Walmart - Why They're Hated
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Walmart has received a lot of criticism and hatred over the years. This video attempts to explain some of the biggest reasons behind it.
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I was at Walmart Sunday, grabbing some items for this weekened. I asked my cashier how he was doing. His non-energetic response. "I'm working at Wal-Mart, so... You know" Kind of sums up the worker experience.
If you were in their shoes then you would know. Start off watching them walmart skits from killakaytv or any other youtuber that does walmart skits and the reality sets in for you from their prospective.
Weekend*
That's how i felt in the army, everyone in the army is depressed, some to the point of unaliving themselves in the barracks.
Living the dream eh
It doesn't really seem like the local employees feel that bad. Maybe, I just don't notice it.
I used to work for Walmart. You really get a feeling that management and corporate hate the employees for costing them money. It was so bad at one point that our store has a 126% turnover rate
Kroger is worse, believe me I work there. Our store turnover was 138% with the average wage of $12 an hour.
I know the feeling! Bloomington and Eden Prairie, MN were two stores in Minnesota that I worked at. Take my advice - stay as far away from them as possible! They treated me and many other employees like total $hit! I can't believe the managers can even live with themselves! There are Nazi prison guards who treated prisoners better than they treated us as employees!
i heard a legend of a store that had 1000% turnover rate. Like no joke people would quit within days of getting hired
@@kkgaming4669 I worked at kroger for like 3 days before I just never went back because they wanted me to bend over backwards in the produce department for 9 dollars an hour... insanity.
Having worked at both, I would say kroger is worse. Walmart has a lot of rules it's easy to coast through the training and work whilst not talking to anyone, whereas with kroger the stores were smaller and more tightly knit. The night shift manager I worked for was an alcoholic felon who was protected by the other managers. You even dare saying you found an empty fireball bottle somewhere and you'd be retaliated against by every manager there he was friends with. He made the entire team quit on one day together, leaving them without a stocking team. That guy still works there and I still see his car in the parking lot 7 years later. The lengths they've gone to protect him at the expense of turnover is quite sickening.
If I had to describe the “vibe” of Walmart (at least ones I’ve been to), is that you get the feeling that literally everyone in the store (both employees and customers) don’t want to be there. It’s also probably the only place where all the stereotypes match up perfectly with reality.
Mostly agree. I buy my groceries from a Walmart Neighborhood Market less than a mile from my home and the shoppers and workers are really kind and friendly. Rarely do I see anyone that is not. (I realize I am very lucky because I’ve been in many 💩 Walmarts)
They take advantage of illegal immigrants by lying that their prices are cheapest
Oh, there are plenty of places where the stereotypes match up to reality. That's why stereotypes exist in the first place.
I was saying in the comments, it's like going to the DMV.
In all fairness, Aldi has the exact same vibe. No one is happy to be there, but they have to be there because it is what they can afford.
My favorite part of Walmart is how they used to have the 35 registers up front but only 4 were ever open at a time, but now they have 35 self-checkout station up front and only 6 of those are open at a time. They can't even be bothered to allow us to do it ourselves.
The Walmart near me has 2 huge sections of self-checkout and one is ALWAYS roped off and closed and the other ALWAYS has a line of 15+ people
Yep same with mine
Agree, don’t go there much, misc stuff like car cleaning stuff, Xmas lights, maybe some underwear, socks, tshirts, I only go early in morning like by 8am.
Not bad then
And they have more employees up front then ever before with just the self checkouts. Coming from a Walmart employee.
Make it make sense! lol
And the one near me has closed all their self-checkouts and now I have to stand in a long line for a cashier. I like the self-checkouts as I can complete my transaction much faster.
I worked at Walmart for a bit in 2009. A lot of the really bad scandals were pretty fresh at that point, so the store I worked in was extremely strict about certain policies, like making sure to take your lunch breaks. Even so, it was a really demoralizing place to work. It was so clear that the company cared more about avoiding more lawsuits than any of the humans involved.
@@middlemuse wal mart
Is self insured
Worked for them for 16 years. The store i worked at was short handed the entire time i worked there. After 16 years, me and all the other department managers were told to either start over at the bottom with entry level pay or take a check and leave. I took the check and i hate them to this day.
Wow, that's the worst way to get anyone to stay. They seriously bank off people who genuinely have no skills outside of the basic stuff retail asks you to do, and those who live paycheck to paycheck
How much was the check
@@bigpigeongamingnot enough to be fair considering how rich and selfish they are.
That doesn’t sound legal..
@@alexjackson936Why not? So long as it has nothing to do with Race, sex or religion. Companies can fire you for ANY and NO reason at all.
In rural America it has become the only choice for clothing and furniture unless you count Dollar General or Amazon.
By design, both are horrible to workers and society
I've seen less and less Dollar Generals carry clothing on top of that. I was a keyholder for one in the middle of covid and we did away with our clothing section when they renovated our store.
And electronics.
That's what the people wanted, so that's what they got.
i live in a major city but my mom is from a town with less than 1000 population and we went back for a wedding earlier this year. there was a dollar general every mile and the walmart was always packed
Thirty plus cashier aisles, four cashiers maximum,even during the Christmas season...enough said.
Ordering online is a great way to avoid any nonsense
@@mrtree1368that’s what my wife and I do anymore. And have the stuff delivered when we don’t want to go inside.
This is a common complaint with most big box retailers... and one that is heard less and less while cashiers are getting replaced with automated checkouts. And now the complaint has been "why am I doing all the work myself for no pay?"
My local Walmart is now restaffing the human register lines. Nearly all 20ish of them were actually open when I was there a couple days ago. The wait for a cashier was actually very good. It has made it much more pleasant to shop there, which is sad because it should have just always been this way. On the other hand, I was at a Sam's today which now has no human cashiers. You must use the app or self checkout. It was extremely busy but most people just use the app so there were no lines. Just random people standing around scanning stuff in their own carts.
@@Starcrash6984Most of the self checkouts I encounter don't work. Constantly have to rescan or the sensors think I took something I didn't scan. Always have to wait for the one employee watching multiple lanes get around to me after having to reset others scanners. More trouble than they're worth!
I was working as a newspaper reporter in the early 2000s in the midwest in a small town where there was a Walmart, and one day I drove by and noticed a crew of Walmart employees in the parking lot adjacent to their garden center with push brooms and hoses hosing off all of the granular remains of lawn fertilizer / weed killer from torn / leaking bags into open ditches surrounding the parking lot. I had just done a story about high nitrogen levels in the town's wells and wondered if this could be adding to the problem. The next day I had just started working on the story at the newspaper and I got called down to the publisher's office and was told to immediately stop working on the story. When I asked why I was told that Walmart (the newspaper's biggest advertiser) had gotten wind of the story and called my publisher and threatened to pull all of its ads if I proceeded working on the strory, so the story had to be killed.
This is my shocked face: 😑
Walmart acts like they don't even need customers anymore.
It's not even a stereotype that most of their customers are lower income families and... Indians. Yes, I am Indian, and we have a reputation for being very cheap, even if we have money. I grew up in a family with money, and vividly remember learning about lower society by the regular trips to Wal-mart. It also tends to attract shoplifters, so you have to ask an employee to unlock a case if you want effing shaving cream, and they'll give you attitude in the process.
That is putting it mildly.
If this isn’t the truest statement about Walmart‼️the atmosphere wreaks of this, “you need us!” Kind of energy. Walmart also treats its customers the exact same way it treats its employees… like garbage💯
Exactly.
Which is why I do not shop there.
My parents both worked at Kmart for 25+ years each. My dad’s store had a Walmart go in next door in the early 2000s and one of his coworkers left to go work there. She came back the next week and told the Kmart staff that their morning meetings consisted of pep sessions where management claimed their mission was to put the Kmart next door out of business and wanted the employees to cheer for that.
Kmart was a big store but they played nice in the community and referred people to other local stores for stuff they didn’t have. Walmart is just plain dirty.
same thing at a wally I worked at in Overland Park 30-some years ago, K-Mart's gone, but that wally is still there. my manager's name was Garth, FFS... before I'd heard of Brooks.
Kmart was just as shitty
@ it absolutely wasn’t. Place was a beacon of quality and value in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Once Lampert took over it was junk.
Well Garth Brooks actual first name is Troyal.
I worked for Kmart also in the 1990s. I was there to witness that company basically commit retail suicide. It killed itself off with bad policies and business practices. Customers just quit going there. Not that anyone really liked Walmart either, but at least at the time they had people working there. Kmart in 1999 looked more like retail stores today look, but in a time back when customer service was actually important.
Walmart used to sell LIVE FISH for aquariums. Sadly they were neglected and not cared for properly at all. I remember looking at the fish tanks one time and there were 40 DEAD FISH and it STUNK up the pet section! Thankfully they stopped selling live pet fish.
No, no they haven't...
@docreid7268 it takes awhile but yea, on remodels are getting rid of the aquarium. So they are getting away from it thankfully.
Frogs too. I had one long ago.
I remember those days. They sold feeder mice and rats for a while, too.
It's how Walmart can't be perfect like the raved pet stores like Petsmart or Petco which have employees to take care of every fish and live animal that is up for sale. In my experience, I went to both stores ( Petco and Petsmart) and didn't see any dead fish there. They mostly hired people with obsessions in animal care and animal sciences. Walmart on the other side, just do it for the money.
“This effort is no longer profitable!” - Walmart when it pulls out of a rural town after killing all the small businesses
If it wasn’t them it would be some other retailers (like Dollar Stores).
Better competition isn’t a bad thing
As someone who lives in a rural town wal mart was a lifesaver for the vast majority of us. Having said that i totally get why they're hated so much
Wish there was more viable competition. Biggest issue that any competition they had or that ever pops up suffers from bad management.
If there were any small businesses to destroy in the first place
I worked at Walmart from 2006-2014. It’s a plus and minus. There were times I really hated Walmart, and other times I loved it. The thing is, the issue is that the experience I had was that 90% of my customers treated me and my fellow associates terribly. It didn’t help that my job was in Customer Service so I took in returns and most of my customers weren’t happy with their purchases and I could write a book with all the crazy things that happened there. But when people are so toxic to you for enforcing policy, it changes you. When I first took the job, I was pleasant and kind. Over time I felt myself turning more cynical and bitter and I wasn’t happy, so I chose to leave. Everything you said in this video I can absolutely verify, except my only addition would be that the customer experience to associates and other customers absolutely impact the experience at Walmart too.
I got my wisdom teeth out in 2020. During the recovery, I binged your channel like crazy. Cool to see that you're still around
Use to work at Walmart something I will never do again. My reason behind this.
1. Was told I get a point (3 points = being fired) if I'm more than 5 min over the time I was supposed to clock out ( because they dont want to pay overtime)
2. Would constantly get pulled to other side of store to do things then get yelled at when my section wasn't up to par because the managers were not on the same page this was a daily thing
3. I made 11 an hour working in lawn and garden haveing to both stock and cashier with no a/c ( not a big issue) while the people who were solely cashiers inside made 12 and didn't have to do anything else. where ever I got pulled to help was also made at least a dollar more than I did.
4. My store manager tried to get Me to quit college by telling me that he makes way more money than I will with my degree path ( big whoop I'm becoming a teacher) yet I still made 11 an hour...
Personally I put more care and did more there than most of the eympolees did and got nothing but yelled at for not doing enough. It was a tired cycle
Report them to Labor Department
yeah, they love to use their employees up
I got fired for reporting the automotive lifts to OSHA... f that place, it was a hell hole.
Exactly what happened for me working there…..😂🤦🏾♂️
I feel you. I’ve been there, it sucks.
As a German it still gives me some small pride that Walmart came to Germany, got their asses handed to them, lost a couple billion dollars and left in shame.
Danke
You stay in Germany with your small pride, and I'll stay in the USA.
As an American who is tired of these monopolistic companies, I'm prideful that happened, too.
culture shock is real
So based.
I worked at Walmart for a couple months while I was working on becoming an EMT. Horrible place. No training, close to no useful communication and orders on what I was supposed to be doing, half the equipment just didn't work, and the managers clearly had favorites who could get away with anything (or rather, doing nothing) while randomly yelling at those who were just trying to do their jobs.
Absolutely true
I used to be a sales manager for a steak and seafood distribution company and my clients were Walmarts. I can comfortably say that the most depressing place on earth is a Walmart break room. You’d find happier people in a prison death row.
So true. You get to call out for a maximum of 6 days your first 5 years or you start taking points and then get fired. Have a manager that is out for blood against me. Incredibly egotistical, disrespectful, and if you are not a favorite or wage slave, he'll find any reason to write you up. Got written up for using the bathroom after my break time ended, and I'm 90% sure I'm getting another for having a 15 second conversation with someone walking by, and he stared at me the whole time. Didn't say anything to the other person, just me and said he'll get with my team lead to find out what to do with me. Genuinely most stressful job I ever got for a retail job. 100% quitting if I get pulled into the office tomorrow and he writes me up.
I was a security guard for Walmart's, not an employee, they were our client. What a zoo! Customers having fistfights over parking spaces, people who hike literal miles up and down aisles, have to have the closest space to the door! People who won't bother to put on clothing, and wonder why they can't come in! Tailgate parties in the parking lot, with alcohol! Where America's finest come out to be! I felt like a Roman Leigionaire, in the Mideast!
@@markcollins2666 I love how we both felt the need to clarify that we worked at Walmarts but we didn’t work FOR Walmart. 😆 I’m sorry but I couldn’t be a Walmart employee unless I was truly desperate and had zero other options.
Former district manager for Walmart here. You know you work for a shitty company when part of the new hire orientation material are instructions on how to apply for specific government assistance from the local, state, and federal governments because you know your wage is super low. It's literally, "Hey, we're going to pay you a shitty wage here, but don't fret! Here's how to apply for various government aid!"
It also means the taxpayer is subsidising these huge corporations by having their employees claim government benefits yet nobody bats an eyelid
@@Kanbei11 Oh absolutely. Walmart also received a nice permanent tax break under Trump's tax bill in 2017. It is win-win for Walmart, but lose for Walmart line level employees.
@@Kanbei11And people will blame those on government assistance for using it instead of the corporations that don't pay enough.
How much do you think some teenager needs to make to stare into their phone their entire shift?
@@rickshelton1955 who'd have thought underpaid staff don't care about their job?
Any full time job should be enough to afford a warm place to live and enough food on your plate to have a balanced diet.
Every time Walmart loses a lawsuit an angel gains its wings.
😂
I was in Germany when Walmart bought WertKauf. I spoke to an American executive that was hired to change the chain into Walmart. He said that he told a store manager that they would meet on a Monday morning and complete a full inventory of the store. Monday came and the manager was gone, ON VACATION - FOR 6 WEEKS!!! German labor laws were on the manager's side. I heard that Walmart left Germany a few years later.
Hard to run a company with abusive tactics when a country outlaws abusing your employees.
Fun fact Walmart and Amazon are the biggest welfare queens in the US, because they both underpay their workers so drastically many of their employees qualify for food stamps and assisted housing.
They are leeches on local economies and government welfare.
Company Man is a good example of how school presentations should be
I've never met anybody who sincerely enjoys working for Walmart.
Same for Amazon.
Ik people who left Walmart and actually liked Amazon
They’re truck driver are pretty happy
In my many years of retail, the people you work with can be fantastic. The actual store is a shitshow.
i worked there just under 11 years and i didnt HATE it there.
there are some policies i feel are dumb. but i can see why they have it.
worst thing is they expect people to work everything in less time and not allow enough time to take care of overstock.
I meant Amazon is massive and is branched out. I’m sure AWS employees are fine.
As the son of a 30 year (now retired) Walmart Manager I can say without doubt that Walmart died the day Sam Walton died. My dad had met Sam multiple times and always spoke so highly of him and Sam’s treatment of employees. Even when I was young Walmart had a family-friendly atmosphere and they made sure to treat employees and customers with the utmost respect. There were company parties, huge charity events held throughout the year, and even local concerts held in the parking lots (this was the 90’s version of Walmart, speaking from personal experience.)
I was a child when Walmart (in my eyes) hit its peak. Now all I see is puppet’d corpse of what it used to be. I even worked for the company myself for 2 years right after my dad retired and the stress, lack of respect or care for my well-being pushed me over the edge to quit. Might sound dramatic when I say that job left me traumatized but I’ve since moved on and made a pact with myself to never go back even if I was below rock-bottom in life.
I’m a graduate of the Sam Walton school of Business at the University of Arkansas. While I think Sam was certainly prudent and I do not like his style of competition. I think what has made it grow out of hand is the fact that the company is primarily owned and managed by his children. They are kind of the perfect example of the modern American aristocrat structure. All those kids had to do was come out of the ball sack of Sam Walton, and they were granted the permission of running the most powerful company in the world or at least arguably one of the most powerful companies in the world… that’s an issue. Those kids know nothing of what it is like to grow up in the real world, and they frankly have no concept of the day-to-day life of the vast majority of their employees. that lack of empathy leads to callousness, low wages, and a general lack of giving a shit as long as your bottom line is met. money and greed are the source of all evil
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As someone who worked for Walmart for nearly two years, my experience there was the worst job of my life. When I finally quit I felt like the weight of the world has been lifting off my shoulders. Walmart always finds ways to make up for any type of increase, I.e. playing more hourly but cutting the number of hours an employee works. Almost everyone at my Walmart works a second job because Walmart did not pay enough.
Everyone is depressed there, better to work at a prison
@@Nicholas-f5 Hell, it's better to work at any union job.
@@Nicholas-f5it basically is prison
Theres an entire episode of South Park lampooning why people hate Walmart and it hits every point you mentioned in this video lol
Something Walmart This Way Comes
I really can't wrap my head around why anyone would shop there. The regional supermarkets have fresher, better quality products.
yeah, they burn down Walmart and the small local store grows in size and becomes just as bad as Walmart was
You mention Walmart moving into small communities which causes less traffic to local businesses and stores, potentially putting them under. No mention however of when Walmart just decides to up and out of that same community, leaving them now with nothing as they killed all other competition. Can really murder a village in the middle of nowhere.
Before Walmart, my community was a food desert. If Walmart leaves, it will once again become a food desert. But it is built on land leased to it by the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, so we *should* get sufficient notice if/when Walmart intends to vacate.
Sounds like they almost become a company town, of sorts - the one thing sustaining the entire local economy of a small place
I used to work at Walmart. A couple of assistant managers were chill, but the majority of them kept flexing their 2 college degrees & saying that we weren't on process, while simultaneously refusing to help us get back on track.
In the late 1990's, I had started working at Wal-Mart (unloading freight) for $11/hr ($21.16/hr, in 2024 dollars) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Also, monthly bonuses were paid ($50 [roughly $100 in today's money]) to the top 2 cashiers who had the most customers/hour (weekly average). I had also worked at the one in Duluth, Georgia and enjoyed it.
It sounds like Wal-Mart has REALLY gone downhill over the last 25 years.
Paying your employees so little that they require food stamps which are then spent at your store is such a massive overlooked scandal
And as a former employee the employee discount doesn’t even cover food.
Working so little that you can't afford food in a time of such opportunity everywhere is a MASSIVEly OVERLOOKED SCANDAL. It's so easy to make 6 figures today that it causes cry baby commies look foolish. Try harder if you want more.
I know that at one time upon hiring a new employee,the HR Manager would provide State and/or Federal documents to new hires to inform and assist them in applying for public assistance because they knew that they weren’t paying the employee enough to survive without government benefits.
It's a type of Corporate Welfare.
Wasn't that what the song "sixteen tons" was about?
I can’t think of anyone who “likes” walmart they just go there cause its there.
That and because theres not really much of an alternative in many places.
I like Walmart. They have a bigger selection than any other grocery store, and is cheaper than almost everyone (except maybe some dollar stores).
If I hate something, I'm not going to even come near it much less spend money on it.
The only reason walmart exists in my town is to tell stuff that isnt at other stores.
It’s cos their 🥛 and 🥚 are cheaper than Food4Less.
Former Walmart worker here, the main reason workers hate it there is because they literally make you do everything or add on work for the same pay. I worked as a cashier and I’ve helped out with carts the online department and even being the guy with the keys in the pharmacy section. Hell sometimes they made me watch over the front when I wasn’t even a team lead (their dumb way of calling their people a manager)
I work in OPD and I’m sorry you were subjected to such a fate lol. It makes so much money for some locations that they will do literally anything to keep it going, including pulling people from their duties and forcing them to push a cart(often getting underpaid for it too). Everyone hates us and I understand why
Would be interesting to see something like this with Dollar General...
I have been waiting for this video for a while. Ive worked for Walmart over 20 years now, and the company deserves its reputation for sure. I’m lucky in that my store has good management and we have the reputation of being “the good Walmart”, but that isn’t most stores by far.
Walmart is one of those companies where you never “go to”, but instead “end up at”. No one involved is having a good time expect the Walton family
ok i like my walmart.
@@vaderladyl same here. I like it.
It's definitely the employee treatment. The amount of times I've had to go to the government for things like being told we can't use the bathroom because it's too busy or skip lunch because there's not enough people. Heck I know people who've been fried for having a heart attack mid shift from the crazy work load and long forced hours. The place has driven every other job in the area out so you kind of have to deal with it. It's either fast food or one of the 2 local Walmarts.
WM is evil
Their anti-union behavior isn't helping either.
@@kibble-netIt really isn't, and in right-to-work states like mine that is a problem. You have absolutely no job security and can be fired for any reason, and as long as it didn't violate federal laws you can't do anything about it.
What are the chances I get this notification as I walk out of a Walmart
Pretty good, all things considered
Praying for you 🙏🏼😁😂
did you hate it?
same here lol
Nasty
My issue is the checkout experience. 45 checkout aisles and 2 cashiers working and 1 of those is on break. Or, that they've replaced 75% of those aisles with self checkouts and half of those are roped off so you can't use them. Self checkout should have only replaced the "express" lines. Don't want to see someone doing sefl checkout with a week's worth of groceries for a family of 4.
I worked at a Walmart in the back room full time during a summer in college and I actually really enjoyed it. It was a rural area and it was paying better than anything else around other than waiting in a restaurant. Like any job, I think it just comes down to whoever your supervisor is and who you work with. However, as a whole, I can tell that this experience is definitely a rare one! Just by visiting various walmarts in other areas I can tell that they aren’t treated super well which is unfortunate
We have to stop giving companies credit for “creating jobs” when the wages are not livable in damn near any position and they treat the employee like shit.
Fuck walmart.
Question. Why is it a company's job to provide a living for a person? A "living wage" is anti free market commie speak. A free market allows a person to work harder, develop skills and become more valuable in order to get more $. Or just complain and remain at the bottom of the socioeconomic all the while voting for commie free stuff which kills the actual freedom others who are working harder.
Good point. Big companies exist only to serve themselves and not their employees and customers when it’s should be all three.
They pay their workers low enough to allow them to get government assistance and then take that money when their employees most likely end up doing their grocery shopping there.
I work there and they treat me very well. Who told you they treat employees like shit?
@@Bobbyswobin piss poor bait, try harder next time
I remember having a conversation with an acquaintance who was upset that Walmart was driving out the small businesses, but confessed she hadn't shopped at any of those small businesses in years because they can't match Walmart's prices.
Back in 1999 in college I interviewed for an IT job at Corporate Headquarters in Bentonville Arkansas. The recruiter said expect to work 50-55 hours on average with great potential growth...
????
No Thanks.......I got a Federal related job for the same pay.
god damn when even the corportate jobs suck that's a problem. I hear their truckers make good pay though, can someone confirm that?
@@Bishounen I'm pretty sure basically any trucker gets really good pay, but they get treated like shit
The US Federal Government is the best place to work.
I shop at Walmart due solely to the fact I can buy enough keep me alive for $35 a week...
I’m a person that puts one star at the register on every visit. They have the worst produce, everything feels so sterile/cold and manufactured, the employees ignore everyone, and it’s hard to navigate many of the aisles when they have pallets and boxes all over the place.
We live in a rural town where there were fears that when Walmart came in, the local businesses went out. The first casualty was K-Mart; the second was Albertsons. Local companies actually ramped up their game and are giving Walmart a run for their money. One small grocery store routinely stocks better quality for comparable if not lower prices than Walmart. It can be done if owners are willing to forego sky-high profits for lower but steady profits-say Walmart charges $2.98 for a gallon of milk. Many owners will charge $5.00 a gallon for the same stuff, betting that people won’t want to travel 10 miles to the nearest Walmart. Our little store charges $3.09 for that same gallon, guaranteeing that people won’t drive 10 miles to Walmart.
All owners don’t have the option given that grocers have some of of the thinnest margins of any industry.
I used to work at Kmart in the 1990s. My town actually had Walmart first before Kmart, coming in '93 and '95 respectively. Before that we had stuff like Ames, Jamesway, and Hills and other now long defunct discount stores. Our Kmart was actually very competitive with Walmart for several years, up until about 1999, then Kmart basically just killed itself. We had hardly anyone working there and half our sale items were usually out of stock. People quit going there. I was in their management training at the time and saw the writing on the wall, so I quit and went back and completed my education and got the heck out of retail completely.
I pass a walmart to shop at Aldi and I drive even further for a more complete shopping experience.
The city that I live in has banned Walmart from opening up any stores in the city.
New York City? 🤔
NEW YORK, NEW YORK!
You live in a shockingly stupid town.
Is it Yorba Linda, California?
Because your city sucks
I worked at Walmart for 3 years before quitting. It was miserable and I felt a weight lift off my shoulders when I hit the parking lot.
1) They put unbelievable pressure to get things done when you already have a stacked schedule. None of my team leads bothered to help me, but were fine yelling at me to get tasks done all by myself. I worked dairy/meat department.
2) They hire incompetent people as team leads/managers. Seen various people quit because of poor treatment. Store managers always needed my help with some task, yet I got yelled at (when alone on my shift) if the milk/eggs weren’t filled up. Our department got blamed for numerous problems, when it was THEM who were causing the problems. 🤦🏾♂️
yeah man I totally get that, dairy/frozen department is especially stressful, especially keeping up with the egss, milk and creamers being stocked, then vizpick, skids, oh and dont forget claims, the harder working employees dont seem to get enough help at times and it’s just annoying. 😅
It’s so weird how their reputation is s different from the Canada to the US, in Canada, Walmart isn’t even considered that much cheap.
I worked at Walmart for 18 years (2003-2021). The main thing I remember changing the most is emphasis on customer service. When I started, management was big on "going the extra mile" for customers. Since we weren't allowed to accept tips, we were encouraged to tell customers to let management know if someone gave them great customer service. In my early years there, management ALWAYS came back to me to compliment me about the customer feedback. Sure, it didn't pay for my lunch, but it was nice to get the acknowledgement. It definitely changed over the years to the point where management never talked about "going the extra mile" and also NEVER came back to mention good customer feedback. I had customers approach me and ask if I got a day off or something because of their feedback, and I'd tell them management never even mentioned it. It was still nice to be helpful to customers, but it was clear that management didn't care one bit.
Also, when I left I was making less than $13 an hour.
I was a Walmart stocker for several months. My experience is summed up by managers contradicting each other, prioritization of one part of the store over another (namely, my part was gradually neglected for the grocery side) and impossible requests.
It’s always, “by yourself, do this amount of labor with this amount of product you can never stock in time”. It was just impossible, it always is. Leads snapping at me due to being disgruntled, other leads being uncaring about literal store theft or problems I’d approach them with.. basically it’s always about maintaining the status quo and little else.
I worked in asset protection. The team leads would ignore theft. I remember catching a woman stealing makeup. She had over 100 cosmetic items. I called the team lead and the undercover shopper neither picked up the phone. The lady I caught stealing waited 30mins for an Uber. There was another time I caught a middle aged man giving his information to underage girls. He was giving out cards with his address and phone number on it. One the undercover shopper threw it in the trash instead of giving it to the police. Constantly being yelled at and harassed by team leads and coaches.
If you ever walk into Walmart you’ll notice none of the employees are smiling. You can tell they hate it there. Walmart was my first job and I remember looking like they do when I was at work
Facts bro. I was pretty happy to get a higher pay job than my last one and going to college. I never realized how depressed and soul drained I am until this sweet older lady said "Did I do something to you?" I replied"No of course not, you're always pleasant to talk to." And she said "Oh, it's just you used to smile and joke around until lately." Was absolutely a sucker punch realization that this job literally makes you depressed and feel powerless when you clock out.
Walmart contributed to wiping out Kmart when they expanded across the country into Kmart territory. When Walmart came to town, my local Kmart began losing customers
Probably because of KMarts bad management.
Yeah, K-Mart put themselves out of business; the worst I ever experienced at a Walmart was actually pleasant compared to the best I ever got at K-Mart.
Kmart killed themselves even if Walmart didn't come but a Target did the same thing would've happened because I remember going to Kmart and it always looked like a tornado went through the store
I always felt sad for KMart...they just could never get it right.
The store was uncomfortable to shop in, messy but also not maintained to give you a pleasant experience.
And then....K Mart......bought Sears due to a hedge fund type exploitation ownership that couldn't care less about employees and customers.
K mart was carried by little ceasers in the store
I remember when I got a pair of sneakers at Walmart for $3.00. I remember because i got them last week on clearance. F the haters, cheapskates like me are able to survive by shopping around for deals.
Topic aside, I don't know why this channel always bring me so much comfort. I reckon is the reliable format of narration and editing.
I recently got fired from Walmart for “poor performance” after getting verbally harassed by a now former coworker 3 separate times over the course of 7 months; the now former coworker had been there much longer than I had and was much more experienced. That was the real reason they fired me; they wanted to keep him instead. I had not been told anything about my work performance since the first month I was hired. I came in early and clocked in on time and left on time I was scheduled to do so. Went on my breaks when I was supposed to do so as well. Went above and beyond and would make sure to clear out the giant piles of cardboard before I left on my way out dozens of times (that stopped after the second verbal harassment event occurred; yes I did tell a supervisor each and every time. The third time had occurred the day before I was fired. I was walked out the next night just two hours left in my shift. I hadn’t said a single word to them after they told me I was terminated).
Report them to the labor department
that kind of trouble is typical to most work places…
I also got fired for a similar reason. They want to keep the people who have been there, even when those people are horrible at their jobs.
Labor department, and company pays unemployment for abusive termination. Document any paper trails they failed follow ups
DON't buy this one for a second. Everyone who gets fired blames someone else while acting like they were the greatest employee to ever work. Always BS.
One of the biggest reasons I despise Walmart is honestly the customer base. I can feel my blood pressure rising as soon as I turn into the parking lot. There’s definitely a certain stereotype about the “people of Walmart” that rings true for a lot of their stores.
I like going to the People of Walmart website every so often for a good laugh. Though I have yet to see anyone like the people featured when I happen to go to my local Walmart.
yes. i have a theory that the circus is less of a popular attraction because most people you would traditionally find in a circus are at walmart shopping. great for people watching
The Costco nation is a serious contender to the Walmart People.
Holy crap, he finally did it. It's only been in his intro for.... Forever.
I'll tell you why I hate Walmart from this week. I needed new tires on my truck, and Walmart had the cheapest prices for tires + installation by a long shot. Bought my tires and set up an appointment. It was cancelled. Hmm, that's odd. I bought the tires a second time and set up another appointment. It was also cancelled. I contacted their support and after a long wait I got someone and they couldn't tell me why my order got cancelled cause the tires were in stock and they promised me it wouldn't get cancelled again, so I purchased the tires a third time and - you guessed it - it got cancelled. I tried calling the store manager and the tire center and the phone just rang endlessly. So I gave up and spent literally $400 more for the next cheapest place in town
This I believe.
They also treat their customers like thieves; checking the receipts as you walk out, refusing returns, security barriers as you walk in.. it truly feels like the ghetto of shopping stores.
Blame the residents of that neighborhood. My store doesn't have barriers
You can just walk right by the receipt checkers btw. According to their own rules due to liability they can’t actually stop you unless they confirmed you stole something 3 different ways. They just operate on passive compliance. I just smile, tell them to have a nice day and keep walking. FOH checking receipts
@@SalWare686 You can for sure, but is still feels confrontational and gross. It's why I stopped shopping there. One of the checkers touched me as I walked by as if to try and stop me. I just kept going, but that was the last straw.
I once had my nearby store refuse a return. So I went to another store south of the county and they accepted my return, no further questions. Some locations are being too extra.
in my area they just had to check. too many just push carts of good out without paying them. I blame the neighborhood, not the store.
I work at Walmart i make 16.60 after 16 years of employment. Its soul crushing. Now working at the same place for 16 years has made me unemployable anywhere else. I've applied to around 30 different jobs in the past year and haven't had one call back.
Be persistent and call those companies back, you might have made the first move by applying, now it's up to you to bother the shit out of them so they hire you 😉
@BleachDemon707
I have
I don’t think you’re having that problem because of your work history at Walmart. I’m dealing with the same bullshit, and so is nearly everyone I know. It’s just impossible to get a job in general right now.
if it makes you feel any better, I'm in a professional/tech career and job hunting is just as awful. I've sent out 30-40 resumes this past month with only 1 response. And I think I'm very lucky to even have gotten that. Keep at it, I hope better things are ahead for you.
@johnchedsey1306
Same👏
My mother has worked there for decades. Incredibly nice woman, but the company is absolutely wrecking her happiness. She always has trouble sleeping on her day off because, she knows when she wakes up, she's going to Walmart.
I've been desperately trying to get her to quit and work at a Kroger run company. And while Kroger sucks too... it's no Walmart.
I worked at Home Depot and really enjoyed it
Walfarts are lazy and are run by horrible managers that are the worse people imaginable.
I did not work at a Walfart, but I was a vendor for one in Ontario. They expected me to come back and fill the shelves every single time. It was half empty and I lived in one town over. They would not fill their own bloody shelves with the product that they purchased.
I refused to comply with their idiotic requests and so did my company. I had to go to another Walmart because I got harassed at this Walmart at Christmas while during my Christmas shopping and they were following me and DEMANDING that I fill their shelves. I turned around and said get one of your employees to do it as it is part of their job to keep the shelves full when I am not assigned to work. And I am not the only one vendor that can say the exact same story. Almost every single vendor company that works for Walmart in Canada and the states all hate Walmart because they absolutely refuse to do anything.
A Vendor job is to fill the shelves at their assigned stores, a certain amount of times per day. But Walmart feels that they should be able to call a vendor at any time of the day to fill their shelves instead of getting one of their employees to do it.
Walfart can disappear into dust and I honestly wouldn’t give a single duck fart about it. I would say good riddance to a horrible company with horrible management and horrible practices.
I worked at Walmart for a summer while I was in college. The moment I told them I was going back to college in 3 weeks, they fired me. I didn’t care because I had already saved up enough money to buy the new laptop I wanted, which I ordered that day. However, the next day they literally withdrew the previous pay period’s paycheck out of my bank account. I called them to ask wtf happened, and they said they would pay it back to me with my final paycheck, which would be mailed to me or I could pick it up. So they fired me, and took money out of my bank account without notice just so they could pay it to me again with a paper check, all while I had a big purchase processing.
Aww.... I miss Woolworth's
I miss eating at their instore cafes back in the days of my youth.
@@fumanpoo4725 Alway used to beg my mom for a soft pretzel and a red slushie... :)
I hadn't remembered that until now! My grandparents used to take me there when I was a kid.
I go to Walmart when I don't want to pay the 'Target tax'.
I don't hate Walmart. I just get in, do my shopping. self check out and leave.
Same here!👍
What is the "Target tax"?
@@sabrinashelton1997 Target is more expensive than Walmart for the same items.
Target is the same price now.. cuz Walmart shoppers are too loyal and scared to step out and price compare at other places. Facts. Y'all getting fleeced.
@@MirzaAhmed89naw.. you just too scared to shop anywhere else ,😂 they lied when they told ya you looked good in Walmart clothes btw..
Always look forward to the new Company Man video every Wednesday 👍
I have a brother in law who drives for Walmart. He told me that they treat him well. His only complaint is dispatch sending the drivers chasing their tails vs having organized routes.
Personally, I prefer to shop local
Hey Company man, I’m a current employee of Walmart, and I work in the auto care department as a certified automotive technician. At some point I hope to write to you officially about my experience this far, but I wanted to say thank you for making a video on Walmart. The job is definitely tough, many Walmart auto care centers are understaffed and the turnover rate is high where I’m at. It’s a difficult job, but the pay is why I’m there (although, I do genuinely annoy the hard work.). Thank you.
Parts of The Godzilla fandom in particular aren’t big fans of Walmart because they cancelled a number of Products Lines in the 90’s, those figures were one of a kind and now super hard to come by.
As a current associate for Walmart, the job is okay. I get benefits like a 401k and health insurance and being on the Spectrum, the job has helped with my social skills. However, the job can be mentally draining, especially when I worked in the service deli. High turnover or understaffed, constantly busy frying food like popcorn chicken or the people I work with just do the bare minimum. The bakery is SO much better because I'm away from most customers and can focus on the task at hand and not have to split my attention between cooking, cleaning and helping customers all at once.
Glad your experience is good.😊
I hate how they're convenient. But for reals, i was in college ehen that doc came out and we had to watch it for business class...the tactics they use to stop unionizing and stuff is wild. Probably even woese 20 years later
I highly doubt you were ever in college based on that comment with misspellings and other errors...
Like 10 years ago when i worked at wally world the orientation at the time of hiring was a video about why we shouldn’t and don’t need to unionize. I don’t think I truly realized what they were doing until a few years later.
Bro you’re almost at 2 million subs! Congrats!!
I was walking into work when you posted this, i make right at 17.50, in the state im in, pre covid, it was absolutely a liveable wage, you could also earn a weeks vacation in about 3 months back then too, every February walmart brings down new rules and every 2 to 3 years, they bring down massive company wide changes, it takes 6 to 8 months to earn that week off now, the changes are always in favor of the company or management, it really does feel like the company hates everyone at the store level below management, you might get some favoritism if you work 1st shift, because thats when the majority of management is their usually.
You still make base pay after working their for all this time....maybe you should have a hard look at yourself?
@grandinosour thats not base pay, i guess i worded that poorly or your just a fuckwit, either way, i made 11 a hour in 2016.
@@grandinosourThats not base pay, i made 11 a hour, then 15 pre covid, i may have worded it poorly but you could of read in-between the lines and understood what i meant, i dont have time for entitled people who have never worked retail and or understand how giants like walmart operate, its not a tech job where you get to negotiate pay.
what are you talking about. Maybe it your part time it'll take you 6-8 months to earn a week off. I earn 1 hour vacation, every 9 hours worked, that is roughly 4.4 hours a week. it takes me 9 weeks to earn a weeks vacation. Yes its based on years of service but the policy is the same as it was pre covid.
@sborwege its not, toward the end of 2020 they had a meeting with my store about it, said they're wasnt enough associates in store to help customers, thats how they hide behind policies that take away from associates, they say its for the benefit of the customers, iv transfered to 5 different stores, all told me the same thing on the topic. Iv been full time the whole time of worked for the company too for the record.
I grew up in Bentonville, AR. I worked for them in accounting 20 something years ago. I used to see the invoices from all of their vendors. WM have always been ruthless and crooked as hell.
The difference is Walmart used to at least fake it with customers. Now they don't bother.
17.50?! Sheesh I was only paid 14 an hour at my local Walmart. I don't work there anymore, but I worked there for 3 months. My last day was only 2 weeks ago, now I work as an electrician.
I am happy to shop at the Walmart in Loves Park Illinois. I don’t know about any other Walmart stores but I like shopping at this location.
I like that 9 minutes in you used Publix as a good example to follow. My favorite big chain store here in Florida. Especially their bakery. Unlike Walmart, Publix bakes their own bread right there instead of shipping it in. And they eggwash their loaves.
I know it's high-priced. Same for WinnDixie. I typically go to aldies, dollar general, and dollar tree, before anywhere else.
Publix prices have gotten outlandish. The Winn-Dixie sucks and our closest Aldi is almost 40 miles away.
@@fumanpoo4725 Indeed. And another sad point is save-a-lot. In my youth they were the low budget place to shop, but now their prices are on par with winn dixie.
Another sad point is save-a-lot. In my youth they were the low budget place to shop, but now their prices are on par with winn dixie.
How many remember when Walmart's slogan was "We buy American whenever we can, so you can too"... That, of course, quickly changed and they became more of a Chinamart LOL!
I remember when WalMart workers chanted:
See the boxes
Stack them high
Hear the downtown merchants cry.
My grandpa used to call it Wally's Chinese market
11:52 bro sounds exhausted
He always reads his copy like he couldn’t be less interested in it. It’s off-putting.
@@dirkniblickableIt definitely is, his voice reminds me of the Burger King foot lettuce guy.
@@dirkniblickableWith the music he selected also? This whole video is off. Walmart would probably take him out if he said the wrong thing or something. 💀
he does it to strrretchhh the time past the ten-minute mark. I just put it on 1.5
I greatly appreciate you being as objective as possible, about this sensitive topic, Mike.
Your channel rocks and I'm glad to be a long time fan.
i don't think Walmart is any more abusive with its employees than anyone else. It wouldn't make sense.If Walmart has 2 million employees, there are probably 20 million or more ex-employees all with friends and families. That's the business' customer base that you don't want to alienate. Retail always was cheap with employees, and probably always will be, but there are also always alternatives to Walmart from Target to Family Dollar and mom and pop. The reason for the "hatred" of Walmart is that they are non-union, and Big Labor would love to get a contract with them and collect dues from 2 million staff. But Walmart doesn't want to let someone else tell them what to do and run their human resources.
My Aunt Joyce was a regional manager for Wal-Mart through the 70s, 80s and into the 90s and she loved it!
Shes said several times that if Sam saw the statue of the company today he would be severely disappointed.
She was part of the problem
I work at Target and we use Walmart as the punchline to a joke; plus they have us price match items with Walmart and Amazon to get the lowest prices for our guests (what they want us to call customers). Also, I have a friend that works at Walmart and worked at Target and he agrees that Target treats their employees way better then Walmart. If possible I would like to see a video about Target in the future.
I go to walmart for groceries and I go to target whenever I break something (it's so easy to abuse the no questions asked return policy. Hell, I broke my nintendo switch once cracked screen and all, bought a new one, swapped the backplates (so the serial numbers matched up) brought it back like this doesn't work, and I got a full refund)
Maybe it would be worth shopping at Target if their prices weren't ridiculous. Targets prices are higher on literally everything compared to Walmart. At the end of the day, people don't care about if a company actually treats their employees fairly, they care about prices, and products. No one cares about sustainability, or ethics if you're selling a product for ten dollars more than your competitor, and your trying to save money.
@@LilT2o00 brooo 😂😂😭
@@HearMeLearn works for "rentals" too by rental i mean you want that 2 dollar HDMI cord on eBay that'll take a 3 weeks to come from China? Buy that buy one from target while you wait, when your cord comes in, return targets cord and get your refund. So many ways to abuse their refund policy
The reason why so many employees hate the company is because it's easier to get full time with benefits at Walmart than any other comparable company, but once they get you in that position they know you can't go anywhere and some stores / managers will take advantage of that fact.
Predatory but not surprising. This is America we're talking about, where corporate sabotage is seemingly encouraged.
I worked at Citibank and I got a promotion and no raise until a full year later (I was promoted in December and they purposely dragged their feet to not officially put me in the new position until after January 1st). When I called HR to say something about it they got snotty with me and told me I should be lucky I have a job. So I trained for my new position, took the free trips to New York City to train and meals and hotels on the company for 12 weeks, came back home, and told them to stick the job where the sun don't shine and to have fun replacing me and paying to train my replacement, and thanks for all the free stuff 😂😂😂
Before K-Mart closed I purposely did not shop Walmart. Now we basically have no other choice.
I worked at walmart for a couple months unloading trucks. It was easily the worst job I've ive ever had (this is coming from a man who currently works with wastewater). Management was horrible, but the worst part was the way the trucks came loaded. Most of the tiers fell over and the trucks were just a jumbled mess. Spilled chemicals mixed regularly to form all manner of noxious fumes. I could go on, but you get the picture.
There was a story not to long ago about Walmart employee being literally cooked alive in a walkin oven. The story is horrible and from what I remember she was only 19. Walmart isn’t changing for the better at all.
Things don't add up with that story
Buried that story was.
Yeah in Halifax. I'd actually argue Walmart Canada is even more evil than US walmart. Their hiring practices are another big issue...
I call them 'the killer of everything nice' because of how many retailers have fallen because of them.
Sam Walton began as a small store. He just did it better as stated.
A good amount of them didn’t manage them right. Sam Walton was one of the few who did it right as rain and the long term success shows.
@@mrconroy4672 Tell that to Ann & Hope, Ames, Bradlees, E.J. Korvette's, Venture Stores, Zayre, pre-Eddie Lampert Sears, and Woolworth's.
ya those other people weren't inventive or smart enough to keep their business alive
@@ChrisWehadababyitsaboy Small businesses can’t compete with the economies of scale that some huge conglomerate can. It’s not about lack of skill.
Something else with Walmarts practices is, whenever they move into one of those small towns they kill the local small businesses. Then when they leave they in some cases end up killing the town. They stay just long enough that a generation passes and the descendants of the old store owners want nothing to do with trying to keep the family business going.
The customer experience got to be so sh*tty that I stopped shopping at Walmart a decade ago and I'll never go back. The "mouth breathers" were a big part of this.
so it’s government name is Walton Mart
Where I live (western part of the US) there are Walmart Neighborhood Markets (WNM) along with the Supercenters, where I've noticed that the employees at the WNMs are helpful and pleasant when compared to the Supercenter employees.
One aspect I love about the WNM is their low prices for grocery items, many times their everyday low prices are lower than the other supermarket chains when they have sales requiring the use of the loyalty membership cards.
The self-checkout at the WNM I don't mind for two reasons:
- No waiting in line for checkout; as the there are at lease a dozen or more Point-of-Sale registers that are open.
- Many of those Point-of-Sale registers have spacious counter tops, making it easy to bag the grocery items.
Come to Phoenix. It's not that way here at all.
I dislike them because no more 24 hour Walfarts
I remember going to Walmart at 3am as a pit stop. Maybe they even had a McDonald's in it. That's a pleasant memory i'll never have again.
@knuclear200x Grabbing your $1 McChicken at the 24 hour Walmart
3am shopping was our jam.
Lol get over it
@@JStorm13
There is a reason why my generation is doing youtube pranks at walmart and it's not even because of no 3 am shopping 🤣🥸
One benefit about Walmart is it helped me with being socially awkward and learn to talk to people when I was working as Customer Service
100% Once you've dealt with some of the crazier "Walmart" people for awhile, you learn that everyone is a little insane in their own way. It kind of took the edge off of my social anxiety, and taught me to socially relax a bit.
Same, I don't think I had social anxiety, but I was always pretty shy, compounded with having a softer voice it made communication not my strong suit. But now that I've been working at Walmart for a while I interact with tons of people every day I work and it's not an issue for me anymore. Most people are polite or kind enough and it's very rare that I actually run into anyone that is rude just to be rude. It's just a lot less scary now that I've experienced so much time with strangers I suppose.
One of the big things with WalMart was that everything in their stores used to be "Made in the USA" That helped them to grow into a huge trusted store.
As an employee you do not feel appreciated or valued for your work, I do multiple jobs on any given day and am not paid enough for doing so....I've learned to hate and not trust Walmart! Management doesn't listen at all
I used to work for Walmart, I hated it. Now I am permanently banned from all Walmarts in the United States, and I still hate them.
You can't just leave a comment like that and not tell us how/why you're banned.
@ I was terminated because I took too many sick days without filling an unpaid time off request (I got strep throat, felt horrible). I wasn’t thinking I’d get fired and had a freak out. I didn’t harm any customers nor would I have, and I kicked a trash can on the way out of the store. The managers called the police, but I was let go since I didn’t damage anything. After 2 weeks, I called to apologize and security told me I was banned. It’s total BS since I had it settled with corporate. I still walk into the Walmart I worked at and get looked at funny by employees, I also get yelled at by security sometimes, it’s honestly pretty sad.
@@bradydacloudso u went postal. Gotit!
Walmart management was so corrupt that they knew I was a former Brosnan, risk, consultants officer, security officer, and what I can’t management doing to my reports as a Walmart asset protection customer service host was appalling. They were putting my miss scanned items report in with asset protection shoplifting reports so instead of me getting recognition for what I did asset protection was getting all of it and when asset protection quit, I shown interest for the job because of the fact is I have experience they went with the less experienced person at one point eventually management fired me then try to lie to the state and I won $14,200 because I proved that the firing was not of just cause now please know not all Walmarts are like this in fact when I was transferred from was one of the best, I unfortunately transferred to one of the worst across state