I worked discount retail through high school and college and I moved a lot of heavy materials, most often lots of 32-pound cases of paint, on a regular basis. I managed to stay healthy and uninjured. The Las Vegas Badger isn’t quite so fortunate.
Today, I had to downstack over 9,000 pounds of groceries so the [...]

There is a management shake-up at Walmart with the creation of three regional fiefdoms in the United States, each with its own president and management structure. The presidents are: Raul Vazquez, West Rosalind Brewer, South; and Hank Mullany, North.
From Reuters:
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is consolidating some U.S. operations and dividing the country into three regions under [...]

Slacker victim humor is a sub-sub-genre that must have some fans somewhere, I’m just not one of them. We’re supposed to get this kind of snipe hunt debasement out of our systems in early adolescence. Some people take longer than others.
Perhaps Joe Peacock can get a job working for Paul Rust.
Jeff Hess: Have Coffee [...]

Not merchandise, but rather for their 401(K) plans. The Walmart management that drives the hardest bargain in retail when it comes to merchandise, takes a lackadaisical attitude when it comes to the 401(k) plans it offers employees.
From Forbes:
Wal-Mart stores sells 140 different kiddie car seats, 110 TV models and 220 types of plus-size bras, all [...]

Badgers are fierce, short legged, heavy-set carnivores that will protect themselves and their young at all costs from even much larger animals such as coyotes, wolves, bears and Walmart managers. I’m really starting to like the Las Vegas variety.
At the Wal-Mart store I work at in Las Vegas, they have let go all of the [...]

The report from Las Vegas is that Walmart is tacking on two hours this Christmas Eve to really, really, really make sure that there isn’t a single penny left in anyone’s pocket that it has a 0.00001 percent chance of capturing for its coffers.
Working until 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve sucked bad enough.
From The Las [...]

In college I worked discount retail in the summer and over winter break. Ohio University broke before Thanksgiving so I had four or five weeks of work. Christmas eve was always the last day of work. Laying off earlier doesn’t send good signals about sales.
From the Bangor Daily News:
Some temporary seasonal employees at the local [...]

I know what it is like to have a creepy crowd of shoppers hovering over your shoulder on Christmas eve. I know how they smell blood in the water when they see you walking toward a stack of toys with the price gun in your hand.
I would not want to be a Walmart employee at [...]

After years and years of waiting, 290,171 past and present Walmart employees may get a whopping $62.93 for working through their bathroom and meal breaks without pay. Whoop-da-feckin’-doo. Where is the justice in this?
From The Indianapolis Star:
Nearly 300,000 Wal-Mart Stores workers in Indiana and their attorneys could receive up to $28 million under a settlement [...]

When I was in the service, NCOs were want to demonstrate their total lack of racial prejudice by claiming that they didn’t see red or black or yellow or brown or white, they just saw green (if you were in the Army) or blue (if you were in the Navy).
Nobody bought it, but I suppose [...]

How does it feel to make $29.7 million in a single year and know that you came in second place to your competitor who earned $36.4 million? Does $6.7 million really make any difference when you’re living in this rarefied atmosphere?
How do the people who paid those salaries, the shoppers at Walmart and Target feel [...]

Standby for a broad generalization: personal loyalty belongs to the smallest association in people’s lives. That’s why The National Association of Female Executives has given named Walmart to its 2009 NAFE Top Companies List.
I have no idea where Walmart was on the list because they’re listed alphabetically.
What were the criteria? Winners, according to NAFE: make [...]

Walmart’s five-year experiment of going head-to-head with Costco in Walmart is over and Costco won. Walmart is closing it six-store Sam’s Club operation in Canada and a lot of people are out of work when it’s not good to be unemployed. Walmart is hopeful.
The store closures will affect 1,200 employees. “We are hopeful many associates [...]

Walmart, the largest seller of firearms in the nation (I suppose this is true, I’ve not thought about it) has signed up for the Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership with Mayors Against Illegal Guns. There are good intentions all around.
The actions will remain to be seen, but I always wonder about groups with names like Mayors [...]

Seven years after 67,000 Walmart employees first went to court to recover wages from denied rest and meal breaks, the Massachusetts’ State Supreme Judicial Court has re-instated a the employees’ class-action case.
From Boston’s WCVB:
In 2006, a Superior Court judge decertified the case as a class-action lawsuit representing 67,000 Wal-Mart employees in Massachusetts and dismissed many [...]