Friday, March 10, 2006

Costco: The Anti-Wal-Mart

Average Hourly wage:
CostCo $15.97
Wal-Mart's Sams Club $11.52
Contrib. to Health Care:
CostCo $5735
Wal-Mart's Sams Club $3500
Covered by Health Plan:
CostCo 82%
Wal-Mart's Sams Club 47%
Covered by Retire. Plan:
CostCo 91%
Wal-Mart's Sams Club 64%
Employee turnover:
Costco 6%
Wal-Mart's Sams Club 21%
Profits per employee:
Costco $13,647
Wal-Mart's Sams Club $11,039


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1 comment:

Adirondack Wal-Mart said...

Ask and you shall receive. See latest post. You can save about 4% on the total purchase price at Wal-Mart over Target. I guess each person has to decide if saving 4% (quality not taken into consideration) is worth the effects Wal-Mart is having on the USA and the World.