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OhioChick

(23,218 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 05:36 PM Nov 2014

Walmart Holds Food Drive For Own Employees 'In Need'

Updated 4:10 PM EST, Fri Nov 21 2014

A group of Walmart employees posted a photo to Facebook on Thursday showing a food bin at a store in Oklahoma that was apparently put out as part of a food drive to help needy employees.

The accompanying caption for the photo detailed how Walmart holds interoffice food drives for hungry employees "rather than agree to pay a decent wage or provide full-time hours."

The photo was posted to the "Making Change" page, a campaign which describes its mission as "challenging Walmart to act responsibly and help rebuild our economy."

Last year, Walmart was criticized for setting up donation bins at a store in Ohio. During that drive, Kory Lundberg, spokesperson for the company, told The Plain Dealer newspaper that the drive was evidence that employees care about one another.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/walmart-food-drive-among-employees

Shame on Walmart.

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uppityperson

(116,022 posts)
2. They did that at a nursing home I once worked at and never understood the irony of your staff caring
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 06:21 PM
Nov 2014

for others and not getting paid enough by the company to eat and pay their basic bills.

indepat

(20,899 posts)
3. Dear Walmart executives: human beings need to eat every day, have clothing, shelter, and
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 10:43 PM
Nov 2014

access to health-care, among others, you prick-heads. In other words, you prick-heads, all people should be treated like human-beings and the fact that you don't shows your lack of humanity and human decency, you swell prick-heads.

lpbk2713

(43,274 posts)
4. I would have preferred they hadn't published this article.
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 01:48 AM
Nov 2014



I'd be concerned the employees behind the food drive and the "hungry" employees would be fired by Wally World so they wouldn't have to get bad press. I hope someone can follow up on this in a few months to see if they are still employed.
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