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In reply to the discussion: Walmart Is Falling Apart Before Our Eyes [View all]demigoddess
(6,640 posts)45. a lot of things aren't really
that massive. Example, their toilet paper is like buying 4 packages at a grocery store. There frozen chicken breasts-about 11 or 12 half breasts per package, frozen individually. I like to buy a little larger to save on trips to the store, especially on staple items.
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Given the tight credit market and overall sluggishness of the economy I.....
Swede Atlanta
May 2014
#27
Small independents do not have corporate boards and stockholders to feed..
busterbrown
May 2014
#121
This type of job would also be full time not seasonal. Crops would not be
A Simple Game
May 2014
#108
Would be nice if some of the organic farmer groups could network to set up a system
Skidmore
May 2014
#109
Yes it would take a few to supply the bigger store chains. And speaking of organic
A Simple Game
May 2014
#110
Walmart will become a poster child on why big companies shouldn't be "inherited"...
cascadiance
May 2014
#15
I've run into this same dynamic at a smaller level many times in the workplace
Populist_Prole
May 2014
#67
And THEY increase our national debt by not paying their employees enough that forces...
cascadiance
May 2014
#47
If they want to rescue their plummeting sales, they need to get behind a substantial wage increase
Warpy
May 2014
#57
National "Neighborhood supermarkets" chains are far more difficult to manage than the box stores.
haele
May 2014
#91
That's true, but the thing to watch now is will the stockholders demand draconian measures, since
djean111
May 2014
#76
That's what happens when you make your employees so poor they can't afford to shop there
eridani
May 2014
#74
They do very well in Mexico & several other countries where they are new & push out small businesses
Sunlei
May 2014
#88