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Freethinker65

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8. And once SNAP and other benefits get cut, those employees will need that money to spend

Reply to Calista241 (Original post)

Thu Jan 11, 2018, 11:12 AM

Jan 2018

To spend back at Walmart.

Walmart could have, and should have, done this years ago. Tax cuts had little to do with it. Retaining better employees and decreasing turnover rates makes good business sense.

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Walmart is raising wages and giving bonuses, citing tax cuts [View all] Calista241 Jan 2018 OP

IOW Costco and Target mercuryblues Jan 2018 #1

Nah....more like Wake Up WalMart and other organizations....... Bengus81 Jan 2018 #2

So, next week they'll lay off thousands... malthaussen Jan 2018 #3

Ooh, a bonus of $50/year for sticking with them for 20 years . . . hatrack Jan 2018 #4

2 and 1/2 cents an hour! fleur-de-lisa Jan 2018 #6

go blow wall mart Maxheader Jan 2018 #5

How many lower wage employees have put 20 years in at Wallmart? HopeAgain Jan 2018 #7

My first thought also. louis-t Jan 2018 #15

And once SNAP and other benefits get cut, those employees will need that money to spend Freethinker65 Jan 2018 #8

Not if you have built your company partly around depending on SNAP to let you get away cstanleytech Jan 2018 #12

Exactly Freethinker65 Jan 2018 #13

I started off with a crew of 20 unloading trucks at a Walmart. yallerdawg Jan 2018 #9

#fakenews. stonecutter357 Jan 2018 #10

Uh huh, I bet they cut hours not to mention down the road they fire a number of store employees and cstanleytech Jan 2018 #11

20 years just to get a $1,000 bonus? louis-t Jan 2018 #14

maybe just enough raise to bluestarone Jan 2018 #20

Anyone here ever tried to live on 11 dollars an hour? workinclasszero Jan 2018 #16

But! . . . but! . . .but! . . Art Museum! hatrack Jan 2018 #21

Right workinclasszero Jan 2018 #22

Aren't they just wonderful?🤣 sinkingfeeling Jan 2018 #17

Like Mall Wart didn't have enough money to do this before. n/t Downtown Hound Jan 2018 #18

Wow, is that depressing. Trump will tout this while campaigning next time around. harun Jan 2018 #19

and when workers lose their medicaid elmac Jan 2018 #23

and then there is this: Sam's Club stores close around the country Javaman Jan 2018 #24