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1/17/2017 9:48 am  #1


Wal-Mart Touts Plan to Create U.S. Jobs, in Nod to Trump

 Wal-Mart Touts Plan to Create U.S. Jobs, in Nod to Trump

Quantifying its earlier plan, retailer says store openings, e-commerce will add 10,000 positions this year

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wal-mart-to-create-10-000-u-s-jobs-in-nod-to-trump-1484649003
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

said it plans to create about 10,000 U.S. jobs this year, a sign that even the country’s largest private employer feels the need to tout American job growth ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.The jobs will come from previously planned store openings, store expansions and new e-commerce services, the company said Tuesday.

The retailer said 24,000 additional construction jobs will be supported by those efforts.“With a presence in thousands of communities and a vast supplier network, we know we play an important role in supporting and creating American jobs,” Dan Bartlett, Wal-Mart executive vice president of corporate affairs, said in a press release.

 


 “We hold these truths to be self-evident,”  former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”

 
 

1/17/2017 10:07 am  #2


Re: Wal-Mart Touts Plan to Create U.S. Jobs, in Nod to Trump

These are business decisions. To attribute these business decisions to pressure from anticipated actions or previous comments by a guy who says he is in favor of deregulation, free markets, and ending government interference in business is nonsensical, lacks reason, and irrational.

 

1/17/2017 10:09 am  #3


Re: Wal-Mart Touts Plan to Create U.S. Jobs, in Nod to Trump

Hey, he hasn't even been sworn in yet, common.


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

1/17/2017 11:48 am  #4


Re: Wal-Mart Touts Plan to Create U.S. Jobs, in Nod to Trump

Previously planned store openings is the key. 

Never, however, walk away from taking credit ! 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

1/17/2017 1:16 pm  #5


Re: Wal-Mart Touts Plan to Create U.S. Jobs, in Nod to Trump

But wait.  Was not a big news the other day on Walmart cutting thousands of jobs, mostly in management?

 

1/18/2017 10:19 am  #6


Re: Wal-Mart Touts Plan to Create U.S. Jobs, in Nod to Trump

tennyson wrote:

Previously planned store openings is the key. 

Never, however, walk away from taking credit ! 

It appears that a few companies are adjusting their PR to curry favor with the new administration.

They are re-announcing previously planned US expansions in a way that allows trump to claim credit, and burying news about foreign activities.

Pretty cozy. They may get a quid pro quo from trump, and he gets a fairytale to tell the unsophisticated


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

1/20/2017 9:33 am  #7


Re: Wal-Mart Touts Plan to Create U.S. Jobs, in Nod to Trump

Please everyone, remember this. Companies, and particularly large companies, don't just pull decisions out of their asses on a whim. Corporate strategies are figured out years in advance. Donald Trump has as much to do with recent corporate announcements as I do. Which is to say, none.


I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
 

1/20/2017 9:39 am  #8


Re: Wal-Mart Touts Plan to Create U.S. Jobs, in Nod to Trump

TheLagerLad wrote:

Please everyone, remember this. Companies, and particularly large companies, don't just pull decisions out of their asses on a whim. Corporate strategies are figured out years in advance. Donald Trump has as much to do with recent corporate announcements as I do. Which is to say, none.

I agree. Someone should tell Mr Trump.

Hey, it's fine. Trump can claim credit for every job created in America. Of course, he then is to blame for every job lost in America.


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

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