Serious Question to anyone who works in retail

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Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

I think you're missing my point. They can still be the #1 leader in retail and can afford to pay their employees more than minimum wage. They dont have to be shady with their employee health care, or lack therof.

Target is just as busy and they at least give people 8.25 an hour. I think Target could overtake WM if they had the # of locations.

I've read Sam Walton's book before. He pulls no punches. He was all about coming in, driving the "mom and pop" places out of business, and beginning his monopoly. With that said, he also beleived in treating his workers better..

most retail operations keep their workers under the state's overtime hours in order to not have to offer benefits, etc.. this is far from being exclusive to walmart

another company that I worked for, I was a manager working 40-50 hours a week, sometimes more.. and I was still listed as part time, which is actually criminal.. when I left I printed out a copy of my timesheets, etc.. I had only gone under 40 hours in the first 3 weeks that I was there.. I told them to either give me backpay in sick days and vacation time or it was going to the labor board, I got it.. ironically enough I ended up back there after 5 months with a promotion, 45pct pay raise, full benefits options from day 1, etc