Walmart's New Truck Looks AMAZING!

What are you guys talking about walmart employees not being paid enough? You drive for walmart and you got it made. The average grocer where I live makes minimum wage, the average walmart grocer eight miles down the road from me makes $10 an hour plus the walmart employee discount.

I know this because less than a year ago I applied to work at a bunch of these places back when I was out of work.

What are you guys talking about walmart employees not being paid enough? You drive for walmart and you got it made. The average grocer where I live makes minimum wage, the average walmart grocer eight miles down the road from me makes $10 an hour plus the walmart employee discount.

I know this because less than a year ago I applied to work at a bunch of these places back when I was out of work.

10$ an hour isn't anywhere near a living wage. Especially in states like CA.

If you hate walmart so much for paying $10 an hour, then you must be wanting to murder all the other grocery stores that pay $7.25. Where do you buy your food at?

If you hate walmart so much for paying $10 an hour, then you must be wanting to murder all the other grocery stores that pay $7.25. Where do you buy your food at?

The difference between Walmart and Nancy's Food Store is that Walmart is a billion dollar business and can easily afford to pay their employees a reasonable salary. But they choose not to.

If walmart offered a job pushing the carts around their parking lot for $40k a year then I would quit my dedicated route this instant to go work for them. The whole country would be filled with wanabee cart pushers and door greeters. Internet sites would start popping up like "walmart truth" giving advice and discussions about everyone's daily adventures stocking the produce aisles.

That is why even if you payed any amount of money to these type of jobs, then everyone else that does skilled labor will require more money to do their jobs, otherwise we would all be working at walmart.

The reason folks are paid $10 an hour because that is what people will accept with an entree level job. These positions are not meant to be careers, if you are unhappy with your job then go and better yourself.

I have to agree with Justin on this issue. Walmart fills a niche that the market obviously demands. People want a large selection of cheap, low-quality goods. The only way to bring them what they want is to keep costs as low as possible. Walmart isn't twisting anyone's arm. Nobody has to work there by law. I've worked at places like McDonald's and Tops Supermarket for minimum wage as a teenager. Most of us have. That's how you get started in the job market. Then it's up to you to learn the knowledge and skills needed to advance in your career or upgrade to a better paying career.

Walmart has all of the opportunities in the world to either make $10/hr stocking shelves or move up into any tier of management you like. The more money you want to make the more of an education and skill set you will need and the more time and effort you'll have to put into it. They also offer you the opportunity to quit your job anytime you like and work elsewhere.

At the same time I'm all for unions being formed by employees to force these large companies to give out better pay and offer better working conditions. If it's fair for the company to pursue its best interest it's also fair for the employees to pursue theirs. That's what the free market is all about.

And trust me - there are a lot of companies that are far worse than Walmart when it comes to employee pay. Apple makes a profit of $71,000 per minute!!!! That's more than their average employee makes in a year. That's far more egregious.

When deciding what you think a job should pay you should base it on the demand for employees, not the company's profits. If I started a stamp licking company where people did nothing but lick stamps all day it wouldn't matter if I made $100/year or a million dollars a year....there simply isn't much of a demand for stamp lickers.

To tell you the truth, I think truck drivers are way underpaid for the talent it takes and the risk and sacrifices they make. But the job market is so lousy outside of the trucking industry that there's a steady stream of available drivers so the wages aren't being driven higher like I feel they should be. Now if the rest of the blue collar labor market were to take off again, trucking salaries would likely improve as drivers left the industry to seek out other careers.

Lastly, remember that "everyone getting their equal share" is Socialism and it doesn't work. It's idealistic and Utopian on paper, but it's a failed system in the real world. Capitalism means paying market prices for labor and for goods. It's far from a perfect system, but it's the best one anyone has come up with.

As long as we have free choice to move around then it's up to each of us to forge a path that suits us. I have a friend who is 45 years old and has worked on the floor at Walmart for like 20 years. Still makes like $10-$12/hr. She hasn't pursued any other opportunities so nothing has changed. And she has that right. If she was being forced by law against her will then this would be an entirely different conversation.

This is the most hideous truck ive ever seen

That's the coolest truck I've ever seen!

agreed.