Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., functions as a chain of discount departmental, largest grocery retailer store. The company plan was initiated by Sam Walton in 1962. In 1972, it was incorporated in the New York Stock Exchange list and was branded as Wall-mart in 2008. According to the Forbes Global 2000 list, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is 18th largest public corporation and one of the largest public corporations as per the revenue generation, of United States of America. It is also one of the largest employers around the world with almost 2 million people working under the banner of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., runs around 8500 stores in 15 different countries, with different retail names. The impact of Wall-Mart on America and different parts of the world (Moreton, p.55). The Wal-Mart has an impact on America because; it is one of the large retail chains of America and it gives employment to thousands of people, so the rules and regulations made by Wal-Mart are benchmark for the other organizations.
There are few Organizations that have created controversy for Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart's critic accuses that the Wall Mart Stores often destroy job, depresse wage, suppresse worker right, and impose most important costs on the public. Defender says that the organization create jobs, cut prices for lower-wage Americans, and represent a free-market success.
“America and other countries are affected due to the Wall-Mart Strategies”
Businesses are decliningdue to low-cost strategies of Wal-Mart. The presence of Wal-Mart has strong competitors under intense pressure on all fronts and sales in the stores like Wall-mart declined their performances past year. The obsession of management to reduce costs has led to a generalized situation in which the stores maintain a staffing level less than adequate. This leads to the enhanced quality of customer visits and many do not fall back.
This in turn leads to a decrease in sales, which in turn generates a greater pressure to maintain cost down and so the cycle repeat. Study in 2007 found that the presence of a Wal-Mart store reduces the wages of employees in stores near your area of operation this happens when wall-mart entered to the town. "The economy is in trouble and a change in business strategy of Wal-Mart could have a substantial impact on the financial situation of millions of Americans, " said Schlademan, director of the Change Making at Wal-Mart. "Neither Wal-Mart nor the U.S. economy recover until Wal-Mart customers have large income in their accounts. If Wal-Mart starts to pay higher wages their employees and increase their hours, and other service sector companies and will demand that our stimulus economy needs." Schlademan added that "investing in the workers will be better for workers, results for Wal-Mart and the economy.
Wal-Mart - America's national treasures, and the most powerful retailer in the world, dictating the rules of business to other businesses and interconnected with several businessess. Americans spend at Wal-Mart $ 35 million every ...