WalMart Leads the Way!

[ClosedCaption]

Here where I live trowing away EMPTY paint containers is a violation.

Fuck your dumb ass regulations

Great then just skip a step and drink the paint dumbass

How does one drink paint from an empty paint can that ends up either in a landfill or a recycling facility?

Step 1: Fill it with liquid of choice
Step 2: Drink it

 

[martybegan]

Great then just skip a step and drink the paint dumbass

How does one drink paint from an empty paint can that ends up either in a landfill or a recycling facility?

Step 1: Fill it with liquid of choice
Step 2: Drink it

Technically its fill with liquid of choice, then put said liquid through either/and

1000x to 10000x dilution factor, as any said contamination from the residual paint in the can would be diluted prior to it entering any waterway.

If your water source is untreated, chlorinate, flouridate balance for pH add phosporic acid for scaling control, then drink.

If your water system treats the drinking water, then put said diluted liquid through the treatment process in addition to the untreated procedures.

After that, I think it would be drinkable either way without too much of an issue.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

ClosedCaption has NEVER tossed out any of the following:

Old fingernail polish
Empty windex bottles
Empty cascade container
Empty oil quarts
Empty windshield washer fluid containers
Empty bags of lawn or garden fertilizers
Empty paint cans
Empty pinesole bottles
Empty clorox containers
Old car wax
Empty wd40 containers


He is a saint

 

[ClosedCaption]

Please hurry and drink from the paint can.

 

[Skull Pilot]

We all know that when it's Walmart the actions of one or several employees is taken as the sum total of the entire company.

But when some wacko cop shoots an innocent person it's treated as an isolated incident and not a condemnation of the entirety of police.

 

[ClosedCaption]

81 MILLION dollars of damage. Yes...it was one guy

 

[OKTexas]

Why is this on the politics board. Nothing political here.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I support private corperations doing great things for all of us.

If someone pours crap down a drain then charge them. Why the hell would you want the government to run everything like the USSR or Cuba?

 

[ScienceRocks]

81 MILLION dollars of damage. Yes...it was one guy

How do you know? If it was only one idiot then that seems kind of stiff.

 

[MisterBeale]

No they shouldn't be dumping anything at all, but they help feed tens of millions of people. Do you want to make life harder for people or what? If not corporations like Wal-Mart, k-mart, Safeway, target, etc. What?

Sure demand them not to dump but let's have a free market.

Wow, that's REALLY ignorant. They don't help feed anyone. The tax payer does. Walmart employees feed themselves with SNAP benefits because they don't make enough at Walmart. And where do they spend those SNAP dollars? You guessed it, Wal-mart. So in essence, the tax payer is making the Waltons part of the top twenty most wealthy Americans. Who would have thought you could become multi-billionaires off of the tax payer dime, eh?

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[Bfgrn]

No they shouldn't be dumping anything at all, but they help feed tens of millions of people. Do you want to make life harder for people or what? If not corporations like Wal-Mart, k-mart, Safeway, target, etc. What?

Sure demand them not to dump but let's have a free market.

According to a 2004 report released by U.S. Representative George Miller, one 200-employee Wal-Mart store may cost federal taxpayers $420,000 per year because of the need for federal aid (such as housing assistance, tax credits, and health insurance assistance) for Wal-Mart's low-wage employees.

Life was MUCH better before Walmart and the big box stores.

 

[syrenn]

Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty to Hazardous Waste Dumping « KRON4


In pollution, but it's all good, they'll just pay a fine and everyone is free to drink up!

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has pleaded guilty to charges the company dumped hazardous waste in California.

A company spokeswoman says Wal-Mart entered the plea Tuesday in San Francisco federal court to misdemeanor counts of negligently dumping pollutants from Walmart stores into sanitation drains across California.

As part of the plea, the company will pay $81 million, which will also cover charges in Missouri.

In 2010, the company agreed to pay $27.6 million to settle similar allegations made by California authorities that led to changes in the retailer’s practices nationwide. Wal-Mart was accused of improperly disposing pesticide, fertilizer and paint.

Let the free market dec...wait

from what i understand they are being charged with dumping bleach down floor drains.


i hate tell you.... we put bleach in our laundry. There is bleach in dish washing liquid. There is bleach in a good deal of cleaning solutions... all of which go down the same drains into the same sewer systems.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty to Hazardous Waste Dumping « KRON4


In pollution, but it's all good, they'll just pay a fine and everyone is free to drink up!

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has pleaded guilty to charges the company dumped hazardous waste in California.

A company spokeswoman says Wal-Mart entered the plea Tuesday in San Francisco federal court to misdemeanor counts of negligently dumping pollutants from Walmart stores into sanitation drains across California.

As part of the plea, the company will pay $81 million, which will also cover charges in Missouri.

In 2010, the company agreed to pay $27.6 million to settle similar allegations made by California authorities that led to changes in the retailer’s practices nationwide. Wal-Mart was accused of improperly disposing pesticide, fertilizer and paint.

Let the free market dec...wait

from what i understand they are being charged with dumping bleach down floor drains.


i hate tell you.... we put bleach in our laundry. There is bleach in dish washing liquid. There is bleach in a good deal of cleaning solutions... all of which go down the same drains into the same sewer systems.

Thread killer

 

[syrenn]

Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty to Hazardous Waste Dumping « KRON4


In pollution, but it's all good, they'll just pay a fine and everyone is free to drink up!



Let the free market dec...wait

from what i understand they are being charged with dumping bleach down floor drains.


i hate tell you.... we put bleach in our laundry. There is bleach in dish washing liquid. There is bleach in a good deal of cleaning solutions... all of which go down the same drains into the same sewer systems.

Thread killer

 

[ScienceRocks]

1. The little stores cost far more. Making a few products cost more over a lot of that product.
2. The little stores don't give millions of people jobs.
3. The little stores don't innovate like the big ones do. More money to do so...

Of course you want to destroy them as you don't believe in Capitalism. Certainly capitalism is dirty but it is the best damn way of doing things.

 

[ScienceRocks]

No they shouldn't be dumping anything at all, but they help feed tens of millions of people. Do you want to make life harder for people or what? If not corporations like Wal-Mart, k-mart, Safeway, target, etc. What?

Sure demand them not to dump but let's have a free market.

According to a 2004 report released by U.S. Representative George Miller, one 200-employee Wal-Mart store may cost federal taxpayers $420,000 per year because of the need for federal aid (such as housing assistance, tax credits, and health insurance assistance) for Wal-Mart's low-wage employees.

Life was MUCH better before Walmart and the big box stores.

What's wrong with giving people jobs and benefits? Walmart also gives us many times more choices on what to buy. Allow the market to make the price and maybe the government can help make up the shortfall for the employee's.

pure socialism or capitalism is very bad. This is one reason for a minimum wage...To force businesses like walmart to pay the employee's enough while giving the consumer the choices of a box store.

 

[syrenn]

1. The little stores cost far more. Making a few products cost more over a lot of that product.
2. The little stores don't give millions of people jobs.
3. The little stores don't innovate like the big ones do. More money to do so...

Of course you want to destroy them as you don't believe in Capitalism. Certainly capitalism is dirty but it is the best damn way of doing things.

its easy to go after walmart... deep pockets,headlines, and a court case under you belt.

i would love to see them going after every Chinese restaurant in china town for what they are dumping down the drains.

I am so sure that comply...... yeah right when pigs fly.

 

[Political Junky]

Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty to Hazardous Waste Dumping « KRON4


In pollution, but it's all good, they'll just pay a fine and everyone is free to drink up!

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has pleaded guilty to charges the company dumped hazardous waste in California.

A company spokeswoman says Wal-Mart entered the plea Tuesday in San Francisco federal court to misdemeanor counts of negligently dumping pollutants from Walmart stores into sanitation drains across California.

As part of the plea, the company will pay $81 million, which will also cover charges in Missouri.

In 2010, the company agreed to pay $27.6 million to settle similar allegations made by California authorities that led to changes in the retailer’s practices nationwide. Wal-Mart was accused of improperly disposing pesticide, fertilizer and paint.

Let the free market dec...wait

Were you hoping for jail time ?

Well, corporations are people.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty to Hazardous Waste Dumping « KRON4


In pollution, but it's all good, they'll just pay a fine and everyone is free to drink up!



Let the free market dec...wait

Were you hoping for jail time ?

Well, corporations are people.

Who cares...

Corperations give tens of millions of Americans jobs. That's what's important.

They also give the American people choices.

Want to take that away from us?

 

[MisterBeale]

1. The little stores cost far more. Making a few products cost more over a lot of that product.
2. The little stores don't give millions of people jobs.
3. The little stores don't innovate like the big ones do. More money to do so...

Of course you want to destroy them as you don't believe in Capitalism. Certainly capitalism is dirty but it is the best damn way of doing things.

You're a nasty immature piece of work little Matt. When you can't win a discussion, ignore somebody, give them negative rep. and continue on with your propaganda and lies. The fact is, Wal-mart externalizes the cost of doing business, both onto their suppliers, their customers, and onto the tax payers.

Wal-mart's customers are known in my home state as the lowest of low, we make fun of them here. They are the dregs of society, idiots. Who would shop there? The genetically infirm. I know who shops there, YOU. That is why your ego is so wrapped up in defending them. I enter that hell hole only during one time of year, around the holidays, when other stores might be sold out of a specific toy my kid might be looking for. I'll gladly pay a buck or two more for cleaner stores, better and more helpful service, more polite and courteous people to shop around, and just the mere fact that the I would be far less likely to get into a fender bender and my insurance rates won't rise is worth it. WAL-MART PEOPLE ARE ZOMBIE MATERIALISTS. They think the most important thing in life is money, the same value as the company holds.

I love capitalism and free market competition. What Wal-mart stands for is CORPORATISM and monopoly though. It is the pay off and the rip off and the shit no body sees. This is a corrupt as hell company with foul and evil business practices, for the employees, the suppliers, and indeed, the consumers as well.

Key Studies on Big-Box Retail & Independent Business
http://www.ilsr.org/key-studies-walmart-and-bigbox-retail/

2. RETAIL EMPLOYMENT These studies examine whether the arrival of a superstore increases or decreases the number of retail jobs in the region.

The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets - by David Neumark (University of California-Irvine), Junfu Zhang (Clark University), and Stephen Ciccarella (Cornell University), Journal of Urban Economics, Mar. 2008

This study presents the most sophisticated analysis to date of Wal-Mart’s impact on retail employment and wages. Analyzing national data, the study found that the opening of a Wal-Mart store reduces county-level retail employment by 150 jobs. Because Wal-Mart stores employ an average of 360 workers, this suggests that for every new retail job created by Wal-Mart, 1.4 jobs are lost as existing businesses downsize or close. The study also found that the arrival of a Wal-Mart store reduces total county-wide retail payroll by an average of about $1.2 million. This study improves substantially on previous studies by convincingly accounting for the endogeneity of the location and timing of Wal-Mart’s entry into a particular local market. That is, Wal-Mart presumably does not locate stores randomly. When expanding into a particular region, it may, for example, opt to build in towns experiencing greater job growth. Unless this location selection bias is accounted for, one might compare job growth in towns that gained Wal-Mart stores versus those that did not and erroneously conclude that Wal-Mart caused an expansion in employment. The authors of this study have devised a persuasive method of accounting for this bias. They also argue that the method developed by Basker (see next item below) to account for this bias is flawed and therefore her conclusion that Wal-Mart has a small positive impact on retail employment is not reliable.

Job Creation or Destruction? Labor-Market Effects of Wal-Mart Expansion – By Emek Basker, University of Missouri, Review of Economics & Statistics, February 2005

Often cited and typically misrepresented by Wal-Mart supporters, this study examines the impact of the arrival of a Wal-Mart store on retail and wholesale employment. It looks at 1,749 counties that added a Wal-Mart between 1977 and 1998. It finds that Wal-Mart’s arrival boosts retail employment by 100 jobs in the first year—far less than the 200-400 jobs the company says its stores create, because its arrival causes existing retailers to downsize and lay-off employees. Over the next four years, there is a loss of 40-60 additional retail jobs as more competing retailers downsize and close. The study also finds that Wal-Mart’s arrival leads to a decline of approximately 20 local wholesale jobs in the first five years, and an additional 10 wholesale jobs over the long run (six or more years after Wal-Mart’s arrival). (Wal-Mart handles its own distribution and does not rely on wholesalers). This works out to a net gain of just 10-30 retail and wholesale jobs, and the study does not examine whether these jobs are part-time or whether they pay more or less than the jobs eliminated by Wal-Mart. The study also found that, within five years of Wal- Mart’s arrival, the counties had lost an average of four small retail businesses, one midsized store, and one large store. It does not estimate declines in revenue to retailers that survive. Basker looked at the effect of Wal-Mart on retail employment in neighboring communities, but found that the confidence intervals were too large (meaning the results showed wide variation) to draw any conclusion about Wal-Mart’s impact. (Her initial working paper, published in 2002, reported an average decline of 30 retail jobs in surrounding communities, but, after correcting an error, she determined the confidence intervals were too large to produce a precise result.)

3. WAGES & BENEFITS These studies examine the effect of big-box chains, particularly Wal-Mart, on wages and benefits for retail employees.

Does Local Firm Ownership Matter? — by Stephan Goetz and David Fleming, Economic Development Quarterly, April 2011.

Goetz and Fleming analyze 2,953 counties, including both rural and urban places, and find that, after controlling for other factors that influence growth, those with a larger density of small, locally owned businesses experienced greater per capita income growth between 2000 and 2007. The presence of large, non-local businesses, meanwhile, had a negative effect on incomes.



Living Wage Policies and Big-box Retail: How a Higher Wage Standard Would Impact Wal-Mart Workers and Shoppers – UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, April 2011.

About 900,000 Wal-Mart workers, or 65 percent of its U. S. workforce, are paid less than $12 an hour. More than one-fifth earn less than $9 an hour. Overall, Wal-Mart’s hourly workers earn 12.4 percent less than retail workers as a whole. This study finds that raising their pay to a minimum of $12 an hour would lift many out of poverty, reduce their reliance on public assistance, and cost the average consumer, at most, $12.49 a year.

A Downward Push: The Impact of Wal-Mart Stores on Retail Wages and Benefits – By Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester, and Barry Eidlin, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, December 2007

This study analyzes the impact of the opening of Wal-Mart stores on the earnings of retail workers. (It uses a similar technique to account for possible biases in Wal-Mart’s store location decisions as the study described in the RETAIL EMPLOYMENT section above, “The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets.”) This study focuses on stores that opened between 1992 and 2000 and concludes, “Opening a single Wal-Mart store lowers the average retail wage in the surrounding county between 0.5 and 0.9 percent.” Not only did Wal-Mart lower average wage rates, but “every new Wal-Mart in a county reduced the combined or aggregate earnings of retail workers by around 1.5 percent.” Because this number is higher than the reduction in average wages, it indicates that Wal-Mart not only lowered pay rates, but also reduced the total number of retail jobs. The study goes on to look at the cumulative impact of Wal-Mart store openings on retail earnings at the state level and nationwide. “At the national level, our study concludes that in 2000, total earnings of retail workers nationwide were reduced by $4.5 billion due to Wal-Mart’s presence,” the researchers find. Most of these losses were concentrated in metropolitan areas. Although Wal-Mart is often associated with rural areas, three-quarters of the stores it built in the 1990s were in metropolitan counties.

What Do We Know About Wal-Mart? – By Annette Bernhardt, Anmol Chaddha, and Siobhán McGrath, Brennan Center for Justice, August 2005

This scrupulously fact-checked and footnoted report outlines what we know about Wal-Mart, in terms of its wages, health insurance benefits, compliance with labor laws, and cost to states. It details average starting wages for various job classifications. It reports that Wal-Mart employees earn 20 percent less than retail workers on average. It outlines the out-of-pocket costs, coverage limitations, and eligibility requirements for the retailer’s health insurance plan, and compiles information on what various states are spending to provide Medicaid to uninsured Wal-Mart employees and their children. The report also summarizes Wal-Mart’s record of labor law violations.

Reviewing and Revising Wal-Mart’s Benefits Strategy – Memo to the Wal-Mart Board of Directors from Susan Chambers, Wal-Mart’s executive vice president for benefits, Oct. 2005

This internal memo leaked to Wal-Mart Watch assesses Wal-Mart’s current health care benefits and offers strategies to both reduce the company’s health insurance costs and neutralize criticism of its employment practices. The memo reports that only 48 percent of the company’s employees are enrolled in its insurance plan, compared to an average of 68 percent for national employers. Excessive out-of-pocket costs, including expensive premiums and high deductibles, are to blame. “Our coverage is expensive for low-income families, and Wal-Mart has a significant percentage of Associates and their children on public assistance,” the memo notes. Employees enrolled in Wal-Mart’s insurance plan spend an average of 8 percent of their income on health care, nearly twice the national average. Almost 40 percent spend more than 16 percent of their income, a crippling cost for workers who earn less than $20,000 a year on average. The memo also reports that Wal-Mart has a larger share of its employees and their children enrolled in Medicaid compared to other companies. “In total, 46 percent of Associates’ children are either on Medicaid or are uninsured,” it notes. The memo offers strategies for reducing Wal-Mart’s health care costs, including increasing the percentage of part-time employees and “design[ing] all jobs to include some physical activity (e.g., all cashiers do some cart gathering).” The latter recommendation aims to “dissuade unhealthy people from coming to work at Wal-Mart.”