Walmart's Black Friday Rip-off

whs said:

pacinitaly said:

worst company in the world.


Wake-Up Wal-Mart: Wal-Mart Workers Speak Out

Up Against Wal-Mart | Mother Jones

The problem is systemic. As long as there is no legislation to protect the employee, they are not going to change. In Germany, Walmart opened a lot of shops. But they had to deal with the local laws and the unions. They lost millions year after year and folded tent after 7 years. Their system and the German system were incompatible.

You know I believe that the company really went downhill after Sam Walton died and now the company is ran by his kids...

Wal-Mart used to be a great store to buy from...not so much anymore

Zidane24 said:

whs said:

pacinitaly said:

worst company in the world.


Wake-Up Wal-Mart: Wal-Mart Workers Speak Out

Up Against Wal-Mart | Mother Jones

The problem is systemic. As long as there is no legislation to protect the employee, they are not going to change. In Germany, Walmart opened a lot of shops. But they had to deal with the local laws and the unions. They lost millions year after year and folded tent after 7 years. Their system and the German system were incompatible.

You know I believe that the company really went downhill after Sam Walton died and now the company is ran by his kids...

Wal-Mart used to be a great store to buy from...not so much anymore

It still is a great store to buy from, depending on where you live/time of year. It saddens me that they are no longer 24/7 over here. I use to love going there at 3am when I was bored.

DarkNovaGamer said:

Zidane24 said:

whs said:

The problem is systemic. As long as there is no legislation to protect the employee, they are not going to change. In Germany, Walmart opened a lot of shops. But they had to deal with the local laws and the unions. They lost millions year after year and folded tent after 7 years. Their system and the German system were incompatible.

You know I believe that the company really went downhill after Sam Walton died and now the company is ran by his kids...

Wal-Mart used to be a great store to buy from...not so much anymore

It still is a great store to buy from, depending on where you live/time of year. It saddens me that they are no longer 24/7 over here. I use to love going there at 3am when I was bored.

Regardless of personal experiences (the Wal-Mart at my college is 24/7 and is normally great to buy from...), the quality of the company and its stores has went down over the years...

Zidane24 said:

DarkNovaGamer said:

Zidane24 said:

You know I believe that the company really went downhill after Sam Walton died and now the company is ran by his kids...

Wal-Mart used to be a great store to buy from...not so much anymore

It still is a great store to buy from, depending on where you live/time of year. It saddens me that they are no longer 24/7 over here. I use to love going there at 3am when I was bored.

Regardless of personal experiences (the Wal-Mart at my college is 24/7 and is normally great to buy from...), the quality of the company and its stores has went down over the years...

Well, I suppose that is true. The employee's seem a bit more dense as well. I tried exchanging a Xbox 360 controller for a different color (I spoke to the manager earlier to confirm I could do that, I was within the 30 day return/exchange limit).

The person I spoke at the store wasted 1 hour of my life trying to tell me I couldn't do that and that I only had 14 days with Xbox 360 Controllers to exchange/controllers. I didn't let it go, went to a different manager (first one I spoke to wasn't there, the next one was late) and he told the worker that I DO have the right to do it and I AM within the ""30 days"" The receipt said I had.

Got an apology for the trouble, got my full money back and the product for free (with the different color I wanted). I think I got side tracked in this post.

I work at Wal-Mart as full-time overnight Associate, I don't fall for all the BS that non-informers spew about Wal-Mart since it's a great store to work at.

The whole ticket thing went out at my store for Wal-Marts own personal "pre-Black Friday" 3 weeks ago, we had long lines of customers come in at 12am till around 6am buying tickets for the real Black-Friday. The only way you can know is to ask the damn Associate, don't come in here and complain because you KNOW Black-Friday is around the corner and lots of big stores have deals that go on before that big event to help customers get in first on the actual day. So next time, ASK!

Oh yea, it's hilarious how when anything becomes remotely SUCCESSFUL people are quick to jump on it and hate it. I congratulate Wal-Marts superior power with the Capitalist system. Haters move to China or get in a time-machine and go to Soviet Union. Wal-Marts all over the country are constantly hiring new people, hell my Wal-Mart went through 6 months of rigorous Remodelling when the Economy is in the toilet. We are STILL hiring lots of people on a daily basis. That speaks for something good. Wal-Mart is the ONLY damn place hiring in my town of 10,000 people for god sakes.

This is going to be messy -runs-

AlexT2889 said:

I work at Wal-Mart as full-time overnight Associate, I don't fall for all the BS that non-informers spew about Wal-Mart since it's a great store to work at.

The whole ticket thing went out at my store for Wal-Marts own personal "pre-Black Friday" 3 weeks ago, we had long lines of customers come in at 12am till around 6am buying tickets for the real Black-Friday. The only way you can know is to ask the damn Associate, don't come in here and complain because you KNOW Black-Friday is around the corner and lots of big stores have deals that go on before that big event to help customers get in first on the actual day. So next time, ASK!

Oh yea, it's hilarious how when anything becomes remotely SUCCESSFUL people are quick to jump on it and hate it. I congratulate Wal-Marts superior power with the Capitalist system. Haters move to China or get in a time-machine and go to Soviet Union.

Except...it is false advertising to offer a deal that will be available on Black Friday only to sell the deal beforehand...

It would have been different if Wal-Mart had advertised it as a Black Friday deal with the ability to also "pre-order"...

I think that Wal-Mart (and many other companies) are losing sight of what Black Friday is all about...it is a ONE DAY shop-a-thon where you can expect good deals with some competition to boot

Uber Philf said:

This is going to be messy -runs-

*sigh*no kidding...after my last comment I abandon any further needless argument...

The proof of my prior comments is readily accessible...

Zidane24 said:

AlexT2889 said:

I work at Wal-Mart as full-time overnight Associate, I don't fall for all the BS that non-informers spew about Wal-Mart since it's a great store to work at.

The whole ticket thing went out at my store for Wal-Marts own personal "pre-Black Friday" 3 weeks ago, we had long lines of customers come in at 12am till around 6am buying tickets for the real Black-Friday. The only way you can know is to ask the damn Associate, don't come in here and complain because you KNOW Black-Friday is around the corner and lots of big stores have deals that go on before that big event to help customers get in first on the actual day. So next time, ASK!

Oh yea, it's hilarious how when anything becomes remotely SUCCESSFUL people are quick to jump on it and hate it. I congratulate Wal-Marts superior power with the Capitalist system. Haters move to China or get in a time-machine and go to Soviet Union.

Except...it is false advertising to offer a deal that will be available on Black Friday only to sell the deal beforehand...

It would have been different if Wal-Mart had advertised it as a Black Friday deal with the ability to also "pre-order"...

I think that Wal-Mart (and many other companies) are losing sight of what Black Friday is all about...it is a ONE DAY shop-a-thon where you can expect good deals with some competition to boot

How is it false advertising? NO ONE knows about it unless you ask, hell a lot of the non-Electronic Dept. Associates had no Fing clue about the tickets either, including me until I asked what was going on with the long lines all night. You just have to ask, and Wal-Mart isn't losing sight what Black Friday is about because we have group meetings every day before we start work and we constantly discussed "Event Day" aka Black Friday way back in October until the last second when it started at 5am SHARP, but I wasn't there (THANK GOD) because it was my weekend off.

AlexT2889 said:

Zidane24 said:

AlexT2889 said:

I work at Wal-Mart as full-time overnight Associate, I don't fall for all the BS that non-informers spew about Wal-Mart since it's a great store to work at.

The whole ticket thing went out at my store for Wal-Marts own personal "pre-Black Friday" 3 weeks ago, we had long lines of customers come in at 12am till around 6am buying tickets for the real Black-Friday. The only way you can know is to ask the damn Associate, don't come in here and complain because you KNOW Black-Friday is around the corner and lots of big stores have deals that go on before that big event to help customers get in first on the actual day. So next time, ASK!

Oh yea, it's hilarious how when anything becomes remotely SUCCESSFUL people are quick to jump on it and hate it. I congratulate Wal-Marts superior power with the Capitalist system. Haters move to China or get in a time-machine and go to Soviet Union.

Except...it is false advertising to offer a deal that will be available on Black Friday only to sell the deal beforehand...

It would have been different if Wal-Mart had advertised it as a Black Friday deal with the ability to also "pre-order"...

I think that Wal-Mart (and many other companies) are losing sight of what Black Friday is all about...it is a ONE DAY shop-a-thon where you can expect good deals with some competition to boot

How is it false advertising? NO ONE knows about it unless you ask, hell a lot of the non-Electronic Dept. Associates had no Fing clue about the tickets either, including me until I asked what was going on with the long lines all night. You just have to ask, and Wal-Mart isn't losing sight what Black Friday is about because we have group meetings every day before we start work and we constantly discussed "Event Day" aka Black Friday way back in October until the last second when it started at 5am SHARP, but I wasn't there (THANK GOD) because it was my weekend off.

Like I said...I am not going to comment further...I apologize if you miss the point...