Fortune 500: Wal-Mart Stores

Walmart is a great store it just needs people who help bag the grocries for people it may cost a little more but it will all be worth it. And it needs job opputunities for students from age 14 and up.

Wal-mart is the greatest place in the world to shop.
I can say that I am very disappointed in walmart, WHY ? All Wal-Mart Customers are bag boys! WE all have to remove all the bags and place them in the shopping carts, WAL-MART SAVES MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER.YEAR BY HAVING CUSTOMERS DO THE WORK OF MANY BAG BOYS THAT THEY DON’T NEED TO PAY EACH WEEK,SO THEN WHY NOT GIVE CUSTOMERS A BETTER DEAL ON ITEMS LIKE FOOD AND MORE!.

walmart is full of it i work for them they treat there workers bad no breaks and no lunches, no holiday pay for new workers, they drop your pay if you change departments make you work crazy hours and have no concern for there workers or there families there csm dont work walmart should be call money mart cause thats all they care about

i am so impressed with the walmart history and past and current growth that i can’t wait to see the first walmart in my country Ghana. bigups to the management and associates of this great company. An oh! you deserve the no. 1 ranking. Daniel konnor tetteh.

Although I do not have a problem with Walmart, I wish that they closed their stores for one month.

Why? Because the people who complain about Walmart would beg for the stores to re-open. We all know that Walmart is not the best employer or the best place to shop. But there are not too many better alternatives. Imagine if all the U.S. stores closed for one month. The employees would be mad, even though they claim that they hate working there. The customers would be mad, even though they claim Walmart is dirty and unorganized.

The fact that Walmart is the closest shopping center for many people would be reason alone for people to stop complaining about the store. Closing Walmart stores for one month would teach people to appreciate what they have.

When Walmart first came to many areas, the store was considered a Godsend. Now it is considered the gateway to Hell.

I like how Americans praise something then come to villify it when it is no longer of use to them. I wish that they closed all U.S. stores for one month and analyzed data telling them which stores to permanently close and which to reopen. Americans would learn a valuable lesson about how the economy really works.

I have been with Wal-Mart now ten years and I have worked for other retailers before being blessed with a position at Wal-Mart. I have great pay, excellent benefits and a voice in my company. I am not an employee but an Associate.

Wal-Mart has become successful by having respect for Associates as well as our boss, the customer. I have the highest respect for Mr. Lee Scott and all the leaders in this wonderful company. The folks who complain about Wal-Mart not paying well, taking care of the Associate, and destroying the commiunities are truly the ones who do not have any knowledge. With 1.9 Million Associates you are bound to have a few who become somewhat upset, however the majority are very satisfied with thier Wal-Mart. We are #1 and we will continue to remain #1 and be there to take care of your needs as well as your children, thier children and be here for thier educational needs, employment needs and growth needs. I am proud to say I choose to work, shop and support my Wal-Mart and hats off to all my Wal-Mart family, as I have 1.9 million brothers and sisters!

It is shameful that the Walmarts, Lowe’s, Home Depots and the majority of retailers send our money to China and other countries with all the merchandise that they import from there. Many times that merchandise is made by underpaid workers who can not themselves afford to buy the products they make.

I agree with the first comment. Those of you, just a few people, complaining and gripping about Walmart are the very ones sneaking and shopping at Walmart; you are a bully; could it be jealousy? CEO, Scott is doing an excellent job for the communities. Walmart is the number 1 Fortune 500 Store and as an MBA Student, I am proud to use Walmart as my assignment to discuss their strategy for success. We need more Superstores in Seattle. GO Walmart with your bad self!

You can NEVER say Wal*Mart treats empoloyees bad. And those who say that well, “Wal*Mart could pay there employees a dollar more an hour if they raised everyprice a penny” are the ones that are griping about how high the dang prices are. Geez i dont understand you people sometimes, If you dont like it dont shop there, no one cares what you think and the CEO sure dont because your a minority when it comes to gripping about Wal*Mart being a bad influence. If I am the #1 retailer in the world you must be doing something right . Oh and those for you who say Wal*Mart wont be the number 1 retialer in the wolrd hmm 2nd place is ONLY 291,649 Million away. Pretty close if you ask me!

To Jason E. F., Utica Nebraska

Interesting spin. I don’t know what town you live in, but it must not be the usual rural area that WM targets. Granted, they are in most of the larger cities, but in most cases, WM is NOT good for local business in smaller towns!

In fact, good ol’ Sam is the one that had a 6 point pricing plan to come into these towns years ago to operate in the red and undercut the local businessmen to run them out of business – only to then gradually raise their prices and proclaim that they are creating jobs for the community (to the one persons point of her gradually increasing bill for the same stuff and less service). I’ve personally witnessed this in my hometown. We had a local WM and they wanted to build a SuperCenter, it was stopped, they went to another SMALLER town… Eventually the SC was able to get into our town, so they left the other one and it is now practically a ghost town. And it’s documented in countless other cities – particularly in the OK, TX, and AR area’s.

There are countless, factual, case studies on the treatment that WM doles out on it’s suppliers (i.e. Vlasic and their jumbo pickle jars, for example)
and they are not positive or good for business. You’ve obviously had a glimpse of that structure – but I don’t think you know the whole story.

Maybe you should buy your product from a mom and pop store and pay twice as much for a stale product.If you want a better job, try getting an education

Wal-Mart has truly lost the direction that made them the number 1 retailer. They no longer have the motivated associates, customer service or best prices in town. I travel extensively and visit numerous locations in the south and east. I have noticed an easily visible change in all the above mentioned areas. Its seems that they are so corporate driven now that they no longer care about the customer or employees. I have spoken with numerous managers and associates and again find an overwhelming consensus of the feeling that the “company” is not caring and expecting to much from the employees and this attitude is passed on to the customer. There also seems to be a huge intimidation factor as to how employees are kept in line! If any other big box retailers are watching “and paying attention” this is the time to take back market share. The same way SAM took it over 35 or 40 years ago. Its simple, take care of your people! Employees and customers both!

I have worked at Wal.mart for thirteen years. Have had plenty of reasons to leave, still there. That must say something,right?

I worked for Wal-Mart for 16 years, mostly in management. Was a good palce to work until 5 years ago. They have strayed from their corpaorate beliefs. The company is being missmanaged, look at the stock price over the last seven years.

Wal-Mart will always have the lowest price on anything they carry in the respective stores, Wal-Mart controls the price and will never let a vendor/manufactuer set the price. This is what has let Wal-Mart become the largest retailer in the world. No matter what “competition” comes to town this comapany will always have the lower price. While some people see this as a disadvantage to their small town and feel that it will hurt there local business just look at what happens when a Wal-Mart comes to town, everyone else in the town begins to sprout up there business near to the Wal-Mart, and entire business community begins to sprawl up surrounding the Wal-Mart, HOW is this bad for any community?

Wal-Mart of course as with any large company will come under scrutiny for basicaly anything and every action they take, but there is no hidden agenda here; Wal-Mart wants to become and is the most profitable retail company in the world and by becoming the most profitable is able to pass savings on to the consumer and create countless jobs anywhere and everywhere, the largest company in the world is not created by regulating prices, controling how much weekely they will charge people for something that controls their travel, not by a company that will “tell” people what they should be paying and give them no choice in what they pay, NO MATTER WHAT.

Wal-Mart is a company that is consumer focused, Wal-Mart tells companys what they will charge the consumer and thus the maker of the product can and will never “rip-off” anyone, no-one likes to be ripped off and no-one ever will as long as Wal-Mart is by their side.

There are 2 relatively new ‘bigger and better’ Wal-Marts in this area. After shooping in both I have found them to be roomy and, with the addition of groceries, I felt they would provide a one stop shopping advantage. However, the departments have been reduced to fewer items resulting in my disappointment in their merchandising.

Walmart use to be # 1.Since Sam Walton died it continues to go down hill.Most of the time they don”t half restock their shelves.Are not fair to their employees.They put employees with lesser time on the job ahead of people with more time and work experence.

Wal-mart will not remain in the top spot for long. Gas prices are steadily on the rise and of course they will say it all a matter of supply and demand. Who are they kidding?

Competition is always good in a free economic society. My husband and I are weekly shoppers at the retail giant WalMart. This has been our practice for the last five years or more. Little by little we have watched our grocery bill grow from sixty five dollars a week for the two of us to lately a whopping one hundred ten dollars as an average. With the increase in prices we’ve observed a decrease in customer service and poor stocking of merchandise on store shelves. There is only one reason I shop at Wal-Mart, convience. I would welcome the chance to find the same goods and services at another competeing retailer but I know of none! WalMarts monoply in the market isn’t a good thing for the American consumer or for the world market as a whole. Competion in the market place keeps these companies from getting the big head and accountable to the consumer who is the major reason for their growing success!

Yes, I find Walmart very good, and are very convenient with their suppies also their prices.

I work for Wegmans which is across from Walmart and both stores are great.

Been with my wal-mart 15 years, great place to work.All company have their ups and downs.But we help our own assoicats , And the comunities we are in.WE continue to meet our customers needs daily with great coustomer service and a safe inviroment….. thank you

No big doesn’t always mean better, but I have worked for Wal-Mart coming up on 4 years. They have treated me good and I have no complaints there. Yea there are those few customers that won’t shop there, and there are those few that it is the only place to shop where they live. Or its the only place that will except WIC, or foodstamps, or will give them a job when their down and out. Some say they won’t shop there because we send our stuff over sea’s, well guess what, newsflash where do you think Target gets the same product from? In my mind people are going to shop the stores they like. It might not be Wal-Mart, but they shouldn’t have to have a reason on why they like to shop there. Everyone has diverse goods, and different sales pitches, and they all do it thier own way. So shop how you want to not how the big 500 want you to.

Worked at Wal-Mart for 5 years, left in 2003 to join the Army, but once I leave from there, would go back to W-M in a heartbeat. They are the best when it comes to taking care of employees.

Walmart is really a great place to work I have been there 6 years and never been treated better in any other job that i have had.I admire had walmart company just keeps on getting better even with all the bad press lawsuits and hassles it deals with everyday but still takes care of the customers amd its associates,how can you not feel good working for a company like that!

It says biggest not best.

Will have worked for Wal*Mart 18 years in May. Not the greatest, but no one is, be realistic. However, 18 years states you can do anything within the organization if you have the capacity. Professionally, I have received everything sought. Could not want a better company. What about your work ?