Solid Snake Hates: Walmart

[SolidSnake84]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Buster not sure how old you are but at one time working at these large retail stores (Sears, JC Penny's) you could make it a decent career. I know several older people who work at Sears and made decent money and had a nice pension plan. Then stores like WM and Kmart opened up and started expanding all this changed. These stores only hired part time people so they could sell items much cheaper so places like Sears and JCP almost went belly up back in the 80's. Now look at the people working at these two stores and you will see they now offer fewer benfits and hire the cheaper part time workers so WM and Kmart really changed the retail business.

I've heard friends of mine tell me that exact same thing.

My ex girlfriend's mother worked at JC Penny's for 18 years as a cashier...no promotions or anything, but she did have benefits and a steady full-time job.

Now you are exactly right. Stores would rather staff with strictly low paid part-timers than have to pay people for 40 hours + benefits.