Been to Walmart lately?

[Dinner]

That actually happened. The paper in question would have loved to have reported anything else.

Because clarionledge.com (a blog) has such a sterling reputation for truth and honesty, right? Where as, as TMM's article actually showed that there were some scumbags attempting to take advantage of the situation but nothing even remotely resembling a riot, right? You're a ****ing clown, DD, a ****ing clown. You can take your racist right wing claims about black people rioting because they didn't get their welfare and stuff it up your ass, bigot.

[MrFun]

Because clarionledge.com (a blog) has such a sterling reputation for truth and honesty, right? Where as, as TMM's article actually showed that there were some scumbags attempting to take advantage of the situation but nothing even remotely resembling a riot, right? You're a ****ing clown, DD, a ****ing clown. You can take your racist right wing claims about black people rioting because they didn't get their welfare and stuff it up your ass, bigot.

Interestingly enough, earlier today I read an online article somewhere that gave statistics that actually shows that the majority of people on welfare are white people.

Conservatives just love to play on the whole "lazy racial minority deadbeats" when denouncing welfare programs though.

[Dinner]

The majority of people on welfare are indeed white, that is a fact, but that doesn't change the opinion of racist conservatives like DD who believe that only black people (or other non-whites like Hispanics) are on welfare. You should see the bigot "Joe the Plumber"'s most recent ravings where he declares it isn't racist to want a white Republican President because "that's a real American" while his rant includes lots of racist remarks about blacks and hispanics being both not"real Americans" and all being on welfare. Yet that's the tea bagging ****heads like DD in a nut shell.

[MrFun]

The majority of people on welfare are indeed white, that is a fact, but that doesn't change the opinion of racist conservatives like DD who believe that only black people (or other non-whites like Hispanics) are on welfare. You should see the bigot "Joe the Plumber"'s most recent ravings where he declares it isn't racist to want a white Republican President because "that's a real American" while his rant includes lots of racist remarks about blacks and hispanics being both not"real Americans" and all being on welfare. Yet that's the tea bagging ****heads like DD in a nut shell.

I often feel sorry for DD.

[DinoDoc]

Because clarionledge.com (a blog) has such a sterling reputation for truth and honesty, right?

The Clarion Ledger is a state wide newspaper that yes is generally honest but also is traditionally friendly to the Democratic Party. As for the racist projection you and MrFun engage in with later posts, I neither know the races of the people involved in the disturbance described in the article (It isn't even mentioned in the paper. I got curious and checked after your posts.) nor do I really care as it isn't relevant in anyway to the point I was making.

[DinoDoc]

I think having to work at Wal-Mart made him bitter...

I was bitter before working there.

[Docfeelgood]

The majority of people on welfare are indeed white, that is a fact, but that doesn't change the opinion of racist conservatives like DD who believe that only black people (or other non-whites like Hispanics) are on welfare. You should see the bigot "Joe the Plumber"'s most recent ravings where he declares it isn't racist to want a white Republican President because "that's a real American" while his rant includes lots of racist remarks about blacks and hispanics being both not"real Americans" and all being on welfare. Yet that's the tea bagging ****heads like DD in a nut shell.

I can't comment

[mrmitchell]

You're not dreaming about Walmart. They've been pushing lower staffs through attrition for the past several years.

Customers Flee Walmart Empty Shelves for Target, Costco

It’s not as though the merchandise isn’t there. It’s piling up in aisles and in the back of stores because Wal-Mart doesn’t have enough bodies to restock the shelves, according to interviews with store workers. In the past five years, the world’s largest retailer added 455 U.S. Wal-Mart stores, a 13 percent increase, according to filings and the company’s website. In the same period, its total U.S. workforce, which includes Sam’s Club employees, dropped by about 20,000, or 1.4 percent. Wal-Mart employs about 1.4 million U.S. workers.

So effectively the same amount of man-hours is stretched over 13% more real estate. Hell, as long as I've ever been alive Walmart hasn't been renowned for tip-top cleanliness and organization to begin with, so you're talking about a decline from already "meh" to "notably poor."

I wouldn't read too much into the rest of that article since it engages in the usual journalistic fellatio of Target (which just shadows WMT trends-wise IME) and Costco (different market segment, apples and oranges), but yeah, the stores are genuinely understaffed, and it shows any time you go in.

edit: On top of the above I'm convinced that my local store is a pilot project for how low they can go; I went in a couple months ago on a Sunday evening and it was like retail Mad Max in there: overturned carts, roving gangs of teenagers. I counted six miserable employees on the entire floor (I had to get things from two departments on opposite ends of the store) plus an asset protection employee (whatever happened to greeters?) who looked like she was older than Sam Walton.

[regexcellent]

though I will say, if reg thinks Papa Johns is quality... it's not hard to understand his thoughts on walmart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier

I didn't say walmart is high quality. It's quite the opposite. The one thing going for it is that it has low prices, and mostly sells the same stuff so if you're willing to put up with bad service then whatever. I only really buy ammo there.

Pretty funny that Oerdin is calling people racist in this thread.

[Sava]

blah blah blah walmart

I did buy my Nintendo Wii there. Back in the day, they were one of the few places that had it in stock.

[MrFun]

Wal-Mart treats its employees like so much crap, that it has come to have direct, negative effects on business and customer service.