Walmart changing some stores

RAS43 wrote:

Cloud Dancer wrote:
Some of us have fallen on hard times. How to help the less fortunate has always been a problem, and now it's worst, that's all. Automation and robotics is part of our evolution, but it also has its downside.

I agree that in some cases jobs have been lost. However, around here I see many businesses posting help wanted signs. We just left Walmart and they have a table with job info just inside the door. $12.50 an hour to start. Not high paying in today's world but something to get an income until something better comes along. That is how it was in the past. When we left Walmart there were the same 2 guys standing on the corner with their "please help" signs that have been around for weeks. :?

One of my pet charities is a Homeless Men's Shelter here in town. They ask the public please NOT to give money to those guys standing out by Walmart. The shelter residents are not allowed in the shelter during the day. As a requirement for staying in the shelter, they are REQUIRED to be out in the community seeking gainful EMPLOYMENT. Giving money to them defeats the shelter's goal of training these men to be SELF SUFFICIENT, and is therefore COUNTERPRODUCTIVE to the work ethic they are trying to instill in these people. I know that people mean well when they give money to these guys but it only encourages MORE of SAME and an endless cycle of dependency on booze/drugs/handouts.