Selling In Minnest Analysis

In “Selling in Minnesota” by Barbara Ehrenreich, she explains the horrible experience she went through in her job training at Wal-Mart. The company Wal-Mart provides a welcoming environment to their customers, but an uneasy work environment for their employees through uncaring, unresponsive, and unrewarding treatment. Wal-Mart’s employee wages are low with no health benefits and unstable hours each week. The company is expanding and running the mom-and-pop stores out of business. It’s these mom-and-pop stores that actually provide good jobs and have employee and customer values. Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer known for its best prices, in all truthfulness, should reevaluate the treatment they give their employees for good morals…show more content…
Nowadays, the retail industry is targeting younger adults and senior citizens for hire and Wal-Mart is especially guilty for this. In reality it’s impossible to make a living working in retail and these targets are easy to manipulate. The majority of Wal-Marts goods are made outside of the U.S. and often in sweatshops. It’s displeasing and although the fine low prices are tempting, some customers will disappear because customers will feel terrible of workers treatment. Without customers, there is no business and this will hurt this large company in the long-term. Not only is it right for the company to give more consideration to their employee’s desires but it will also contribute to the bottom line. Their customer will know the value of their company and employees will be more productive in what they do and proud of who they work for.

Wal-Mart makes an average of $245 billion in revenues; therefore they have the resources to treat employees fairly. It is important for their corporation to take care of their workers and have a reputation of treating them fairly, which is important to the customers. Wal-Mart is a very successful company that needs to pay attention to their workers feedback instead of squeezing every cent they can out of them. The better they treat their employees, the more customers will…show more content…
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