walmart math
I'm mad at walmart, b/c their stupid website had a dumb bug that deleted the photo album I made. I decided I want to archive all the pictures on my computer (with our camera, they take up a lot of space), and for $18 you can make a digital photo album, which walmart will print and deliver to your door. So I made 1 and loved it. Then I tried a little bigger project- all our wedding photos. I sorted through hundreds of pictures -all different sizes, all out of order chronologically b/c they were taken by tons of people. Over a few days I spent something like 7 hours making this book. Then when I uploaded a couple pictures I had forgotten, their program "auto-filled" over the entire album I had just done. ...and I was on the last page. death to walmart.
anyway, in my walmart angst, I saw in the news that they are telling their employees in friendly terms that they dang better vote for McCain, b/c if Obama helps them unionize it will mean higher prices for everyone. That got me thinking...
According to Forbes 400 richest Americans list, 4 Walton heirs are worth a collective 65 BILLION dollars. That's 65 with 9 zeros behind it. Walmart employs roughly 1.3 million people in the US. If those 4 heirs decided to invest their fortune back into their employees, even if they each kept $2 mil to live on... Walmart could afford to give every single employee a $50,000 raise. ...at least for 1 year. yeah... higher prices for everyone.
anyway, in my walmart angst, I saw in the news that they are telling their employees in friendly terms that they dang better vote for McCain, b/c if Obama helps them unionize it will mean higher prices for everyone. That got me thinking...
According to Forbes 400 richest Americans list, 4 Walton heirs are worth a collective 65 BILLION dollars. That's 65 with 9 zeros behind it. Walmart employs roughly 1.3 million people in the US. If those 4 heirs decided to invest their fortune back into their employees, even if they each kept $2 mil to live on... Walmart could afford to give every single employee a $50,000 raise. ...at least for 1 year. yeah... higher prices for everyone.