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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by voidlogic on Friday June 02, 2017 @01:34PM (#14471807)
>Instead of paying their employees a living wage

Are you operating on old assumptions? The average hourly wage is $13.38 for full-time workers and $10.58 per hour for part-timers [1]. While that might not get you far in the bay area (which doesn't have many Walmarts FWIW), its a pretty good wage for unskilled labor in much of the interior country (which is prime Walmart territory)...

1: http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/20/news/companies/walmart-pay-r...

Edit: Sorry, when I said bay area I was thinking of the area immediately surrounding San Francisco.

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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by dragonwriter on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:00PM (#14472024)
> While that might not get you far in the bay area (which doesn't have Walmarts FWIW)

The Bay Area has, from a quick Google search and review of the list of locations, something like 25 Wal-Marts, which is substantially more than zero.

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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by greglindahl on Friday June 02, 2017 @01:51PM (#14471954)
The Bay Area doesn't have Walmarts? Mountain View, Santa Clara, 4 in San Jose, Milpitas, Fremont, and that's just in the South Bay.
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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by voidlogic on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:22PM (#14472199)
Sorry, I'm not from the area, I was thinking of the area immediately around SF on the lower peninsula.
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