Re: Amazon AMAZING!

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

Walmart's poor treatment and pay for employees is backed up with fact and happens in all Walmarts. Are you against Walmart, also?

Amazon's problem with employee treatment was in one area, Pennsylvania.

That's not an indictment of the entire company.

Spurt · ‎03-20-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
@Spurt

Walmart's poor treatment and pay for employees is backed up with fact and happens in all Walmarts. Are you against Walmart, also?

Amazon's problem with employee treatment was in one area, Pennsylvania.
That's not an indictment of the entire company.

@Noel7

Sorry i dont like WallyWorld either............. the employees are rude, their merchandise quality is not always good............and only 2 lines to check out with long lines.......NO WAY!!!

As far as work issues here with people working the warehouses and all over the country not just in PA ---AZ, NV, CA, KY...........and even in Germany and the UK................

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Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
@Spurt

Walmart's poor treatment and pay for employees is backed up with fact and happens in all Walmarts. Are you against Walmart, also?

Amazon's problem with employee treatment was in one area, Pennsylvania.
That's not an indictment of the entire company.

Ten years ago Walmart was "the" company to hate, boycott, trash, etc as the End of Small Business As We Know It, the subjugation of poorly paid and abused employees who were denied benefits, etc and etc.

Today it's Amazon, and all of a sudden Walmart has apparently redeemed themselves in the public eye simply for now being #2 instead of #1 in the "pile on" demonizing sweepstakes. Go figure.

It's not like either company is going to change, or go bankrupt. They're heeeere. They're staaaaying. What will happen will happen.

So, people are free to not like them as companies, and to not buy from them. I assume those who have issues with the way they do business will never shop with them, right?

And others are free to do most of their shopping with those companies, regardless who Who's Being Demonized Now (sung to the tune of I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?) ;-)

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Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Spurt wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@Spurt

Walmart's poor treatment and pay for employees is backed up with fact and happens in all Walmarts. Are you against Walmart, also?

Amazon's problem with employee treatment was in one area, Pennsylvania.
That's not an indictment of the entire company.

@Noel7

Sorry i dont like WallyWorld either............. the employees are rude, their merchandise quality is not always good............and only 2 lines to check out with long lines.......NO WAY!!!

As far as work issues here with people working the warehouses and all over the country not just in PA ---AZ, NV, CA, KY...........and even in Germany and the UK................

@Spurt

The problems in the news occurred in Pennsylvania, they were not endemic to the entire company.

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

The Seattle Times has had articles about labor issues here, too.

@Noel7

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@tansy wrote:
The Seattle Times has had articles about labor issues here, too.

@Noel7

Good to know, thanks @tansy

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@Moonchilde @Noel7 @Spurt Walmart has hired people with marginal or no skills living in rural or low income areas and provided them with work and a chance for advancement. What is so objectionable about that? At first they are paid a minimal salary because that's what they're worth as unskilled labor, but many advance to supervisory positions. Nobody ever mentions that. They hire many people with severe physical and developmental disabilitie

If Walmart went out of business today and laid off every worker, the whole world would feel the economic impact, not just from their employees but those of manufacturers of the goods they sell.

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Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Moonchilde @Noel7 @Spurt Walmart has hired people with marginal or no skills living in rural or low income areas and provided them with work and a chance for advancement. What is so objectionable about that? At first they are paid a minimal salary because that's what they're worth as unskilled labor, but many advance to supervisory positions. Nobody ever mentions that. They hire many people with severe physical and developmental disabilitie

If Walmart went out of business today and laid off every worker, the whole world would feel the economic impact, not just from their employees but those of manufacturers of the goods they sell.

No argument from me, @Kachina624, I'm on your side. I just find it amusing that I guess Walmart is "okay"to like and shop at now that there's a bigger Big Bad than Walmart. Now, the real Big Bad is Amazon. In five or ten years, a different company.

Why isn't Apple in this conversation as far as abuse of the workers in the Chinese factories (to the point of suicide attempts), or Target, K-Mart and half a dozen other chains that have sold and likely still sell clothes made with child labor? They only "investigated" when they were caught out, and have they really changed, or have they just said they have? We can't know for sure. We know what we're told and what the (foreign) news media and the publicity machines for the companies put out there.

There needs to be that one group or organization that people can dump on - the "worst" example of capitalism, the worst world govt, the worst person to be (LGBTQ, overweight, diabetic), the trashiest, the sleaziest whatever - just so people can feel, think and say there's someone or something out there a whole lot worse than they are, and/or that whatever's going on, they told you so.

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Lila4Now · ‎08-13-2011

I don't have Amazon Prime, yet. I do order from Amazon quite often. I plan my orders, and never pay shipping. I can order Clarks from Amazon, with free shipping, and so much cheaper than at QVC!. They also offer free returns. I've been happy with all my purchases. Like another person mentioned, Walmart delivers things quickly, too. I don't pay shipping when I order from them, either. QVC is the only place I know that charges shipping on total orders of more than $50. That's why I don't order much from them. I ordered some Philosophy when they had the free shipping. That will be the last I order from QVC for a long time. I don't use easy pay, so that doesn't tempt me. I noticed the Dooney web site offers free shipping and allows payments for some of their handbags. QVC charges over $10 to ship a purse. I don't understand that. Dooney ships free from most places. The last Dooney I ordered was from Macy's, and it was free shipping.

febe1 · ‎01-22-2012

@SeaMaiden wrote:
@Mominohio Walmart is good too. I use them as well.

I use both. Walmart beats Amazon on many items I buy. I check both of them.

I also find I can get free S&H on most items I buy from Amazn w/o buying Prime. I'm not interested in their perks.

As for the shipping: Amazon is tough to beat, although Walmart is trying. Amazon has it down to a unbeatable science now. Walmart doesn't include weekends on their 2/day delivery. Their billing is terrible and too many mistakes made. Packing is not good. Walmart has a long way to go to challenge Amazon. As does everyone.