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“[A]s anyone can imagine, it made us wince”
“See? We like to throw s***,” the man clarifies, while standing in the stockroom of a Walmart in Pikeville, Kentucky. “That’s iPad number three we’ve thrown.”
Those at Walmart’s corporate offices were not amused by the antics. “We’ve seen the video of several nightshift associates destroying merchandise in the back of one of our stores in August and, as anyone can image, it made us wince,” a Walmart spokesperson tells NBC News in response to inquiries about that clip. “We are also embarrassed.” She adds that the “associates involved no longer work for Walmart.”
At one point in the video, one of the men is seen throwing a box to ground. “Sorry about that, iPad,” the person recording the video says. “Hope nobody buys that.”
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And the cost of goods and services necessarily goes up.
davidk on November 10, 2012 at 5:21 PM
Dave Rywall.
Bishop on November 10, 2012 at 5:23 PM
UPS will still hire them.
lester on November 10, 2012 at 5:23 PM
Eh, normally theft is the problem not willful damage.
Still, going to my local Walmart Superstore is a disturbing experience best avoided.
CorporatePiggy on November 10, 2012 at 5:24 PM
Contributing to December’s unemployment number.
salem on November 10, 2012 at 5:24 PM
Anyone who has seen one of the bizarre pep rally style meetings that Wal-Mart forces their employees to participate in on the sales floor understands this story completely.
Hey Wal-Mart, this is what happens when you humiliate the people working for you. (…and no, I have never worked there–just had the misfortune of walking by while they were doing this.)
ElectricPhase on November 10, 2012 at 5:38 PM
Get rid of the pep rallies and force them to do P90X. Too many fatties.
tuffy on November 10, 2012 at 5:53 PM
If Walmart treated its employees better, this would happen less often. A comparison of Walmart v. Costco in this regard is pretty striking.
See:
http://hbr.org/2006/12/the-high-cost-of-low-wages/ar/1
cam2 on November 10, 2012 at 6:01 PM
The employees or the customers?
Odysseus on November 10, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Ooooh, that was mean!
cam2 on November 10, 2012 at 6:10 PM
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
davidk on November 10, 2012 at 6:19 PM
You had to go there.
I shared that site with a Frog and she said ‘This cannot possibly be real’.
Oh but it is…
CorporatePiggy on November 10, 2012 at 6:40 PM
You know, I feel like my local Walmart exists in an alternative universe. In all of the time I have made trips there, I have never encountered anything bad. The employees have all been some of the nicest, most helpful people you’d want to meet.
Granted sometimes the younger employees sport some really odd hair colors but they still act politely and helpfully.
Truly strange when compared with the experiences of other folks.
Shogun144 on November 10, 2012 at 7:02 PM
From what I’ve experienced, it boils down to location and the employees/customers therein. Most of the Wal-Marts I’ve been to had a whole lot of kindergarbage, junk food, and the like…but the places were darn near spotless and people mostly behaved themselves.
Then there was the Wal-Mart I went to in a certain locale, saw the booze shelves all empty with an official notice that the store had temporarily lost its license for a violation, expressed great surprise…and got quietly told by one of the locals “this happens all the time.”
MelonCollie on November 10, 2012 at 7:58 PM
They sell booze at Walmart? What state was this?
cam2 on November 10, 2012 at 8:01 PM
Most likely all 57 of them.
If certain interest groups had a hard on of hate for every other retailer in the country, you’d see this kind of thing isn’t limited to Walmart. I can assure you there are crappy Costco employees too.
But you know what’s really funny? Obamacare is going to make employers become more like Walmart when it comes to compensation, not less, lol. Oh, the sweet sweet irony is oh so delicious.
xblade on November 10, 2012 at 11:25 PM