"Walmart surprises with industry-leading change to wages"
Walmart's surprise is that it is lowering its starting wage by $1 this year.
A 2020 US Government Accountability Office study of data from six states found Walmart was a top employer of Medicaid [healthcare subsidies] enrollees and a top employer of SNAP [food subsidies] recipients.
Walmart's business model relies on corporate welfare while its employees work full time and struggle to pay for food and healthcare.
Employees need to surprise Walmart with a union ASAP.
Rebecca Crosby and Judd Legum offer a list of 50 prominent corporations that have donated $23,273,400 to campaigns and PACs of election deniers since January 6, 2021. "Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including AT&T, Comcast, Walmart, and Microsoft."
🚨New: Dog Food Recall Sparks Warning For Pet Owners
Certain Pedigree Adult Complete Nutrition grilled steak and vegetable flavored dry dog food sold by #Walmart in #Arkansas, #Louisiana, #Oklahoma and #Texas, and online~contains metal pieces
PRODUCT 44 lb. bag PEDIGREE® Adult Complete Nutrition Grilled Steak & Vegetable Flavor Dry Dog Food
This is what you get when you severely underpay your workers. Also affected are #Gap, #Walmart,#Zara, Inditex, Bestseller, #MarksAndSpencer, Primark and Aldi.
#Levi's and #HnM are among top global clothing brands to suffer production halts in #Bangladesh, a garment union leader said Friday, after days of violent protests by workers demanding a near-tripling of their wages. #LaborUnrest
#Walmart berichtet, dass seine Kunden auf #Ozempic weniger Lebensmittel kaufen und die Junk-Food-Vorräte betroffen sind. Niemand fragt sich, warum es in Ordnung ist, dass ein Lebensmittelgeschäft weiß, welche Medikamente seine Kunden einnehmen.
"Walmart got a RW judge to block ICE from cracking down on illegal immigration based on the premise that internal administrative courts are unconstitutional. Conservatives need to decide whether they want a govt."
-M Stoller
Republicans want to dismantle government so there are no rules, laws, regulations... +for even lower taxes. Walmart & other corporations have found ways to get around govt with their high-priced attorneys.
How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet — via @ProPublica
Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting #Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises
"Walmart has a financial incentive to avoid cracking down on [#fraud ]. The company’s financial services business generates hundreds of millions in annual profits."
[USA] Walmart Is Still Putting Ebenezer Scrooge to Shame
Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first-quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps https://jacobin.com/2024/05/walmart-living-wage-medicaid-snap/
After making billions in #TaxDeductible donations to his philanthropy, the owner of #Tesla & SpaceX gave away far less than required in some yrs— & what he did give often supported his #SelfInterests.
Before Mar 2021, #ElonMusk’s charitable foundation never announced any donations to CameronCounty, an impoverished region at the southern tip of TX that is home to his #SpaceX launch site & local ofcls who help regulate it.
At the same time, he runs a #charity w/billions of dollars, the kind of resources that could make a global #impact. But unlike #BillGates, who has deployed his fortune in an effort to improve #healthcare across Africa, or #Walmart’s Walton family, which has spurred change in the American #education system, #Musk’s philanthropy has been haphazard & largely #SelfServing — making him eligible for enormous #TaxBreaks & helping his businesses.
Hey, #Walmart, I was about to buy something from your website, but as soon as I started typing into the search field, you popped up some crap wanting me to subscribe to W+, derailing my attempt to commit commerce. Well, f you and the horse you rode in on. I bought the thing from Amazon, who was supposed to be on time-out this week because they’re horrible, too. But they at least let me finish my search before popping an ad for Prime in my face. #ecommerceHate
This comes as a surprise because
1.) I've had the Rx filed by Walmart off-and-on over the past 20 years or so.
2.) I had no issues with #CVS / no idea that this was "a thing"
Now closer to a WM pharm vs the prev CVS, it made sense to have this month sent here
(Adderall patients are forced through this rigmarole every 30 days).
Currently studying for the #cpacc exam and I found the #legal part surprisingly interesting. This topic was also relevant in a workshop I gave, so here's a couple of law suits that are #accessibility related:
While everyone is up in arms over the prospective #TikTok#Ban, no one seems to be paying attention to #BobbyKotick's open desire to buy a controlling stake off Chinese owners, #bytedance
Yes, THAT Bobby Kotick. See below for a quick reminder. Strangely, this never comes up in conversation.
A cynical sod might even wonder if the TikTok furore is just the US government nobbling a competitor to its native social media dumpster fires.
...And now #Trump's former minion, #SteveMnuchin says he wants to buy #TikTok. This is increasingly reading like a stitch-up masquerading as a moral panic.
"...When Mnuchin was Treasury secretary, the Trump administration brokered a deal in 2020 that would have had U.S. corporations #Oracle and #Walmart take a large stake in TikTok on national security grounds..."