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Re:Walmart to Buy Bonobos, Men’s Wear Company, for $310M by qmarchi on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:45PM (#14572876)
> The only way for Walmart to win the talent game would be by offering absurdly above-market pay packages or absurdly above-average work-life balance policies.

Fun fact: If you account t for cost of living, Wal-Mart does pay more than many others.

There's also many other perks from working at home base. Massive fitness center (Who else can can claim they have 3 pools), cheap Sam's Club memberships. Add in that you get to try all the cool things like most others do (Savings Catcher, Scan n' Go, Grocery Pickup) and you get a substantial boost to the value.

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Re:Walmart to Buy Bonobos, Men’s Wear Company, for $310M by TulliusCicero on Friday June 16, 2017 @07:50PM (#14573418)
A big part of why cost of living is high in some places is that more people want to live there.
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Re:Walmart to Buy Bonobos, Men’s Wear Company, for $310M by JBReefer on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:35PM (#14573601)
Very true! But not everyone wants to live in SF/NYC, and imagine your dollar goes a lot farther in Bentonville.

Also, supposedly the new museum is amazing, for what it's worth.

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