The nerve

[user 423]

The Walton family shares a Walmart fortune of $163 billion.

Reflect on that the next time you are asked at one of the Scan and Go checkout machines for a contribution.

 

[wayne49]

The last time that came up, I had used a human operated checkout. I replied, "Mrs. Walton can use some of her billions to save the World."
The underpaid register operator quietly moved on.
When self checking out I uttered that comment while facing the camera.
I have not seen a request for donations come up since that time. Not implying that it was stopped by my comment. I had gone off to camping far from a Walmart.

 

[B and C]

Feel free to take your business elsewhere, that is what is great about the free market.

Because they built a good business model and have succeeded, they are not supposed to cut expenses where they can to help remain competitive?

 

[Wabbit]

...Because they built a good business model and have succeeded, they are not supposed to cut expenses where they can to help remain competitive?...

I don't understand this, the "cut expenses" part. Unless you are referring to a prob huge charity tax write off? Customers money, but Walmart gets the tax write off?

 

[B and C]

I was referring to the self checkout referenced in post 1.  No human so no wages, just a machine to maintain.

Edit to add:  Maybe I missed the point and the Walton family was supposed to give most of it to charity because they are too rich.  It depends on who's shoes your in about rich.  I am sure I seem rich to a lot of people less well off than me.  I guess that makes me bad cause I don't give it away.  I am sure they play the charity game at a much higher level that I ever did.  Sometimes it is cheaper to give to a charity to get a bigger tax break.

So, am I still missing the point?

 

[Wabbit]

...So, am I still missing the point?...

No idea. I don't like the feeling I get when I say no to their request. If it didn't feel so shady, I wouldn't mind, but they know what they are doing by putting you on the spot.

As to you being bad because you don't give yours away, that sounds like guilt talking. No one has to give anyone anything. Guilt stinks, I try not to practice it.

Plus, at the end of the day, there's way better reasons for people to think you're bad....

 

[B and C]

No guilt here. I have always given charitably. Am I bad was more asking the person doing the judging, not me. What I don't like is being forced to provide through my taxes for stuff I don't support but that is not a topic for here.

What charity they are asking for at the checkout has a lot to do with my answer. I don't feel bad when it is something I don't support but will generally throw a buck at ones I like.

 

[Wabbit]

I musta missed the judging comment part.

 

[B and C]

Yep, meaning is sometimes hard to get across the internet. "Makes me bad(?)" calls for a judgement by the reader I thought. I am not the world's greatest at expressing myself by a long shot.

 

[RoamerRV428]

the 2 don't go hand in hand in my book

Walmart made their fortune as did a million other monster huge profit business. they give a ton to charity also.

is it wrong for a charity to team up with a mega corp and be on a register that asks for a donation to say, military vets? or any other charity situation? no I don't think so.

the best is you have a way out easily, just tap no on the screen to the donation and move on

 

[Wabbit]

Remember Haiti 2010ish? $500 million was collected by the Red Cross to help the Haitians rebuild. What happened? That was pretty messed up.

These big corporations are not out trying to "help" anyone but their shareholders.

I pretty much just give money to pan handlers these days. At least they get to spend it.

 

[Elbear1]

The reason they make so much money is because they already had a whole bunch of money. Nobody is starting a massive network of wharehouses, lobbying politician friends to re-write federal trade laws, and under cutting all other retail by sheer volume, and exploiting asian slave trades by working a 9-5 for 40 years. We are not a meritocracy. Working hard gets you maybe a van or rv to drive around in last few years of quasi-freedom.

 

[B and C]

^^^ You might want to read the history of Walmart. https://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/our-history
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Walmart

 

[Wabbit]

Here's some wiki on Sam. He married rich and had ALOT of help. For whatever that adds to the story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walton

 

[Elbear1]

You have to be a total idiot if you were given millions and couldn't figure out how to make money with it.....while you get on a soap box and talk to people about hard work

 

[B and C]

Managing stores and investing money is not physical labor but labor nonetheless. Once you get past a certain point, you have to keep tabs on the people doing it for you. I can't even begin to imagine the stress levels.

 

[Wabbit]

...I can't even begin to imagine the stress levels...

With all the help he got and the support\connections network of his in-laws, it prob wasn't as stressful as it would have been if he did it himself. I'm not trying to take anything away from Sam Waltons legend, just trying to remind people he had alot of help.

 

[B and C]

I think anybody that makes it big had help somewhere. Some financially (buy into my company/idea?) and others by encouraging, mentoring, what have you. Anybody that made big bucks did not do it by sitting idly by, they burned the midnight oil a lot.

 

[lenny flank]

I was referring to the self checkout referenced in post 1.  No human so no wages, just a machine to maintain.

The ironic part being that by doing this, they cut their own economic throat.

 As illustrated by a story (perhaps apocryphal) that was later told about Walter Reuther, the president of the United Auto Workers union: One day, it was said, Henry Ford took Reuther on a tour of a brand-new Ford plant in which the assembly line had been completely automated and all the workers replaced by robotic machines. As the machines whirred and whizzed and churned out automobiles, Ford turned to Reuther and triumphantly asked, “Well, Walter, how do you plan on getting these robots to go out on strike?” Reuther, in turn, shot back, “Well, Henry, how do you plan on getting these robots to buy Fords?”

 

[Wabbit]

I think anybody that makes it big .......... Anybody that made big bucks did not do it by sitting idly by....

There's been some billion$$$+(or close too) lottery winners.

Here's a decent(hopefully) article on reasons to avoid using absolutes in discussions.

https://proofreadingpal.com/proofreading-pulse/writing-guides/avoid-absolutes/