Wal-Mart: Straighten up and fly right!

AMEN!!!!!

NEW IDEAS!!!
1. Executive Pay base on stock performace.
2. Same health insurance for all fulltime employees and everybody pays the same price.
3. Buy as much from the USA producers as possible.
4. Bring back layaway dept in all southwest border towns and lower middle class neighborhoods.
5. Same for sewing and material dept
6. Signs in English and Spanish in all southwest border towns I.E. Brawley, Nogales, Yuma, Douglas and so on.
7. Increase starting pay for all cashiers to stop 84% turnover every year.

I read where one analyst said Wal-Mart will not fire Lee Scott because the Walton family likes him and they own most of the company. Firing Mr. Scott might get the ball rolling on flying right again?
Billy Martin

high end retailers wouldn't be on the same pavement with Wal-mart. Imagine the cringing of "find us at the Wal-mart complex". Ughh

And their health care plan only serves employee & workplace relations, not customer service or the outsourcing issues

I go to Walmart when I have to and I buy toilet paper. Their employees medical premiums mean nothing to me as a consumer. I just want to pay and get out as fast as that receipt checker will let me leave.

Wal-mart sold out the American business manufacturer... a dying breed. Cheap doesn't really mean much to me... unless of course it's cheap double ply quilted toilet paper on sale! If there was a big ole stamp that said Support American business I would buy & pay more!

Walmart doesn't have a health care plan,unless employees pay the premiums. I saw where Walmart is going to push AT&T High Speed Internet.That would be a waste of time untill AT&T,gets more towers install to strenghten the phone signal,in rual areas. In downtown Bedford,IN 47421,we have their DSL service but,dial up only runs,at 42.5KBPS and three mile east of the city limits,on State Road 50 East,dial up is 28.0 KBPS,which will not support DSL.

I think Walmart is missing the point all together. Customer service is the first thing they need to think about. What ever happened to the days when an associate would come up to you and ask if you need help finding anything? Sam Walton not only knew business, he knew customers. Customer service and low prices were very important to him. HAVE YOU ALL FORGOTTEN SAM WALTON? So many times i go into Walmart and see People that work there just getting along doing a job, not really interested in the cusomer. They just want to get the day over and pick up a paycheck. Walmart needs to take a look at this and find out WHY. These are the people that give that customer service, so why are they like this? Sam Waltom wanted happy customers and happy associates. Walmart you own the ballpark, It's time your exceutives learned how to play ball.

I just started working for walmart before xmas,lets set the record straight,base health insurance is $30 every 2 weeks for a family of 5 not bad,starting pay at our dc is $12.50/hr weekends$13.85/hr,we just got a.75cent/hr yearly raise,I'll get a .50cent 90 day raise,that puts me over $15/hr and will continue to get .50cent pay raises every six months for 2 years,I don't see target or anyone else offering affordable health care and a descent wage to start!!!!!!!!!!

You need to bring back the lay-aways in Layton, Utah Wal-Marts this really helps single moms with small children and everyone else to those who are on fixed incomes.This helped me get things for my granddaughter who her mom has Lupus

First of all, the benefits of Wal-Mart employees IS paid by the employees. They are paid a starting rate of $8.00/per hour. Be good and you get a raise in 90 days. BUT, they will work you like a DOG, they don't care if you have personal business or family needs that have to be taken care of, the SO-CALLED-MANAGERS they hire from the ones I have met are for starters lets say HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO GOD-DAMN IDEA ON HOW TO RUN THE DEPARTMENT THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF. Perfect example, I asked a manager in charge of the sporting goods department where I could find the lanterns, HMMM he had to ask an employee under him."THEY ROTATE THEIR MANAGERS EVERY 6 MONTHS WITHIN THE STORE". So none of them have a DAMN CLUE about the actual department they are running. Managers are glorified super's. They should get off their lazy asses and get to work just like the people they are in charge of. The items wal-mart sells are made in china (75% at least) unless it is produce and cigarettes. Leave the god damn chinese to sell their own crap and sell genuine AMERICAN MADE and Wal-Mart might have a long time future. Putting stores up 10 miles apart isn't the brightest idea neither. Wal-Mart has a HUGE turn over ratio as well. Employees come and go as quick as Wal-Mart can change oil. I can go on and on. But I will say this........Wal-Mart will keep buying CHINESE as well as ALOT of other retailers and "IT WILL BE THE DOWN FALL" of our economy, already is and has been. Keep our money in OUR country and theirs in theirs.

I love Jack Schneider's ideas. Attempts to make the playing field a little more level. Thanks

Don't shop at Walmart.

Walmart is being kicked around by most people because they are the richest. Yes they should learn to appreciate and take care of their employees. Yes
they should take care of the people in the country that feeds them. But who is the watch dog on some of
the other retailers around that work their employees
as hard but dont play fair either.We dont want to really solve the problems in this country for our
workers do we. We want to put Wal-Mart in there place. Lets do something for all of Americas workers
and play fare like we want Wal-Mart to do. Keep our
jobs in our country and get better health care programs for all our workers. Dont let big corparation have play with government and so on.
You all know what has to be done.Separate business
from government in some areas.Stop the pocket lining
of these big CEO in our country.

wal mart has hurt so many peole with doing away with the layaway. what were they thinking that everyone has a credit card wake up wal mart there are many people whom depend on the layaway system to get the things neeeded for their family, Christams and school supplies are a couple of items that are especially needs layaway
walmart you don't lose a thing to help us with layaway. You put the product back on the shelf if not picked up, and with credit cards there has to be a court battle to get their money ( which make more sense?)
bigger and better is not good for small towns we need friendly salespersons and understanding and
include wal mart layaways.I will not go to wal mart again till they put layaway back and I encourage my friend to do the same

I would just like to set the record straight. I worked for Wal-Mart for almost 15 years and I got fired because I had to take a leave of absence to help my sister in Texas. Because I wasn't at the store I transferred to for 6 months, no one would let me transfer back. They are getting rid of the old time associates and getting cheap help. I was only on leave for 2 weeks. I went to 17 different wal-marts and all of them said they had no openings. Well why were the hiring. The managers sit in the office all the time and talk about all the other associates. THey go in the breakroom and cuss like a sailor. there is the ones that do a great job and some that don't, but who gets the praise, the ones that don't do a good job. OMG i could tell you 15 years of crap, but it would do no good. I would like someone from wal-mart to call me and i would tell them a thing or 2 about their managers in henderson, texas store. I know the workers are overworked and under paid. THe associates do not get the praise they deserve. I really like shopping Target. their associates are friendly and like to help you.To everyone that reads this. Please don't shop walmart. They are taking away all of the programs that SAM WALTON built

I don't know about weezers store,I think she must work in fantasy land, but I was a dept. manager for close to seven years and made lass than 10 bucks an hour. I got outstanding reviews and got a whopping raise of 30 CENTS PER YEAR!! WOO HOO!! Also, most of my paycheck went for health insurance, and it was very limited insurance. Having a baby with health problems almost bankrupted us because of all that the insurance didn't pay. All the workers are grumpy because they have so much work put on them and not enough help! One worker to stock, order, clean, do price changes, inventory, etc. etc. for 3 or 4 departments is insane.
Wake up Wal Mart and treat your people with respect!!!

Wal-Mart is a sucessful dis-count retailer. That's dis-count retailer. I shop their stores almost every day or so. Where the money is you will find the wolves as well. Wal-Mart is the most sucessful dis-count retailer in the world. Leave them alone.

Walmart needs to bring the layaway back in all Ohio and West Virginia Walmart's.Corporate is hurting the single mom's and dad's that is lower calass and has to hold down 2-3 jobs in order to put supper on the table.we are not rich enough to carry Credit Cards and Debit Cards to pay for purchases.We are not Big cities like New York,Chicago,etc...WE NEED THE LAYAWAY BACK.IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.People aren't going to keep shopping at Walmart if these changes keep happening.These changes are hurting Walmart instead of helping.Alot of people are going to get to the place that they are going to shop else where and I don't blame them one single bit.Corporate needs to stop thinking about how much money that they are going to pocket and start thinking about drawing customers to the store before Walmart goes under.Yo definitely need to bring Layaway.That was the stupidiest idea ever to take it away.

Here in New Orleans Walmart is "punishing" us. Like most stores in the area, the new Super Walmart in the Garden District was looted. It took them a year to reopen, partially at least. Since that time they've opened an aisle or two a month, the entire store is still not functioning. Bear in mind there was no real storm damage to this store, it only needed new coolers in the grocery department, which, by the way was was the first part to re-open, and the rest of the store needed restocked.

By comparison, the stores In Harvey and Metairie (10 to 15 miles away) have been totally reopened for over a year, and they were both flooded. What gives Wally?

On the Fabric Dept.I'm to making crafts not party.If the Fabric Dept.goes out I'm going to have approx.300 miles in order to get fabric and supplies,I'm not going to be a very happy camper if I have to do that,When I can go to Mason or Gallipolis Walmart instead.They don't need a party connection.Come up with better ideas then that.It keeps going and I'm going to stop shopping at Walmart all together and take my business elsewhere.

I SHOP A WALMARTS ALL THE TIME.BUT I DONT USE IT THAT MUCH SINCE THAT THEY TOOK LAYAWAY OUT OFF THE STORE.THAT IS THE OLNY WAY I COULD BUY BIG ITEMS.LIKE A TV FOR MY GRAND KIDS ROOM.THAT HOW MY DAUGHTER IN LAW BUYS CLOTHES FOR MY GRANDKIDS.SO I FOUND A K-MATR THAT I WILL USE BECAUSE THEY HAVE LAYAWAY.I WORK AT A FOOD STORE SO I WONT BE GOING TO WALMART FOR FOOD.I CANT BELIVE TEY TOTALY WNET AWAY FROM SAMS WAY OF BUSINESS.HE KNEW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THE CUSTOMERS.WHERE I WORK IF WE GET CAUGHT NOW HELPING OUR CUSTOMERS AND BEING FRIENDLY WE WOULD NOT HAVE A JOB.TANKS AND BRING BACK LAYAWAY.