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I'm suprised people haven't really talked more about the employees, yes the hire alot of disabled and other people that it would be tough for them to find jobs and I have to admit that I'm pretty proud of wal-mart doing that. They actually don't start their employees off at that bad of a starting wage, for example I believe the starting pay for cashier type work for someone of young age was around $7.75 in Stillwater MN, and then a Kohls opened up in the same town, they called the manager of the Wal-Mart and asked what their starting pay was..and they where like "oh we'll start them off at $5.15 (minnesota minimum wage). So they aren't exactly evil on the pay scale. The only thing I am really suprised that they don't offer a better employee discount (it's only 10% off) I was running around with a price scanner one day and I couldn't believe how much clothes are marked up and 10% isn't much but it's better than nothing I guess. But if you compared the discount to Best Buys (typically 5% over cost) and face it that it doesn't take much for anybody to be a Best Buy employee that gets that discount and for you that say look they can get all the cool electronics like laptops and other computers and games a 10% discount is sometimes better than 5% over cost. All in all economically wise they aren't that bad the drive the market and hell they have worked to do so when others have had the chance......
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