The anti-Walmart huh?
So, let us delve into the murky and mysterious of retail news. The Thanksgiving season Walmart strikes have been popping up into the headlines. Fighting for fairer pay and more benefits, scattered strikes occurred across the nation on Black Friday. While it didn't dent the mega-chain's bottom line, it definitely scored a symbolic victory and I personally believe it highlights an issue that should be addressed eventually.
American retail recently, at least within the larger chains, have been building up a mentality within their employees that they are simply put, disposable and worthless. The idea that workers are an investment and not a disposable entity is no longer prevalent in today's business mentality, with it being replaced by a mentality of greed and a tireless drive to increase the bottom line. Once implicitly held among all of American companies, the idea that treating your workers with basic respect and at the very least listening to them has been eliminated. Instead, they decide to arrest and gag those who attempt to protest against the mega-chain.
Walmart used to be so much better. When Sam Walton, the original founder of the chain, ran the company, he had a reputation for kindness and a drive to sell American-made items. With his death, his sons too over, and everything went for the worse. It then became about the bottomline, not the worker.
This isn't a good mentality to establish. It shouldn't be all about the money. It shouldn't be all about pleasing the investors. Don't get me wrong, if you want to be a successful business, you need to pay attention to these things. People should always come first though.
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