I'm Sure This is Happening in NZ as Well

[Lilith7]

Underpaying employees isn't community good, since they also need to rely on welfare from that wider community. These are people so poorly paid that often they can't afford medical care, & sometimes. food.


https://www.cnbc.com/2014/11/20/wal-mart...drive.html

Wal-Mart on Thursday came under fire from the Making Change at Walmart organization, after the labor group posted an image to its Facebook page showing a food drive for employees at an Oklahoma store.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Kayla Whaling quickly responded to the criticism, saying the drive was planned by one of the store’s employees, who was collecting food for two co-workers who were on a leave of absence and unable to work.


Whaling added that Wal-Mart, which is frequently the subject of attack over its pay practices, never plans this type of event at the corporate level.

Dawnne Sulaitis, who has worked at Wal-Mart for 19 years, said she asked for permission to hold the food drive when she found out that two families would be down to one income over the holidays.
“It just really comes down to wanting to lend somebody a helping hand,” Sulaitis said.
She added there are two medium-size boxes for donations in the store, and each is about three-quarters of the way full.


“It’s been very well-received,” Sulaitis said.

Wal-Mart came under similar criticism last year, when an employee held a food drive for one co-worker who had lost their home in a fire, and for another who had stopped receiving child support from her ex-husband.
“It’s unfortunate that when a store in those situations, when they want to give back to the local community or to others that they work with based on maybe finding out that they aren’t able to work…that they would be criticized for wanting to help,” Whaling said.

As the nation’s largest retailer, critics argue changes made at Wal-Mart will trickle to other retailers and help improve conditions for low-wage workers. That is one belief expressed by the Making Change at Walmart group.

However, they are not the only critic. On Thursday, public health attorney Michele Simon issued a report on Wal-Mart that said the retailer is contributing to the hunger crisis in the United States.
“In addition to paying workers so little that too many rely on public assistance, Walmart and the Waltons are building their wealth with income from food stamps,” the report said."




 If Walmart were to pay a living wage, that would be avoided & its extremely unlikely that a living wage would cause Walmart to become bankrupt.

Clearly you prefer that they have no jobs at all. There's no easy answer, but being blindly critical doesn't really help.

How exactly did you manage to get that from my post - extraordinary!

If a business as large & successful as Walmart is  unable to pay its workers a living wage, then perhaps they really shouldn't be in business. The family which owns Walmart is very wealthy; their standard of living is unlikeltyto drop dramatically should they decide to do the morally right thing.
Fairly obviously, they prefer not to.