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[alexseanchai]

Why the hell is Walmart spinning $2.7 billion of wages increase (if it's even all wages increase) as a bright idea Walmart had? Walmart costs taxpayers $6.2 billion by underpaying their employees! And Walmart is one of the entities feeling a lot of pressure from Fight For $15!

I have seen this same Walmart commercial about the wages at least four times today.

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Re: If you're going to lie, lie BIG

[untonuggan]

Wal-Mart is not only inexpensive, they also stock plus-size clothing! Like I can get a bathing suit there for $20 that doesn't look horrible, or I could hunt around Avenue or online for plus-size bathing suits with weeeiiiird floral designs and pay $60-80 if I'm lucky. They also have plus-size exercise clothes, which admittedly are not the greatest quality but HELLO MANUFACTURERS this is an untapped market.

I went to the J Jill sale the other day (because their clothes last *forever* and are comfortable and easy to care for and look way more professional than a lot of "made for larger people professional" clothes) and managed to get a dress that was originally $90 for $28, which still fits in my category of "expensive clothes" but I needed a dress and also IT HAS POCKETS. But they apparently don't regularly stock XL clothes in the store, only online. It was just there because someone had returned it. They don't regularly stock XL clothes in the store. Is that because having larger people in their store will scare away all the thin people by ruining their image? What is that even?

Re: If you're going to lie, lie BIG

[dialecticdreamer]

There's a sporting goods store near the house which annoys me to NO END.

Why?

Every guy working there is lean and bufffed, while every girl in there is at MOST a size four.

Yet they claim to be for all kinds of sports fans, and carry the few items I want to add to our home weight collection. The closest to "buff" in our family is the youngest, who was immediately pressured by the salesperson to look at their new "whey protein supplements," just a few feet inside the door.

He told the clerk he's allergic to milk. "But this is WHEY, not milk!" The clerk kept insisting that he had "just the thing' for kiddo to 'bulk up faster.'

The management doesn't see anything wrong at ALL with their 'training.'

Re: If you're going to lie, lie BIG

[alexseanchai]

Doesn't whey have lactose? Isn't that the usual reason for dairy intolerance? And if lactose isn't the problem here, surely milk protein is!

Ugh.

Re: If you're going to lie, lie BIG

[dialecticdreamer]

It's a true allergy. Sadly, the manager just stared at me BLANKLY when I told him his staff was pushing someone who'd already said NO, for MEDICAL reasons.

We don't shop there, even if it's the only place in town with item X. I'd rather do without FOREVER than support that kind of crap.

Re: If you're going to lie, lie BIG

[alexseanchai]

Yup.

Re: If you're going to lie, lie BIG

[untonuggan]

*flails madly in the direction of the sporting store in question*

with their hiring practices it sounds like they are setting themselves up for an Abercrombie-esque type lawsuit, though someone would have to be able to "prove" discrimination.