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Can Walmart get any more tone deaf?

Well…if you follow the news at all, you’ve seen the veneer start to crack on the supposedly wonderful company Walmart over the past year or so, exposing the just awful employee policies the company has…and the amount of subsidies that the American people give to each and every store (over a million dollars a year per store, 3.5 billion dollars total). But now, it has even gotten worse…with a store in Ohio setting up a food donation area in an employee lounge so workers can donate food so other workers will have a Thanksgiving dinner…yep, you heard it right…Walmart wants its poorly paid employees to subsidize even worse paid ones so they don’t go hungry. There is so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start…if Walmart was so damn concerned that it’s full time employees don’t make enough money to buy food without food stamps (and it’s not…it’s a policy they support), why not just pay them more? Or, buy every employee Thanksgiving dinner? But, even with the countless billions of dollars in profit they make every year, they won’t pry even a few extra dollars out of their grasping hands to make sure their employees don’t starve….what a poor excuse for a company…and the reason I will never set foot in one….geez…