[ASLplease]

Actually, my 1 1/2 hour bike trip is often 1 hour 10 minutes because I'm getting stronger as I use it more often.

[CanadianJeff]

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I remember see a link about how a Walmart store in the US costs the state run social services hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for every store.

It seems to me that that bonus is not evenly spread out.

Do the employees at Crappy Tire get a bonus? How about Sears or the Bay...

Yes actually at least for the Bay. My old Boss worked there for years and everyone got a Christmas bonus depending on sales.

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CanadianJeff CanadianJeff:

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ASLplease ASLplease:

I remember see a link about how a Walmart store in the US costs the state run social services hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for every store.

It seems to me that that bonus is not evenly spread out.

Do the employees at Crappy Tire get a bonus? How about Sears or the Bay...

Yes actually at least for the Bay. My old Boss worked there for years and everyone got a Christmas bonus depending on sales.

I worked at the Bay for five years in the 80's bonuses were not given.

A bonus should not be evenly spread either as it is given to award good performance..dirty word in union books...if it's spread evenly it's not a bonus but a profit sharing program.

[OldChum]

Yes some stores pay them but they are also to make up for typically low wages .

[ASLplease]

we live in a world where everything is relative. if all the other J. Quebec stores are unionized, then its more difficult to blame unions for Walmart's cowardness to participate in the J. Quebec retail market.

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OldChum OldChum:

Yes some stores pay them but they are also to make up for typically low wages .

Is that why CEOs get paid bonuses, low wages ?

[OldChum]

CEOS are the best paid the floor people are the ones I talk of thought you would fiqure that out .

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OldChum OldChum:

CEOS are the best paid the floor people are the ones I talk of thought you would fiqure that out .

Seems as though Walmart is the only one paying bonuses to their employees. You assume it's because they pay lower wages than any other department store. Got proof of that?

[ASLplease]

Seems as though Walmart s the only one closing down in J. Quebec. You assume it's because of the higher wages that the union will be demanding. I say they are afraid to compete against the other unionized stores.

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ASLplease ASLplease:

Seems as though Walmart s the only one closing down in J. Quebec. You assume it's because of the higher wages that the union will be demanding. I say they are afraid to compete against the other unionized stores.

What stores are union in that area?

[tritium]

Wal-Mart is nothing more than Capitalism & Free Trade in a nutshell. Thus, in a stange and twisted way, they aren't hardly evil.

http://www.walmartmovie.com

http://www.walmartmovie.com/wmtv/

[ASLplease]

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ASLplease ASLplease:

Seems as though Walmart s the only one closing down in J. Quebec. You assume it's because of the higher wages that the union will be demanding. I say they are afraid to compete against the other unionized stores.

What stores are union in that area?

when the news first came out, I remember reading that the large grocers and department stores in J.Quebec were all unionized. A bit strange for most of Canada, but not strange for Quebec.

[OldChum]

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OldChum OldChum:

CEOS are the best paid the floor people are the ones I talk of thought you would fiqure that out .

Seems as though Walmart is the only one paying bonuses to their employees. You assume it's because they pay lower wages than any other department store. Got proof of that?

Just have to talk to them if you got the time Part time was invented for retail and is the staple of the industry.

[ASLplease]

OldChum OldChum:

Yes some stores pay them but they are also to make up for typically low wages .

I remember reading that Wal-Mart refuses to release a median wage. To defend its treatment of workers, Wal-Mart releases statistics on its average hourly wage for full-time employees. However, Wal-Mart has never published its median wage -- a data point that would give a clearer sense of what workers earn. Instead, the store uses misleading language that masks the fact that hourly managers earn higher wages than hourly floor workers -- a fact that skews the "average" wage of “store associates” -- and refuses to release wage levels for specific job functions.

[ASLplease]

Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott is the highest paid retail executive. The value of Scott’s 2007 Compensation Packet is around $31.6 million. H. Lee Scott's compensation package rose by roughly $2 million in value compared to previous years. Three Wal-Mart executives are on the top ten list - with a combined compensation packet totaling $59.8 million. [Women’s Wear Daily, 7/24/08]

Costco CEO Jim Sinegal’s annual salary is $350,000 plus bonuses. His salary is about double the salary of a Costco warehouse manager and less than ten times the salary of a Costco cashier with threeand-a-half years on the job. According to the New York Times, Mr. Sinegal turned down bonuses in 2001-2003: “I rejected my bonus because we had a couple of years where we hadn’t performed up to our standards,” he said. “We were more profitable than the year before, but we didn’t hit the standards we had set for ourselves, so we didn’t think we were entitled.” [New York Times, 4/4/04; InsideWork, 4/14/05]

Costco offers a higher average wage. In addition to a low turnover rate, Costco average wage is around $17 an hour while Wal-Mart’s average was hovers below $11. Coincidently, Wal-Mart’s number represents the average pay of the lowest paid employee at Costco. [Washington Post, 1/30/07]