I think Wal Mart is trying to go out of business

[togor]

Why wouldn't a company automate if it improves profitability? Robots don't need to be paid or take holidays.

[Roadkingtrax]

Why wouldn't a company automate if it improves profitability? Robots don't need to be paid or take holidays.

...or health insurance?

[JB White]

You do realize both of you have just contradicted yourselves in regard to previous threads? You know. The ones where you defended a $15 minimum wage and Obamacare.
The ones out of work due to the robots are the ones demanding those things. I can only afford to pay just so much for welfare before I will need it myself. I hope you guys are earning a whole lot more than my pension payout because somebody will have to pay for me.

Thanks in advance!

[togor]

Not so, JB. I'm speaking to forces in play. Companies have a drive to maximize profits, and those people who are in the work force have incentives to maximize pay. One can speak to the forces without aligning themselves wholly with either. Surely there are plenty of topics where you examine multiple facets. You're clearly capable.

[Sunray]

At, not @, around 6:30pm the genius store manager just sent all his minimum wage employees to dinner. And at $7.25 per hour, Alabama's minimum wage, Wally World is lucky to be able to find anybody to work there.
Those self-check outs, that work just fine, don't take breaks.
The reality of the whole thing is that if you don't like what Wally World does, shop elsewhere.
Is the stuff sold is U.S. Wal-Marts all made in China or SEA too?

[Roadkingtrax]

Robots dont pay Medicare benefits either.

I dont recall advocating a minimum wage, but Medicare is something that is of interest to even those here that decry socialism!

Condratiction abounds, which is why we are not purely capitalistic, that I have said.

[clintonhater]

Those self-check outs, that work just fine, don't take breaks.

Not the ones I've tried several times to use when the lines to the checkers were too long--ALWAYS some hang-up that requires me to wait for someone to come over & straighten it out.

Talking about the grocery store, not Walmart, which I'll NEVER enter again after their contemptible & cowardly withdrawal of support from the new Mississippi Senator because the Dems called her, a white woman proud of her heritage, a racist! Even asked her to return their contribution, which I hope she does not. Do YOU want to continue patronizing such a company?

[bdm]

My daughter is a CPA she has Amazon Prime and has everything delivered to her house same items you purchase at Walmart except food She keeps telling me its cheaper and easy i wonder if more people are doing this why Walmart is cutting back ?

[lyman]

Same at our Wally World! During peak shopping hours, Walmart stockers completely block aisles with cargo carriers. How stupid! Stock the dang shelves in early morning!

they are replenishers,
fancy word for stocker,.

and needed,

when I was in the grocery business, on the foodstamp days I had a crew that stocked all day,
had to, certain commodities would sell out in an hour or 3, if you did not have someone replenish them, you might as well shut the doors by noon

and that was running a full overnight stock crew too

[Major Tom]

As an add-on, why does Walmart move their products around practically every other day? I can never find what I want (where it used to be) and those "replenishers" don't know squat!