3. Child labor
One of the most severe judgments that Walmart has ever received was the fact that they were accused of child labor. For example, in 2003, there was a federal examination that disclosed that some of the store managers and executives from the brand knew the fact that their cleaning services used undocumented people from places such as Asia, Mexico, and Eastern Europe.
In 2004, an identical investigation revealed that Walmart did other bad things as well, such as violating some labor rules. For instance, they compelled minor children to work more hours than they were allowed by law.
Besides that, they also made the kids work late at night and during school hours. These children also had their breaks and lunchtime taken away by the company.
4. They use the “predatory pricing” technique
Predatory pricing is the name of the technique of deliberately selling the products at a very low price, which means that the competitors will soon go out of business.
Even though there is nothing wrong with commercializing products at low costs, this tactic is not very ethical. It is believed that Walmart uses this technique until its competitors are out of business and they raise the prices up again once they reach their goals.
5. They are against unions
A few years ago, the Internet activist group Anonymous exposed a private PowerPoint presentation of the company, in which they discussed all the reasons why unions were not good for clerks.
The managers claimed that these unions only care about the workers’ money and they don’t have any concerns in actually looking after their rights.
…What do you think about this company?
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2 thoughts on “5 Things Seriously Wrong With Walmart”
They screwed me out of $16.20 once so I don’t shop there anymore. I still have the receipt that says they owe me but they claim that I was given another receipt as well. I never received the one they are claiming and they said they have me on video receiving this paper but I don’t know what they are talking about. I complained to every manager plus their online customer service to no avail.
I worked for Walmart for 18 and a half years. Walmart was a small store in Sebastian Florida at the time. In 1989 they built a super Walmart a couple miles away and just before it opened all the employees were put to work stocking the shelves among other things. The registers had to be put together, and I guess they wanted to save money, so management assigned two cashiers to each register that was to be assembled. All the parts of the register were set out for us. We had to thread cables through holes in the hollow shell of the register to be connected up. It was so long ago that I can’t remember exactly how many parts there were to the register. Soon after that we were assigned a newly hired person to be train on the registers, instead of the managers doing it. When Sam died we noticed changes. For one thing, they made it an open all night store. No more employee picnics, no more barbeques for the employees in the back of the store. No more good job certificates in a frame showing Walmart’s appreciation for the good job we were doing. We knew it was Sam’s kids that took over and stopped all that. After working there for years we noticed that people that were just hired were starting off with a higher wage, but our wages stayed the same. I retired in 2008.