Good News or Bad News?

 

 

Two days ago Wal-Mart announced in USA Today that they are “promoting 25,000 employees in the fourth quarter as it wraps up a year-long campaign highlighting opportunities for career development and financial stability at the company.” They also said they will be promoting some hourly workers to management or other positions increasing their responsibility. Also, they will promote 35,000 workers from temporary to part-time and eventually another 35,000 from part- time to full time by the end of the year. This may seem great, but none of the employees will be able to get benefits, they will just be working more hours.

After all of the research I have done on Wal-Mart, and after watching the two videos on PBS Is Wal-Mart good for America and one on Netflix The high Cost of a Low Price. I have concluded that Wal-Mart is bad for America. I believe that Wal-Mart sells some products cheaper, but their products are not of good quality. Also, I can find food at King Soopers at the same price and better Quality. I wonder why they think they have the lowest prices on everything. I also still want to do more research to see if the quality of their products that are not their name brand products are the same quality as other stores; for an example: Campbell’s soup at Savers versus the Campbell’s soup at Wal-Mart; because Wal-Mart buys the soup from Campbell’s at a lower cost so they can sell it at a lower cost. I also heard from someone the other day that the CEO of Wal-Mart is good friends with Obama and Michelle Obama had her obesity campaign through Wal-Mart also, so this really makes me think about how much the government is behind Wal-Mart.

All of the Articles had some positive points about Wal-Mart, but out of the 10 that I read only two had all positive points. Yes Wal-Mart creates more jobs, but a lot of people lose jobs because of Wal-Mart. Also I learned that only 10% of what they sell is American made. After researching Wal-Mart I found that there are plenty of bad raps in the media about Wal-Mart. I wonder if I can find more positive information for my next assignment. Overall, after doing this research, I don’t think I want to step into another Wal-Mart again, and I hope you enjoyed the pictures on this blog.