Thread: Unpaid Teens Bag Groceries for Wal-Mart

This is sick! Walmart is SCUM! They have destroyed small business all over this Country and now this! Have you ever bought their meat? It has slime on it and is totally nasty! I was told that they radiate their meat to keep it fresh longer as they do not have butchers on staff anymore!

Unpaid Teens Bag Groceries for Wal-Mart

Thousands of adolescents work as unpaid baggers in Wal-Mart’s Mexican stores. The retail giant isn’t breaking any lawsÂ*but that doesn’t mean the government is happy with the practice.

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Joseph Contreras
Newsweek

Updated: 3:33 p.m. ET July 31, 2007


July 31, 2007 - Wal-Mart prides itself on cutting costs at home and abroad, and its Mexican operations are no exception. That approach has helped the Arkansas-based retail giant set a track record of spectacular success in the 16 years since it entered Mexico as a partner of the country’s then-leading retail-store chain. But some of the company’s practices have aroused concern among some officials and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that Wal-Mart is taking advantage of local customs to pinch pennies at a time when its Mexican operations have never been more profitable.



Wal-Mart is Mexico’s largest private-sector employer in the nation today, with nearly 150,000 local residents on its payroll. An additional 19,000 youngsters between the ages of 14 and 16 work after school in hundreds of Wal-Mart stores, mostly as grocery baggers, throughout MexicoÂ*and none of them receives a red cent in wages or fringe benefits. The company doesn’t try to conceal this practice: its 62 Superama supermarkets display blue signs with white letters that tell shoppers: OUR VOLUNTEER PACKERS COLLECT NO SALARY, ONLY THE GRATUITY THAT YOU GIVE THEM. SUPERAMA THANKS YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING. The use of unsalaried youths is legal in Mexico because the kids are said to be “volunteeringâ€

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