a 600 dollar check because they were under the budget for stolen goods. It was awesome!!

This was a long discussed topic at Grainger Hall. I'm down for incentives for the loss control team for reducing cost - but, in theory, shouldn't this be passed on to the more honorable, paying customers?

It's kinda like a lot of social services, I end up paying more because a very few people don't want to fork it over.

Heck, if Wal-Mart could figure out a way to control their loss by even a half of a percentage point (0.005) - they could fund healthcare for their employees - earlier and at lower skilled levels. Instead, we all pay the standard 1.7% of sales and Wal-Mart makes it up by controlling supplier cost instead (and you should know my stance on that by now - oooh so slippery).

So, everyone stop stealing so we can keep more jobs in America. Wow, that sounds pretty funny.

[Zool]

On a tangent, when I worked at best buy they built several hundred thousand dollars into their budget for stolen shit. I remember at the end of the year every employee walked away with like a 600 dollar check because they were under the budget for stolen goods. It was awesome!!

Shrink control! I remember the videos. Im so glad I dont work there anymore.

[Deputy Nutz]

Stealing is wrong.