Tag: Walmart
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It’s becoming impossible not to shop at Walmart … and Amazon
It was nearly twenty years ago when I first wrote about Walmart and how I thought it was an evil company. Over the years I’ve complained about it periodically, such as noting the death of a Walmart employee who became a martyr for greed on Black Friday. Anyhow, I vowed to do my best never…
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The dangers of free stock trading
I noted recently the crazy things being done to inflate the stock market. It’s good in a way that the Fed and Congress are trying to keep Americans from feeling the oppressive weight of our economic collapse. We may have gotten a $1200 one-time payment and perhaps some extra unemployment compensation. But the biggest beneficiaries…
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Amazon raises wages to $15/hour
The news has been pretty miserable recently. But yesterday brought an event that truly made me cheer out loud and actually made me teary. Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos, whose wealth grows by $250 million every day, decided to pay his workers at least $15/hour. Starting November 1, all Amazon employees, including the part time and…
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The Walmart egg cracks at last
Walmart protesters like me are cheering, somewhat tentatively. We are celebrating Walmart’s announcement this week that it is raising its starting wages. Walmart will boost starting wages to $9 per hour this year and it will raise them to $10 per hour by February 2016. $10 an hour is still not a living wage, but…
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