Shut ‘Em Down

I’m not a fan of unions by any means. (The United Steel Workers union cost my dad his job at Bethlehem Steel.) But in this case, they may have a point.

A group that wants to change unionize Wal-Mart is trying to discourage Americans from shopping there during the critical holiday season. The group’s latest tactic is to convince Wal-Mart customers that the store may be cheating them at the cash register.

Originally from CNS Headlines on November 22, 2005, 11:23am

WakeUpWalMart.com has investigated Wal-Mart’s sloppy shelf-tag pricing and prices at the register. I work for a competitor of Wal-Mart and I know that if we had as many shelf tags wrong as Wal-Mart apparently does, they’d shut us down. Fines can be as much as $1,000 / day / item. Maybe Wal-Mart can afford to pay fines like that, but other grocery store chains can’t. The margins are too small.

Purposely or even inadverdently misleading customers about prices is just a bad business practice. Can’t figure out why Wal-Mart’s screwing up they way they are unless it’s just plain incompetence on the part of their workers. (In which case the workers don’t deserve to get paid more.)