Walmart is Hiring

[Solo2driver]

Originally Posted By: benjamming
Originally Posted By: stockrex

wally's not different in dealing with vendors than macys or similar. macys doesnot care how it cost u produce a dress shirt. they dictate the terms.


Yes they do. For example, good luck getting paid for mechandise before it goes through the checkout line.


Yup, another reason my products are not on Wal-Mart shelves. I did product development for a company that had one of their products go to Wal-Mart....they wanted them literally $0.01 above cost...they wanted a million of them, but a penny above cost. And you get paid when they are sold. Forget it!

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: Solo2driver
another reason my products are not on Wal-Mart shelves. I did product development for a company that had one of their products go to Wal-Mart....they wanted them literally $0.01 above cost...they wanted a million of them, but a penny above cost. And you get paid when they are sold. Forget it!


Definitely a wise move.

 

[stockrex]

for most businesses it cost less to make one incremental item upto their production capacity as mentioned early on.
so to sell an extra million would make the business more money as they can apportion the fixed costs to a larger quantity.
but for some business models it would mean death to their product once bears the stigma of being sold at wally's.
fyi: garmin biggest customer....drum roll.... wally's.
dealing with wally's is no diffferent than dealing with toyota or honda, only difference is that toyo and honda are willing to pay more for quality ;-),

offf topic: kiss that cheap dino or PP goodbye at wally's, the employees will form a union and one day like gm wally's will need bailout...

 

[ViragoBry]

So true. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. I hope I live to see the day that some retailer (or Walmart's own size) is their undoing.

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: StevieC
Capitalism is great if you are the rich, otherwise it's just another way to force a communist "do as I say" regime. Keep working for that "American dream" they tell us life is all about, which is nothing more than a Rabitt chasing the carrot dangling in front of him, that he can't quite reach.

Rich: One day when your old and decrepit and haven't quite made it in terms of the "American Dream" we "will let you retire" you will be tired and depleted by then and we will be on to the next generation anyways... Thanks for participating though!

Sad but true...

Spoken like a true Canadian. That 'evil' capitalism has certainly allowed Canada to participate and prosper at levels that would have been impossible without the ideals you so greatly despise. Tell me of a better economic system that has provided for the needs of it's poulace (and the world) any better than the often maligned (as is popular to do right now during a socialist administration) system of capitalism? No, it's not perfect....but I know of no economic system that has been as instrumental in providing an avenue for all it's citizens to have a share of the 'pie' (if willing to work hard).

 

[Gary Allan]

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No, it's not perfect....but I know of no economic system that has been as instrumental in providing an avenue for all it's citizens to have a share of the 'pie' (if willing to work hard).


Even when it's at it peak performance ..and requires a 5% of funny fudge factored unemployed???

Phase relationships are the issue. That and productivity. You can't re-educate and retrain rapidly enough for jobs that are going to pay less. Let alone having the right numbers of people with the right skills (as low as they may be) in the right places.

If you're going to turn your economy upside down over fewer and fewer years (there's that getting your profit NOW for future productivity demon ) you're going to have a very hard time managing to keep the pipeline full. You keep compressing the quench and deepening the purge.

Philosophies and ideologies are grand. When they fail to live up to their alleged benefits, you have to question just how they're being practiced.

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: StevieC
Capitalism is great if you are the rich, otherwise it's just another way to force a communist "do as I say" regime. Keep working for that "American dream" they tell us life is all about, which is nothing more than a Rabitt chasing the carrot dangling in front of him, that he can't quite reach.

Rich: One day when your old and decrepit and haven't quite made it in terms of the "American Dream" we "will let you retire" you will be tired and depleted by then and we will be on to the next generation anyways... Thanks for participating though!

Sad but true...

Spoken like a true Canadian. That 'evil' capitalism has certainly allowed Canada to participate and prosper at levels that would have been impossible without the ideals you so greatly despise. Tell me of a better economic system that has provided for the needs of it's poulace (and the world) any better than the often maligned (as is popular to do right now during a socialist administration) system of capitalism? No, it's not perfect....but I know of no economic system that has been as instrumental in providing an avenue for all it's citizens to have a share of the 'pie' (if willing to work hard).


I agree with you... I just hate the rich controlling the world and enslaving the human race "because they can". I'm not a grass-smoking hippy saying "we should all share the wealth man", kind of person. But I think there needs to be a better balance between us/them and there should be a middle class, which is quickly disappearing!

I wasn't pointing the fingers primarily at Americans but American CEO's seem to be the greediest in my eyes, but there are some in other parts of the world.

We need to be able to work a decent job, get paid a decent wage and live a decent life... And yes, I'm ok with the CEO's and educated management earning more than me because of the extra work that they do, but excuse me for wanting a rational pay scale!

Now it seems everyone works a job they aren't fond of or downright hate, are pushed over the limits by their employer in the name of profitability and corporate greed, and are stressed out, tired and over eat because they are running around trying to keep up with daily life!

FOR WHAT? So the CEO can have another closet full of suits he never wears, fancy cars that are parked in a heated garage?

GIMME A BREAK!

I might be Canadian, but when you look at it, we are just unarmed Americans with government health care and funny coloured money!

 

[Gary Allan]

The real problem for me is that you can't just be a producer on the primary level. You've got to be a usurper of others productivity to a greater margin than others are usurping yours on the secondary or tertiary level.

 

[Tempest]

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there should be a middle class, which is quickly disappearing!

Based on what?
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Now it seems everyone works a job they aren't fond of or downright hate, are pushed over the limits by their employer in the name of profitability and corporate greed, and are stressed out, tired and over eat because they are running around trying to keep up with daily life!

Yeah, it was never that way in the past...

And we have it sooooo bad with cell phones, internet, cars, street lights, TV, air conditioning, forced air heating, insulated houses, safe and reliable food supply...

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: Tempest
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there should be a middle class, which is quickly disappearing!

Based on what?


Fundamental observational capabilities that some seem to lack. It may be a vitamin deficiency ..or exposure to Pb paints as a youngster before some pinko regulator made them change.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: Tempest
Yeah, it was never that way in the past...

And we have it sooooo bad with cell phones, internet, cars, street lights, TV, air conditioning, forced air heating, insulated houses, safe and reliable food supply...


Agree, someone here actually expect that Tax Cut, private pre school, and wealth accumulation is a birth right.

 

[andrewg]

I'll agree that the U.S. has changed dramatically in the last thirty years. Especially so in the way the economy has changed from a manufacturing powerhouse towards a technological one....and now that is changing once again. I can only imagine how scarey and difficult things where way back when we went from a primarily agricultural based economy into the industrial age. Must have just been a real rough time for many Americans. But you know what? We got through it....and without government help. Today what worries me is the dependence Americans have on government. We all have our hand out like we are owed something because life is tough. True, the government is in the pocket of large multi-national corporations, and we are all getting slowly squeezed out of the American dream....but how about we stop whinning and do something about it? Vote, get active with groups that favor less government and a strict following of the Constitution. But you know what? Americans have become lazy and ignorant of just what it means to be an American. We have given up portions of our freedom for a perceived 'comfort' and 'security' of a large and ever intrusive government.
Thomas Jefferson said some interesting thoughts:

'I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.'

'My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.'

And this one is very sobering:

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..'

I guess we've lost our way.

 

[Gary Allan]

Well, I'll take performance over ideology and cliche. We're not going to get into all the complications of this and that. We're where we are at ..and I don't think anyone has anything "better" to offer as a path ..only what is better "for them" as an individual.

So far following the pied pipers (psst- the borrow and spend, tax cutting, massive debt, free market types) has just meant a quicker path to the bottom and social technical corrects that change the basic divisions of just who prospers from the entire exercise.

Get better salesmen that really deliver on the garbage. Either that, or get some better prep schools for the alleged saviors of the free market. The stooges that they hired are pathetic failures.

 

[andrewg]

Free market types are not exactly whom I was extolling. And as for 'idealogy'....well, I don't believe that the framers of the U.S. Constitution would call that distinctly American document simply idealistic. True conservatism and being a strict Constitutionlist does not in fact subscribe to the rubbish of the 'free' market and how it relates toward the interests of the United States.
Bush, Obama, and other globalists are to blame here. The two main parties have more in common than not and are nearly equally guilty at destroying and negating our SUPPOSED guiding document...the Constitution.

 

[Gary Allan]

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True conservatism and being a strict Constitutionlist does not in fact subscribe to the rubbish of the 'free' market and how it relates toward the interests of the United States.


I think some alleged Constitutionalists will argue that free market is essential and that interests of the USA aren't necessarily for Americans ..at least all of them.

Yeah, I think it's whacked too.

Naturally, I think that the are rather grandiose in their presumption of these intents with the document in question. I don't think that the framers ever conceptually put the individual above the nation. The state, absolutely, but not the nation. Some can see the difference. Some cannot.

 

[PandaBear]

I don't really think the problem with America is an ideology one. As both conservatives and liberals jab at each other, it is really the cost of our high living standard that make us too expensive to compete with other 3rd world nations.

Look at Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and probably even Korea are starting to feel the pinch of the low cost of India, China, Eastern Europe, Vietnam, etc. I'm not even talking about Europe yet, the cost over there is just prohibitively expensive and I don't even know how can the new generation expect to compete with the rest of the world.

If all these changes in living cost and income change gradually, say over a decade of time, then the society can adapt. If this change comes in a year or two in a sudden and disruptive fashion, there is no way anyone can be prepared. What if you get laid off and your entire industry is wiped out in a recession, and your 6 months living expense in cash is used up, you cannot find a job yet and if you try to sell your house, you are up side down due to the drop in home price?

You can blame people for being unprepared or take on too much risk, but as a macro and national level, these unfortunate events will happen, and have its impact regardless of who it happens to. It is not a straight forward answer of "only if you go from point A to point B, you will be ready by now", but "how do you go from point A to point B with the least detour, when there is no direct path".

I know that we should reduce national debt, and I know that we should take on too much as a nation, but what do you do back then when you can have a chain reaction in the economy that could go down exponentially (mark to market, toxic SIV, CDS, confidence issue, etc) that the more you try to shore up capital, the less your asset worth and the more you have to shore up capital?

Every arm chair quarter back can tell you the shortest path from A to B is a straight line, but none of them can tell you how to go when there is no straight line, and you have to find a path the old fashion way (with a map and some guess work).

 

[Gary Allan]

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Look at Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and probably even Korea are starting to feel the pinch of the low cost of India, China, Eastern Europe, Vietnam, etc.


They were all developing economies and everyone one of their export economies fit neatly into our export economy. All global development was done on our dime. Even when Japan raided us, the only real loss was in the phase relationship of bring them up to parity with us and losing a bit of our inertia in the boost they got. At overheated output, with a like population ..and a tremendous export economy, they only consumed 20% of our energy needs during the evolution. Now they have all the same problems that we have. They can't afford their own comsumerism either.

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I'm not even talking about Europe yet, the cost over there is just prohibitively expensive and I don't even know how can the new generation expect to compete with the rest of the world.


Europe appears to just want to balance their books and keep things stable. I don't know the real story, but they sure have cleaner cities, less crime ..etc..etc. It doesn't come free and it will surely be a challenge to maintain those levels of apparent functionality as the impact of demographics come to bear. I'll give them a pass if they slide a bit.