Walmart

Ever since reading a story in the paper about Walmart managers locking the employees in the store and forcing them to work off the clock, I have stopped shopping in Walmart. Reading a leaked memo written by a lawyer who makes something like 30 million a year on how to save money on low-paid workers by not paying them more for experience and giving them the least amount of health benefits, I knew I was doing the right thing. When I told Ralph, my tennis coach, that I don't shop at Walmart, he couldn't believe that these practices take place. He suggested that merely reporting them to the Better Business Bureau would halt them for good. I disagree, because I think that the only way to stop these practices is to take away the threat of store managers being fired for giving their workers overtime. Of course, that would raise costs, and Walmart hates that. And I find Walmart's practice of paying pennies to a million of workers, and paying tens of millions to a couple of lawyers who screw them over, is deplorable. And in any case, Target has better-designed stuff.