Failure to Heed Concerns of Workers Playing Role in Walmart’s Poor Sales
Recently, some Wall Street analysts have predicted that big box stores like Walmart will meet their demise.
Why? Not only are customers turning increasingly to online retailers or smaller, more convenient stores—which cut into the market share of big box retailers—but also because business practices like those of Walmart continually disregard the well-being of their workers, which is also bad for business.
Walmart began seeing a real problem with keeping its shelves stocked last year, as they continued to cut more and more hours from their employees’ schedules. Not only does this mean that workers continue to struggle to get enough hours and pay to make ends meet, but also that customers get angry or frustrated and turn elsewhere—which many weren’t shy about expressing on social media with photos of empty shelves, or even expired food.
Walmart workers have been talking about this issue for quite some time now, but that has not stopped America’s largest retailer from continuing to try to put profits above the well-being of the hard-working people they employ.
http://www.ufcw.org/2014/08/04/failure-to-heed-concerns-of-workers-playing-role-in-walmarts-poor-sales/
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members of our society are treated? Considering the wealth created by Walmart and by our entire economy, the workers/members of our society could have a decent wage and standard of living, universal health-care, good nutrition, and the U.S. could be among the top countries in all quality-of-life ranking factors instead at the bottom. But Walmart, like our government, has decided the great bulk of the wealth created will mostly inure to a precious few and the masses can scramble for the precious little that trickles down. In the meanwhile, the quality of life for far too many in our society spirals downward at an accelerating pace. 
