The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, recently unveiled it’s plan to battle the growing threat of dollar stores popping up around the country- a ‘mini’ version of the discount superstore called Walmart Express.
In Gentry, Arkansas last week, the first drugstore-sized Walmart Express store opened, offering a solution to customers on-the-go, 11,000 to 13,000 items, a tenth of what a typical superstore carries.
According to the Wallstreet Journal, the express stores will feature ready-to-go meals and other essentials that the regular store carries, including toilet paper, DVDs, stationary, prepaid phones, etc. There is also a pharmacy located in the express stores.
It’s no secret that Walmart’s business has been chipped away by conveniently located dollar stores which are a god-send in a time of high gas prices.
To combat this, U.S. stores chief Bill Simon reveals that Wal-Mart plans on opening 90 to 100 of the express stores by January 2012 and an additional 200 by fiscal 2013.
The third Walmart Express was scheduled to open today in North Carolina.
Here’s to crushing the hopes of Small Business owners throughout the nation.
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Here's to crushing the hopes and dreams of small businesses. I dont think even a law against sucha a crime making it punishable by death would stop WM.
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Wal-Mart loses $187.6M worker break case
Suit against retail giant covered 187,000 current and former Penn. employees
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has lost its appeal of most of a $187.6 million verdict for Pennsylvania hourly workers who accused the world's largest retailer of denying them meal and rest breaks.
A three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania on Friday said there was sufficient evidence for Philadelphia jurors in 2006 to conclude that Wal-Mart's practices violated state wage and hour laws. It also said Wal-Mart's own internal review uncovered violations regarding "off-the-clock" work.
The case was brought on behalf of about 187,000 current and former Wal-Mart workers in Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2006.
@ ajmrowland: I find it hard to blame people who shop there. Lots of people can't really afford anything else, certainly not in this bad economic climate. But people who can afford to go there to buy luxuruous items like dvd's, like I often see on this forum, on the other hand...
But on the other hand, how many people really *realize* what we;re discussing is going on at Wal-Mart?
Goliath wrote:@ ajmrowland: I find it hard to blame people who shop there. Lots of people can't really afford anything else, certainly not in this bad economic climate. But people who can afford to go there to buy luxuruous items like dvd's, like I often see on this forum, on the other hand...
But on the other hand, how many people really *realize* what we;re discussing is going on at Wal-Mart?
Oh, a little confusion. I forgot to say she suggests working there; not just shopping. Y'know, the night-shift.
