Talk:Walmart

In Fiction

Not sure if this is worthy of being in the article.tashara wuz here.. In the Alien film series the multinational corporation which tries in the first 3 films to capture the alien for it's weapons program is said to have been bought out by Wal-Mart in the special edition of the 4th film.

Maybe there are some other notable mentions in fiction? Certainly there's the South Park episode, currently linked to under the 'Television' section of the article.

Rollbacks and Korea

What about adding coverage of their "rollbacks" as a marketing strategy? How it started etc.

Can Korea be added to Germany in the second paragraph as a country Walmart pulled out of? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.235.251.198 (talk • contribs)

Incorrect date

On this page, the date listed for the date it began trading stock as October 1, 1972, when in fact, it was that same date in 1970. Two years later, it was entered onto the NYSE. I hope this helps!

Logo in Brazil

The caption for the old logo showed in the article says that Brazil still uses it. That is not true nowadays, as you can see in the official brazilian site http://www.walmart.com.br/

Source: http://www.mundodomarketing.com.br/5,10811,walmart-do-brasil-estreia-nova-identidade-visual.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.162.228.1 (talk) 23:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Problem in the in the incorporation and growth section

I just thought that I would point out the problem in the "Incorporation ans Growth" section where it says ". It began trading stock as a publicly held company on October 1, 1972, and was soon listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The first stock split occurred in May 1971 at a market price of $47. By this time, Wal-Mart was operating in five states: Arkansas, Kansas," if you'll notice that it says the company began trading stock as a publicly held company in 1972 .... and then it goes on to say that the first stock split was in 1971? If the company went public in 1972 then how did it split in 1971? Obviously this is a mistake or typo. I read here http://walmartstores.com/aboutus/7603.aspx that they went as a public company in 1970, not 1972 and i have fixed the problem.

Controversy

{{editsemiprotected}} Wal-Mart has been involved in at least two well known cases of Fake blog.

 Not done. Please provide reliable sources. Tim Song (talk) 19:11, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

What the NPOV is going on here?

This puff piece of corporate propaganda, praise by faint damning, is outrageous. Examples include "Walmart stores outside NA are all unionized" with the implication Walmart have chosen this path. No mention of the Canadian incident or the fact that the law demands people have the right to unionise in most countries of the world.

This isn't an implication of the text, but an an inference of the you the reader. The passage doesn't suggest that Walmart's unionization has been voluntary. --Xiaphias (talk) 18:04, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Wal-Mart or Walmart

The spelling should be made consistent throughout the article; switching between one and the other is confusing. Stifle (talk) 14:09, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Great improvement on this article

Woah, it's been a few months (years?) since I'd read this article, and I was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly its material is presented. I kept anticipating the "Criticisms of Walmart" section: generally a cacophony of legitimate concerns mixed with tedious assertions and outlandish allegations. But there is none, since the relevant material is woven in throughout the article. Moreover, the article (as in the last paragraph of the introduction) outlays the central claims of both Walmart's detractors and its supporters in a manner which bears the tone of calm appraisal rather than back-and-forth shouting. That so contentious a subject can belay this evenhanded article is, I think, very encouraging.--Xiaphias (talk) 18:16, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

I completely second Xiaphias's comments. I 'dropped in' a couple of days ago, and was delighted by what i read. The organisation and even-handedness was a very pleasant surprise. Rhyd. (talk) 10:50, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Stereotypes

The Wal-mart article on here mentioned the negative public images the store's policies, status and customer base generates. "Redneck White Trash Hillbilly", "Ghetto Poor Black", "Mexican Hispanic Latino", etc. are synonymous with shopping, working in or hanging out at Wal-Mart. Does the associated stereotypes no matter how negative or exaggerated they may be are pointing out the mass public appeal Wal-Mart has of a variety of people...and it's a better representation of the middle-class, racial diversity and American pop culture than let's say Macy's and in comparison with Sears struggling in the last decade? Another stereotype of Wal-mart was it's "conservative Southern anti-union" polity to indicate it's a GOP-backed Republican big business, except former first lady Hillary Clinton who is a self-acclaimed social liberal Democrat was one of Wal-Mart corporate board executives when she was the then governor's wife in Arkansas back in the 1980s. I noticed the lack of Jewish stereotypes of Wal-Mart, historically there were high-end retail stores known for "Jews shop there" jokes and what about now Asian-Americans in 99 cent stores? + 71.102.3.86 (talk) 07:23, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Walmart's rank - Opening section

Walmart is no longer listed as the worlds largest corporation by revenue. it is now ranked 3rd on the 2009 Fortune Global 500 annual ranking of the world's largest corporations [1]Wallyb132 (talk) 03:22, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Associate's wage

Walmart claims that full-time associates earn an average of $10.78 an hour, but not necessarily every associate. Walmart have a pay level scale in which depending on the job classification is the level of pay you get. Also this pay levels have a starting pay, which is different for each store (depending on average sales, city area etc) for example in some stores in the countryside their starting pay level is mostly minimum wage, but for a store in a big city could reach a starting pay of $10 (in Pennsylvania a the starting pay for a Walmart store in Lancaster is $7.90 but in Philadelphia is $9.00) and then you get an additional $0.20 per level for a maximum level of 5. Cart pushers, maintenance are level 1, People Greeters are level 2, Cashiers, Stockers, Receiving are level 3, Sporting Goods and Electronics are level 4 and Tire and Lube service and Deli are level 5. Levels 6-7 are for department managers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.173.160.248 (talk) 16:08, 16 November 2009 (UTC)