Wal-Mart Truth - Straight From Their Lips - Part 1

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Wal-Mart Truth - Straight
From Their Lips - Part 1
By Ted Twietmeyer
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5-30-5

A CNBC in-depth 2 hour documentary [1] on Wal-Mart that has aired several times, and revealed the real truth about the world's largest retailer. Since few people will watch news on a weekend, especially on a holiday like this one, I've summarized the important details in this report. The documentary was the best I've seen in years, despite leaving out some important facts which I've included.

The chain does 32 BILLION DOLLARS a year. This report will bring out important highlights from that show. We won't get into name-calling or labels. I'm presenting the facts with a few comments. There shouldn't be one person on the planet that should not be concerned about what they are doing. With more than 500 stores in the US alone, they have a big impact and far too much power.

ANOTHER ARM OF THE GOVERNMENT?

Keep in mind as you read this, that their headquarters contains a Homeland Security office which is off limits to most Wal-Mart "associates" in the chain's headquarters. This office was never brought up in the documentary. One should ask, "WHY?"

The chain has more than 120 distribution centers located all around the country. One such center with more than 18 miles of conveyor belts moving individual boxes, has a floor area of more than 2 MILLION square feet. You could not see the other end of the building inside, as boxes on conveyors moved away from the camera to become tiny specs. The conveyors feed an army of tractor trailers that literally pack the boxes to the ceiling of the trailer's box.

In the event of a national disaster and forced rationing, the government has a ready-made distribution pipeline. There is little doubt they already know this. How many stores do you know of that have a secret office belonging to Homeland Security?

A constant stream of business people with products for them to sell, comes to their store's headquarters in Arkansas. There are more than 60 small rooms, all constantly packed with manufacturers, distributors and inventors attempting to get the store to market their products. Store reviewers come into each room to review products and make determinations.

GREED QUICKLY DESTROYS A LIFETIME OF WORK

Pillowtex Corp. had more than 1.2 BILLION dollars in sales, with $450 to $500 million of it with Wal-Mart according to the company's former CEO. He was quite was bitter, as he described how Wal-Mart drove his prices lower and lower. Then the store had the nerve to firmly suggest he go off-shore to get his products made. In the end, he liquidated his company and was forced to fire ALL 14,000 employees. 14,000 people all unemployed. This is the cost of jumping in bed with the devil. Think about that the next time you go to the store to buy a pillow.

ACADEMIA SPEAKS OUT

Professor Stone of Iowa State has remarked that "small business grocery stores lose 25% of their business and it never comes back." Interviews with the chain's CEO Lee Scott illustrated how he is a master at spinning questions into off-topic answers, to make himself and the store look good. Perhaps that's why he has the figurehead job in an amazingly tiny office for his position there.

Another surprise - the chain is taking off big in China. At the time the show was produced they had 14 stores in that country, and management was is in the planning stage to opening many others. They are also selling produce which Chinese people would normally purchase in street markets. According to one Chinese family, "the store's prices are very good and very low." This makes one wonder what will happen to the Chinese vegetable suppliers to Wal-Mart as they too, are told to "lower prices." Will they also be told to go "off shore?" OOPS! They already are off-shore!
So where to go next when "offshore" costs too much? Perhaps there is an answer to that.

LESSON FROM HISTORY FOR CHINESE FACTORIES FROM THE CHIP BUSINESS

In going off-shore, the world has a lesson to learn from the semiconductor industry. China should LEARN from this (but I doubt it.) First, silicon valley manufacturers went to Japan to have chips made. This was back in the 1970's. Then when Japan's cost of living shot up, they were too expensive for the manufacturers to use. Then it was Korea who manufactured them next, but then they became too expensive.

Manufacturing was moved to the Pacific-rim countries to make chips. I still have tubes of chips that have labels "Made in one or more of the following countries" which then lists almost every third world country on planet earth. When it was brought up in a board meeting in a Canadian company about 20 years ago on CBC television's "Venture" that "a bag of rice per month is expected by employees" in a pacific rim country along with their paycheck, one CEO said "Well, I guess we're in the rice business now."[2] I sometimes wonder if the are still there, or if they moved their manufacturing elsewhere.


RISING COST OF LIVING IN CHINA MUST IMPACT THE CHAIN

It would be arrogant of China to think that they too, won't become too expensive for Wal-Mart. Management won't be happy as product costs MUST rise to pay for a higher lifestyle. In fact, it's inevitable because increasing any country's standard of living depends on price increases. Could Africa become the next China? It's about the only other place left for dirt-cheap labor. China is now embracing the expensive automobile and discouraging cheap bicycles. The are now on the same path as Japan.

The bubble MUST burst, as the Chinese people are now enjoying a higher cost of living while at the expense of American jobs. I hope they enjoy the bubble while it's still there. Those idiot yellow smiley faces for "always low prices" in Wal-Marts will disappear. Sooner or later Wal-Mart will run out of places to setup sweatshop manufacturing. What's interesting about this is that NWO efforts to level the world's economies will actually work AGAINST Wal-Mart philosophy. The store's success must be based on "he haves" vs. "the have-nots." If America becomes a nation of "have-nots" because of the NWO and globalism, then who will be able to buy the store's products? We could actually see the return of small businesses to America in the not too far future.

The program revealed that the chain now has 5,000 lawsuits, with an average of 3 new lawsuits every day. After 9 years, one female employee stated her salary was just $8.43. Who can live on that? Matt Foley, a a motivational speaker character played by the late Chris Farley on SNL said it best. They could end up like him "Eating a steady diet of government cheese, and living in a VAN - down by the RIVER."

BUILDING A COMPANY USING EMPLOYEES AS FLOORMATS

Another female employee stated that a male employee was making $10K a year more than she was, for the same job. When the CEO Lee Scott was asked about sex discrimination lawsuits, he stated "You can't run a company on how to avoid the next lawsuit." Wal-Mart is being sued with several class action suits besides sex discrimination, including locking workers in stores overnight for "employee safety." Wal-Mart is also under investigation for illegal alien employees, says "We can't verify the immigration of every employee." ANOTHER LIE. They have the office of Homeland Security RIGHT THERE. If they can't help verify illegal aliens, WHO CAN? This goes way beyond dumb and dumber.

ALL IS NOT WELL IN BLUE SMOCK LAND

Highly organized efforts are underway everywhere in America against the chain. There was a briefing of more than 200 activists in Rochester, NY. The organizer of the group said "Their employees are easy to find - they are ones wearing those stupid blue smocks."

There is also serious protest around the country against the store for terrible health insurance. CEO Scott was asked about the claim that the store spends $3500/employee on health care. Scott slowly answered, "Let me answer that carefully....Sam believed that as individuals they should pay part of that cost." What a dumb type-A remark. On a paycheck far below poverty level? Scott then brags about "profit sharing, 401K and other programs." When asked if Scott thinks employees feel like a partner, he answers "that's a ridiculous question."

He knows the answer just as we do. They all feel like slaves, and have no choice but to work there. But Scott couldn't bring himself to say it. I can't begin to describe Scott's attempt to restrain his aggressive body language to many of the well thought out questions put to him. He too, will answer one day for his actions. To that Greatest of all CEOs - who doesn't live on earth.

YOU CAN FIGHT THEM AND WIN

One man in Lancaster, PA has led a successful group effort to keep the chain out of that area for 7 years. He has raised more than $80K to hire high power lawyers to fight them, and has won the battle. When asked about the Lancaster people, Scott made a remark about how "wrong it is for a small group of people to keep them out of anywhere." What he failed to notice is that in today's economy few healthy people have the time available to fight them. Instead, the average person is just treading water trying not to drown financially - under the economic ruin the company has already rained down on the economy. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.

In California, a public vote kept them out of the LA area. When Scott was asked about that action, he had little to say other than "we decided to accept the results of the vote." What other choice did he have? He just won't ever admit how blatantly wrong it is for the company to force itself into communities, and drive local small businesses under.

SAM WALTON - FIRST CORPORATE SLAVEDRIVER FOR WAL-MART

When you read Walton's biography, you get the impression of a "good ol' boy" who cares about America.What a lie that was. Also how "he drove a beat-up old pickup truck to breakfast at a local diner."

In reality, he had his own private plane which he piloted himself. This was not a biplane, either. The following is an eyewitness acount of flying with Walton: "He often flew cross-country, going from store to store." (Long before there were 500+ stores.) " If he saw an empty parking lot, Walton would take the plane into a terrifying nose dive, land at the nearest airfield and go straight to the store. He would then interrogate the store manager and demand to know WHY the parking lot was empty. At one store this happened as a result of a local football game. The store manager told him to "come back after 2PM and the lot will be packed."

This is just one example that shows the mentality of current management is a legacy of Walton himself. I've often wondered if Walton's casket was made of old wooden pallets from the store and painted blue and red with old Wal-Mart paint. But then, that might cost too much. Their plants in China never make "one" of anything.


MY QUESTION FOR THE CEO AND HEAD SLAVE DRIVER

OK Scott- if you read this (which I doubt) SHOW the world how using just 1% of your revenue - about $320 MILLION, on REAL health care for your "associates." Show us how that would really hurt your bottom line. Wall Street would get over it in a few days, and your employees (oops - "associates") would work harder for you. We're sure you know Mr. Scott, that with the new ruthless bankruptcy laws your employees can no longer escape the death grip of lawyers that work for labs, doctors and hospitals.

You have stated that you pay hospitalization for employees. You did not say how much the company will pay, or what the company benefit limits are. Your benefits certaintly will not cover ANY medical expenses incurred by a previously hospitalized employee or their spouse, who was ill BEFORE they became a slave at one of your stores. They will have their wages garnished for all eternity.

Or is the store planning on going into healthcare, by building a "Wal-Mart Hospital" in Bentonville where employees must go for hospitalization or go untreated? Will the entire staff be undocumented aliens or "legalized aliens" holding tacos or practicing "psychic surgery?" Or will you have a euthanasia wing for employees which you have life insurance on?

The law of probabilities is always at work. It would seem to indicate that some day, the store will hire a former angry postal worker who is armed to the teeth. That person might come to work one day with more than a smock in their hand. We certaintly hope not, but sooner or later the slaves revolt and THEY WIN. Read the Old Testament.

A SWEAT SHOP THAT DOESN'T THINK SLAVES DESERVE OVERTIME

In Oregon, a jury determined that Wal-Mart must pay overtime to employees. Professor Stone stated that "store managers sometimes become overzealous to meet targets and goals." How does that justify slavery? Not according to the courts. When Scott was asked 'what if 1% of your employees don't meet regulations, which is 15,000 employees, what is the impact of that?' Scott squirmed and admitted, 'well yeah that could be a problem.'

There are few people in the country not touched by Wal-Mart. A recent conference at the University of Santa Barbara devoted to the Wal-Mart phenomenon pointed out the "stores are a touchstone for America on so many different areas."

When the interviewer asked Scott if his store sets the national minimum wage, he denied that. But history shows otherwise, since in any community few can earn a higher salary than what the largest in the employer is paying. The company's influence is clear. Scott was reluctant to comment on whether their power is good or bad for America, but says "If I were to look at a spreadsheet, it would come out slightly on the positive side." He also added "There isn't anything more inherently evil about being more efficient."

That's exactly what Hitler thought, too. Is there any difference in global conquest between what Hitler did, and what Wal-Mart is doing? Hitler used firearms and artillery - the store uses money and prices to conquer the world.

BRAINWASHING EMPLOYEES

To work there, you must fit in. There is a chant the workers get together to do in the morning. A great psychological trick as it makes employees feel they are an important part of the company. This takes place in China as well just before the store opens. One can trace this kind of brainwashing back to the days of red communist China, where such group chants were mandatory. Could this be the origin of it at Wal-Mart?

TRACKING AND TRACING IS A REALITY

Wal-Mart has a massive near real-time data processing center in their Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters that tracks everything purchased for EACH person. Their data processing people state "the data on everything everyone purchases and where, is kept for 2 years." If the Real ID card replaces money then you will never, ever be able to buy anything anonymously again.


CONCLUSION

Scott's final comment: "How large can we get? As long as we keep doing things the way were doing it, I don't see any end to it."

Translation: "Small businesses, BEWARE...." If you are a company or small business owners, become anti-Wal-Mart activists now while you still can if you want to stay independent. Remember what happened to great American companies like Pillowtex, because they bought into the Wal-Mart BS and jumped in bed with them.

Yet keep the faith - as the expression goes, "every dog has it's day." Everyone foolishly thought the real estate bubble could never burst, willfully ignoring the lessons of history. They too, learned that all power is only temporary.

And consider this - what are the first three letters of the word associate?


Ted Twietmeyer

SOURCE MATERIAL
[1] - Interviews with Wal-Mart CNBC show that aired from 10AM to 12PM on May 30 2005
[2] - CBC television show "Venture" that aired almost 20 years ago on Canadian television

Wal-Mart Truth - Part 2
By Ted Twietmeyer
[email protected]
6-1-5

If you haven't read Part 1 first, please do so. It will insure that the following has clarity for you. Wal-Mart Truth - Straight From Their Lips - Part 1

Below are a few more additional points about the blue box chain:

* Annual revenue is currently more than 285 billion dollars. Most likely the reporter on CNBC was referring to net income
rather than gross. However, this is not a terribly relevant issue since the main problem the chain creates is long term damage to the American family through more economic hardship at poverty wages, the American economy, the American job market and American small businesses.

* Wal-Mart has been caught insuring all their employees with life insurance, with proceeds going to the company and not to any beneficiary or relative of the deceased employee. This truly treats employees as a death investment.

* The documentary also covered a female employee who has a national management job. She is in charge of all pet departments in the chain, and her career began in a store's pet department. This was used as an example of promotion from within. What has been exposed in the past about internal promotions, are that a college business degree is required any management position in the company, even down to a store manager job. Unfortunately the documentary was too easy on the chain and this "minor detail" was not covered..

* There are some who have written me claiming that the Wal-Mart philosophy of cheaper is better ,and that's what business is about. (?) To them I say, "What about the more than 700 sweatshop factories, working 12-15 hour shifts, 7 days a week in China? This is not fiction, but was covered on another documentary last year. It showed the factory conditions. They were strongly reminiscent of America at the turn of the last century. Boiling hot conditions, no ventilation, unclean air and much more. There is also horrible, sub-human brutal treatment of menstruating women on production lines that is so terible it cannot be discussed here.

* To those that think that "cheaper is better, people want more for their money, or business is business" philosophy I ask, Would YOU want your children working in such a sweat-hole? And equally important - would you like your children and grandchildren to be able to find a job here in America when they are teenagers, and when they graduate from college? And in the future when your children and grandchildren can no longer find a job anywhere accept BELOW minimum wage as part-time workers - then how will you feel about those jobs you helped to export after it's too late? It will be the proverbial "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" ...Green grass, until you jump the fence and discover it's all Astroturf.

* We can also thank the RUTHLESS, tyrannical MBA types who would rather buy a factory and shut it down. They raid a company's value for the short term, rather than keep people employed and make the corporation even more successful and hire even more people. If you have ever met one of these MBA types you would know exactly what I mean. I've met several of these people in business. Now this cut-throat business approach is Wal-Mart's philosophy. The proof? Their actions show it, when they drive local small businesses under wherever they plant one of their cookie-cutter stores. But Wal-Mart best learn that "What goes around...comes around."

So when you are trying to decide to patronize that mom and pop store you always went to before the blue box came to town or go to the blue box - now your decision should be easy. If you have trouble remembering, then burn into your brain the images of sweatshops with 10 year old children working 12 and 15 hour days making $200.00 Nike shoes, clothes and handbags working for pennies an hour. Factories that you don't want to use your hard-earned money to support.

Every item bought at Wal-Mart adds another nail in the coffin of America's future.

Wow. I thought that was prett riveting though. But truthfully its not going to make me stop buying from wal-mart. I just wont as often. What about a middle ground? didnt they break up microsoft when he got too big?

I never shop at Wal-Mart, in fact if I need something I can't find anywhere other then Wal-Mart, I really don't need it anyway. I love getting my shit at smaller store where the employees are friendly and knowledgeable and they stock quality goods. Wal-Mart is sucking away all of the money from these stores, and the majority of people don't even seem to mind it. Now I work for a larger company (Roundy's Inc.) at a rather low level and they don't give a fuck about any one. Nobody, the customers, the employees, mean shit to them. Because you're all disposible and you can't do shit with out them.

These stores, making millions of similar products, building cookie cutter Wal-Marts and turning towns all of the world in to little towns of Wal-Mart employees are destroying the American citizens individuality. You are working for the profit of a few greedy mother fuckers who coulden't give a fuck about who you are or what you need.

very well written.....and i've always known that wal-mart is destorying everything.....in example about 5 or 6 years ago we only had a regular peice of shyt wal-mart....and the money situation while not keeping us wealthy and letting us live a materialistic life was still surviveable.....now we have a super wal-mart...and stores just keep closing...this is a small town...and alot of times it's hard to find a decent price for anything around here and it's still hard sometimes to find what you're looking for...so everyone goes to walmart, walmart is even forcing our only mall to close...half of it is already dead we call it the dead end because there is not even one store or candy dispenser or food cart or anything over there...before then you would have had problems finding a parking space at the mall.....now i think only about 10 percent of it is filled at max durring christmas shopping season. i can't even find a job around here if i tried granted i don't have the best credientials i don't even have a ged or anything and not much work expereince but walmart will still hire someone to work for them that is not legal to the US when the application even asks if they are. i know why also and it's something you didnt' mention...they hire illegals becasue first of all alot of them aren't familiar with even what minimum wage is, second of all they can't say anything to anyone anyways becasue they know they have alooooooooot more to lose than walmart does. my predection is that walmart is going to run us into another depression. for one simple fact....they don't need or even have nearly as many employees as all the buisnesses they have closed out so that's just that many more people without jobs. walmart IS slowly collapsing the economy, sure they bring us lower prices so THOSE WHO WORK can afford to get more for their bucks, but what about all the money they're stealing all the others by putting them out of work. i totally agree walmart is death, but what keeps me going is a very old phrase....the bigger they are the harder they fall. so when they finally do go bankrupt it's either going to cause a depression or make everyone rich because of all the jobs and companys that will open back up all over us.

i hear the same story all around the country...it's happening to lots of towns. we are headed towards a depression.

walmart works with homeland security...soon it will be our only choice to shop there...RFID in everything, cameras watching us, armed guards...just like the soviet union, with technology.

the new freedom!

instead of those of us who don't like the direction our country is taking, one towards dictatorship...instead of us leaving 'since we hate the country so much...' which is bullshit...how about all the people who wish to live in a 3rd world dictatorhsip leave the fucking country.

the people who really don't care what happens to their country but wave a flag, maybe they should leave, and leave those of us here who love what america stands for, the bill of rights and constitution.

Your damn right! As I've been saying lately, this place is going to hell in a hand basket. Besides the national id system, the government might get a wild hair and try to place tracking chips inside our skin. It probably might be inside of our left hands or something.

that's already happening too...it's going to be sold to us as a fad and something the hip celebrities and socialites do...there's a club in miami that's chipping people...and some clubs in europe that are doing it, as part of some VIP program...

it's so easy for the customers...now they don't have to worry about carrying their wallet...because that's such a huge burden for people.

the police chief of bergen county, new jersey already got a chip, and said he's all for forcibly chipping people...and he sees nothing wrong with it...he just sounded like a naive moron. mexico is chipping its government workers, italy is discussing chipping their government workers.

it will start out with government and police, slowly trickle down until the excuse is for everyone to have it. the army war college report from 2000 said everyone will be chipped by 2025, and the army's responsibility will be to chip everyone.

anne frank couldn't have hidden from the nazis if she had a chip in her with readers all around the city.

i will fight this to the end......over my dead body (literally) will they get a chip in me and should they do it by some other means as soon as ihave the time i will get it back out or off me one way or another......and that's all i got to say on that subject....

Yep, it looks like I'm going back home to the spirit world in order to escape this damned place within twenty to thirty years from now. What the hell do these fucks think we are, animals?