Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers

Re:Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition ... by mbesto on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:08PM (#17190044)

> Why wouldn't a corporation reinvest those tax benefits

Because they're historically linked to stock buybacks and M&A activity. The ROI is usually much more clear-cut.

Does anyone have evidence that a retailer of Walmart's size investing in customer service and employees nets a positive ROI?

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Re:Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition ... by s3r3nity on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:30PM (#17190939)

I remember reading Howard Schultz's book "Onward" about his tenure as CEO of Starbucks, and how there was a significant return in their investments in employee education / benefits / stock incentives / better service, despite pushback from Wall Street.

Idk if you'd consider the two the same scale (the market cap for Wal-Mart is probably 3x that of Starbucks if I recall) so maybe that's _some_ evidence?

Though I agree evaluating/comparing the ROI on the two is probably not the cleanest analysis in the world.

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