The 3 Biggest Myths About Retail Workers

Walmart has the largest work force with Employees making ends meet with food stamps.

walmart is not the only retailer with this problem, ALL of the big box store workers suffer from the same issues. Big Red (not it's real name but they track comments about them and retaliate) is just as bad and threaten the employees if they even whisper the work strike or union.

Places like Wal Mart do need to change and set an example. World's biggest employer and world's wealthiest country, but low wages and poor quality jobs.

Retail work is very "hurried". You have to multi-task all the time. The pay is low, and they never quite bring most of the employees up to 40 hrs per week. (they will cut you off at 39 or 39 1/2 hrs - (no benefits) Wal-Mart is considered one of the worst,& from my experience, Target is no better.

Most everything was fine in this country before all this cost cutting the past 25 years. You can't live or fund anything on low paying part time jobs. Our country debt is way beyond most citizens un standing of simple math. People that do not see passed pus chasing a product or service at the lowest sub par cost no matter who they hurt in these processes are only hurting their own future. Those of you who embraced it when it didn't effect you, well now that shoes on the other foot, enjoy. Stop shopping at or working for these kind of companies, they will have no choice but to pay more. Wake up American!

One thing that one has to understand. An employer, large or Mom and Pop, is hiring you, not your family. If they offer benefits, good for you if they do not, that is just the way it is. Take the time while working there to learn an actual needed skill then move on.

My brother has worked retail all his working life (some 35 years), starting out as seasonal part-time in clerical positions at age 16 but advancing to full-time clerical (which then came with benefits) after high school and finally management positions. But he managed to buy a house 20 years ago (mortgage has been paid off for about 10 years already), get married, support a physically challenged wife, buy a new car every four years, pay off his credit cards every month, and take a nice vacation every year. And he will get a pension when he retires. How can the naysayers who refuse to work retail explain that? Oh, right - he's an exception, I guess.

Retail can't use all full-time workers since they hvae to meet the needs of their customers. It's easy to say no full-time so they don't have to pay benefits, but the reality is that cusetomers do not all shop at the same time of day. Retailers schedule their workers so they have help when it's needed, not when the workers want to work.
Walmart, as well as other retailers, are also very busy trying to make Wall Street happy. If the companies can't showa profit, their stock pprice goes down - never mind the customers or their workers.

What some don't realize is that retail stores keep the hours worked at less than 32 hrs. so that they don't have to pay benefits and they pay just above minimum wage... Not everyone who works in retail is uneducated and below you on the food chain..... Retail used to have more full time workers but as more stores became big corporations, they found it cheaper to hire 3 part-time workers to replace one full-time worker because they didn't have to pay benefits and could offer less per hr. since it was only part-time work... Customer service went out the window when this happened/ You lost the full-time workers who were there because they liked interacting with customers and helping them, you instead got kids in high school or college who could afford the luxury of the low wages... Most of the people who work retail now would rather be anywhere but where they are and they show it... If the retailers would give a living wage and benefits, then customer service would return to the shopping.

THESE ARE MYTHS????????? I have a pt job and they don't offer me anything!