Local Walmarts Fear Rise of Super-Walmart
For immediate release: Mom and Pop Walmarts Threatened
(ACPA-Bentonville, AR) The unrelenting spread of Super-Walmart stores across American suburbs has produced unlikely new allies for the coalition of activist groups who oppose the giant retailer. The latest members of the coalition are none other than the employees and managers of regular Walmart.
The behemoth Super-Walmarts have been slowly but inexorably destroying it's smaller rival nationwide, wiping out long established Walmart stores, slashing the tax base, and making sprawling malls sprawlier. Finally, worried about the possibility of even lower paid workers taking their jobs, employees and managers at local mom and pop Walmart stores have said enough is enough.
The new Pro-Walmart activist group
claims Super-Walmart is dragging down working conditions with their open-24 hours policies and a cavernous size that forces workers to "walk
for miles each day, along never ending aisles". "At least the aisles used to end in regular Walmart," said Jeanie, a Walmart employee in
Gatersville Florida, (note if you are a corporate minion for Super-Walmart HQ, Jeanie isn't really her name,
we made that up to protect her identity and no, there is no point in trying to guess her real name - hey Jeanie might even be a man and we
could be just pretending she's a woman, bet you didn't think of that!).
One manager poignantly pleaded, "I used to know all of my assistant managers but now, I only know those on the second shift, how am I expected to give thousands of customers the level of service they have come to expect, if I only know the assistant managers on the second shift?"
Employees also worried about their career prospects with one employee, (we wont even hint at a name this time), bemoaning that his "hope to move from food stocking over to the more prestigious sport equipment stocking," was trampled all over in the new store.
Others expressed concern that they would lose their Walmart right to get free advice on how to take advantage of State funded healthcare. "I dont want to lose my healtcare information plan," fretted one employee.
All employees agreed though that there was one benefit that remains unchanged. The consensus was summed up by Peter Gurling, who works the second shift of the electronics department, in Aisle 15 of the Alpharetta Georgia store, that's the one off exit 9 of the GA-400 (near Sears). Peter, who aspires to be a manager one day, went on record saying, "At least we still have the right to not join unions, the company has been really great on that one."
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