WalMart saved each American household $2,329 in 2004 2846

Gerald

As my convenience store owning friend likes to say, "Wal-mart employs the otherwise unemployable." He's had to let a few people go who were bad workers, and no matter how much effort he put into them, they just weren't getting it. Anyway, these people found jobs at Wal-mart. In that atmosphere, under a corporate training structure, and having more focused jobs (working in the minimart, one has to be pretty dynamic and mulbreastasking, and dealing with the public... his is a rather busy business). He's checked up on them, and they seem to be doing well.

Spot-on. Other than yard work, my first real job was washing dishes. I was paid minimum wage with no benefits, So what? I was a dishwasher. Unbelievably, we hired high school kids for the tourist season for the same job, and some people couldn't hack the simple task of busing tables and washing dishes. I was a high school kid, too... There are a lot of bad workers out there; we certainly did not have time to traing them, so society should thank the Wal-marts of the world for finding a productive place for such people, not only to work, but also to advance and gain experience.