M. H. writes
i have just begun my fight agianst walmart by this email. i plan to do what i can in the future to change walmart for the better since i also work their. the fight has only just begun.

E. B. writes
walmart, Cheap Labor, By passes many Laws, Sucks all around.

C. M. writes
hell yeah

M. A. writes
I worked for walmart for almost 4 years. I have to say that outside of the store manager I was treated fairly and decently as a woman and a worker. I worked in claims so I had access to our wire. Unlike so many other associates who dont have the time to review or read on new policies most are left in the dark. I would just like to send my prayers out to all of you at #2354.

K. M. writes
I used to work as a cashier at a Sam's Club, which is owned by the Walmart Corporation, to subsidize my income as a first-year teacher. Although I was payed fair ($10.75/hr), I was often frustrated by the constant watch of how quickly I could scan 50lb bags of rice/dog food/etc. I remained at this job until the spring of that year, Mothers Day to be exact. On that fateful Sunday business was extremely slow (and rightfully so). When the store closed, all of the cashier work was already done since we were not busy. Rather than letting the employees go to celebrate the holiday, UNPAID, with their respective mothers, we were locked in the store by the manager on shift and told that we would be "allowed" to leave when our shift was over. What a great company with such upstanding business practices... I wonder why the are in the news? Not!

M. H. writes
Check out the Investigation Discovery Channel. They are doing a story on the relationship, or should I say partnership, between China and Wal-Mart. I am already pissed with Wal-Mart because they do not support our troops. If it wasn't for our troops fighting to protect our freedoms, then they wouldn't have the freedom to screw their customers. I have a brother who is currently fighting in this war and our family member was not allowed time off from the Walmart she works at to see him before he left.

V. M. writes
DO NOT BUY FROM CHINA!!!!

J. S. writes
Irresponsible articles like this put you in the same light as TMZ and Access Hollywood, you must be proud.

A. A. writes
Tell the truth. Fear of the corporation is a great shame. This very second, many activists are joining the movement against Wal-Mart, and you absolutely do not want to be publicly disgraced when things change for the better. Tell the true story and change the public opinion for the good.

H. J. writes
Wal-Mart is in no way going to continue to treat their employees and customers the way they do. My personal story with Wal-mart is one that will cause anger in many people's hearts. Both my botfriend and I were fired from this so-called family oriented company because of our interracial relationship. Please let us at WakeUpWalmart.com and the rest of the world be heard. A change needs to be made TODAY!!

K. F. writes
Wal-Mart has a very long way to go before it is a responsible corporate citizen.

T. T. writes
AS A FORMER EMPLOYEE FOR WALMART OF 3 YEARS ID LIKE TO SAY THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE. THEY MAKE THREATS AND RETALIATE PEOPLE FOR REPORTING INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT OF MANAGERS AND OTHER EMPLOYEES. THEY ALSO SAY THEY HAVE AN OPEN DOOR POLICY THE ONLY OPEN DOOR THEY HAVE IS THE ONE YOU WILL BE WALKING OUT OF WHEN THEY COME UP WITH SOME BS REASON TO LET YOU GO. THEY HVE SO MUCH MONEY THEY WILL CONTINUE TO GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING THEY DO WARONG. LOW PAY HIGH PRICES. WALMART NEEDS TO WAKE UP

M. L. writes
I for one do not intend to let this go!

T. A. writes
this is a copy of a letter i sent to walmart home office. it took from august of this year emailing back and forth with them to get someone to call me. i received a call from Mark Lawson and all he did was get onto me for not contacting him instead of home office. i told him i thought there was an open door policy and i cold talk to whomever i wanted. my letter was sent registered mail to Lee Scott. my letter was received and signed for by Jim Smith? Mr. Lawson did not even want to discuss any of these issues except that it is against Walmart policy to shop on your lunch break. After nearly 10 years of employment I have never been told this.


I am a recent Wal-Mart associate of 9yrs 4 months. I quit on Saturday Aug. 11, 2007.
Saturday, Aug.11, 2007 11:30am I did not drive that day so I bought some groceries on my lunch to take home when I got off. I went back to the bakery were I worked as a cake decorater. I asked Joyce and Cookie at store 0562 in Leeds, Alabama, did they think I would get into trouble if I kept it in the bakery until I got off? They told me no and we put my bags in the cooler. I went and clocked back in and came back to the bakery to start on cakes. Assistant manager Tanya came up to the bakery to get some hair nets for the Assistant manager Noel Garner to take to his store, I helped Tanya find them and she gave them to Noel. She went back into the bakery and came out to the floor and asked whos groceries are those in the cooler and I said, " they are mine." She said, " you cannot do that?" I said, " they told me it was ok and she said, "who is they" and I said, "Cookie and Joyce." She said, " if Kay Chemicals came in they would shut us down." I said, "I know." I helped her carry my groceries to the floor and she looked through them and asked "what is this?, why did you put bleach in there" and I said, " thats where I was told to put it." Everything was sealed and in a bag closed up. Kay Chemicals uses a bleach solution to clean the floors with. No one has ever said anything to the other associates keeping open packages of personal food and drinks in the cooler. I called store manager Jim Wester to the bakery, then Tanya called him on the walkie talkie and of course he talked to Tanya first, I thought there was an open door policy? Why was Tanya given the opportunity to talk to him privately first then I had to go over everything in front of both of them. I didnt have a chance, Jim had already found me guilty without even trying to understand what happened. Tanya told me to come here in front of the other associates so I did. The whole conversation was in front of my co workers. Jim asked me, "whats this?" and I said, my groceries." He held up the bleach and said "whats this, this is in direct violation of Kay Chemicals." I said, they told me to put it in there" and he said, " whos they" and I would not answer. I didnt want my co workers in trouble and even if I did say anything nothing would be done about it. I had been talking to managment since I started work in the bakery department last October that there were some major problems in the bakery. He told me that I could not shop on lunch that those things were personal items, I had to put them in my car. I told him that I did not have my car that someone else had it and he said, " why didnt you wait till you got off?" I told him I could not wait, and he said, " why not" and I said, " I have to leave as soon as this person gets here." He said, " who is it and why" . I said, " that was my own personal bussiness." I asked if he wanted me to quit or was he gonna fire me? He said, " Im gonna write you up!" I knew I would get fired, because I already had a D Day a few weeks beforefor being 45 minutes late from lunch. I said, " I quit." He asked if I was sure that was what I wanted to do and I said, " yes." I walked to the back and every associate stopped me and asked me if I was ok. This had really upset me because I had been with WalMart for 10 years and I always told people I would be there until I died or they fired me. I have some really good friends I have made at our store and customers as well. My co workers know everything physically and mentally I have gone through since coming to work for the company in 1998. When I started Walmart I had only been out of the hospital for 2 months due to a kidney pancreas transplant and was hospitalized and had several surgeries over the 9 years I was there. I got to the break room and on the way out Rahmoana Davis came up to me and said, " please dont quit", and was crying with me. Asstistant manager Tanya just stood there and looked at us. Several other associates came up asking me not to quit. I had always been told by by numerous associates that I was the person that made that place a fun place to work. That I was always so happy. Kevin Muir told me he had never met someone that was upbeat all the time .I asked Assistant Tanya if I could get copies of everything in my personel file and she said I would have to ask Jim. I asked if she could ask him. She came back and said, " you will have to make an appointment and pay for the copies", after 9 years of service I have given this company. I am already down as I can go and bam I am hit again.
How does Walmart find out when Kay Chemicals is coming? Each store calls another store and lets them know. Managment gets in a panic! If everything is how it should be why is everyone getting excited? Time and time again in grocery, dairy and bakery have I been told to update the cleaning log. That is going through everyday, every week and every month and check off whats supposed to be done and initial it. Hmm is that a Kay Chemical Rule? So it must be okay that we leave cakes unwrapped, associates food and drinks, phones and my groceries would be ok. Or there is a cleaning brush left in with the utinsils. Wearing more than 2 earrings in your ears rather than the rule of 2. Wearing a necklace or a ring thats not allowed. Every bit of it happens everyday.
Susan Sipes a former associate has a drinking problem and only her closest friends have tried to help her with it. How embearssing is it when Asst. Kevin Muir say in front of everyone in the break room that she is and alcoholic? It crushed her, she said one day he finally appoligized. Nancy Bradier a former associate yelled at a dairy associate about bringing his frieght through were she was working at when there was no other way around. I took up for him and asked kindly to let him through, she started yelling at me so i went to former Asst. Melanie to come and talk with me. I never got a chance to speak. Nancy came running in telling me I was a cry baby. Yelling so loud that Pam Riddle, Lynn Payne and other associates walking by at the time this was at around 7am when people are clocking in and out. Melanie never said a word to her and I was left sitting in the UPC office crying by myself. Nothing was ever said to her that I am aware of. Was that not a green flag? What we watched a video about?
I was wrote up for being 45 minutes late for lunch........ It was on a Saturday the weekend of City Stages. I had asked Jessie Tyler, my bakery manager if I could leave an hour early that day due to arrangments I had for the weekend because I could not get the day off. She told me it was ok but I would have to talk to Tanya. I asked Tanya as soon as I saw her that morning if I could go home an hour earlier and she said, " I I seriously doubt it and told me who was all out that day in grocery and other parts of the store. I said, " ok." I decided to go home for lunch and get my luggage so I could leave as I got off work. It is an hour and a half drive to where I was traveling too. I got back 45 minutes late from lunch and I asked Ray again if I could go home early and he said if everything was done I could. Ray, then later called the bakery asked me how long a lunch did I take and I told him I was late and he said no. I said, " ok." Then Assistant Debbie came to the bakery and I had accidently set a Diet Dr. Pepper on the counter because I was in a hurry to start cakes since I was late, but, we only had 3 more cakes to go. Debbie picked my bottle up and said what is this and I said, "mine, I forgot and set it there," she said, " this will get us shut down if Kay Chemicals comes in" and threw it in the trash, she said, " you can only have these in the back behind the door" and i said "ok it was just an accident." Why is it ok for me to have a drink in the back of the bakery and not some groceries that were paid for with the receipt. I went to the garbage can got my drink and took it to the back. Then a few minutes later I got paged to the office and I was told I was being wrote up and it was a D Day. I was being written up for being 45 minutes late from lunch. I had been told by Asst. Frank Anella and Asst. Debbie that lunches did not matter. You could be late from lunch, just not late to clock in or out when the new point system came out. There was nothing on the list about lunches that I signed. I told Debbie and another asst. I cant remember her name that it was an accident that I had to because of where I was going since I was not gonna get to go home early. Debbie said Ginger was very upset and could not handle it by herself because she was too old and that 2 associates complained on me. I said, " I didnt mean too" I was doing everything I could to appoligize but it did not help. There is no forgiveness at WalMart. I am only human and sometimes accidents happen thats why they are accidents. I did not want to sign my write up and she told me that I had to and that it would go to the next level if I did not sign it. I though it was unfair since Cookie has been an hour late to work that same morning and did not get written up. I asked what the next level was and she said termination. So I went and asked Ray if I was gonna be fired and he said he would not fire me he would suspend me and i would have to talk to Jim when he came back from vacation, I said, well I guess that means I have to sign, Jim will fire me. I signed them and appoligized to everyone for getting so upset, might as well keep the peace to keep my job cause no one was gonna listen to what I had to say. Then Debbie told me that I could go ahead and leave but to sit down and calm down I left, cause I had a long drive ahead of me. This was at 3:30 pm, 30 minutes earlier than the original 1 hour I had asked to leave. . All that because I asked to go home an hour early, look what a deal l got out of that, a d day and going home 30 minutes early and getting very upset for nothing.
Wanda Enoch works in receiving and when her son is in school she has to come into work at 7:30am instead of her scheduled hour 7:am. She was getting points everyday and mamagement took it off. I wanted an hour off early for a sceduled, paid for event, which I did'nt think would be a problem, I got a D Day. Peggy Armstrong got points for being late or leaving early because their son has a doctors apppintment, they got removed. I got points for being sick due to my transplant, which I had gotten a permanent excuse from my doctor on a Walmart form that I may have numerous absents because of low immune system due to transplant from Dr. Morris in Leeds. I was told by Asst. Debbie about a day I was out due to a virus and she told me that was not related to my transplant. Low immune system would include a virus.
When did it become legal that a store manager can ask another associate if they had seen me the night before? I called in sick that day. I called the call in hotline and told a manager, and was approved, I am gonna get a point even if it was a sickness due to my transplant. Jim Wester asked Virginia if she had seen me the night before? What if she had? Is that supposed to mean if I am really sick or not? Why not call me and ask me, I don't have anything to hide. Why can managment go around the store saying Peggy Armstrong called in sick but she really is'nt. When did that person become a doctor?
When did getting managment approval to call 911 in an emergency become a law? I thought that was one of my freedoms and thats what it says, call 911 in case of emergency. Not ask managment and then call.
Connie Spurnickel a former associate from Walmart got into trouble for calling the police to Walmart about a man who was coming to Walmart everyday to stare at her everyday! Another former associate, Nancy Bradier and I were in grocery receiving and a vendor was outside sitting on the ground saying his arm hurts, and I told somebody to call 911, they responded you gotta ask management and I said to do it anyway. later we found out he was having a heart attack. Why is it ok that Marlene Barcanic can say anything she wants to an associate and get away with it? No one in the store the 9 years I have been there has ever liked Marlene. They are afraid to ask her anything. When I was in personel associates would ask me for things cause they would be afraid to ask her. How come you hear managers on the phone when someone calls in that they have to show up? They cant call in. Treat each person as an individual. Thats Walmarts slogan. You can'nt assume that person is not sick just because you have so many people call in that are not.
Two weeks ago on a Tuesday, a lady came in and I took her order for a Celebration Cake. She told me she wanted the Bratz Cake 2 layer $79.00 cake. The man with her said, " can you put some color in it like the Care Bear cake?" and I asked pinks purples and blues and him and her both said just bright like the Care Bears Cake colors and I said ok, I will fix it up for you. She pre paid for her cake. Later on in the week Cookie told me she was jealous cause I got to do the celebration cake order. I had never done one before and was excited about doing it. I asked her if she wanted to do it and she said, " no because you took the order. The following Wednesday I did the cake and I liked how it turned out, I put alot of colors in it. I came in on Saturday had been off Thursday and Friday and Cookie was in the break room. She told me that she called the lady who ordered the cake that I had did it wrong and she had to redo my cake and I said, " what cake?" she replied, the Celebrations Cake. I asked her what was wrong with it she said, " it was sliding around in the box, the colors were running and the icing was running
I clocked in and went to the bakery and there was nothing wrong with my cake and her cake done exactly like the Care Bears cake was sitting out on the counter. Hers was seperated and made using bigger layers of the $138 cake. The customer got there that day and Tanya came up to the bakery and I said, " I guess you want to talk to me and she said no." The lady arrived for her cake and I had already been upset all day and been made to look a fool to the customer and found out by Cookie that Tanya was supposed to talk to me about the cake I messed up and had to be redone. The customer had not even seen the cake yet and I was already in trouble. Tanya said we both had to take our cakes out and let the lady pick. I told Tanya I was not gonna do it because I was embearessed and she said "Take that cake out there, that I made it. I did and i told the lady that mine was messed up and that she had to pick and she said, "You mean I am gonna have to pick? I dont want to pick. I like them both". I told her that if she did not pick mine it was ok that it would not hurt my feelings" she picked Cookies cake the bigger more expensive one. I was hurt, embearessed, mad all at the same time. I felt about 2 inches high while everyone I work with in the bakery watched the lady pick Cookies cake. I picked my cake up and walked to the back. Tanya came behind me and said, " I wanna talk about what just happened out there." I said, I told you I did not want to go out there. I had begged her not to make me take mine out there so the customer could pick, I knew I was gonna be hurt. I wanted to talk about the original problem about why my cake was remade and she said, " I want to talk about what just happened, I dont want to hear about any of the problems in the past, I did not work here." Then she said, " lets walk to the backwe have a big problem" and I said, " yes we do.... Cookie." When we got to the office. I told her I needed to calm down I was gonna take a break. She kept pushing me to come in the office and talk. There was really no need to talk cause she did not want to hear about any of the past problems in the bakery that led up to what caused the problem that day. I called Asst. Jay to the office to talk to him about the bakery, he used to be assistant over that department. Again it was what I needed to do, to correct the problem and I had done everything I could think of. Anyone of my co workers will tell you I will admit when I have done something wrong because I dont want someone else to get into trouble by something I may have done by mistake. I had told Tanya there has been a problem in that bakery since the store opened and there is to much favoritisim and to much gossiping and too much competition. You cant talk about just now to understand how I have been done in the bakery about my cakes and Cookies competition.
When Richard Edwards was store manager at 0562, he called me into his office twice to tell me no one in the store liked me when i worked in Personel with Marlene Barcanic. The first time was I came into work one morning about 11am and walked in the personel office and asked what happened? Marlene told me "Well if you would of come in when you were supposed to it would have all been cleaned up" She said she told me to come into work at 2pm but she did not. I went to the time clock and clocked out, went home and came in at 2. As soon as I did Richard called me in his office and asked me why I walked off the clock and I told him what Marlene had told me and I didnt walk off the clock. He told me no one liked me and I was too neat that Marlene could never find anything. After all of that i had 10 new hires to give orientation to waiting on me in the personel room. I had to give orientation after crying my eyes out. Richard Edwards did not know that growing up as a teenager my mother always told me I didnt have any friends and I was married to a man who told me I had no friends. The second time was when I worked in electronics, he told me my co workers did not like working with me. I walked around the store and asked each and every associate if they liked me and all of them said yes. I transferred out of personel after that to electronics. I was hired May 19, 1998 the new store opened in October 1999. The day of grand opening I went into the hospital for a conversion surgery due to my kidney pancreas transplant 2 months earlier at UAB Hospital. I got out on Friday after asking my doctors to be released early to get back to work. I went in Wal Mart that afternoon to see Marlene the personel manager and I was training coordinator. Keep in mind i was stapled shut from the bottom of my chest to my hipline. I was very weak after all I had been released early. I went to see Marlene and she told me if I did not get back to work that I needed to find another department in the store to work and I told her that I would be back on Monday and left crying once again. I was back to work on Monday lifting and
running the register. The first year I worked for Wal-Mart I was top cashier of the month, no good job button.
I started out part time, when 28 hour was full time, with walmart in 1988 after about a year I went to full time. I worked full time for about 7 years, when Keith Mock became manager of our store he told I had to start getting 32 hours a week. I told him I could'nt because of my heath. He kept on at me about my hours so I went to part time, after being told I would not loose any of my benefits by Marlene Barcanic. I found out when I got my first paycheck after going part time. I lost my dental, long term disability, short term disability, and sick time. Every manager that works for Walmart has their own set of rules, they all are different, so when you have a new store, co, or assistant manager you have to start all over again about when you were hired you could only work certain days or so many hours. You have to prove to each one of them that you are a good associate and it is all confusing. None of them are stricktly by Walmart policy and thats what the hourly associates are trained to go by. You have some managers whom are extremely nice and treat you fair, you have others that have their pets, then their are the ones who don't even give you a chance. No one wants to listen to your problem, oh yes they preach about the open door policy but it is'nt followed. They treat each person as an individual, NOT. Just like I was told I got into trouble because I was the one who got caught, when the others have done the same thing leaving 1 dirty icing tip that was an accident.
Now that I am no longer working there, I see the store in a different way, as a customer. If customers knew how WalMart treats their long term associates no one would be shopping there. I wake up every morning thinking I have to go into work, I miss my job. I dont have to be nervous anymore about walking into the store wondering about what drama is gonna be going on today ? A dirty icing tip that you missed cleaning out of the 50 ones you cleaned the day before by accident or is another co worker gonna set me up to take the fall for something, like not doing the 9am cakes so that when I come in at 9am I will get into trouble for not having them done, when I walk around a corner am I gonna feel like someone is talking about me?, or is Cookie gonna critique everything you do and make you end up doing her work for the day while she sits in the back on a garbage can doing 1 cake all day long, telling me that her cakes sell better than mine, or taking credit for a cake I did for a customer and the customer brings back a picture of the cake and gives it to Cookie thanking her for the good job on the cake she done. Are customers gonna be calling and asking for Cookie the head cake decorater and they dont want you to take their order because they only want Cookie to do it so that it is done right? Is she gonna take a cake order and hide it and telling the customer she is gonna do the cake at her house by taking WalMart business away. The things you go through in life and the impressions other people leave on you affects you in the long run, things you think are not even important, end up being your down fall.
Sincerely,


Teresa Hayes store 0562 Leeds, Alabama
55 Glendemere Street
Odenville, AL 35120
cell.205.541.0781

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B. P. writes
Walmart's policy of forcing prices ever down from suppliers has causes their sources to outsource to cheap labor markets with weak, unenforced labor and environmental laws. None of these policies have changed, and or criticism will not let up until they do.

C. S. writes
Who really rules America? Wal-Mart or the citizens.

R. L. writes
I respected walmart a lot,but when it came to managing there employees,i would give them a thumbs down,they have no respect for your contributions,but yet they will discipline you in a heartbeat,then they will lead you on thinking you are doing a good job,then theyll let you go or they will give you a d-day and keep you at bay,no promotional oppurtunity for a whole year,not 30 days probation but you got to be good for a year,I dealt with everything going on there,but when i manager can transfer you to another store without the store knowing and you go,and they have no vacancies,and when you try to go back to your store and they dont except you something is wrong,i left walmart with hypertension,and while i was being seen by the doctors my medical insurance was cancelled and i was fired,i have no love for walmart at this time.

D. M. writes
walmart fired me for peeing on the chanding table in the restroom after 11 years with them it took them quite awhile to come up with this story i think they need to let us see the film and i think it is invasion of provecy . I have been with walmart for 11years prefect attendance never late never call in it seems the longer your are with walmart they seem to find a way too get rid of youn and put a part time worker in your place it is pretty bad when jealousy is the reason for getting fired since this as happen my medical health has gotten worse stress from walmart is a big worry . I need a good lawyer that is not afraid to go against walmart

K. B. writes
Walmart should treat women with the same respect (and pay ) as men. Women should not spend thier money in a store that pays men more for the same job. I refuse to shop in any walmart store.

K. N. writes
Whatever happened to founder Sam Wat-Mart's philosophy of featuring American made products and treating others as fellow human beings?

A. W. writes
Wal-Mart NEEDS to do more! Taking our money and shunning the environment makes the corporation a VERY greedy tyrant. This needs to stop NOW!

N. C. writes
Wal-Mart has become a monopolous giant and is accountable to no one. It has to stop!

L. P. writes
I object to The New York Times' recent characterization of the movement to change Wal-Mart.
As a Wal-Mart activist, and a grassroots supporter of WakeUpWalMart.com, I can attest to the fact that Wal-Mart has not made the substantive changes necessary to satisfy its critics. For this reason, I, and hundreds of thousands of other activists, have remained active in the campaign to transform Wal-Mart into a more responsible corporation.

I find it dispicable and unethical how Wal-Mart can make billions in profit and has no regard to its employees by burdening the taxpayers to pay for its employees to have health care coverage and other public assistance to be able to eat or see a Dr. Whatever happened to founder Sam Wat-Mart's philosophy of featuring American made products and treating others as fellow human beings? I'm sure he is rolling over in his grave at this very moment! Wal-Mart continues to hurt communities and the fight is far from over.

Sincerely,

Lynda Pfeiffer

C. W. writes
I am a mother of 3 and unemployed. I paid my MLGW Electric bill at the Walmart on Hwy 64 in Memphis, Tn last month round about the 26th or the 27th of May. There were not one, not two, but three young lady's there who didn't know what they we're doing, so they finally called a CSM over who finally after over an hour finish my transaction. I left thinking every was fine. I found out this month on my electric bill that Wal Mart pay center did not pay my bill. I went on June 13th 2008 and spoke with a Manager name Dolly who took my name and number and a copy of one of my previous receipts because that is where I have been paying my bills for months, and she told me that she would call me the next day after she look into to finding out what happen because she had to wait to get into some system then to track my payment. She told me that she comes in that day at 6am-6pm. So the next day I never received a call, so round about after 2pm central time I went back up there to speak with Dolly. She called someone else on the phone to have them relay the message to me that there is nothing she could do. She couldn't even call me nor tell me face to face that they took my $90.64 for my electric bill and my $1.88 I paid them for the next day payment process, which I found out through the young lady she had to relay the message to me that there was nothing she could do to help me, that MLGW system is not set up to take next day payments. So not only did WalMart take my last $90.64 they also took and extra $1.88//Thank you Walmart for putting me and my family in the dark during this hot summer.

K. M. writes
This is just the end of round one of a fifteen round bout. This will be like the " thrilla in Manilla"

G. S. writes
I work at Safeway and am a Union member. I have good health coverage and Safeway pays me a living wage!
I do not think it is fair or right in any way that companies like Wal-mart can take advantage of their employees and not pay them healthcare and good pay! Wal-mart is a disgrace to our nation and the American people!

K. T. writes
The grassroots movement to enlighten Wal-Mart of the real problems they face ahead will never stop! I have not been in a Wal-Mart store in over fourteen years. There are just so many other very good alternatives!

P. P. writes
please listen....

J. W. writes
Walmart has not changed any of it's previous habits, except to get worse. They will lie cheat and scheme to get what they want (which is your money) they treat their associates like shit, and all the nasty rumors you hear about them are true, and it's true they do discriminate, not only against women but also minorties.

G. M. writes
The may be a bit after the fact, nevertheless, I feel it is VERY important to let you know that Wal-Marx is NOT off the hook, nor will they EVER be until they treat their employees and the workers that make their products, fairly.

With respect,

GiGi Mather

B. J. writes
I don't shop at Walmart any more because of their practices of selling cheap and how they treat their employees in a way that only makes the Walmart Corp. more wealthy and leaves poor people more poor.

C. S. writes
Walmart has changed ad agencies, nothing more

D. M. writes
We have note yet begun to fight for a fair and just working environment and a good fair wage and benifits to LIVE on. you ARE wrong.

T. V. writes
I object to The New York Times' recent characterization of the movement to change Wal-Mart.
As a Wal-Mart activist, and a grassroots supporter of WakeUpWalMart.com, I can attest to the fact that Wal-Mart has not made the substantive changes necessary to satisfy its critics. For this reason, I, and hundreds of thousands of other activists, have remained active in the campaign to transform Wal-Mart into a more responsible corporation.

In the past year, WakeUpWalMart.com has swelled to 427,000 grassroots supporters. Due to the efforts of our campaign, the retailer has taken heavy flak in mainstream and new media. Wal-Mart's poor track-record on military family leave, product safety, women's rights, tax evasion, et al, has kept our supporters active to an unprecedented degree.

Your recent article told Wal-Mart's version of the story. Now, I respectfully ask that you tell ours.

Sincerely,

Tim Vogt

E. E. writes
Once again, Wal*Mart has been led to believe changes have occurred for the better in that corporation. The sad reality has been this: Wal*Mart -- in their infinite wisdom -- has been screwing the workers' integrities and reputations of earning a sensible living. The company alone has treated people like dirt and has exploited them to the point where they have been forced to worked 50 and 60 hours per week. And even so, they have been earning slave wages on a weekly basis ... instead of what would be required under federal and/or state minimum wage laws. The reality has been for Wal*Mart to hide the true nature of their business in order to avoid further embarrassment. I would urge everyone at The New York Times that they publish the true story of Wal*Mart's misdeeds and misgivings within their corporation. They have undermined more well-known stores like Target, Wegman's, Giant Eagle, Topps, Pathmark, Shop 'N Save, and other entities in the United States. Wal*Mart has been -- and will be -- an embarrassment to themselves. The Wal*Mart's CEO would be wise to do two things to avoid further agony: resign with some degree of diginity and go suck his own dick. Because he would be one mistake away from ending up in the federal penitentary for tax evasion.

L. B. writes
Walmart is the worst corporation for a employee to make sure their families are taken care of and live without any government aid. They are ripping America off and they know it. What needs to happen is a labor strike of a huge magnitude. So that employees could have union laws for fair treatment and decent wages. I am thankful in life that I do not work for those slave owners.
Thank you for listening.

D. R. writes
I have not stopped working to make Wal-Mart a responsible corporation.

D. C. writes
GET OFF THE SIDE OF MONEY, AND ON THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE

J. R. writes
We have not stopped working to make Walmart a more responsible corporation.

R. D. writes
If WalMart is the only source of income, the family generally qualifies for medical assistance and/or food stamps. Tax payers are paying WalMart' employees health insurance not WalMart allowing the heirs of Sam Walton to get richer and richer. We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it any longer.

M. L. writes
Let's get the true facts out there.

R. G. writes
Whose payroll are you on?

L. C. writes
I want you to know that all have not stopped trying to make Walmart be a responsible corporation! They threat their employees badly and sale junk to the public! We have to make a stand to make it STOP!

S. M. writes
I REFUSE to buy anything from Wal-Mart. Seventy percent or more of Wal-Mart's merchandise comes from China and is of inferior quality. The main reason the quality is inferior is that China uses many political prisoners to make these goods, some of whose only crime is being a Christian, who have been beaten and abused to the point where they are unable to do their best work. The workers they do pay a wage to don't get enough to eat on, much less have a decent life. Until China starts treating people like human beings instead of tools to make the elite leaders rich, I will not buy anything they make. And until Wal-Mart starts treating their employees like human beings instead of robots, I will NOT buy anything from Wal-Mart.

D. W. writes
When Walmart came to our community everyone was excited because of their Made in USA products. Now you cannot find anything made in USA. They promote abuse of workers and low low wages without benefits. If Sam Walton isn't rolling in his grave he should be.

J. T. writes
Wal-mart is an absolute disgrace!! This is whats wrong with corporate america today! GREED-mart . that shuld be their real name. Mr. scott is a slime ball. your paper just drank his cool-aid.! Short and sweet enough said!!!

E. H. writes
Half of the businesses in my town died because of Wal-Mart. I wouldn't shop there, but there isn't anywhere else to go, and that isn't just.

J. S. writes
small town values are gone with the spread of walmart, todays walmart probably has sam walton rolling over in his grave, he would not be building china

C. L. writes
Wake Up! Wal-Mart is destroying this country one piece of Chinese plastic junk at a time!

H. B. writes
How sad that you would stoop to sloppy, spin journalism.