Shut ‘Em Down
I’m not a fan of unions by any means. (The United Steel Workers union cost my dad his job at Bethlehem Steel.) But in this case, they may have a point.
A group that wants to change unionize Wal-Mart is trying to discourage Americans from shopping there during the critical holiday season. The group’s latest tactic is to convince Wal-Mart customers that the store may be cheating them at the cash register.
Originally from CNS Headlines on November 22, 2005, 11:23am
WakeUpWalMart.com has investigated Wal-Mart’s sloppy shelf-tag pricing and prices at the register. I work for a competitor of Wal-Mart and I know that if we had as many shelf tags wrong as Wal-Mart apparently does, they’d shut us down. Fines can be as much as $1,000 / day / item. Maybe Wal-Mart can afford to pay fines like that, but other grocery store chains can’t. The margins are too small.
Purposely or even inadverdently misleading customers about prices is just a bad business practice. Can’t figure out why Wal-Mart’s screwing up they way they are unless it’s just plain incompetence on the part of their workers. (In which case the workers don’t deserve to get paid more.)
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November 23rd, 2005
Shalom Y’all,
When you trackback to a blog entry it is considered courteous to link to that entry from your own blog as well.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving,
B’shalom,
Jeff Hess
November 23rd, 2005
Sorry about that. I was playing around with some of my plugins (Rusty Asides to be specific) and the link to your blog briefly disappeared.