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3-2 Final Project Milestone One: Background Paper
Hello, I’m doing my background paper on the globalization of Wal mart and how they deal with low wages and sometimes very little to no benefits. Some stores are different than others. Wal mart had a very bad reputation when it came to their employees and management. With the corporation founded in 1962 Sam Walton became the largest employer in us history.( Jansson, Ph.D.,2018). The company was well known for low prices, but by the early 90s it began to be known for paying their employees low wages. The chain later profited about 315billion dollars in the 90s.
The first Wal-Mart was created in Rodgers, Arkansas in 1962 as well.
Background
The newly Wal-Mart Stores were killing the businesses of the then existing Ma and Pop businesses and smaller discount marts across the country. This store was destroying the small businessman and woman. Sam Walton didn’t care about small businesses and
The new Wal-Mart Stores were taking away from the profits of the existing mom and pop businesses or small community businesses across the country.
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Effectiveness
The effectiveness of the Wal-Mart stores hurt the shopping industry by not helping those people who were struggling to make ends meet and those within the corporation (the United Food and Com- mercial Workers) and Wake-up Wal-Mart and its subseries make something up to help their workers and those all over the country.
About how they are treated within the workplace and by the customers themselves. Also employees and the co-owners of Wal-Mart had a big falling out.
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Diverse Clientele
The clientele that Wal-Mart is dealing with would be of Mexican decent and those who are African American descent. These are the main shoppers within the stores. Diversity within the stores are very important to Sam Walton at time he was living, but now all that as changed some of the employees don’t even help the customers like they use too.
The social climate has been very different since the time Obama was in office. Wal-Mart has changed a lot now. Andrew Young is a chairperson on Wal-Mart’s broad of Trustees now. It has changed the way people look at Wal -mart now.
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Urgency
The urgency of the way we look at Wal-Mart now is dealing with being criticized, because of its refusal to provide their employees with health insurance and better wages for their families. They were also criticized for aggressively obtaining its products from contractors and manufacturers in developing nations that underpaid workers and subjected them to poor working conditions.
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References
1. the United Food and Com- mercial Workers
2. (the Services Employees International Union).
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Reginald
Williams
Southern New Hampshire University
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3-2 Final Project Milestone One: Background Paper Reginald
Williams Southern New Hampshire University
