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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 24
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Friday, April 09, 2004 - 12:15 pm: | |
BMR: that’s what I think of Wal-Mart too – overall the prices aren’t that much better than other places. Although, I’ve never shopped in one of the super stores. For my parents it’s a matter of convenience – closest thing to them for a few miles.
Wal-Mart played a big part in the months long supermarket strike we had in SoCal at the end of last year into the beginning of this one. It went on through Thanksgiving, Christmas and beyond New Years. The companies were threatening the workers with employee-bully Wal Mart. And after all that the workers didn’t win much. There is now a 2-tier system where the current employees get a small raise and save some benefits for a few years [I’m thinking 3 years but may be wrong] and new hires get lower wages and fewer benefits.
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