The First WalMart Pictures Of The New Year!

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[size="-1"]The First WalMart Pictures Of The New Year!
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[BlueMoon]

OMG      icon_lol  icon_crazy

[arejay]

HAHAHAHAH!!

Reminds me of the site peopleofwalmart . com

[Richard]

I thought it was pretty funny too. I go to Walmart every week and see people wearing all kinds of crazy stuff. The biggest thing that surprises me is the amount of people that wear pajamas everywhere they go.

[Tyson]

hahahaha so hilarious!

[arejay]

[user=3]Richard[/user] wrote:

I thought it was pretty funny too. I go to Walmart every week and see people wearing all kinds of crazy stuff. The biggest thing that surprises me is the amount of people that wear pajamas everywhere they go.

We shop for specific items at walmart because with some coupons you can not beat the prices you get. So we go after midnight because it's less crowded and they are usually restocking.

But because of where I live in Vegas, you see some very "odd" people who usually have trouble not talking loud while walking all over the isle. I wish I was the person who came up with the walmart photo site, they are making some good money showing the crowd that goes their.

My idea is do the same for the store in Michigan called Meijer, because years ago after midnight you had some people you would never see in sunlight shopping. But we have no Meijers here so I am out of luck.

Richard , do you have Meijer out where you live ?

[Richard]

Yes, we have a few Meijer stores around here. It's a step above Walmart but you see the same kind people. Especially late at night like you said. Out here after the malls close Walmart and Meijer become hangouts for people and that's when the really funny people show up. It kind of blows my mind that people like hanging out at Walmart but I guess it's because after the malls close they can't think of anywhere else to go where there's lots of people.

[Ravvau]

[size="5"]Women take on Walmart in landmark case[/size]


[size="1"]Washington correspondent Lisa Millar, On Wednesday 30 March 2011, 15:32 EST[/size]

The United States Supreme Court will hear a potentially landmark case on whether 2 million women employed by retail giant Walmart can file a sex discrimination lawsuit as one unified group.

In a case that could have huge ramifications and is being closely watched by big business, the giant retailer is accused of not promoting women and paying them less than men.

The question for the court is whether the small group of women who began the lawsuit 10 years ago can represent a nationwide [size="3"]class-action[/size].

One of the six women who filed the sex discrimination case, Betty Dukes, started working at Walmart as a part-time cashier.

Despite 20 years' experience in retail, she says she was paid less than her male colleagues and passed over time and again for promotions.

"Walmart may be a big company, and that is no doubt, but they're not big enough that they can't be challenged in a court of law," Ms Dukes said.

"If you do wrong, then you should be held accountable, from the least of us to the greatest of us."

Christine Kwapnoski is another of the six women filing the case.  "Before I got promoted when I was asking what I needed to do, I was told to blow the cobwebs off my make-up and to doll up," Ms Kwapnoski said.

While the justices deliberated inside the court, outside the protesters kept up their vigil - women like Sandra Carpenter who worked for Walmart for two years.

"I had a co-worker who was a maintenance supervisor - she's a female. Every male that came into that Walmart to work, they came in making the same amount that it took her 10 years to get to," Ms Carpenter said.

"So that was one of my personal experiences where I saw the gender discrimination.
"Because Walmart - you know, people don't want to believe it but they do tend to pay males more for the exact same job that females do just as well."

[size="3"]Walmart's policies[/size]

Walmart has 4,300 stores in the US and boasts on its webpage of serving 200 million customers a week.

Class-action lawsuits have been successful in achieving big payouts in the past.
Walmart says there is not enough proof the women have enough in common to proceed as a class.

They worked in different stores, had different jobs and different managers.
And Gisel Ruiz, who has risen through the ranks at the retailer, says Walmart has taken equality seriously.

"We've had policies - strong policies - against discrimination in place long before the lawsuit was filed," she said.

"I remember learning about those policies when I joined the company, and as I grew up with the company then it became my responsibility to teach them forward.

"When we hear issues coming from our associates we take action immediately. There are consequences for people who violate those policies."

Lawyer Brad Seligman, who specialises in civil rights, is leading the plaintiffs' case and says the numbers speak for themselves.

Statistician reports show women make up two-thirds of the hourly employees at Walmart stores but fewer than 14 per cent of the store managers.

"The other part of Walmart's defence here is that if you put on a piece of paper 'we don't discriminate', that's a complete defence," Mr Seligman said.  "Well that's not what the Walmart way has been through all the years.

"There've been complaints about discrimination, there's a statistical pattern, and more importantly Walmart senior management and their board of directors got periodic reports for the last 15 years telling them exactly what's going on out there."
If the justices come down in favour of letting the women proceed in a class action, it will be a worrying development for big business which will be under pressure to settle future claims or face costly judgments against them.

[Andrea]

Hilarious Richard!

[PurplePebble]

 This thread seems to generate a laugh, I thought I would post this vid.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiit0jqZxso