# Why does Wal-Mart want to expand into inner-city neighborhoods?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 5, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-wal-mart-want-to-expand-into-inner-city-neighborhoods/351489 "2006-04-05T23:03:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-wal-mart-want-to-expand-into-inner-city-neighborhoods/351489/141 "2006-04-14T02:15:15Z")

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[QUOTE=even sven]  
And I’ll keep on saying that if you are an employer, you do have some obligations to your employess, who are- after all- essential to your coninued wealth. Yes, people should do what they can to improve themselves and their situation. But I don’t consider working 40 hours a week (or whatever miserable hours your boss has assigned you) to be “slacking and screwing around”.

Agreed to disagree.  
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Never said it was slacking and screwing around - not even close. What I keep saying is that if the employer can go out in the street and flag down nearly anyone to replace you, it is up to you to give him/her a reason not to. In this case, employees are essential to the continued operation of the business (whether it’s the local bodega or Wally World); a particular employee is not.

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