Wal Mart thread

[Ted Striker]

PWN3D 1!
PWN3D !!
PWN3D !!

[Apocalypse]

I was driving from Virginia back to Texas this weekend and I was appalled at the lack of Walmart advertisements. The entire trip I wanted to stop at one but forgot where they were. I didn't know there was a walmart at a town until after I passed the exit.

[mrmitchell]

Apocalypse that reminds me of the one single bad thing about Wal mart:

They do not advertise in local papers. Ever. Not once. They used to back in the old days. No more. Not in my recent memory.

But to fix your problem:
The Rand McNally 50 states road map that Wal Mart sells has a list of all the Wal Mart (and Supercenter and Sams Club) locations in the USA.

Or, you could just assume every town over 7500 has a Walmart (a very good assumption).

What way did you drive back from VA to TX?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Smiley
2. Unhelpful employees who don't know where stuff is, much less make product recommendations

Rude customers with screaming brats acosting me in sections of the store I don't work in.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Ming


Another myth

From Walmarts website...

THAT is an objective source that you can rely on for truthful information!?!?

[Tingkai]

Why would anyone shop at Wal-mart. The stores are depressing. The stuff they sell is usually crap. And their client base seems to be the dregs of humanity.

[Ted Striker]

I have to admit I shop at Target.

Something about Target though feels better than Wal-Mart

[Shogun Gunner]

Yes, target I never go into a WalMart

[Ramo]

Costco

[Ming]

Originally posted by MrFun

THAT is an objective source that you can rely on for truthful information!?!?

Probably more acurate than getting information from a "I hate Walmart" site

I have a few friends that work at Walmart who support the fact that they have good health bennies...

Walmart did what any other retailer "could" have done, and succeeded because they had the right idea. Their continued success will be based on them making the right decisions in the future. Other dominate retailers have lost their grip on the market... Walmart could as well...

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


While I agree with your general statement, Standard Oil was stopped by the government's breakup of the company .

A government breakup that was caused by consumer activism.

Lets not get me wrong: If Zk and others want to stop Wal-Mart from getting "too" powerful, more power to them. That's part of the process. But my contention is that the type and volume of complaints in re: to WM is nothing new, and its future is as pre-ordained as A&P's past.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
I have to admit I shop at Target.

Something about Target though feels better than Wal-Mart

They're not as cluttered (more room in the aisles) and Target stores are designed to allow more sunlight in, than WM.

Also, and this might be a local thing, in Target all the guy stuff is located in the front (clothes, electronics) and all the chick/children stuff is in the back of the store (housewares, toys, womens clothing.) In WM, it's almost the opposite - womens clothes in front, electronics in back.

[Ming]

Originally posted by JohnT
They're not as cluttered (more room in the aisles) and Target stores are designed to allow more sunlight in, than WM.

Also, and this might be a local thing, in Target all the guy stuff is located in the front (clothes, electronics) and all the chick/children stuff is in the back of the store (housewares, toys, womens clothing.)

That is Targets overall strategy... to give a "better" shopping experience. People know they are paying slightly more, but think it's worth it. They have no problem with taking on Walmart head to head... in many cases, they have opened up stores right across the street from them... something a few experts thought was crazy. I know a lot of people who can't stand the Walmart shopping experience, and prefer Target for that reason.

[:) Smiley]

Originally posted by JohnT
They're not as cluttered (more room in the aisles) and Target stores are designed to allow more sunlight in, than WM.

Walmart is catching on to the idea that more daylight = more slaes, and did a test where they had half of a store daylit and the other half entirely artifiicially lit. Sales in the daylit section were well above the national average, as was employee morale.

[Sprayber]

Other bad thing about shopping in walmart is that it is always loud in there. Some stores do their communications over the loud speaker such as calling empolyes to sections of the store for customer service or other things I as a customer I don't want to listen to.