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WinCo, a West Coast grocery chain, recently expanded to my area and I prefer it a lot over the competition (Walmart). Not only are prices cheaper, but the workers have decent benefits for the work (a good health plan) and stock options in the company.

The workers also seem happier. I talk to them sometimes about what they think of their job and they all seem to like it. One guy told me he covered his whole family with its health plan and it cost him basically nothing. I have relatives who work at Walmart and it's a miserable place and they hate it. While stock ownership is a trend in some corporations it hasn't passed down to a lot of the jobs that most people work. It would be a good thin

If exorbitant executive pay is justified because they work so hard and add so much value, then why are Sears' executives walking away with $25 million bonuses after driving the company into bankruptcy, costing thousands of people their jobs

Carrie Gleason, the campaign manager of Rise Up Retail, said: “It’s Eddie Lampert and his hedge fund that has destroyed Sears. This was a company that had many viable businesses, definitely parts that were struggling that needed investment. Instead Eddie Lampert let stores be barren, stripped away the viable parts of the business and let everything else run into the ground.”

As Sears’ CEO, chairman, banker, landlord and transaction partner, Lamp