Posted by W_B on March 12, 2014 at 07:07:01 from (155.188.183.19):
In Reply to: RE:Deleted post posted by JD Seller on March 09, 2014 at 06:59:04:
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Wow, JD. I usually respect your insight but I think you are off the mark. I'm no fan of Wally World either, but you don't bust up large companies until they are anti competitive and control most of the market and charge above market prices. I can say in our area that is not the case with WalMart, there is robust competition with Kroger, Giant Eagle, Mejier, Aldi and some 2-3 store locals competing for the food dollar. If anything WalMart is a force to keep prices LOWER... ever see a market where Kroger is the really dominate market? Higher grocery prices is the result. A regional chain, Big Bear went bust and left Kroger as the king of the hill. That's why the others moved in, saw a chance to take market share from Kroger, and it worked to the consumer's benefit.
There is still work in the computer world. My company has a rather large IT shop. Other companies in our industry do too. We do employ some foreign workers but that's because they know the computer language on our old mainframes that is NOT being taught to young folks today. So it's a problem of education, not willingness to hire locals. There are also big problems with off shoring your IT work, the cost of data transmission back and forth was a killer for us (hundreds of thousands of lines of code), also time zone differences and just plain quality of the work. Even with them here the workers take off for a month to go back home to visit family. On tight project timelines you can't have your programmers taking a month off the project. One gal I know went home to Malasia and got stuck there for several weeks, she worked remotely on our hours, which was through the night there. She joined our weekly meeting at 3:30 a.m. her time.
I agree however with the union thing, look how the UAW sold out the new hires in the auto industry, just to keep their too high wages and benefits for a few more years.
No answers here but it's a new and different world. The worker who adapts will do OK, those that don't will be begging the govt. for a constant hand out.
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