Nickname: myopp

Review: It is amazing how many walmart employees can afford to buy a pc and get online but only complain about walmart when they get online. The internet offers average people multiple ways to earn at least a part time income that would replace the income lost to the pay cap. Your pc is a tool for a better life if you want it to be. But the old adage applies: if you keep doing what you have been doing, you will continue to get what you have been getting. For things to change, you(the walmart associate) have to change.

Date reviewed: Oct 8, 2009 5:10 PM

Nickname: Sherry

Review: I'm mad. My daughter works at wal-mart for 6 months now, she's a college student. She makes 7.70 an hour for cashiering. Hasen't got any raises and some people just got hired as cashiers, starting out at 8.00 hr.Is this discrimination? What can be done? She already talked to the store manager and didn't get any results.

Date reviewed: Aug 7, 2009 2:45 AM

Nickname: Lincoln_CRT

Review: Wal-mart doesn't pay enough! Most of us working there get about $7.20 an Hour here in Nebraska. How in the "hek" do they expect people to live off that? Wal-mart is a huge company, and I'm very sure that they can afford to losen the purse strings a little bit. :)

Date reviewed: Jun 3, 2009 9:18 PM

Nickname: rmcd

Review: Wal-Mart doesn't donate damaged food because the homeless would see it as an opportunity to claim food poisining, and sue the crap out of Wal-Mart. That's just how life works, especially retail. And don't think that all the Targets, K-Marts, Costco's, etc are doing all these great wonderful things and Wal-Mart is the big evil. They all emulate Wal-Mart, because Wal-Mart is the best retailer. I've worked there for eight years, and make a pretty damn good wage. Still, I am a good four years away from reaching my pay cap. And when I do, I will just move on up to some other job.

Date reviewed: Sep 3, 2008 4:42 PM

Nickname: Walgreensmgt

Review: The reason you have to throw away damaged goods is a simple one (wal-mart is not the only retailer by the way) most stores have agreements set up with vendors that they will get credit for damaged goods but the vendor requires that those goods be thrown away to protect themselves from abuse by employees at the store level...you wouldn't want someone damaging a case of tuna just so they can give it to the homless shelter down the street, so don't be so quick to judge wal-mart on this practice it is done by most.

Date reviewed: Jul 31, 2008 10:56 AM

Nickname: Hallmark waste

Review: I am a vendor for Hallmark in Wal-Mart stores. Hallmark also wastes. When we take down Christmas cards, the cards are shipped back, but we throw the envelopes and caption cards in the garbage. Wal-Mart provides no place to recycle paper!!! I probably throw away a cart load of paper after each seasonal change. Wal-Marts big push now is sustainability. Well, throwing thousands of pounds of paper away isn't sustainable. My kids' school has a paper recycling bin, why can't wal-Mart?

Date reviewed: Jul 30, 2008 5:28 AM

Nickname: Hopeless Cause

Review: 16 years and capped out. No increase in three years and no promotions posted. No way to transfer from one division to another either. Forced to take second job and schedule changes weekly without notice. Sam Walton would be ashamed of what his company has become. Our income today with the cost of living is less than it was 5 years ago. Not to mention the constant increases in the cost of our Walmart insurance. When you ask about trying to get promoted no one seems to have any answers. The new associate profile update is a joke. You are supposed to get any email when MIT opens and that never happens. I have a Family to support and wanted to stay with Sams for what I have already invested for retirement. Seems like they are trying to get rid of long term folks to reduce their payroll. NO RAISE IN THREE YEARS give me a break ..Bet Lee Scott still gets his. WalMart needs to show their people what they are made of and raise the cap.

Date reviewed: Jul 7, 2008 9:32 PM

Nickname: Hardworker

Review: I've worked at Walmart now for six months as a Sales Associate. I started off at $8.50 and after three months got a raise to $8.85 an hour. In another six months, I expect another raise to around $9.45 an hour. Work is not "fun". It's not supposed to be. It isn't easy, but it can be rewarding. I've learned something new each day. I've done plenty of unloading, work in the Pet Dept. and have never encountered a situation yet where some dog food has ever spilled out of a bag while unloading it off the truck. If it was, it would probably be thrown into the garbage as some have said, but it wouldn't necessarily be because of official company policy. Most of the people who work in "the back" where stuff is unloaded, work in an unsupervised capacity. If something spills, it often is unclear what official policy is, let alone if there even is one. More often then not, even a manager would react to a situation not based on official company policy, but on his "gut instincts". If any food is wasted, more than likely it is wasted because the people involved feel like it's not worth the effort to do otherwise. This is not a company failing, but a human failing.

Date reviewed: May 31, 2008 6:36 AM

Nickname: 7yr at walmart

Review: I worked there for seven years; I worked as a cart pusher and in frozen food. I got paid more there then most of the other store did but yeah some were higher. They were a good company to me, I got flexible hours for college and personal events, and I was able to save up a great deal of money with their stock purchase incentive of giving us %15 of whatever we invested. Someone said that Wal-Mart wastes dog food and human food if it gets damaged by not donating it. The reason for that is they used to give it way but stopped after getting sued so many times by the people that go the donations. Almost all the time I worked at Wal-Mart the workers and the company feared doing anything that can get them sued. So that?s why nothing that can go bad will ever be donated.

Date reviewed: May 21, 2008 1:06 PM

Nickname: UFCW-Fails

Review: The UFCW does the same thing, however, toprate for them is more along the lines of $2 above minimum wage... =\

Date reviewed: May 7, 2008 12:24 AM