The Real Cost of Wal-Mart’s Rollbacks Do you ever really think about how Wal-Mart keeps their prices so low? Think about printing photos for example; at Wal-Mart you can print 100 High-Quality 4x6 photos for just nine dollars, while even at Walgreens a decent sized competitor of Wal-Mart, printing the same photos would cost you twelve dollars. Wal-Mart always manages to be cheaper by outsourcing our jobs to China, supporting horrendous working conditions and child labor, and failing to provide sufficient benefits to employees. Wal-Mart is setting a bad example for other businesses in the United States. Americans needs to stop that in its tracks by boycotting Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is outsourcing our jobs to avoid our strict labor laws, only
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In the peer review article, “The Economic Impact of Wal-Mart” from the Global Insight Advisory Services Division it explains that “Wal-Mart's presence has resulted in real disposable income gains of 2.6% by 2004 and has added 6,300 jobs to the Dallas-Fort Worth area that otherwise would not have been there.” (http://www.ihsglobalinsight.com/publicDownload/genericContent/11-03-05_walmart.pdf ASK HOW TO CITE THIS? AS WHAT ARTICLE? JOURNAL? WHAT?).Wal-Mart may be creating jobs throughout the country, but in reality those jobs are not realistic. Wal-Mart is actually lowering our standard of employment by keeping workers under a certain number of hours a week so that they cannot be considered full time. According to the Forward Progressive website, “Anyone hired after Feb. 1, 2012, that doesn’t average 30 hours per week, lost their health care benefits this past January. …employees are often scheduled the max amount of days allowed, at 4 hours per day, totaling 20 hours per week” (Clifton). They choose to avoid having to deal with laws that deal with health care, by simply not allowing their employees to qualify. No matter the risk their employee’s face with little to no health care, this shows that they clearly have little care for their employees. Not only does Wal-Mart avoid making their employees fulltime but they also avoid paying them in a comparable way to similar establishments. In an article from The Economist it states that, “In 2014 the average hourly wage of an American cashier was $9.93. According to data from Glassdoor, a jobs website, Wal-Mart’s cashiers then took home $8.62. Retail salesmen made $12.38 nationwide; at Wal-Mart, they earned only $8.53” (High expectations). Wal-Mart argues that they are raising their minimum wage but even this raise wouldn’t make it comparable to similar
In the peer review article, “The Economic Impact of Wal-Mart” from the Global Insight Advisory Services Division it explains that “Wal-Mart's presence has resulted in real disposable income gains of 2.6% by 2004 and has added 6,300 jobs to the Dallas-Fort Worth area that otherwise would not have been there.” (http://www.ihsglobalinsight.com/publicDownload/genericContent/11-03-05_walmart.pdf ASK HOW TO CITE THIS? AS WHAT ARTICLE? JOURNAL? WHAT?).Wal-Mart may be creating jobs throughout the country, but in reality those jobs are not realistic. Wal-Mart is actually lowering our standard of employment by keeping workers under a certain number of hours a week so that they cannot be considered full time. According to the Forward Progressive website, “Anyone hired after Feb. 1, 2012, that doesn’t average 30 hours per week, lost their health care benefits this past January. …employees are often scheduled the max amount of days allowed, at 4 hours per day, totaling 20 hours per week” (Clifton). They choose to avoid having to deal with laws that deal with health care, by simply not allowing their employees to qualify. No matter the risk their employee’s face with little to no health care, this shows that they clearly have little care for their employees. Not only does Wal-Mart avoid making their employees fulltime but they also avoid paying them in a comparable way to similar establishments. In an article from The Economist it states that, “In 2014 the average hourly wage of an American cashier was $9.93. According to data from Glassdoor, a jobs website, Wal-Mart’s cashiers then took home $8.62. Retail salesmen made $12.38 nationwide; at Wal-Mart, they earned only $8.53” (High expectations). Wal-Mart argues that they are raising their minimum wage but even this raise wouldn’t make it comparable to similar