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Wal-Mart Music Download Service Launches
nns6561 writes "Wal-Mart launched their music download service today. They are providing wma files for 88 cents. I was able to download and play the test file with MPlayer and Linux. Finally, a music service for us geeks." While it may be only another online music seller, I'd hazard a guess that Wal-Mart has the name recognition to be the most prevalent music download service, especially among the tech-unsavvy.
"Full-Time" (actually 28 hours/week) employees only gross $11,000 a year, on average.
Assuming they work 52 weeks a year, that comes out to about $7.55/hour, which is well above minimum wage, for menial labor. Working at wal-mart isn't exactly skillful work.
People aren't forced to work at wal-mart, there are alternatives. Wal-mart is one of the nation's largest employers, if not THE largest. If something is going on there that's illegal, there are plenty of people watching.
It's called capitalism people. Wal-mart offers cheap things, and gets cheap labor. So what if it uses factories in china. The chinese people are employed by them, so it helps them out.
The media won't report negatively about Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart would pull its huge advertising budget.
Utter bullshit. Walmart was all over the media for using illegal immigrant workers. Illegal immigrants shouldn't be in our country in the first place, so anyone who hires them should be punished. That goes for meat-packing plants as well.
The parent thread is an anti-capitalist troll. Its so easy to pick on the big bad walmarts of the world.
[sarcasm]Yep, they're successful, but they must have gotten that way by cheating someone out of something.[/sarcasm]