Wal-Mart Returning To Full-Time Workers-Obamacare Not Such A Job Killer After All?

[mota bhai 2,675]

Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest employer, announced Monday that 35,000 part-time employees will soon be moved to full-time status, entitling them to the full healthcare benefits that were scheduled to be denied them as a result of Wal-Mart’s efforts to avoid the requirements of Obamacare.

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Wal-Mart’s business is going south due to the company’s penchant for putting politics and the squeeze on Wal-Mart employees ahead of the kind of customer satisfaction that produces prosperity over the long-term.

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Sales have been sinking dramatically at the retailer as the company has turned to hiring mostly temporary workers to staff their stores while cutting full-time employees’ hours.

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A recent description of a Wal-Mart store in Newark, New Jersey published by Bloomberg, says it all—

“Three days earlier, about 10 people waited in a customer service line at a Wal-Mart in Secaucus, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York, the nation’s largest city. Twelve of 30 registers were open and the lines were about five deep. There were empty spaces on shelves large enough for a grown man to lie down, and a woman wandered around vainly seeking a frying pan.”

The description pretty much sums up what you will find at the typical Wal-Mart store in the United States these days.

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Wal-Mart’s penny wise-pound foolish approach to its business was further well documented in the Bloomberg article referenced earlier where they told the story of Margaret Hancock, a retired accountant from Newark, Delaware, who has always viewed Wal-Mart as her “one stop shopping destination”.

While Ms. Hancock had, for years, been able to get everything she needed at her local Wal-Mart store, recent visits resulted in her failing to locate numerous items as the products were simply were not out on the shelves and available for purchase.

As Hancock explained it, “If it’s not on the shelf, I can’t buy it. You hate to see a company self-destruct, but there are other places to go.”

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So, where is all that product that once filled Wal-Mart shelves?

Oh, the goods are in the store—either in the back room or in the unopened boxes lining the aisles as they await the availability of a store clerk to get to the rather critical job of moving the merchandise from the box to the shelf where a customer can actually purchase it. But when there are insufficient numbers of store clerks available—due to Wal-Mart’s commitment to using temporary workers or busting its full-time employees down to part-time so as to avoid worker benefit—the products Wal-Mart sells stay off the shelves and unavailable for customers to purchase.

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Wal-Mart is finally learning what all American businesses who seek to avoid their health care responsibilities to employees will soon learn.

It may be a clever enough dodge to cut employees below the 30 hours per week in order to avoid the expectations of Obamacare, but the move comes at a substantial price to be paid in lost revenue and profits. Given that the entire point of business is to show a profit, it is only a matter of time before employers learn what Home Depot learned some years ago and what Wal-Mart is slowly beginning to figure out—you get what you pay for.

Cut back on employees and you will, eventually, cut back on your profits as the savings a business creates by cutting worker hours leads to greatly decreased sales as customer satisfaction disappears.

While there are no shortage of Americans who enjoy deriding the Affordable Care Act as a ‘job killer’, what will soon emerge—and sooner than you may think—is an understanding that the losses experienced by businesses that cut worker hours will far exceed whatever is gained by avoiding giving employees the healthcare benefits their families so badly require.

Don’t believe it?

Just ask Wal-Mart.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/09/25/wal-mart-returning-to-full-time-workers-obamacare-not-such-a-job-killer-after-all/

[Novembro 1,763]

Wal-Mart sucks a nob, go figure.

[RGinWA 816]

See, Boycotts do work.

These b@stards have been getting away with cheap labor for years and it's finally gonna catch up with them.

Bravo...

[mota bhai 2,675]

See, Boycotts do work.

The article doesn't convincingly make that case at all.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Cut back on employees and you will, eventually, cut back on your profits as the savings a business creates by cutting worker hours leads to greatly decreased sales as customer satisfaction disappears.

While there are no shortage of Americans who enjoy deriding the Affordable Care Act as a ‘job killer’, what will soon emerge—and sooner than you may think—is an understanding that the losses experienced by businesses that cut worker hours will far exceed whatever is gained by avoiding giving employees the healthcare benefits their families so badly require.

Don’t believe it?

Yes, that's pretty obvious.

[Crashed~N2~Me 970]

With more than 2 million employees = They're just fine tuning the over under.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

A recent description of a Wal-Mart store in Newark, New Jersey published by Bloomberg, says it all—

“Three days earlier, about 10 people waited in a customer service line at a Wal-Mart in Secaucus, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York, the nation’s largest city. Twelve of 30 registers were open and the lines were about five deep. There were empty spaces on shelves large enough for a grown man to lie down, and a woman wandered around vainly seeking a frying pan.”

Sounds like a success story to me. Just last week, Walmart was being dinged for being overstocked.

[RGinWA 816]

The article doesn't convincingly make that case at all.

Not in the article, but in general many people won't shop there...me being one of them.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Not in the article, but in general many people won't shop there...me being one of them.

The numbers don't support that. Why do liberals think the rest of the world thinks just like them?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest employer, announced Monday that 35,000 part-time employees will soon be moved to full-time status, entitling them to the full healthcare benefits that were scheduled to be denied them as a result of Wal-Mart’s efforts to avoid the requirements of Obamacare.

...

Wal-Mart’s business is going south due to the company’s penchant for putting politics and the squeeze on Wal-Mart employees ahead of the kind of customer satisfaction that produces prosperity over the long-term.

...

Sales have been sinking dramatically at the retailer as the company has turned to hiring mostly temporary workers to staff their stores while cutting full-time employees’ hours.

...

A recent description of a Wal-Mart store in Newark, New Jersey published by Bloomberg, says it all—

“Three days earlier, about 10 people waited in a customer service line at a Wal-Mart in Secaucus, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York, the nation’s largest city. Twelve of 30 registers were open and the lines were about five deep. There were empty spaces on shelves large enough for a grown man to lie down, and a woman wandered around vainly seeking a frying pan.”

The description pretty much sums up what you will find at the typical Wal-Mart store in the United States these days.

...

Wal-Mart’s penny wise-pound foolish approach to its business was further well documented in the Bloomberg article referenced earlier where they told the story of Margaret Hancock, a retired accountant from Newark, Delaware, who has always viewed Wal-Mart as her “one stop shopping destination”.

While Ms. Hancock had, for years, been able to get everything she needed at her local Wal-Mart store, recent visits resulted in her failing to locate numerous items as the products were simply were not out on the shelves and available for purchase.

As Hancock explained it, “If it’s not on the shelf, I can’t buy it. You hate to see a company self-destruct, but there are other places to go.”

...

So, where is all that product that once filled Wal-Mart shelves?

Oh, the goods are in the store—either in the back room or in the unopened boxes lining the aisles as they await the availability of a store clerk to get to the rather critical job of moving the merchandise from the box to the shelf where a customer can actually purchase it. But when there are insufficient numbers of store clerks available—due to Wal-Mart’s commitment to using temporary workers or busting its full-time employees down to part-time so as to avoid worker benefit—the products Wal-Mart sells stay off the shelves and unavailable for customers to purchase.

...

Wal-Mart is finally learning what all American businesses who seek to avoid their health care responsibilities to employees will soon learn.

It may be a clever enough dodge to cut employees below the 30 hours per week in order to avoid the expectations of Obamacare, but the move comes at a substantial price to be paid in lost revenue and profits. Given that the entire point of business is to show a profit, it is only a matter of time before employers learn what Home Depot learned some years ago and what Wal-Mart is slowly beginning to figure out—you get what you pay for.

Cut back on employees and you will, eventually, cut back on your profits as the savings a business creates by cutting worker hours leads to greatly decreased sales as customer satisfaction disappears.

While there are no shortage of Americans who enjoy deriding the Affordable Care Act as a ‘job killer’, what will soon emerge—and sooner than you may think—is an understanding that the losses experienced by businesses that cut worker hours will far exceed whatever is gained by avoiding giving employees the healthcare benefits their families so badly require.

Don’t believe it?

Just ask Wal-Mart.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/09/25/wal-mart-returning-to-full-time-workers-obamacare-not-such-a-job-killer-after-all/

Wow they are bringing .01 percent on full time...We showed them...

The media preys on the low info voter

Agree Walmart customer service is Zero minus

[RGinWA 816]

The numbers don't support that. Why do liberals think the rest of the world thinks just like them?

Let me rephrase that, many people I've spoken too feel the same about Walmart's business practices and refuse to shop there.

[Dieseltu 19]

Wal marts Sucks and Obamacare sucks much more then that. Its an inexcusable Commie takeover of the American people who run their own lives. It has nothing to do with healthcare, Or it would of required every job to have some. This is about raising more taxes. To compensate for wrecking the economy through inflation and currency devaluing. And Destroying the jobs,that provide private healthcare. And stealing the existing insurance from those that have it already. So the government can offer more spending for votes. And substandard insurance for those who lost theirs to Obamacare.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Oh boy.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Wal marts Sucks and Obamacare sucks much more then that. Its an inexcusable Commie takeover of the American people who run their own lives. It has nothing to do with healthcare, Or it would of required every job to have some. This is about raising more taxes. To compensate for wrecking the economy through inflation and currency devaluing. And Destroying the jobs,that provide private healthcare. And stealing the existing insurance from those that have it already. So the government can offer more spending for votes. And substandard insurance for those who lost theirs to Obamacare.

[Teddy B 17,251]

Wal marts Sucks and Obamacare sucks much more then that. Its an inexcusable Commie takeover of the American people who run their own lives. It has nothing to do with healthcare, Or it would of required every job to have some. This is about raising more taxes. To compensate for wrecking the economy through inflation and currency devaluing. And Destroying the jobs,that provide private healthcare. And stealing the existing insurance from those that have it already. So the government can offer more spending for votes. And substandard insurance for those who lost theirs to Obamacare.