Twisted Facts 1 Wal Mart does not spend as much on insurance as other companies The fact Yes Wal Mart spends less per work for health The Twist What they forget to say is that Wal Mart does not buy insurance at all it puts that money into a bank account where it collects interest it then contracts Blue Cross to admin the fund The reality Wal Mart gives better insurance than most other retailers Want to see for yourself go to your local walmart and get an assocate guide 2 Wal Mart does not supply as many with healthcare The fact Yes on a percentage base Wal Mart only 47 are covered The Twist What critics don t tell you is that Wal Mart offers Star Bridge health from day one and that wal mart has 1 6 million Workers with a larger turn over rate so this leads to a lower percentage of works covered 3 Wal Mart has a high turn over rate The Fact Wal Mart does have a high turn over rate The Twist Critics Site Wal Mart as the reason however most of people that leave walmart site customer related stress And the area of walmart that has the highest turn over is also the largest pool of workers cashiers Plain and simple the customers run the cashiers out And who can blame them think of all the people in the world you could not stand and they deal with them all everyday 4 Wal Mart has more workers on state healthcare than any other company The Fact Yes wal mart does have more works on state healthcare The Twist Critics argue that due to the number of workers on state healthcare is single handedly causing problems for many state healthcare however what they forget to say is that Walmart pays 70 Billion dollars in federal taxes and nearly that again in state taxes and also generate billions of dollars in sales tax for each state with sales tax which far out does the money spend buy the state on healthcare for wal mart assocates And many of the assocates that quilify for state aided healthcare also would quailify for welfare if they did not work for walmart And would most likely be on both if they worked for a smaller ma and pa shop that could not afford to supply any benefits 5 Wal mart buys large quantities from china The Fact Yes walmart buys a lot from china The Twist Critics argue that Walmart alone is the primary reason for US jobs being exported however what they fail to say is that walmart is only 8 of the use Retail market and 70 of walmarts income if from food sales and 90 of walmarts food supply comes from local and national suppliers like con agra When broken down walmart sends a mear penny to china out of ever transaction something much larger than walmart is helping china out Now these are just 5 of the biggest twisted facts there are many more out there both good and bad for walmart walmart does its share of fact twisting too However I have seen almost no hard research here on any of the facts being relied on I have alot of hard proof of lots of these twisted facts but I can not be the only one out looking for the twistes in the facts And I also am not going to post any of the proofs until others start because I want everyone here to start doing some research and finding some real reliable facts that we can bring this entry back to a good standing But we must work together to do that not against eachother The Ace