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Posts Tagged ‘Walmart’
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 30 September 2019 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, guns, impeachment, morality, Trump, United States, Walmart
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 11 October 2018 in UncategorizedTags: arms, automation, cartoon, corporations, immigrants, military, Right to Work, Saudi Arabia, United States, Walmart, Yemen
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 14 September 2017 in UncategorizedTags: automation, Bill of Rights, cartoon, climate change, corporations, data, EPA, fossil fuels, immigrants, immigration, Pruitt, Right to Work, unions, United States, Walmart, workers
My 2 cents
Posted: 4 August 2017 in UncategorizedTags: corporations, food stamps, wages, Walmart, welfare, workers
One of the readers of this blog [ht: ja] forwarded the above email reporting a two-cent refund, illustrating just how honest Walmart is.
Walmart is just as honest about the wages it pays it workers, which—in the absence of unions and an unchanged federal minimum wage—are as low as it can get away with.
Now, if Walmart would only be as honest about its reliance on double-dipping in corporate welfare related to food stamps:
It’s able to keep wages low thanks to the benefits — a well-known phenomenon — but then it also cashes in on the other end, when those employees and others earning low wages spend their food stamps at Walmart.
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 5 February 2017 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, immigration, Mexico, protectionism, refugees, Trump, United States, Walmart
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 22 October 2016 in UncategorizedTags: capitalism, cartoon, poverty, Walmart
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 5 July 2015 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, Confederacy, crisis, Euro, Europe, Greece, guns, Walmart
Chart of the day
Posted: 15 May 2015 in UncategorizedTags: chart, corporations, profits, wages, Walmart, Walton family
Here’s another chart from the AFL-CIO Executive Pay Watch, which illustrates the fact that, over the long term (between 1962 and 2013), productivity has increased by 388.2 percent while real hourly compensation for workers has risen only 107.4 percent. During the same period, U.S. Walmart stores expanded from zero to 4,625.
The “Walmart model,” which has so enriched the Walton family, has three important dimensions: First, Walmart pays low wages in its own stores. Second, Walmart’s competitive contracting keeps wages low for the workers who produce the goods sold in Walmart stores. And third, the fact that the consumer goods in Walmart stores are sold at relatively low prices means that U.S. employers can pay less, even as productivity has risen, to purchase workers’ ability to work throughout the U.S. economy.
In other words, the enormous growth of Walmart stores has boosted profits not only for Walmart itself (by capturing a large portion of the surplus from the workers who produce the goods that are then sold in Walmart stores by poorly paid Walmart workers), but also the profits of all the corporations across the economy whose workers are forced to have the freedom to sell their ability to work and then use their wages to purchase goods in Walmart stores.
That has kept wages low and profits high—for Walmart and for many other large corporations—since Walmart first burst on the scene four decades ago.
Addendum
And there’s a fourth dimension to the growth of the Walmart model: to the extent that the growth of Walmart stores has come at the expense of other, smaller retailers, the workers who were laid off have been forced to look for jobs elsewhere, thus putting further downward pressure on all workers’ wages—thereby boosting profits of Walmart and of many other corporations.
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 12 December 2014 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, corporations, fracking, poverty, torture, United States, Walmart, workers