A simple question. Why do large chains (read Walmart) not take a few seconds and tell their managers/clerks about new? US coins. I have had clerks there do a double take at halves, Sacagaweas, Presidentials, and sometime either will not accept them, or have to call for another teenager to tell them they are proper coinage. Some actually think the presidents are tokens. How much effort/time would it really take? Also, if anyone thinks by spending these coins they are putting them in circulation, think again, they are simply going back to the bank to be shipped out or lost in their vault.
Walmart does not care about that - all they care about is Walmart does not care about that - all they care about is making more money. In the long run, in case there is anyone left that has not figured it out yet, Walmart will end up costing this country more that it ever saved us by a thousand, no a million, no a 100 billion %.
I agree that would be too easy.....and costly to take time on the clock to inform employees..hahahahaaa
Why do we think that upper management even knows about them? One never reads about them in the paper, or hears stories on the news . . . .
Yeah, one of the many reasons I hate shopping there, and rarely do. I don't think I've been in there in a couple years actually. I've spent dollar coins, half dollars, ect at gas stations or for tips in resteraunts many times and I always been recieved well. People either acted like it was no suprise at all, or acted very excited and thinking they found something really cool.
I don't shop Wal-Mart all that often. But when I do, I've always had good luck and great customer support. I don't believe for a minute that all other retailers are fabulous with $1 or 50c coins and WalMart is incompetent. Sam Walton is a remarkable success story. Born into a small farming family grew up in very humble surroundings during the Depression* youngest Eagle Scout in Missouri history undefeated as starting quarterback of his high school football team student body president honor student voted "permanent president" of his college graduating class It seems Sam Walton was a man of great strength and character. I know there's an "everybody hate WalMart" movement. I've read what they have to say; strikes me as conformist group-think. WalMart provides a heckuva lot of jobs and benefits to a heckuva lot of people. * the real one
They're probably unhappy that you aren't paying by credit or debit card and using one of the self-checkout aisles.
Yeah it was stuff like that that made me finally quit going to Walmart. I sometimes pay a bit more but I am happier and feel less ...dirty.
Yes Sam Walton was a great story, but unfortunately his heirs apparently did not share in his gene pool. As far as shopping at Walmart vs other outlets, I live close to a small town and Walmart is the only show in town. As for shopping at the locals, an example, bought a small can of furniture stripper at a local for 14$ found the same exact size/brand size at Walmart for 6$. If the locals would just 'attempt' to compete folks would probably be willing to pay a little more, a little more, not 125% more.
The Wal-Mart issue involves questionable and sometimes illegal labor practices. There is a similar concern for better-paying comparable jobs lost when the new WM comes to town. The labor practices concern continues with WM buyers demanding price concessions from manufacturers, here and abroad. (I know of a firm that refused to deal with the WMs of the world, simply because while they could generate volume, there really was no net gain from it: WM knows manufacturers margins). In China, manufacturers get squeezed as well. That's good for consumers. But people are more than just consumers. We're producers, too, so we're naturally concerned about large firms that impact producers. And this isn't to mention the company's shabby anti-union record: it's nothing to be proud of. Price-wise, we've noticed the local IGA grocer to have the same (or cheaper) prices. Many people just see the WM store signs, with HUGE price numbers on them, and assume the WM price is cheaper. Not necessarily so. At any rate, Target's more fun. There are often scary looking people in my local WMs.
One thing about Wal-Mart when Sam was still alive, back then Wal-Mart made a concerted effort to find and stock his stores with products that were made in America. Yes he had Chinese made products, but he also tried to to make sure he had American made products as well. Since his death this is no longer really company policy.
