WinCo vs Walmart?

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WinCo is an employee owned grocery chain which pays its 15,000 workers at least $11/hour, offers health and dental insurance-even for part-time staff, and invests 20% of an employee's salary into a pension which has turned 400 cashiers and clerks into millionaires.

They offer lower prices than Wal-Mart.
 
Reminds me of Henry Ford who was a front runner in American Industrialization.

He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers.
 
I live down the street from a WinCo. I try to shop there when I'm not doing a Costco run and just need grocery items. The pizza place inside, Leonardi's is pretty decent.
 
Anti-Party said:
WinCo is an employee owned grocery chain which pays its 15,000 workers at least $11/hour, offers health and dental insurance-even for part-time staff, and invests 20% of an employee's salary into a pension which has turned 400 cashiers and clerks into millionaires.

They offer lower prices than Wal-Mart.
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Wow you mean capitalism may bring a challenge to th vaunted walmart? We will see. I wish them well
 
You can read an entire article about winco here, I am posting one paragraph.

This is what all the rich should be doing "SHARING" a very small portion of the super wealth in this country with their employees, like they used too.

While all these factors help WinCo compete with Walmart on price, what really might scare the world’s largest retailer is how WinCo treats its employees. In sharp contrast to Walmart, which regularly comes under fire for practices like understaffing stores to keep costs down and hiring tons of temporary workers as a means to avoid paying full-time workers benefits, WinCo has a reputation for doing right by employees. It provides health benefits to all staffers who work at least 24 hours per week. The company also has a pension, with employees getting an amount equal to 20% of their annual salary put in a plan that’s paid for by WinCo; a company spokesperson told the Idaho Statesman that more than 400 nonexecutive workers (cashiers, produce clerks and such) currently have pensions worth over $1 million apiece.

Read more: WinCo: Low-Key, Low-Cost Grocer Called 'Walmart's Worst Nightmare' | TIME.com http://business.time.com/2013/08/07...lled-wal-marts-worst-nightmare/#ixzz2tZx0gfxu
 
they don't want to share they want to own the world.


the right in this country treats them like their kings .


the right doesn't even care what country their owners are from.


The right merely worships the wealthy these days.

thye repeat like parrots whatever Fox news tells them no matter how many times fox news lies to them.

Did Robmoney win by five folks?

NO

yet they just keep saying whatever Fox tells them to say
 
Anti-Party said:
WinCo is an employee owned grocery chain which pays its 15,000 workers at least $11/hour, offers health and dental insurance-even for part-time staff, and invests 20% of an employee's salary into a pension which has turned 400 cashiers and clerks into millionaires.

They offer lower prices than Wal-Mart.
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You just have to be very selective in what you shop for. Winco's meat often times looks older than the cows that were slaughtered.
 
evince said:
they don't want to share they want to own the world.


the right in this country treats them like their kings .


the right doesn't even care what country their owners are from.


The right merely worships the wealthy these days.

thye repeat like parrots whatever Fox news tells them no matter how many times fox news lies to them.

Did Robmoney win by five folks?

NO

yet they just keep saying whatever Fox tells them to say
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Regardless of ideology, if you make above $X per year, you are "above" Wal-Mart, and if you make below $X, you might just shop there. If you are right around a certain range of income, and you consider Wal-Mart to be a classless shopping experience, you likely try to find affordable alternatives. I recommend WinCo to anyone shopping for groceries who wants to save money (no credit cards, btw - debit, cash, and probably check, only).
 
Anti-Party said:
Reminds me of Henry Ford who was a front runner in American Industrialization.

He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers.
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He was also a notorious anti-semite and hired goons to beat the hell out of people who asked for higher wages.
 
Threedee said:
Regardless of ideology, if you make above $X per year, you are "above" Wal-Mart, and if you make below $X, you might just shop there. If you are right around a certain range of income, and you consider Wal-Mart to be a classless shopping experience, you likely try to find affordable alternatives. I recommend WinCo to anyone shopping for groceries who wants to save money (no credit cards, btw - debit, cash, and probably check, only).
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Are they comparable to Aldi's? I never heard of them? I don't do much shopping at Wally world primarily cause the quality of much of discounted merchandise sucks and the non-merchandized stuff is about the same price you'd get anywhere else and, secondly, I don't approve of their predatory business practices.
 
I'm not familiar with Aldi's, but it is an employee-run Co-Op as AP described. Management positions are held by people elected to them by the group.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
aldi's is a great place to buy boxed goods like cereal and pasta.....you don't want to buy their meat or fruit, though......
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Yea I've shopped at Aldi's before just as you described for boxed and dry goods....We have a Trader Joe's here in Dublin and they are awesome. I bought a case of wine, 12 bottles at roughly $3.50 a bottle and it was a pretty good table wine. Their product quality is better than Aldi's too but it's a similar business model.
 
Don't have WinCo here. Costco is my standby, nearly every week I load up, then grab a fresh steel head on the way out...
 
Costco rules! My parents have been members since I was a kid, and now I have followed in their footsteps. I have their Amex card.
 
Teflon Don said:
Wow you mean capitalism may bring a challenge to th vaunted walmart? We will see. I wish them well
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You clearly don't know what "crony capitalism" is and don't know anything about American History. ALL parties know about this, they simply have different ways of correcting it. Well........not republicans..
 
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