not accepting that shit from your employer is not based, it’s just normal right?
That and they were not allowed to sit down at the cassier. For whatever reason this is frowned upon in the US and is not allowed in the majority of stores.
They did it all wrong, they just needed forced greetings and smiles approved as a DIN standard, and then the Germans would happily do it.
But you need an American IQ level to do team-building activities in which everyone chants “walmart, walmart” in Germany and not see how that is going to look. And looking at the US right now I guess it works.
Also forcing cashiers to stand up for hours on end is an insult to respect itself 🤮
It was totally not about the illegal price dumping and conflicts with unions.
This is actually just part of the reason, there is also the fact that Walmart couldn’t understand the concept of workers rights. An example being that employees can’t be forced to yell out shit like “GO WALMART!!!!!” at 6 in the morning.
Yeah sure, the greetings we’re just a nail in the coffin.
Their company policies („Statement of Ethics“) prevented private relationships between coworkers. This was ruled as violating the first two articles of our constitution.
Germans scared of a pretty lady smiling at them 😭
Forced greetings and smiling, not allowed to sit down, issues with compensation, breaks and other labor rights.
Labor rights.
Their work standards are considered labor violations.
I remember Walmart in Germany. It was horrible, the smiling and the needless small talk. It was insulting.
**Store worker:** “Did you find everything your were looking for?”
**Average German:** “Are you implying that I lack the basic skills required to shop here schwachkopf?”
**Store worker:** “How are you today?”
**Average German:** “Do you require that information to operate your till? If not then why are you requesting it?”
Yank propaganda, Wallmart didn’t fail because they were “too friendly for German’s” but because they couldn’t come to terms with the fact that German workers have actual rights and grocery retail can be regulated (how strange).
And besides, they had no chance to compete against Lidl and Aldi and had to go back to the shithole they came from with their tails between their legs.
And standing up…
They also got sued for breaking Article 1 of the Grundgesetz/Constitution. Which should be kinda hard to do as agrocery store chain.
Efforts to force Team building events should be punished by death.
Walmarts first mistake was trying to fight Aldi and Lidl in their own backyard
Also the Unions had a fucking field day with them
Lol no. We are almost as cheap as the Swamp Germans, so if they had had attractive pricing, we’d have been all over them. And I don’t even remember any greeters.
They failed because they thought it was a good idea to invade the home market of Lidl and Aldi. And a handful other chains that have our farmers and other producers in a chokehold. They couldn’t get supply contracts that allowed them to have better prices, and German laws prevented them from predatory pricing (it’s not like they didn’t try that, of course).
They thought big Murican could show Aldiland how to make people buy cheap. They came with a knife to a Panzer-Schlacht.
Also, many Germans don’t want a shopping experience, they want to blitz-shop. And that’s easier in a smaller German supermarket than in that huge-ass one-has-all box. Other German markets that try to have more than your standard supermarket still exist but they somehow change ownership much more often than the standard small to medium sized shops. The Walmart in my area was a Marktkauf before Walmart took over, after that a real and then a Kaufland. Meanwhile, our Aldi and Edeka have stayed alive and well.
not only cultural clashes, but also legal issues: many things Walmart tried to do (sell at a loss to kill off competition, forbidding romantic relationships between coworkers which is even forbidden by the first two articles of our constitution and more) were outright illegal here and they had to pay fines and were forbidden to do so. they also made stupid mistakes like selling pillow sheets for us pillow sizes ignoring that German pillows are sized differently and those would not fit. or only hiring managers not from Germany who, obviously, have no idea how the German markets work.
the biggest middle finger in all of that is that also then moved to the us, doing things there the German way (like cashier’s being allowed to sit down, fast cashier’s, no baggers, etc) and are thriving in the USA lol
first Walmart failed in Germany. than Walmarts former competition follows them to the USA and is successful. get fucked, Walmart lol
Because American work culture has people used to suffer all kind of degrading nonsense that no sane European above the limit of starvation would even remotely think of enduring.
One of the Walmart policies (forbidding romantic relationships between employees) was even ruled unconstitutional (not just illegal) by a German court back then
If in Germany and a stranger is polite, I can deal with that, but friendly is just suspicious. You want something from me and in most cases it’s money… as in this one
I know someone who used to work at Nokia and when their phone unit was sold to Microsoft, they flew in people from the US, including Ballmer. They did that sort of hype and pump-up event to get people excited. And all the Finns just sat and stared.
If it just we’re that.
They basically couldn’t cope with the fact that german workers have rights and have to be treated like humans.
From what I hear of Walmart it’s one of the worst places to work in. Like I’d rather work on an oil rig.
Mainly because Walmart genuinely thought that everybody would be happy to get American business practices in their countries and that because they were American they thought they could do anything. They could sued into oblivion
The Walmart in Germany episode is a masterclass on how to fail through stupid management decisions.
Even their CEO at the time had to admit that Walmart ‘had messed more things up in Germany than it had managed to do right.’ They managed to fuck up their relations with the customers, employees, government, suppliers, and everyone else all at once.
That is the type of shitty american working culture we europeans don’t like.
“Team building” aka. 2 houre workout of jumping and singing 90s songs that replaced every word with “Walmart”.
Walmart lost because margin in supermarket business is so low in Germany, because Aldi and Lidl control bottom price level, that foreign chains cannot survive with their business model. Compared to France, e.g., where people are much more willing to spend a higher share of their monthly income on food.
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not accepting that shit from your employer is not based, it’s just normal right?
That and they were not allowed to sit down at the cassier. For whatever reason this is frowned upon in the US and is not allowed in the majority of stores.
They did it all wrong, they just needed forced greetings and smiles approved as a DIN standard, and then the Germans would happily do it.
But you need an American IQ level to do team-building activities in which everyone chants “walmart, walmart” in Germany and not see how that is going to look. And looking at the US right now I guess it works.
Also forcing cashiers to stand up for hours on end is an insult to respect itself 🤮
It was totally not about the illegal price dumping and conflicts with unions.
This is actually just part of the reason, there is also the fact that Walmart couldn’t understand the concept of workers rights. An example being that employees can’t be forced to yell out shit like “GO WALMART!!!!!” at 6 in the morning.
Yeah sure, the greetings we’re just a nail in the coffin.
Their company policies („Statement of Ethics“) prevented private relationships between coworkers. This was ruled as violating the first two articles of our constitution.
Germans scared of a pretty lady smiling at them 😭
Forced greetings and smiling, not allowed to sit down, issues with compensation, breaks and other labor rights.
Labor rights.
Their work standards are considered labor violations.
I remember Walmart in Germany. It was horrible, the smiling and the needless small talk. It was insulting.
**Store worker:** “Did you find everything your were looking for?”
**Average German:** “Are you implying that I lack the basic skills required to shop here schwachkopf?”
**Store worker:** “How are you today?”
**Average German:** “Do you require that information to operate your till? If not then why are you requesting it?”
Yank propaganda, Wallmart didn’t fail because they were “too friendly for German’s” but because they couldn’t come to terms with the fact that German workers have actual rights and grocery retail can be regulated (how strange).
And besides, they had no chance to compete against Lidl and Aldi and had to go back to the shithole they came from with their tails between their legs.
And standing up…
They also got sued for breaking Article 1 of the Grundgesetz/Constitution. Which should be kinda hard to do as agrocery store chain.
Efforts to force Team building events should be punished by death.
Based. Imagine being forced to do this: https://youtu.be/q7Asf9n848M?si=y-1tFBY3wTagMnoU
And also, our counter offensive goes very well
Hans being forced to smile at a customer like:
https://i.redd.it/doee4vn8qere1.gif
Walmarts first mistake was trying to fight Aldi and Lidl in their own backyard
Also the Unions had a fucking field day with them
Lol no. We are almost as cheap as the Swamp Germans, so if they had had attractive pricing, we’d have been all over them. And I don’t even remember any greeters.
They failed because they thought it was a good idea to invade the home market of Lidl and Aldi. And a handful other chains that have our farmers and other producers in a chokehold. They couldn’t get supply contracts that allowed them to have better prices, and German laws prevented them from predatory pricing (it’s not like they didn’t try that, of course).
They thought big Murican could show Aldiland how to make people buy cheap. They came with a knife to a Panzer-Schlacht.
Also, many Germans don’t want a shopping experience, they want to blitz-shop. And that’s easier in a smaller German supermarket than in that huge-ass one-has-all box. Other German markets that try to have more than your standard supermarket still exist but they somehow change ownership much more often than the standard small to medium sized shops. The Walmart in my area was a Marktkauf before Walmart took over, after that a real and then a Kaufland. Meanwhile, our Aldi and Edeka have stayed alive and well.
not only cultural clashes, but also legal issues: many things Walmart tried to do (sell at a loss to kill off competition, forbidding romantic relationships between coworkers which is even forbidden by the first two articles of our constitution and more) were outright illegal here and they had to pay fines and were forbidden to do so. they also made stupid mistakes like selling pillow sheets for us pillow sizes ignoring that German pillows are sized differently and those would not fit. or only hiring managers not from Germany who, obviously, have no idea how the German markets work.
the biggest middle finger in all of that is that also then moved to the us, doing things there the German way (like cashier’s being allowed to sit down, fast cashier’s, no baggers, etc) and are thriving in the USA lol
first Walmart failed in Germany. than Walmarts former competition follows them to the USA and is successful. get fucked, Walmart lol
Because American work culture has people used to suffer all kind of degrading nonsense that no sane European above the limit of starvation would even remotely think of enduring.
One of the Walmart policies (forbidding romantic relationships between employees) was even ruled unconstitutional (not just illegal) by a German court back then
If in Germany and a stranger is polite, I can deal with that, but friendly is just suspicious. You want something from me and in most cases it’s money… as in this one
I know someone who used to work at Nokia and when their phone unit was sold to Microsoft, they flew in people from the US, including Ballmer. They did that sort of hype and pump-up event to get people excited. And all the Finns just sat and stared.
If it just we’re that.
They basically couldn’t cope with the fact that german workers have rights and have to be treated like humans.
From what I hear of Walmart it’s one of the worst places to work in. Like I’d rather work on an oil rig.
Mainly because Walmart genuinely thought that everybody would be happy to get American business practices in their countries and that because they were American they thought they could do anything. They could sued into oblivion
The Walmart in Germany episode is a masterclass on how to fail through stupid management decisions.
Even their CEO at the time had to admit that Walmart ‘had messed more things up in Germany than it had managed to do right.’ They managed to fuck up their relations with the customers, employees, government, suppliers, and everyone else all at once.
This is so comprehensive that it cannot be summed up in a cute paragraph, there are entire studies full of their errors, [just like this one.](https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/bitstream/elib/7912/1/024_1448_w024%20(1).pdf)
That is the type of shitty american working culture we europeans don’t like.
“Team building” aka. 2 houre workout of jumping and singing 90s songs that replaced every word with “Walmart”.
Walmart lost because margin in supermarket business is so low in Germany, because Aldi and Lidl control bottom price level, that foreign chains cannot survive with their business model. Compared to France, e.g., where people are much more willing to spend a higher share of their monthly income on food.
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