I fux with Wal-Mart just like the rest of America does. The way I see it we are tumbling headfirst into the reality where the only industrial corporations that exist will be Wal-Mart, Universal Media Corp, McDonald’s and prisons (incidentally, Air Jordans will be manufactured at Folsom and Attica). It’s hard to test Wal-Mart’s corporate steez. They have this shit figured out. They make shit. They ship shit. You buy shit. IKEA might do it with hipper promotion, but Wal-mart does it 25 hours a day.
So why the fux is everybody all pissy because Wal-Mart has partnered with Detroit public schools in teaching kids how to work in their stores? Do you realize that unemployment in Detroit is nearly at 50%? That fact alone should have people scrambling into action. How can America let one of their former manufacturing centers go fallow? That’s disgusting B. Critics want to argue that kids are being taught the ideals of being subservient but I disagree since America primarily deals in service industry labor. These kids are getting a lesson in America 101.
In ten more years if you ain’t working for Wal-Mart then who the fux is your employer gonna be? In my eyes these kids from Detroit have a leg up on their future. If they really want to position themselves for the executive suites they will learn Mandarin.
from a customer perspective, Wal-Mart is great.
1 innovating by being the only store open 24/7, that has groceries & “general store” items like a towel, external hard drive, some exercise shorts, etc
2 lowest prices on many items relative to other grocery stores or general stores, with Everyday Low Price, so u don’t have to wonder if you’re getting gyped because next week it could be on sale.
Some of Wal-Mart’s success is due to its own performance outside of its cartel-ish status. Using good supply chain management processes, good information technology. Great at procurement; I wish say Medicare had some Walmart procurement veterans to negotiate hard with the Pharma cartel like Merck. Say really get all up in Pfizer’s ass to get a good price, ironically & [||]
Some of Wal-Mart’s success is due to shady business. Getting Corp Welfare tax breaks from local governments to put in a new store. Forbiding employees from unionizing. Keeping some employees as “permanent part timers” to avoid giving them much benefits. Other such douchery.
So Walmart might suck balls for employees, local cities. Walmart is great for customers. I heard they are pretty dece from investors.
Also people aren’t forced to be Walmart customers. Fock with Krogers & Target if you hate Walmart. My bro does that. You can do what you like, no Digital Underground. Not the case with some other cartel corporations.
For example, what about Sprint. Sucks balls [||] for mobile phone customers, & since there’s a cartel of like 4 mobile phone service vendors that all suck, customers don’t have much choice. Sucks for investors, they’re in danger of bankruptcy. Sucks for employees, mad layoffs due to possible bankruptcy & general incompetent CXO top management. Local cities ain’t happy that any prior corp welfare they doled out to Sprint is gonna have an extra mad negative ROI.
What about health care insurers? Prolly good for investors, horrible for all else, especially customers, who get “recissioned” on the reg.
Wall Street Welfare Whores? Even worse, they rape the taxpayer with their TARP Welfare payments & 0% lending from the Fed. The taxpayer wasn’t a customer, investor, employee & still got randomly focked.
My point is that in the scheme of cartel corporations, some are much worse than others. IMHO Walmart is 1 of the less bad cartel corps.
Yeah, I’m really considering investing some time learning some basic mandarin phrases.
Dallas, you know I know! here in Bentonville, it’s amazing how Walmart/Sam’s Club has this town is set up as the headquarters for world dominance. Seriously, there’s about 5 Walmarts, 3 Sam’s Clubs, 6 Walmart Neigborhood Stores, and about 20 Arvest banks , all in a 5 mile radius (all owned by the Waltons). EVERY major company in the US has offices here, strictly for business with the Walton family. Walmart manhandles these companies into lowering prices, just so I can get a 2 ltr. Mountain Dew for the Everyday Low Price of 1.00. People see the skin i’m in and they just know I’m not from the Ozarks, so the second I step out of my door, vendors are constantly trying to get at me to find a way to get onto the walmart shelves. Little do they know, I’m unemployed. Also, little do most know is walmart is really a real estate company. Their executives look from G4’s for cheap real estate daily. They put that coming soon sign in the dirt, and their name rings out. No promotion…no commercials…no flyers, but suddenly, yo town is hot and the property value is up.
I have to say, this set up is more honest than what happens in most schools.
Amadeo, word.
I don’t see Nike doing it. It’s like when people complained about affirmative action. Sometimes, you get a little help, then it’s up to the individual to settle or rise above the situation.
Another thing is, every job at walmart ain’t fuxed the fux up. You aspire to do well and work hard, you will call shots. I don’t know of any other company that has as many executives that DON’T have any college than walmart. Most people that i’ve met there have started as an hourly employee on the register. Vendors who have MBA’s feel some type of way about the fact that they have to persuede a dude that last month was retrieving carts to buy millions of dollars worth of toothpaste, but if you moved pallets in a Sam’s club distribution center for 5 years, that makes you a logistics & supply chain expert. bottom line. These Detroit children are getting an education that Chicago kids need desperately.
Just like Topps cards, Schwinn bikes and Dell computers, you WILL see Nike Sportswear & Air Jordans in walmart in your lifetime.
My opinion on what messed Detroit up.
You know how generally each generation of Americans wants their children to do more than what they did….whether that means education level, income, opportunities,etc.
Detroit was a city that kind of stunted that kind of thinking. For decades, people knew that that there was a thriving industry in the city that you could enter right after high school. You could make decent to great money in the auto industry there..so at some point either parents stopped pushing or people stopped thinking that higher education was required to reach the “Amercian dream”…..or that entrepreneurial thinking was good or that other industries were worth exploring.
Just a steady stream into the auto industry.
As the american auto industry declined…had a ton of people with skills and trades that couldn’t be transferred to another city or region.
Get,
Detroit was no different than most cities where the industries were evaporated. Detroit was just a bigger and Blacker version of Camden.
In the last few generations a lot of America’s economic lynchpins have been eroded.
Real estate, which for many years was the only way you could enter the middle class has been totally undermined.
Education: the higher learning system has been rendered ineffective because industry(and the need for middle mgmt) has disappeared.
Detroit is emblematic of America and the deirection we are all going.
I agree, I think what made Detroit unique was that similar to what was said about Walmart and their corporate fast track……it was fed directly from the workers.
when I say from decent to good money….it wasn’t rare to read about dudes starting from the plants straight from high school and becoming middle management or executives in Detroit auto industry.I knew a few people from Detroit and that scenario was quite common.
I think in other regions of the country…industry provided jobs but not the level of mobility that the auto industry in Detroit did.
It fostered a F “formal education” or F “GETting My own shit / startup” mentality in the D
walmart going help them out i see no problme with that. let them young ones know you gotta start at the bottom to get to the top
Real estate, which for many years was the only way you could enter the middle class has been totally undermined.
^^^Word. The collapse of the housing market/decline of job opportunities, even menial, sealed the deal.
Dallas, I dont know if you got my email early this year, last year, but it was a pretty good write up regarding detroit unemployment.
daps on the post.