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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
cut prices without their consent? one cannot cut prices and get goods without some sort of consent.
did they say, something along the lines of "this is the price we'd like to pay for your goods? if you cannot compete we'll find another company that can..."
seems fair to me in a capitalism based system.
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What Wal*Mart did is basically told RubberMaid "This is what your product will sell for, and this is what we will pay." Hence, RubberMaid ending up out and Sterilite in.
This is all fact that I posted awhile ago in here with the newspaper story and I believe, interviews of RubberMaid officials linked.
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Originally Posted by flstf
It's not Republicans or Democrats for that matter who are responsible for the downward trend in retail wages. It is because of the large number of people who endorse these policies by shopping there. The average shopper does not give a darn what the employees are paid, only where they can get items for the lowest price. People vote with their feet and seem to like Wal-Mart's prices and most would probably encourage them to lower wages even more if they could pay less for things.
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True, that is why people need to truly be told and open their eyes to what is happening.
Also, when people are paid less they look for the cheaper prices because they have to out of necessity.
There is no reason on God's green Earth that people who work 40 hour weeks cannot be paid at least $35,000/yr. Perhaps, if we paid more, we wouldn't have to have both parents work, and thus we wouldn't be expecting the schools to babysit, teach morals and raise our kids.
Aw well, keep paying people shit, keep lowering prices and quality (and by lowering quality that means that you end up having to pay more in the long run because the product falls apart faster and then you need to buy a new one). Eventually, even Wal*Mart will be too expensive and people will go to Dollar Generals.
Yes, the inconsequential items are falling and will, but health insurance, medical care, utilities and so on will keep going up. And your dollar will buy less and less no matter how far down those non-essential prices fall.