I think Captcha was referring to the time Walmart got busted with a cleaning crew of illegal immigrants. Worse, they’d literally locked them in a store overnight. (Fire safety issue).
I personally don’t shop at walmart because I don’t like their policies towards the hourly employees. Perhaps they’ve fixed it since the book Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, came out… but I was horrified that low paid hourly workers were required to work off the clock, were given info about how to apply to medicare programs, WIC, etc. Why would they provide that information in the employee breakrooms if it wasn’t something the employees qualified for? In other words, many of Walmart’s employees are living at a poverty level. Hard to call that living wages.
I’ve shopped at super-walmarts – mainly when on roadtrips and it was the only thing readily available from the freeway. At home, I choose to shop at Costco – where they pay wages high enough that many employees are still there having started in college. They have their degrees – but like their employer and work enough to stick around for 20 years or more. (Check the badges of the costco workers – it has the number of years.)
It’s a personal choice. Not forced on anyone else. But given options, I won’t shop at Walmart.
