Labor Union Launches Tulsa Ad Campaign Against Walmart

Union Organizers Want Walmart Not to Call Police When Criminals Steal From The Store

  Advertisements started showing up on Cable News, this week. They complain that Walmart prosecutes too many shoplifters.
  The ad compares number of police responses at Walmart to the calls to Target stores or other merchants. But Walmart is demonstrating the kind of community responsibility that all merchants should.

​   Not long ago, QuikTrip convenience stores revealed that they don't generally prosecute or even confront shoplifting. This knowledge led to an even greater problem and QuikTrip's prices took a hike because of it. that means you and I are subsidizing the shoplifters when we pay more to make up for the shrinkage of inventory.

  An old merchant of a "Five & Dime" store chain told me; "Every 12th unit in a case of inventory is the profit item for that merchant. When a thief steals something off the shelf, the merchant has to sell an additional 11, just to make up for it."

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  The "Change Walmart" ad campaign is actually a national effort using local ads in 4 targeted communities. Tulsa is one of those targeted.  They want community pressure put on Walmart to cap how many calls they can make to the police. The listed sponsor of the campaign website is;

  "United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) to change Walmart into a more responsible employer and to improve the lives of Walmart workers." 

  The website also specifically seeks former & current employees who they hope will help the union set up a campaign for unionizing the store.

  The real losers this campaign seeks to harm, are

• The stock holders of Walmart, including the employees at Walmart who tap into their massive profit sharing program. No other national merchant has established the profit sharing concept to the degree that Sam Walton has.
• The customers at Walmart lose through price hikes. This includes the very poorest in our community. Food costs have greatly increased in the past 8 years. Walmart's low prices on food have done a lot to fight hunger in our own state.
• Community safety will take a hit. Only a fraction of larceny is ever prosecuted. Walmart's  vigilance helps deter many would-be criminals from going down that road. Every fractional incriment helps insure a safe community. 

The Labor Union's special website for this PR attack on Walmart.

The Tulsa TV commercial, produced by the UFCW