Why Walmarts Are Becoming Hotbeds Of Crime
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Crime is on the rise at Walmarts across the country. Why is this happening? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. tytnetwork.com/...
"It’s not unusual for the department to send a van to transport all the criminals Ross arrests at this Walmart. The call log on the store stretches 126 pages, documenting more than 5,000 trips over the past five years. Last year police were called to the store and three other Tulsa Walmarts just under 2,000 times. By comparison, they were called to the city’s four Target stores about 300 times. Most of the calls to the northeast Supercenter were for shoplifting, but there’s no shortage of more serious crimes, including five armed robberies so far this year, a murder suspect who killed himself with a gunshot to the head in the parking lot last year, and, in 2014, a group of men who got into a parking lot shootout that killed one and seriously injured two others.
Police reports from dozens of stores suggest the number of petty crimes committed on Walmart properties nationwide this year will be in the hundreds of thousands. But people dashing out the door with merchandise is the least troubling part of Walmart’s crime problem. More than 200 violent crimes, including attempted kidnappings and multiple stabbings, shootings, and murders, have occurred at the nation’s 4,500 Walmarts this year, or about one a day, according to an analysis of media reports.”*
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Walmart becomes an easy Target...
hahaaaa
I see what you did there :)
NICE ONE!
That cop's probably pretty sad that nobody else got his pun lol
Hillary Clinton sat on that Board of Directors from 86 to 92 as the single woman there, she never lobbied for more women be added, and she never spoke against the anti-union practices of this beneficiary of NAFTA (that her husband and Al-Gore passed in 93), here is Al-Gore lying for 75mins on Larry king for NAFTA:
/watch?v=GhwhMXOxHTg
Hillary and her husband used walmart owned planes for their campaign back then and got the maximum legal campaign contribution from the walmart family for Hillary campaign now
ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I rarely go to Walmart, but every time I do, I'm instantly reminded of why I don't.
Pizza Pizza same here.
Pizza Pizza, I began boycotting them as soon as they came to my state almost 20 years ago, & I'm happily still going strong!! Sure, I could save $2 on the blood, sweat, & tears of overseas child laborers or the underpaid single moms & elderly employees, but, poor as I am, my integrity is worth more than that blood money!!
I avoid Wal-Mart like the plague. Too many crazies in one spot.
If Republicans had their way, we would all be shopping at Wal-Mart.
Yes! I'll spend the extra cents to stay away from Walmart at times
Oh I used to work at one, crazy stuff happened all the time. I had a guy try to fistfight me over the price of a flashlight one time...oh on a side note the about of shoplifting was unreal.
+Hoefledorf
no that's what our for profit prison system is for .
why treat the mentally ill when you can lock them up and charge uncle sam.....i mean the taxpayers for doing so and get filthy rich while doing so
unregulated capitalism ain't it grand.
true, just photos from people at Walmart make me cringe
By the way, the employees who get assistance typically have to use that 'state money' at walmart so not only did walmart not have to pay the employee, but the employee gives the welfare check back to their employer. (As in shopping where they work) Walmart even issues a form of gift certificate rather than a check for employees who don't have bank accounts so they have to spend their entire check at walmart... kinda wish I had thought of that hahaha, beyond shady business practice that made them horrifically rich. Talk about getting paid hand over fist.. that's a serious business plan.
They also get to write off some of the lost merchandise.
Kim Monroe and cut into taxes by making heavy donations locally in Bentonville and Fayetteville. Our College Teams also reap benefits and anyone who lives there knows they have the best schools for Arkansas. It's a catch 22 working for them. I did. I regret that job. I hated it.
I think I went to Wal-Mart only three or four times in the last ten years. Make it a point not to go.
Like here in Denmark, McDonalds did´nt pay tax here, so it is over 16 years ago i went there. If you cheat me and destroy my society you are cut of. They pay tax now, but when i boycut it is for life. Once evil allways evil
urduib lmao like your measly $5.00 matters to them.
Every full cup starts with one drop of water. And i am sure that over 15 years of not going Mcdonalds 2 times a week is more than 5$. Not 100% sure though
The funny thing is that so many of the Americans that go to WM think of themselves as church going patriotic conservative citizens but they are supporting a business that gets the vast majority of its non-food goods from Communist China. They also think Trump is going to bring back American manufacturing jobs when he himself outsourced jobs, used Chinese steel in his hotels, used undocumented aliens, cheated his employees and contractors. They also believe that if America helps manufacture a crisis in the Middle East Jesus will be forced to intervene and come back. We laugh at this when Muslims talk like this but pander to it in America.
Talltrees84
You should throw Stinky Fire Bombs at Stall-Fart...!!!
when i was a truck driver, i would see whole towns built around the WalMart... not the best of towns, if you could imagine...
Black ghetto's?
+w9 s2 not at all. wal mart is basically in every community
im from south carolina. pretty much every small town (15,000 ppl or less) from virginia to florida is entirely centered around the walmart and it couldn't be a more terrible situation
PC crowd = triggered
+w9 s2
Black ghetto's built around Walmart?
Maybe a few, but not nearly so much as predominately white rural communities like the one I live in. If it weren't for Walmart, this place would dry up and blow away...
Just saying.
MachOverspeed
Republican logic
We support small businesses in local towns and cities, so that's why we'll give Walmart a tax break that'll come in and ruin your town
But don't worry the wages will increase so there's no worker complaining their wage
you're commander shepard, and walmart is your favorite store at the citadel.
Hillary Clinton sat on the board for Walmart for years...
Walmart providing cheaper products for poor people ruins a community>?
You should go.
I've been boycotting Walmart since 2011. I don't miss it at all.
You're missing low prices😏
Actually, in a lot of places, walmart's prices aren't that much lower than other stores. They typically get into a market with cut-throat prices to kill competition. But, before long, they bring the prices back up and you don't end up saving much, if any money.
I've never been in one.
I'm also boycotting Walmart. They have horrible practices overseas and the US. Overseas they've done everything from employing child workers to make their jeans, several lawsuits against them due to they refused to pay people the minimum wage in the countries the workers were working at (some of these countries had minimum wages as low as 40 cents a day), they've had problems of off shoring profits into tax havens to avoid paying taxes on over 78 billion dollars, they under pay the workers to the point that they need government assistance just to live, and their stores are undermanned making the few workers they have being in charge of larger areas.
Same. The walmarts here in SoCal are hellholes. Last time I went in (5 years ago), there was literally shit all over like 4 aisles. People just walked on by. Classy...
I've seen people walk out the store with an entire cart of stuff, set off the alarm, an the employee right there said, "oh well"
It was at 2 am, but still...
They were Walmart employees
The employee did the right thing. I mean would you want to put your life at risk for a company that doesn't even care about you?They could have them. Especially since as this video discusses walmart can be dangerous.
I highly recommend everyone watch "Walmart: The High Cost Of Low Prices"
If you think Walmart is violent now, just wait until Black Friday.
More like Thanksgiving.
Hell yeah. I will go just to watch all the crazy people. :)
Says who
+Commander Shepard
is walmart your favorite shop on the Citadel? ;)
The Purge 4: Capitalist Edition
Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.
pretty much, and if you had government that feared us, the socialized losses would come to an end
well put
We are about to have a President who "was" on the board of Wal Mart
This is one of the best comments I have read on RUclips. I find this video frustrating in many ways. I know the political bent of the creators. Still, they have a lot of facts here, which makes the topic thought provoking. And then, at about 8:16 or so, the woman decides to say "mindless working class Republicans..." Among other things, it was totally unnecessary and didn't further her argument in the least. Despite the fact that I do not see any comments by Nature Boy*, to whom you addressed your writings, I wanted to say "thank you." It was fun reading what you wrote.
* Maybe he deleted them?
bweazel, yes, yes I am.
i have 4 walmarts in a 25 mile radius of me right now. help me
better than having 25 walmarts in a 4 mile radius
perfect
Your life may be in danger
hahaha
Run ninja run
Hillary Clinton used to work for Walmart from 1986 to 1992 on the board the directors
you don't believe me Google it
+MrZombies420x funny they didn't mention it
Why would they mention it? Lol
+grass hopper because the latest Hitlery loving that has come from tyt lately is palpable, they're supposed to be neutral, and Hitlery being part of corrupt wallmart is a real fun fact that should be included in this video
At least she had a job unlike Trump
Hey everybody FREE STUFF at Wal-Mart,
as long as u buy 5 general merchandise item
+Lazy Bystander they cant. i work at walmart, they legally cant do anythong physical.
That's sort of true. They can however, have more people watching, more cameras working (many are out of commission permanently due to lack of maintenance). They can have more people who are trained to monitor the security systems and keep the hardware working. To your point about getting physical, true is the fact they can't actually apprehend and detain people, however they CAN hire deputized law officers to do that work. All of these measures work very well in Las Vegas casinos. The problem with all of this is that it all costs REAL money, money that the Evil Empire wants for it's self. The final kicker behind all of this is a fact that is not even covered in this particular video. That being The Evil Empires practice of extracting sweetheart deals from these poor little towns in the form of huge tax abatements and zoning variations in exchange for building and staffing a store with a couple of hundred minimum wage jobs. In those cases the tiny little towns end up adding a couple thousand man hours to their policing burden (think two cops 2 calls a day plus paperwork vehicles etc and you get to 10 hours a day of extra work) Times 365 days a year comes to 3650 hours a year. That's two full time cops. Yea there is a robbery going on here, and The Evil Empire AIN'T the victim!
Yeah I used to work for them. All they cared about was money then and that is still true. If you did not brown nose one can become a target for bullying as well. I became a target.
Not all Wal-Mart's are created equally. I know the ones in my town that you need to avoid. A lot to do with the demographics of its surroundings.
What are the demographics of your Walmart?
it has been proven that undocumenteds commit less crime
You mean "Illegal" aliens.
Phill Huddleston is that what i mean?
u mean "WHITE (europeans) Illegal aliens" frm europe.
I work here at Walmart in Texas, and just today these dudes got caught stealing, also not too long ago like 3 months ago, high school students Did a beer run, which happens often. Walmart security is pretty low, if you are going to steal from this store, stay away from the cameras, security heavily relies on those to catch thefts. But be careful, once you get caught they won't be too kind hearted.
Texas huh? Explains it all.
+Lazy Orc shit I don't blame you man, poor service equals poor results for their company, that's entirely on them.
+Lazy Orc prepare for justice!
I just wanna thank the self check isle for saving me lots of money
So you're actually proud of being a piece of shit thief? Nice.
thieving from walmart. who cares.
So you justify it because it's Walmart? Stealing is stealing. You're a piece of shit lowlife.Period.
+Just Nobody you must be a trump worshipper hahaha
Mark Hanson
nah.
I don't shop at Walmart. I made a decision 10 years ago not to shop there and I stuck to it.
@Boyd the paid "security" NPCs talk about the customers as they watch them
Ana-- love it when she gets morally outraged.
Lisa Adams
It's like a mild menstrual hemorrhage, and it probably smells like a used tampon.
You heard it here first, folks. Walmart is ripe for the picking. Grab your giant purses and baby strollers, it's time to get a new wardrobe!
Are you kidding me? Their clothes are shit, I'm getting meself a new game system and headphones
I think i'm gonna get me a gopro :)
clothes? I'm going for the electronics bruh! 😅
I chose clothes because women shoplift FAR more than men, and it's usually clothing or cosmetics.
+William Postill yes. It probably has to do with price differences between men's and women's clothing. Women's clothes can cost 10x the price of men's clothes for the same amount of fabric used. I also think there are more pressures on women to have an outfit for everyday of the week or even month. Women are pressured to buy far more than men are and when they can't afford it they think they need to steal to have it. If it were the other way around Men would be stealing at far greater numbers. Women are pressured to buy makeup, nail polish, shoes, clothing, hair products, perfumes, feminine hygiene products, and much more. I'm not condoning women stealing I'm simply explaining why I think they do it more.
Stop Walmart shaming!
Stop shopping at Walmart!
Is there any need to 'shop' there? seems like many are just walking away with many items. plus with all the muggings and kidnappings in Walmart stores, next to no security and so few employees and the Walmart family greedily grabbing more wealth than the poorest 40% of American families combined... its not like anyone cares.
Workers should take over Walmart like a Mondragon worker owned collective.. cut the Waltons out of the mix and run it democratically with the community instead.. sharing the profits and improving wages, not giving it all to a bunch of greedy capitalists and their division and property thug en-forcing police.
How do you shame a company that has no shame?
They're not shaming Wal-Mart . They are shaming the people who run Wal-Mart.
NO, NEVER!
"How does someone have a meth lab under their store and no one has no idea?" well maybe the owners of the lab pay them to have "no idea"
People in the "Self-Defense" community are WELL aware of the things that happen at Walmarts.. Don't forget, the Parking Lots are more dangerous than the stores.. Cheers, TYT - Keep it up... PLEASE>..!!!!
At (1:56) "to be fair, that's slightly badass", after that, Cenk should've said "breaking badass!"
it's too bad Walmart can't follow the Costco model...they earn huge profits...the ceo only takes 500,000 a year and he allows his workers to unionize...and I belive the average Costco employee makes 21 bucks an hr...they start at $11.50 an hr
If Walmart corporate didn't squeeze out every drop of extra profit and employees' souls, they wouldn't be doing their due diligence as greedy sociopaths.
I think it depends on the state....and i think they actually start at a lil more than that cause the Costco i was about to work starts at 13 an hr.
trippin916 again...this is averaged
Dennis Bunik
You totally did say "average" in your comment my bad.
whyamimrpink78 Store hours and bulk versus single goods are not some variable that mandates a difference in employee compensation or store security. Walmart is perfectly capable of paying higher wages and taking security more seriously, just as Costco is capable of doing the opposite. It's a matter of priorities.
Every time I'm in the local Walmart I see a lot of open packages.
lol, me too. Open packages of cookies and potato chips 😭
Batteries, combs, adapters anything small enough to fit in a pocket or bag.
been to a lot of dollar stores here in Arkansas in mostly white areas.did some business travel in miss and Alabama. couldn't believe how trashy the stores were there! and I had never seen open packages on the shelf until then.
please don't go!
I will avoid going to Walmart if at all possible...just the other day I had to get something and the Publix was closed, I felt terrified walking into the store, people loitering, I felt exposed and a total target walking from my truck to the store. Walmart only cares about money not safety of their stores.
not true, they want you to make it there safely so you can spend your $ $ $
+Jonathan Soler lol true
Are you serious?
+2110ify lol
@Jonathan Soler, Sure, they want you to make it IN safely. However, if you get fukked up in the parking lot on the way to your car, that's YOUR problem!
This is the way all working class jobs will be until the robots take over.
Lower the workforce as much as possible, have remaining workers fill in as many roles as possible, wait for everyone to adapt to new status quo, then repeat. All while automating as many tasks as possible (which will include management - a computer and tracking workers locations is all that takes really). Some sort of Socialism/Communism is the only hope in the future where "jobs" are all automated.
Rad McCool well said
Rad McCool
Is this the Soy Lent Green Solution?
I was a merchandiser for a well known company that services Walmart. Maintaining a display near an entrance of the store during a 4 week period, I witnessed 3 separate incidents of mass shoplifting. Each scenario involved a shopping cart full of unbagged merchandise heading out the door. I reported the first 2 incidents each time. After the 2nd time, I asked why there was no one at the door. I was told "off the record" that management crunched the numbers and it was cheaper to take the loss, rather than pay someone to watch the door. I stopped reporting after that.
This is why you need your own gun
Says who?
the polls
only if you're white
+Latesha H what you mean by "being white"?
obvious troll is obvious
have you seen "The People At Walmart" on youtube?
I rest my case.
Walmart destroyed so many small local businesses, that led to ghost town .
One day I went into a Walmart. A customer was arguing with the cashier about something (I didn't get the gist of It, they were speaking in a foreign language). As they talked, he was lightly slapping her in the race. And laughing. I was her next customer. She told me this was a common occurrence and she complained to management to no avail. Nowhere else have I ever seen a customer physicalmly attack an employee like that. That was the last time I shopped at a Walmart. I quite possibly won't again.
As a former Walmart employee I can confirm that Walmart is mainly concerned with employee theft. If a customer told us that someone was stealing,We weren't even allowed to question the thieves unless we saw it ourselves.
Wallmart the Flordia of retail.
I've never seen a security guard at a Target.
Because they're in plain clothing walking around "shopping". They don't walk around in a uniform and badge it's too obvious, they stalk the people they profile while they're shopping. I worked in big stores that did this.
+Walrus that's true, but there are some targets that have the uniformed gaurds at the front also.
***** Yep, you're probably right. Next time you're at a local big box store try and take note of some of the faces you'll often see the same few people roaming the store seemingly aimlessly with the odd item in a cart or in their hand. Chances are they're following someone.
+Nizzle FoShizzle lmao and for the ones who are about to ask what LP means it's Loss Prevention
So in other words if you like being followed around shop at Target, if you don't like being treated like a suspect shop at Walmart.
This is almost exactly what the Target in my town in Saint George, Utah is doing. They consolidated our security and lowered our hours to the point of us not being able to do our job efficiently then told us we were terrible employes for it even though we were the top store in our district for 5 years in a row until the changes that happened and we started to lose money on theft and it was our fault for not watching out for people stealing product. they also put most of their employees down to part time and told us we still have health benefits but we had to work full time to get it but it was near impossible to get full time if you had a family they wanted us to work in the afternoon i worked early morning shifts so i had time to take care of my family because my wife had to work to make up for the loss of money they would tell me i was a bad employ because i could not cover shifts an i would tell them i could not do some of the things they wanted me and my fellow employes to do because of the lack of hours it drained us. So me and the backroom team quite because of the verbal abuse and now they can't complete the job at all and have stated they wish we would have stayed. Well that's what the executives get for telling us we were bad employees the funny part is some of them worked with us then became executives and just became greedy. Like TYT said they only see money and the short term solutions not what's best in the long term we were even told by one of the bosses that did not agree with the way things were going that was what was going on. Companies like Target and Wal-mart are the worst Target is just better at hiding it than Wal-mart is.
Cops should not be monitoring Walmart.
walmart in my area wont hire full time, they only hire part time unless you are in management then its a salary so its the managers making up the hours needed in their staff. if they hired full time, it would help a lot
I got a walmart ad on this video : (
Save Money, Live Better. :)
How evil.
It's ironic because some say Target doesn't care about customer safety because of the bathroom issue, and yet...
In comparison to Walmart...
It's been awhile since I went to walmart for anything.
The check is in the mail.
Investments usually are long term but whatever...
Ok, Cenk corrected Ana.
Depends on the wealth of the investor. Any more, the less wealthy investors are the ones who think long-term, the uber-rich ones, maximized profits no matter who else it hurts.
Only when most of your personal wealth is tied up in it. Board members are usually on 6-10 different boards at the same time and have giant cusions
to completely separate whenever they like so they have no stake in long term success, only short term gaim so they can get paid.
not usually my man.
+RedHeart64
Ur 1st post, soundz about how our poliTRICKshunz, r running/ruining U.S.
1 kidnapping attempt everyday? And we can safely assume 99% of the time its children targeted.
Wtf is wrong with Americans
you know who els want less less tax and Regulations for corporations ? DONALD J DRUMPF !
What's wrong with that?
Less taxes and regulations mean more jobs and more money the "top 1%" can pay their employees. Not every rich person is a cheat and a thief.
MyPersonalVendetta lol idk if u are just stupid or acutely believe this shit . if that true why wall mart not hiring the guards .when they makeing already over 13b proffit ? less tax means they just make more profit nothing els .also less regulations does not mean more jobs it means they risk the life of workers / consumers and environments . look to china thier air water and ground is poisoned becaus of lack of regulations .
I didn't say no regulations, I said less regulations. And I also didn't say Wal Mart CEO's weren't honest people.
MyPersonalVendetta china has less regulations my point proven now move on
The greed is unbelievable!
I meant it sarcastically...I'm conscious of how deplorable these companies are. However I disagree that these types of actions would be censored by the American people if they knew the full consequences of these companies actions.
I HAVE THAT DRESS
alot of walmarts are in low income places. plan and simple low income high crime, just watch cops black and white but all poor.
"I have them work just the right amount of hours so they don't get health coverage", this comment is so strange to me, before Obamacare these employees got more hours as part time employees....they are part time, part time, full time employees get healthcare at wal mart. The part time employees at wal mart should be pissed at Obamacare right? If u disagree please explain why not?
Target better values, better prices, better people, there are alternatives.
lets be fair....that's slightly bad ass.
screw under, how about in or on top of?
The solution is to get rid of food stamps.
+Colonel 100 let them work .. Dont have kids if u cant afford to feed them
Yea get rid of all those people trying to purchase things. That will lower the theft. Not raise it... Genius
Colonel 100 They can just come over to my house for something to eat.
Marley Red Food stamps are already theft my sweet, sassy friend.
What is it with people like you...you think the poor people struggling to get by should be the one's to solve the problem while you completely exempt the one's robbing all of us blind. It's disgusting how many people care more about a billionaire families profits than they care about their fellow man - human beings. It's so gross.
Walmart needs to go down.
My first job was at Walmart, back then we had greeters, I was one of those greeters we got cussed out, spit on, and genuinely treated like crap. Also it was nearly impossible to do the job of preventing theft, because you can't touch the customers or follow them. Yet I was always yelled at for not preventing loss.
Finally, I caught pneumonia working in front of the doors in the dead of winter. Management refused to take my doctor's note, claimed I had to go through some bogus process no one had told me about, and threatened to fire me because I was too sick to go to work.
I quit and I'm thankful everyday that I did, if I had stayed there I probably would have ended up killing myself.
That does it.....I'm getting my meth at target from now on..lol!
Oh man i am SO glad the Danish government has barred walmart from opening stores here (at least so far).
Walmart has some of the best Camera's in the world . So why would you steal from them ..
Keep thinking that .. around were i live mother fuckers get arrested daily
those cameras are used to prevent unionizing not for security. So they work as designed.
try them let me know .
Tod fourtwentyone the fact they catch the odd shoplifter is gravy. the shop lifting doesn't cost the store as much as unionizing would cost the whole company. Think about what would happen if walmart had to pay people enough money to cover living expenses + overtime + medical + pto etc.
i used to shop lift at walmart all the time lol. Id steal strategy guides, cards, small toys. Those days r over but there r definitely blind spots on cameras. Never was caught btw lol
I used to scam Walmart to get heroin to the tune of three hundred bucks a day.
I wouldn't doubt it. I'm in Canada and the Walmart down the street has turned from a respectable establishment to what I can only describe as a homeless shelter.
No that isn't crony capitalism it's just capitalism. Read Marx
I hate shopping in walmart, usually because every employee has an expression on their face like someone just walked up and punched them. This includes every level of employee I interacted with from the person at the bottom up to the manager.
The solution is simple, don't work at f#cking walmart, find a real job with a real future.
TheDrakon Have you considered the simple solution of not shopping at Walmart? Then you wouldn't have a reason to cry about other peoples facial expressions like a little bitch.
Crimes at WalMart? Must be all the Democrat customers.
GEEZE! I'm a staunch Conservative, but you truly are a BUFFOON!
"Smashed Avenger" Yeah, but you aren't.
+Smashed Avenger No. I have no reason to be. I'm not a lower-class Democrat, after all.
+Smashed Avenger haha no I want to be as far away from you as possible
+Smashed Avenger I see why you shop at Walmart now xD
All Walmart down here in Texas have Police officers at the entrance. and security patrol in parking lot.... So it's pretty safe.
nope not here in El Paso TX. they just recently got rid of the parking lot security guard and I seen local police only on the holidays.
They don't need them in my area near Houston because it is pretty safe. There is someone patrolling the parking lot, but that is about it.
The amount of security is a function of the rate of crime and disturbances at a location. In (away from the border) Walmarts (and other stores) of Canada, there are no guards. What for? In the center of, say, Detroit, USA, there is a small army.
It's just the high crime parts of Texas that have the rent-a-cops at Walmarts... I've seen them in Houston, South, West and East San Antonio, etc. Austin has more law-abiding people, I guess... or better weed.
Time to loot Walmart... What? My friends are doing it.
WalMart's prices are NOT that low...
I love how Walmart is to blame for criminals criminalizing their stores. I can already guess who the majority of these criminals are because of the blame game. I hate Walmart & all it stands for. But it is complete & utter bullshit to call them out for something that is another's fault. No crime, no security. No crime, no extra workers to cover space in the store. Period!!!
I already know the answer, but, why aren't you calling out the actual criminals here for their crimes & putting a spotlight on them? Come on. Tell the truth about everything.
Numerous Walmart employees are on welfare and food stamps because their employees does not pay them livable wages. That is another big issue, taxpayers are picking up tab for people working at Walmart.
Easiest way to eliminate crime at Walmarts? Everyone should just stop shopping there.
They also allow boondocking in their parking lots (people living in RVs and vans), which in turn has spurred a rise in homeless camps next to Wal-Marts.
wal mart will be the next toys r us if this continues
I would blame the economy and people who are criminals not Walmart . Maybe police should patrol more ?
When I was still a junkie I supplied a pretty substantial drug habit mostly by stealing shit from Walmart,
I have been avoiding walmart as well, don't feel safe in the parking lot, there are always people stopping me saying that their car won't start or some story which makes me run for my car. This company needs to make a change.
don ' t forget theater workers, the minimum wage that no one talks about.
I haven't shopped at Wal-Mart in over 2 decades, I am much better off for it in so many ways.
I have a friend who will walk into a Walmart, grab a 12 pack of beer, and walk out. He's never been caught!
Walmart is the modern day company store. I cant believe that they haven't started paying their employees in Walmart cash that can only be used at Walmart.
Same reason why the Affordable Care Act doesn't really work; if you don't provide your employees with health insurance the government will force them to find it anyways, at next to no cost to you, and potentially pay for all of it.
WALMART - Always Low Business Ethics.
Now, look into the $millions of dollars donated by WM to charities and disasters...$20 million to Katrina victims, free supplies donated to first responders....the list goes on and on...
This is a great talk by these two reporters. Why cant all news be like this?
"Employers" should be FINED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY for every underpaid employee on their payroll, and LOSE THEIR BUSINESS LICENSE FOR TEN YEARS per every employee working "under the table". America would not only be great AGAIN, but more people would be happy for the first time EVER.
In my experience walmarts workers have less oppressive working conditions. Target treats their employees like shit.
The Walmart across the street from where I work has cut way back on the lighting outside the store at night.
Wal Mart in Ontario Canada have security guards and camera's everywhere. Two guards are always watching the camera's
Chenk, public corporations are not required to maximize profit. This is obvious if you do a case analysis on Dodge v Ford. Further, maximizing profit is not equal to maximizing shareholder value. IHow is it that you are twice my age, don't know what you are talking about, but still have the gall to think you know what you are talking about?
Greeter's actually don't do much in the way of security. I worked at a Walmart for awhile, and the greeters would tell me that in many cases, even when they do catch someone shoplifting, they'll just book it straight out the door. Seeing as how most greeters are either old or mentally/physically handicapped individuals (sometimes temporarily handicapped, in the case of this guy I knew in loading who had broken his leg), they can't exactly run after said shoplifters.
Long time ago in America the was a time when many people had dignity. A time when a company's commercial said "Quality Goes In Before The Name Goes On." It use to be Americans use to say "An Honest Day Wage For An Honest Day's Work" but who the heck cares about honesty these days?If one thinks about it you have to ask yourself what are these greedy people looking for cause if they can make more money then they spend in a life time, They're just going to leave all behind when their dead!
I interviewed Walmart Security honchos for a college class report. Walmart tolerates 11% annual loss on inventory screened in compared against what gets paid for (tracked by barcodes at the register). Walmart refrains from calling the police on shoplifters because the police are understaffed and the police resent being Walmart security funded by the taxpayer. Walmart needs to pay for their own security... which they don't. Walmart pays for insurance to cover the 11% loss... (insurance that honest paying customers subsidize). What Walmart does do is bust their employees for theft. Walmart prosecutes employees to the full extent of the law because they want to scare other employees into being honest. The Walmart Security honchos I interviewed stated privately that they HATE how Walmart keeps trimming their ranks and making the job of stopping shoplifters impossible. Walmart management is despicable. And very short-sighted. Walmart invites problems, because rats travel in packs and they tell each other where the easy pickings are. Walmart has made itself into a target. Pun intended.
I love u guys I can watch fox all day and they never really say anything. I watch u for 10 mins and learn something. keep on keeping on. thanks.
Attention Wal-Mart shoppers, There is a special on crackpipes aisle 5 next to the hot Chile Cheetos....
Usually don't care for the histrionics when presenting news stories, but almost everything they described has occurred at my local Walmart. In many places, WM parking lots are danger zones especially for elderly or distracted shoppers deemed easy targets by criminals . My local store used to be open 24hours but changed to midnight closing due to shoplifting. Tens of thousands of dollars of inventory stolen annually. Thieves would fill up shopping carts and run them out the door with no fear of being caught. The store does have security guards but they are unarmed and in their 70s. What are they going to do? Local police and sheriffs' deputies are now a regular presence. The store does have greeters though as well as well as a fair number of above average workers who deserve better.
someone took a whole shit on the sales floor when I worked at Walmart. like literally pulled their ass out and shit I'm the grocery department
If you don't like it don't shop at Walmart. Walmart has petitioned to increase minimum wage, let's talk about that.
One more point....Everything that is stolen now becomes a loss / tax write off for Walmart. Therefore they don't really lose anything in the theft.
I smartly returned to Los Angeles, California from Tampa, Florida last year where I stupidly went to assist a very sick friend of mine. Tampa is a pretty beautiful place if one can stand the humidity and bugs but this Walmart situation was even being complained about by city and town councils since the cost of local police protection and action actually cost these areas more in money than local Walmarts were generating in sales tax dollars. Lesson learned is that it's really a no win situation and no one wins here. It's just that the average uninformed consumer doesn't do the research to find out where all of those low cost items actually come form and why. Another thing, my friend told me that food totals would be less in Florida? Wrong! They are lower here in California. Citrus, for instance, is consistently of much higher quality and lower cost than in the so-called "Sunshine State" which is quickly sinking due to global warming. We already have operational desalination plants in this state and we will probably have to resort to purified seawater anyways since the leaders in the mid-west and south are in deep denial about this scientific fact.
I used to work on the Wal Mart truck crew in Elko, Nevada. They would have us play the role of security by making us chase off union reps and follow suspected shoplifters. They shuffled out managers every month or so. I've never seen turnover like that anywhere else. The police were there constantly.
Thanks for telling me---I am heading out to Walmart with my crew first thing. ...when do they open?
The checkout lines and some Walmarts are insane because they always have too few cashiers working. The self checkouts are often broken.
I live near both a Walmart and a legal recreational marijuana dispensary. There has been absolutely no problems with the marijuana dispensary. Now Walmart, that place is scary. I went there one day because I wanted to make pierogis and didn't have potatoes, and noticed that they now have security tags on the baskets because people kept walking out of the store with them without paying. If you walk out of a story with a basket, an alarm will go off. It's pretty bad if you have to put screaming alarm tags on the baskets.