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I think this paragraph seems very out of place and very POV in the product selection section.
"While Wal-Mart's product selection may be seen by some as censorship, others view this from a free enterprise standpoint, that criticism of Wal-Mart's product selection is misguided because Wal-Mart is free to carry and sell whatever products it chooses and that customers are free to shop elsewhere, and would do so if they were in disagreement with its perceived moral values."
First off who are these 'others'? Is it Wal-Mart itself or not? This whole thing seems like an opinion piece whilst the rest of the section lists facts. In fact that section doesn't even mention censorship until this paragraph brings it up. I move to delete that section until we can get something better, like oh say an official stance from Wal-mart, (remember the rest of the section (for the most part) doesn't cite opinion until this one paragraph puts it in).Father Time89 (talk) 05:07, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Reverted. I disagree, and it's not POV. Furthermore, this statement is needed because without it, the section IS POV. Dr. Cash (talk) 16:37, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I still don't see how it makes it NPOV since it doesn't cite who these 'others' are and it very much seems like something thrown in to defend Wal-Mart by some random person.Father Time89 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 22:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Someone Add her story please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.134.73.132 (talk) 01:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, Ruslik (talk) 06:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
You should mention Stacy Clay Driver, the guy wal-mart loss prevention employees suffocated to death. You might want some whole section on loss prevention since wal-mart since they are viewed as rather hostile. He isn't the only one killed by them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.192.55.64 (talk) 08:06, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't we mention the portion of wal mart employees on welfare? I've found a source on this http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporate_Welfare/WalMart_Welfare.html YVNP (talk) 08:18, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
About a year ago, I'd been searching court records & came across a walmart in Wisconsin which had a high # of legal claims against people. In 1 year they'd hit over 50 people in the same way, which makes me wonder if they were former employees or something.
Anyone else read or hear things like that in theior area?
75.8.38.20 (talk) 15:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Source 72 for the section on illegals requires a subscription to wall street journal. I believe that when information could be gotten from a source that doesn't require a subscription(and there are other sources for this), that source usable by everyone instead of only a small minority of readers should be used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Levgre (talk • contribs) 18:39, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
I would like to add the following paragraph to the end of the "Overseas labor concerns" section:
In June 2006, Wal-Mart was blacklisted from the investment portfolio of The Government Pension Fund of Norway, which held stock values of about US$ 430 million in the company, due to an investigation by the fund's ethical council into alleged labor rights violations in Wal-Mart operations in America, Africa and Asia.[1] Although Wal-Mart did not respond to questions from the fund's investigators, the company later claimed the decision "don't appear to be based on complete information".[2]
This information seems significant because it is the result of a rigorous and transparent semi-judicial investigation into some of the allegations put forward against Wal-Mart, and provides documentation of the claims. The fund is one of the largest investment funds in the world (see Sovereign Wealth Fund and Pension Fund), and the blaclisting received massive worldwide attention when it happened (google "Norway"+"Wal-Mart" for some examples).
I also believe some mention of this should be included in the main Wal-Mart article, but that is a different discussion - see that article's talk page if you're interested.--Anderssl (talk) 21:51, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
References
This section should be rewritten or removed. It is currently not NPOV ("notorious"), and the two individual anecdotes should be replaced by some reliable, valid sources for the general claim about product defects in general. --Anderssl (talk) 20:00, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Third opinion: I don't think it's out of line to have the section here, so long as it follows standard Wiki policies of reliable sources and verifiability. Currently the section starts with "Some criticize", which is definitely a weasel word. I'm concerned with the sources on the second two sentences, both of which pull from videogames.yahoo.com, which doesn't strike me as a reliable source. The last one is okay, I suppose, in that it was published in a secondary source. But beyond that, the section shouldn't just be relentless Wal-mart bashing - it needs to go somewhere. But since a bunch of editors want it there, they should at least have a chance to improve it before ditching the section entirely. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 02:53, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
this should be added DO NOT DELETE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.9.18.122 (talk) 19:48, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
WE have shopped Wal Marts ever sinse it was first built in Arlington, Tex. We moved to Austin about five years ago and I went to my nearest Wal Mart store to purchase my grocery and everything I'd need for the new house, for the most part everything was the same as it had always been.
The store was a new super store and at the time live up to what I usually find in most of your stores, but lately we have trouble finding the most basic things that you have carried for years, Like Cheeros in the larger boxes NOT THE DOUBLE PACK it doesn't fit on the pantry shelves. I realise that products are going to change but it's not that they have changed it's that you just don't carry them any more. In food items the Hormel Pork Roast that you have carried for ever you no long ever have, we bought cole slaw that was already chop once are twice now it's no longer available, we are dietbetic we can have sponge cake but you changed the brand and it has to much sugar so we had to do without one of the few pleasures that we are allowed. Hair spray I've used Pantene maxamen hold and now there is never any on the shelves theres a hole but no hair spray,I changed to another brand I usually buy two bottles at a time but I thought I'd try the new one and see if it was any good before I bought something I couldn't use. The next time I went to get some they were out at least there was none on the shelve and the person that was stocking said she couldn't tell me if they would get any in in the future.
Clothing Is horrible! I'm a heavy set women. You did carry a line of cloths that I could wear and not feel like a clown. What happen to the White Stag Blouses and the Just My Size Jeans, the clothing you carry for the Woman 18 to 26 LOOK LIKE THEY BELONG ON STREET WALKERS. We may be large but we have pride in OUR appearance too. WE like to look in fashion but not like teenagers. The cloths you have in your stores right now are so thin that you can see right through them, what I mean they are cheap and made to look like something that you would find in a Good Will Store you know already worn out. I want to wear my cloth at lease a season not for an hour or two and throw them away. The people you have buying the WOMANS WEAR LARGER SIZES have no idea what there doing. WE ARE NOT COMPETEING for the FROMP OF THE YEAR we just want to be dressed nice without drawing attendion to our self. The patheric tight tops and horizental strips are for the younger group, when will people ever get it through their heads that most of us are trying to hide the width and roundness of our bodies. We use to be able to have a choose as to the type of cloths we wear. Now if we buy something from you all we look like we are trying to return to our teen years. Do you ever stop to think that bell bottoms on a SIXTY YEAR OLD is just a little bit REDUNDANT! I'm sure you've heard been there done that, well most people that wear WOMAN SIZES HAVE AND are over it! (71.145.178.223 (talk) 05:52, 8 April 2009 (UTC))
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If you want to know the answer to the lack of product, look around your city - how many stores are still around compared to before the SC.
Once WM suceeds in their REAL plan (domination), and nearby stores fold, WM will adopt the "if you don't like it, shop somewhere else" attitude, And will start dropping all but the cheapest junk they can get.
I think Walter said it best, "Welcome to Walmart.... Get your s--t and get out!"
99.153.3.31 (talk) 15:03, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I am wondering what others think about possibly adding a section to the article that outlines at least some of the known tactics walmart uses to "get it's way"?
Some of the ones I have documented are threatening to leave, demanding a vote/referendum on whether they should be allowed to build and then throwing large ammounts of money into swinging the voting to their favor, and suggesting they might sue if they aren't allowed to build.
99.165.109.144 (talk) 04:30, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
I was initially thinking that this should be included in the article, but since Wal-mart accuses Kenneth J. Harvey, owner of walmartsucks.com, of attempting to extort money from Wal-Mart, I am not so sure, thoughts? In 2005, an anon wrote a flattering Kenneth J. Harvey page, maybe this information should be included there?
There was a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (run by the United Nations) case against walmartsucks.com. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. wallmartcanadasucks.com and Kenneth J. Harvey Case No. D2000-1104.
Kenneth J. Harvey, owner of walmartsucks.com, asked Wal-Mart for 5 million dollars for the site "as a joke", what representatives of Wal-Mart called "extortion". "The WIPO [later] changed its opinion in light of US law."
News article excerpts about the case |
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Archive.org shows that walmartsucks.com was running on June 12, 2004: ...and then shut down on June 14, 2004: Walmartsucks.org was created by Kenneth J. Harvey, he states the web domain walmartsucks.com was bought in June 2006 by Wal-Mart, and asks how. |
98.231.142.70 (talk) 14:39, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I still have the WIPO emails, if anyone wants copies? :D
(When I saw what was going down, I sent evidence to WIPO, and they wound up including me on the CC list for all emails on the complaint)
99.139.233.88 (talk) 00:54, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
The way this paragraph is worded leaves the impression that wal-mart critics have less factual evidence than economists. Just a thought.
Economists suggest that Wal-Mart is a success because it sells products at low prices that people want to buy, satisfying customer's wants and needs. However, Wal-Mart critics argue at the same time Wal-Mart's lower prices draw customers away from other businesses, "hurting the community."[11][12] 68.116.106.252 (talk) 00:33, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
This is not actually a criticism of the company. It's an unfortunate teen prank that got some young punk arrested, but an incident is not the same thing as a criticism. Here is what the section said:
In any event, if the section is kept, it should definitely be shortened. Walmart has, if I remember correctly, 8,000 stores. I would expect there to be unfortunate incidents in some of them over time, since human nature is what it is. However, an unfortunate incident is not the same thing as a critique. Hanxu9 (talk) 16:30, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
References
There is a link but no archive. Capitalismojo (talk) 03:13, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
http://www.thenation.com/blog/173442/labor-board-alleges-repeated-retaliation-walmarts-top-us-warehouse# <-- Now, The Nation definitely has a viewpoint, which is fine. It is our goal to use a variety of sources. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 22:30, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Even if It Enrages Your Boss, Social Net Speech Is Protected, The New York Times, STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Jan. 21, 2013.
' . . . But in a series of recent rulings and advisories, labor regulators have declared many such blanket restrictions illegal. The National Labor Relations Board says workers have a right to discuss work conditions freely and without fear of retribution, whether the discussion takes place at the office or on Facebook. . . '
' . . . The labor board’s rulings, which apply to virtually all private sector employers, generally tell companies that it is illegal to adopt broad social media policies — like bans on “disrespectful” comments or posts that criticize the employer — if those policies discourage workers from exercising their right to communicate with one another with the aim of improving wages, benefits or working conditions. . . '
' . . . The general counsel’s office gave high marks to Wal-Mart’s social policy, which had been revised after consultations with the agency. It approved Wal-Mart’s prohibition of “inappropriate postings that may include discriminatory remarks, harassment and threats of violence or similar inappropriate or unlawful conduct.” . . '
Here Come the Biggest Walmart Protests Since Black Friday, Atlantic Wire, Zach Schonfeld, Sept. 5, 2013.
' . . . Among the West Coast organizers is Smith, a 17-year veteran of Walmart's Paramount, California location. A former department manager in Housewares, Smith started at Walmart as an overnight stocker earning $5.50 an hour. He became increasingly involved with OUR Walmart in 2012 and was fired this spring.
'"For 14 years I was a model associate," he claimed. After he began speaking out about labor conditions, "they started silencing me, by holding me to standards that they weren't holding other associates to. We were so understaffed, and the workload placed on me [was] unsurmountable."
'Since his dismissal, Smith has spent his efforts educating Walmart workers about labor rights and ways to push back against the company. . . '
NLRB bolsters private-employee speech, First Amendment Center (Vanderbilt University and the Newseum Institute), Douglas E. Lee, Sept. 14, 2011.
" . . . Intended to protect employees’ right to unionize, the NLRA prohibits private employers from, among other things, interfering in employees’ attempts to engage in concerted activity. These attempts, the board traditionally has held, include discussions among coworkers about the terms and conditions of their employment. . . "
" . . . In the report, Solomon [acting general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board] detailed the board’s handling of 14 cases in which unfair labor practice charges arose out of social-media postings or policies. In half of those cases, the board found that the employers had violated the NLRA; in the other half, the board found the employers’ actions were lawful. In cases involving social-media postings, a fact critical to the board’s determination was whether the postings were directed at or discussed with coworkers. . . "
What Can They Say?, The Employer's Lawyer, Casey Sipe, May 10, 2012.
" . . . The National Labor Relations Act has long provided protection to employees to discuss wages, hours and working conditions. Recently the NLRB has extended that protection to discussions on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. . . "
http://www.manufacturing.net/articles/2013/09/the-days-of-squeezing-suppliers-are-over
http://dirtylaundrythewalmartfiles.wordpress.com/glossary-of-terms/
There isn't anything here about Walmart's general record in terms of environmentalism (energy and water use, packaging, construction policies, transportation). Are there any Walmart experts, or people who have read "force of nature" by Edward Humes and could write something about how the company has done in that regard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.163.105.115 (talk) 13:53, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
"A December 2007 report published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (a non-governmental agency), revealed that some furniture sold at Walmart was made from wood which had been illegally logged in protected Russian habitats for Siberian tigers and other wildlife.[151] This led the company to investigate its suppliers and promise to eliminate products made from illegal wood by 2013. They also joined the Global Forest & Trade Network, an organization that is dedicated to eliminating illegal logging.[152]"
I have heard many stories of people being banned from Walmart stores for dubious and even fabricated reasons; in some cases, no reason is even given. I can't seem to find much about this through Google or Bing, but I know this does happen because I myself was the subject of such a dubious ban. Can anyone help? Thanks...--173.17.85.151 (talk) 05:12, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Unfortunately, this article has failed to keep up with GA standards, and is currently near the top of the Cleanup listing by number of tags, so I am beginning a good article reassessment. Initial problems I noticed in a quick run-through:
These are from a quick read-through; if and when they are addressed I will do a closer review for prose, etc. Let me know if there are any questions, Dana boomer (talk) 16:51, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
WP:EL is clear -- the purpose of EL is to give material not covered in the article, whilst a list of editorial columns seems not to conform with that content guideline. External Links are typically used for webpages of an organization which is the topic of an article, and links with factual information not covered in the body of the article. Specifically:
should not be linked from an article. Cheers. Collect (talk) 22:21, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:United_Food_and_Commercial_Workers
Why "Good Jobs" Are Good for Retailers, Harvard Business Review, Zeynep Ton, Jan.-Feb. 2012.
" . . . Highly successful retail chains—such as QuikTrip convenience stores, Mercadona and Trader Joe’s supermarkets, and Costco wholesale clubs—not only invest heavily in store employees but also have the lowest prices in their industries, solid financial performance, and better customer service than their competitors. . . "
" . . . In addition, many retailers see labor as a cost driver rather than a sales driver and therefore focus on minimizing its costs. Accordingly, they often evaluate store managers on whether they meet monthly (or weekly) targets for payroll as a percentage of sales. These managers don’t have much control over sales (they almost never make decisions on merchandise mix, layout, price, or promotions), but they do have a fair amount of control over payroll. So when sales decrease, they immediately reduce staffing levels. The pressure to reduce payroll expenses is so high that store managers at several large chains, including Walmart, have been widely reported to have forced employees to work off-the-clock, paying them for fewer hours than they put in. . . "
" . . . Home Depot is a well-known example. When former GE executive Robert Nardelli became CEO, at the end of 2000, he cut staffing levels and increased the percentage of part-timers to reduce costs and boost profits. Those moves achieved both goals immediately, but they eventually caused Home Depot’s excellent customer service—the company’s claim to fame and, arguably, primary source of competitive advantage—to suffer, customer satisfaction to plunge, and same-store sales growth to drop and even go negative in some years. . . "
" . . . Research by Marshall Fisher, Serguei Netessine, and Jayanth Krishnan supports my findings: Their analysis of 17 months of data from a large retailer shows that for every $1 increase in payroll, a store could see a $4 to $28 increase in monthly sales. . . "
" . . . instead of responding to short-term pressures by automatically cutting labor, stores should strive to find the staffing level that maximizes profits on a sustained basis. In many cases, that will mean adding workers."
Customers Flee Wal-Mart Empty Shelves for Target, Costco, Bloomberg News, Renee Dudley, March 26, 2013.
' . . . In the past five years, the world’s largest retailer added 455 U.S. Wal-Mart stores, a 13 percent increase, according to filings and the company’s website. In the same period, its total U.S. workforce, which includes Sam’s Club employees, dropped by about 20,000, or 1.4 percent. . . '
' . . . At the supercenter across the street from Wal-Mart’s Bentonville, Arkansas, home office, salespeople on March 14 handed out samples of Chobani yogurt and Clif Bars. Thirteen of 20 registers were manned -- with no lines -- and the shelves were fully stocked. Three days earlier, about 10 people waited in a customer service line at a Wal-Mart in Secaucus, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York, the nation’s largest city. Twelve of 30 registers were open and the lines were about five deep. There were empty spaces on shelves large enough for a grown man to lie down, . . '
' . . . Retailers consider labor -- usually their largest controllable expense -- an easy cost-cutting target, Ton said [Zeynep Ton, a retail researcher and associate professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management]. That’s what happened at Home Depot Inc. (HD) in the early 2000s, . . . '
' . . . Wisconsin . . . Tifft has worked for nearly a quarter-century, merchandise ready for the sales floor remains on pallets and in steel bins lining the floor of the back room -- an area so full that “no passable aisles” remain, she said. Meanwhile, the front of the store is increasingly barren, Tifft said. That landscape has worsened over the past several years as workers who leave aren’t replaced, she said.
'“There’s a lot of voids out there, a lot of voids,” said Tifft, 58, who oversees grocery deliveries and is a member of OUR Walmart, a union-backed group seeking to improve working conditions at the discount chain. “Customers come in, they can’t find what they’re looking for, and they’re leaving.”
'Years ago, supervisors drilled a message into employees’ heads: “In the door and to the floor,” Tifft said. That mantra now seems impossible to execute. . . '
' . . . Wal-Mart is entangled in what Ton calls the “vicious cycle” of under-staffing. Too few workers leads to operational problems. Those problems lead to poor store sales, which lead to lower labor budgets.
'“It requires a wake-up call at a higher level,” she said of the decision to hire more workers. . . '
' . . . White, a 36-year-old attorney, tried to buy wall paint at the Wal-Mart near his home in Santee, California. “You wait 20, 25 minutes for someone to help you, then the person was not trained on mixing paint,” White said. “It was like, you have to help them help you.” . . . The store would go weeks without products he wanted to buy, such as men’s dress shirts, which he found only in very large or small sizes and unpopular colors, he said. “Pretty soon, they were even out of those,” White said. “I would literally check every so often at different Wal-Marts. They would go two or three months with the shelves looking exactly the same.” . . . '
Walmart Strains to Keep Aisles Stocked Fresh, New York Times, STEPHANIE CLIFFORD, April 3, 2013.
' . . . Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer and grocer, has cut so many employees that it no longer has enough workers to stock its shelves properly, according to some employees and industry analysts. . . '
' . . . Before the recession, at the start of 2007, Walmart had an average of 338 employees per store at its United States stores and Sam’s Club locations. Now, it has 281 per store, having cut the number of United States employees while adding hundreds of stores. . . '
' . . . She [Terrie Ellerbee, associate editor at the grocery industry publication The Shelby Report] traced the problem to 2010, after Walmart reduced the range of merchandise it carried in an attempt to make stores less cluttered. Customers did not like the change, and Walmart added merchandise back, but with declining sales then, it did not add back employees, she said. “Without enough labor hours to get those items back, not to mention to do routine stocking, shelves were left bare,” Ms. Ellerbee said. . . '
' . . . The company’s grocery prices are usually about 15 percent below competitors’ [emphasis added], according to Supermarket News. . . ' [We do want to include both the positive and negative parts.]
' . . . According to the notes from the Walmart meeting last month in Orlando obtained by The New York Times, while Walmart has 20 percent of the market share in dry grocery, it has 15 percent in fresh (areas like produce, meat, deli and bakery). . . '
The Trouble Lurking on Walmart’s Empty Shelves, Time Business & Money, Bill Saporito, April 9, 2013.
" . . . one of the company’s central missions is to be an agent for its customers. . . "
" . . . Ultimately, no amount of supply chain computer wizardry can eliminate Walmart’s need for muscle power to get the goods on the shelves. . . "
" . . . inventory management goes to the heart of what Walmart does. The economics of retailing are a circular: You order stuff, it’s delivered, and you have 30 days to pay for it. The faster you can sell the merchandise, the less it costs you to finance, which is why inventory turns are a critical measure of retail efficiency. Globally, Walmart turns its entire inventory eight times a year (compared to 6.4 times a year for Target, for example) [emphasis added, so still stronger than Target in this regard]. . . "
" . . . So any speed bump, anywhere in the system, screws everything up. . . "
" . . . Walmart’s front-end managers are supposed to open another register any time there are more than three customers in line. The cashiers have to come from some other part of the store—the back room, which is invisible to the customer, is one such place to grab bodies. . . . And even if Walmart’s claim of an 90%-to-95% in-stock position is true, that’s not so great. Given the inventory level in domestic Walmart stores—$25.8 billion, based on its last annual report—that means the company could be foregoing $1.29 billion to $2.58 billion in potential sales. . . "
http://consumerist.com/2013/01/02/how-to-shop-at-walmart-without-annoying-the-employees-much/
Wal-Mart Tries Workforce Surge to Battle Sparse Shelves, Bloomberg Businessweek, Susan Berfield, Sept. 23, 2013.
' . . . The country’s largest private employer will be giving full-time jobs to 35,000 members of its part-time workforce, and another 35,000 of its temporary workers will be moved into part-time slots. The retailer will also hire 55,000 people to work at its stores during the holiday season. . . '
' . . . U.S. workforce at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club fell by about 120,000 employees in the past five years, to 1.3 million, according to Bloomberg News, even as the company added more than 500 stores. Recently, Cleveland Research found that one of the key problems hindering Wal-Mart’s operations “is the lack of labor in the stores to get the inventory out of the back rooms and onto the sales floor.” Wal-Mart has disputed claims of restocking problems. . . '
http://www.forbes.com/sites/walterloeb/2013/07/17/why-are-walmart-stores-such-a-mess/
http://supermarketnews.com/dollar-stores/dollar-general-tops-pricing-survey
Walmart Employees Tell Consumerist About All Those Empty Shelves, Consumerist, Chris Morran, April 5, 2013. This article also includes photographs of Walmart shelves in further need of stocking, primarily in health and beauty products.
One employee states, "As soon as we get a full crew we start to lose people through them quitting or being fired. Management seems to wait until we need 6 or 7 people, then we get a rash of new hires. . . "
And another employee states, "Instead they make the rest of us work faster and harder, saying the task manager system, which is basically a [point-of-sale] system telling them how long it should take us to do our job, says we should be done already or we’re taking too long."
http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2014/02/low-pay-policy-backfires-walmart
" . . In 1996, Jim founded TheStreet, one of the "most visited" financial media websites for individual to institutional investors. . "
http://www.wsfa.com/story/24779802/12-news-defenders-get-results-after-featuring-empty-troy-walmart
http://www.retailwire.com/news-article/17397/empty-shelves-become-big-news-on-investor-sites
Customers Flee Wal-Mart Empty Shelves for Target, Costco, Bloomberg News, Renee Dudley, March 26, 2013.
' . . . Last month, Wal-Mart placed last among department and discount stores in the American Customer Satisfaction Index, the sixth year in a row the company had either tied or taken the last spot. . . '
Who's right about Wal-Mart's customer satisfaction?, MSN Money, Jonathan Berr, April 2, 2013.
' . . . "Bloomberg continues to pursue a story based on a sample size of customer responses that is not representative of what is happening in our stores across the country," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan told MSN Money. . . '
' . . . Wal-Mart routinely performs poorly in independent measures of customer service such as the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The Bentonville, Ark., company scored 71 in the latest ASCI survey, the lowest of any department and retail store. Rival Target (TGT +0.25%) earned an 81 rating. . . '
A Walmart Worker Explains Why Walmart's Customer Service Is Horrible, Gawker, Hamilton Nolan, Feb. 11, 2014:
" . . I have worked at Wal-Mart for five years, two years as an associate, and the last three as a department manager over hardware and sporting goods, respectively. . "
" . . home office gives store managers a set amount of hours and payroll dollars that they can schedule people/pay people in each area of the store, and it is based on what the sales were in that department on that day the previous fiscal year. So even though last year was a Friday, it was snowing out, and no one was shopping, this year, on a Saturday, when its sunny out and everyone is shopping, you won't have anyone around to help you because LAST YEAR we didn't make enough money! . "
I read this article about how this union group doesn't boycott Walmart, instead they become fiercely loyal customers, and every time they visit Walmart, they leave one piece of union literature on a counter or shelf, talk to employees about unions or give them literature, etc. It is difficult for Walmart to stop because these people are loyal paying customers.
Does anyone else recall reading an article about this? I found the several articles mentioning it two weeks ago, but I can't seem to find it. Thewhitebox (talk) 14:42, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
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I feel this article violates two things:
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Here is a new report on tax avoidance by Walmart: The Walmart Web: How the World’s Biggest Corporation Secretly Uses Tax Havens to Dodge Taxes. Key findings of the report: . Bloomberg coverage: --Neudabei (talk) 06:12, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, Wikipedians! While working on the Walmart Talk page, editors brought to my attention issues with this article, mainly that they consider the content to be WP:UNDUE. Checkingfax also noted the length of this article, which is about the same size as the main Walmart entry. To help update this page and improve its neutral point of view, I will make suggestions on this Talk page and ask other editors to review. If you've followed the Walmart and Doug McMillon entries, you know that I am one of Walmart's representatives on Wikipedia and I will ask for help here but not make edits myself.
To start things off, let's discuss the name used throughout the article. The company does business as Walmart, and the main article on Wikipedia is named Walmart. For consistency among Wikipedia articles, can any editors go through the article and change outdated uses of Wal-Mart to Walmart? The exception to this is that the former spelling may need to be kept in cases where "Wal-Mart" is used in composition titles or names of legal cases.
I'm happy to discuss further or answer any questions. Thanks, JLD at Walmart (talk) 13:18, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Wikipedians! I want to bring to editors' attention this edit by an IP editor. There are a few issues I would like to address. First, I recommend writing out the date so the article handles dates consistently throughout. Secondly, some of the store numbers are incorrect. The article says the striking employees were from store 5782 in Nanchang, Jiangxi, store 2039 in Nanchang, store 0209 in Chengdu, Sichuan and store 3422 in Harbin, Heilongjiang. The Nanchang store is No. 5827; Chengdu is No. 209. I do not have an independent third-party source for the correct store numbers, but this information also seems more detailed than necessary, so I would ask that they be deleted. I also ask whether the China Labour Bulletin source can be removed? Other more well-known and reliable sources, such as Reuters and the Financial Times, are more accurate on this issue, and they also tend to approach it from neutral ground when compared to the China Labour Bulletin, which appears to have a specific point of view. Thirdly, as sources have included Walmart's response but that is not currently included here, I'd like to suggest that be added. Lastly, the workers returned to work, so that should be added to give the full view of the current situation.
Below is a suggestion for how we can revise this paragraph, followed by the markup.
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Some workers in [[China]] went on unofficial strike at Walmart stores in [[Nanchang]], [[Jiangxi Province]], [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan Province]], and [[Harbin]], [[Heilongjiang Province]], in early July 2016 after a new work-hours scheduling system took effect.<ref name="ReutersJuly72016">{{cite news |title=Wal-Mart says most China employees support new scheduling system |url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-says-most-china-employees-support-scheduling-182951648--finance.html |agency=[[Reuters]] |date=July 7, 2016 |accessdate=July 12, 2016}}</ref> The striking workers protested the system, which allowed managers to schedule an unlimited number of hours per day totalling up to 174 hours per month without overtime pay.<ref name="YuanYang16">{{cite news |title=Walmart workers launch wildcat strikes across China |last1=Yang |first1=Yuan |url=https://next.ft.com/content/d1dd7376-4408-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1 |newspaper=[[Financial Times]] |date=July 7, 2016 |accessdate=July 12, 2016}}</ref> According to Walmart, associates could opt in to the new flexible work schedule or keep their original shifts, and the new scheduling, which most associates supported, allowed employees to work more shifts if they choose.<ref name="ReutersJuly72016"/><ref name="YuanYang16"/><ref name="Bose16">{{cite news |title=Exclusive: U.S. and Chinese labor groups collaborated before China Wal-Mart strikes |last1=Bose |first1=Nandita |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-china-idUSKCN0ZY0SV |agency=[[Reuters]] |date=July 18, 2016 |accessdate=July 18, 2016}}</ref> ''[[Reuters]]'' reported that by July 8, 2016, the striking workers returned to work.<ref name="ReutersJuly82016">{{cite news |title=Striking Wal-Mart workers in China return to work - for now |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-china-idUSKCN0ZN26C |agency=[[Reuters]] |date=July 8, 2016 |accessdate=July 12, 2016}}</ref> |
These are my ideas and I would love to hear from others. Because of my financial conflict of interest I will not make changes to the article myself. Is there anyone who could review and incorporate the changes? I'm happy to answer any questions. Thanks, JLD at Walmart (talk) 15:30, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved, WP:SNOW (non-admin closure) — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 15:17, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
Criticism of Walmart → Controversy around Walmart – I think that we should rename this article to not have such a negative name. I propose that we rename it to "Controversy around Walmart" or something similar. MorbidEntree - (Talk to me! (っ◕‿◕)っ♥)(please reply using {{ping}}) 02:55, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Wikipedians! Following up on a conversation on the Walmart Talk page and the above request, I'm back with another request to improve this article overall. I went through the article and noted unsourced claims. In some instances, I was able to find citations we can add for verification. Where I could not find good references from reliable, independent, third-party sources, I request the content be removed. If not specifically mentioned below, I am only asking for unsourced information to be removed if I was unable to find a reliable source. As I've stated on my other edit requests, I am one of Walmart's representatives on Wikipedia and I will ask for help here but not make edits myself.
Local communities
For some time, PA 65 remained restricted to one lane northbound near the former Dixmont site for safety concerns, though the entire roadway had been cleared of debris. Despite this, Walmart is the largest retail chain in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, and is the second-largest grocery store to locally based Giant Eagle.
Allegations of predatory pricing and supplier issues
Both cases were settled out of court.
<ref name="Mitchell 01">{{cite web |url=https://ilsr.org/walmart-settles-predatory-pricing-charge/ |title=Wal-Mart Settles Predatory Pricing Charge |author=Stacy Mitchell |date=October 1, 2001 |work= |publisher=Institute for Local Self-Reliance |accessdate=June 23, 2016}}</ref>
{{citation needed}}
or delete any mention to the Crest Foods lawsuit outcome until it is properly cited.Walmart has since sold its stores in Germany.[citation needed]
<ref name="AP 06">{{cite news |title=Wal-Mart selling its 85 stores in Germany |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14073098/ns/business-world_business/t/wal-mart-selling-its-stores-germany/#.V2wz5JMrLVp |agency=[[The Associated Press]] |date=July 28, 2006 |accessdate=June 23, 2016}}</ref>
In the 2010s, a proposal to build the Midtown Walmart supercenter faced public outcry, litigation, and local business oppositionwith:
In the 2010s, a proposal to build a Walmart supercenter in Midtown Miami was met with litigation and opposition from local businesses, delaying construction of the project. A Florida Third District Court of Appeal panel of judges denied the opposition's challenge of the city's approvals and Walmart broke ground on the development in January 2016.[1]
Employee and labor relations
Wages
Walmart managers are judged, in part, based on their ability to control payroll costs.
<ref name="Computerworld 03">{{cite news |title=Well-paid professionals draw unwelcome attention |last1=Tejada |first1=Carlos |last2=McWilliams |first2=Gary |url=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/938287/posts |magazine=[[Computerworld]] |date=June 30, 2003 |accessdate=June 23, 2016}}</ref>
Citation needed
. We can add the following citation:
<ref name="O'Connor 14">{{cite news |title=Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance |last1=O'Connor |first1=Clair |url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/#1a52ebdf7cd8 |magazine=[[Forbes (magazine)]] |date=April 15, 2014 |accessdate=June 23, 2016}}</ref>
Working conditions
citation needed
. We can add the following as a reference:
<ref name="CNNMoney 05">{{cite news |title=Police: Wal-Mart site raided |url=http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/18/news/fortune500/walmart_raid/?cnn=yes |newspaper=[[CNNMoney]] |date=November 18, 2005 |accessdate=June 23, 2016}}</ref>
Allegations of wrongful termination
citation needed
. We can add the following citation:
<ref name="Greenhouse 13">{{cite news |title=Even if it enrages your boss, social net speech is protected |last1=Greenhouse |first1=Steven |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/technology/employers-social-media-policies-come-under-regulatory-scrutiny.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 21, 2013 |accessdate=June 23, 2016}}</ref>
Health insurance
Critics point to this internal memo as evidence that Walmart purports to be generous with its employee benefits, while in reality the company is working to cut such benefits by reducing the number of full-time and long-term employees and discouraging supposedly unhealthy people from working at Walmart.
New, full-time Walmart associates must work at least six months before being eligible to purchase the company's primary health insurance.
Labor union opposition
Many of the states where the UFCW plans to go on strike with the Walmart employees have at-will employment laws protecting the company.
Poorly run and understaffed stores
citation needed
. This information is found using the citation for the report "Why 'Good Jobs' Are Good for Retailers" by Zeynep Ton that appears at the end of the paragraph. The problem, however, is with how this article presents the report, especially in the first four sentences of this section. The report appears to be talking about the retailers in general, not Walmart specifically. Therefore, I argue that editors have included WP:POV by attaching Walmart's name to each of the points.Imports and globalization
Critics say that this pressures vendors to shift manufacturing jobs to China and other nations, where the cost of labor is less expensive.
Overseas concerns
There have also been reports of teenagers in Bangladesh working in sweatshops 80 hours per week at $0.14 per hour, for Walmart supplier Beximco.
Walmart points out that wages paid to overseas workers are comparable to or exceed local prevailing wages.[citation needed]The company says that the overseas manufacturing jobs it creates are often an improvement in the quality of life for its employees.[citation needed] They have also drawn attention to the fact that factory jobs with its suppliers are often safer and healthier than local alternatives,[citation needed] which may include prostitution, the drug trade, or scavenging.
Building collapse at Savar
After the 2013 Savar building collapse, Walmart became a founding member of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety..
<ref name="Rupp 13">{{cite news |title=Wal-Mart to Gap Group Starts $42 Million Bangladesh Fund |last1=Rupp |first1=Lindsey |url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-10/wal-mart-to-gap-group-starts-42-million-bangladesh-fund |newspaper=[[Bloomberg News]] |date=July 10, 2013 |accessdate=June 23, 2016}}</ref>
Product selection
<ref name="Ballon 04">{{cite news |title=Wal-Mart stops selling hate |last1=Ballon |first1=Marc |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/up_front/article/walmart_stops_selling_hate_20040924 |newspaper=[[Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]] |date=September 23, 2004 |accessdate=June 23, 2016}}</ref>
While I'm sure there are more instances of unsourced material in this article, this seems like a good start. I'm happy to discuss further or answer any questions. Thanks, JLD at Walmart (talk) 20:32, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
References
I closed this edit request as the bulk of it has been completed. For a few of the remaining items, I will post a note below so it is a little easier for editors to follow what still could use attention. Thanks to Kendall-K1 for helping with this. JLD at Walmart (talk) 18:13, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
I'm surprised we're not using this Human Rights Watch report as a source: Discounting Rights: Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association at Google Books. Kendall-K1 (talk) 14:38, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
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