4 walmarts closed abruptly for plumbing problems? (Sounds like a cover story dreamed up in DC)

Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 11 months ago to Business
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This has to be the dumbest reason for closing 4 stores in widely separated locations. Plumbing issues that take 6 months to fix?
SOURCE URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-15/why-walmart-mysteriously-shuttering-stores-nationwide-plumbing-issues


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  • Posted by Hiraghm 8 years, 11 months ago
    Tyler Durden is an idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about.

    In the first place, Walmart pays its employees far more than the hourly wages; health benefits packages, stock-matching options, Hell, I'll get paid to not-work for two weeks, in addition to a growing number of hours of paid sick time.
    The store will frequently cater hot sub sandwiches, pizza, for the employees lunches, in some cases delegating a manager to cook hotdogs, hamburgers, even steaks for us. And we're talking 3 shifts.

    These people sniffing at the paltry $9/hr (which wouldn't be paltry if it weren't for previous minimum wage laws) probably have never worked in the good old days where you put in a day's work, you got a day's pay, and how you spent it was your business.

    And this $9/hr raise he thinks is so wonderful... that's for new hires. Those of us already working there didn't get a raise. One co-worker who's been there 4 years points out that when the $10/hr is implemented, new night-shift hires will start out at 50 cents an hour more than he'll be making. Yea for pressuring companies into making bad business decisions.

    The ongoing plumbing issues don't surprise me at all. You don't see what the hell goes down our drains. And I mean the basins in the back of the store, not the crap (literal and figurative) that customers try to jam down the toilets (while stealing merchandise from Walmart).

    At our store, we have constant maintenance issues, some of them chronic. We've paid high-five-figures just to hire contractors to rewax our floors last year, simply because we have such an employee shortage in this area we couldn't keep the floors up. Of course, if potential employees could just pass a drug and background check...

    We will now have to shell out another high-five-figures to have the roof repaired, after the last batch of tornadoes tore through town. While this will be covered by insurance, probably, the work has to be scheduled, contractors hired and approved back in Bentonville, and in the meantime we'll have to deal with multiple leaks in multiple departments. As I keep saying, the bigger a company gets, the more like a government it gets.

    Out of the thousands of Walmarts in operation, 5 or 6 being shut down for maintenance reasons at any given time is insignificant.
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