In case you missed it in the post below, WM's new website, Walmartfacts.com is chock full of interesting information--some original, some banal. To me, the information presented feels carefully selected, but far less so than the info on WM's opponents' websites. For example, WM opponents frequently discuss full-time employees quoting stats that include wages for full and part-timers. However, WM is clear that they're talking about full-timers only:
Currently, 74 percent of Wal-Mart�s hourly associates in the United States work full-time. That is well above the 20 - 40 percent typically found in the retail industry. Our average hourly wage for regular full-time associates in the U.S. is $9.68 an hour, almost double the federal minimum wage. Wal-Mart�s average full-time wage in urban areas is slightly higher than the national average. For example: Chicago, $10.69; Austin, TX, $10.69; Washington D.C./Baltimore, $10.08; Atlanta, $10.80; and in Los Angeles, $9.99.I guess this all depends on your idea of urban! Just one thing: there are no Wal-Mart stores of any vareity inside of Washington, D.C. (check for yourself!), although they're peppered in the suburban D.C. metro region! And there is one WM just inside the outer ring of Baltimore, and several just outside... I'm sure WM opponents are just as innacurate with their use of "urban"...
Posted by Kevin on January, 13 2005 at 10:54 AM
