These comments about Walmart always tend to be tied to the local market and demographics. Here, the cashiers are pleasant and many of their customers know them personally. One recently died and a bunch of people went to his memorial. Regarding service, I would say though it isn't the style of the business to have sales staff follow the customers around the stores like Nordstroms or somewhere. In fact, I won't shop anywhere they do that. Many employees are stockers or another specialized position and won't be able to answer questions about products nor should they try. As far as grocery prices, you can often do better with sale prices at pure grocery chains, but if what you want isn't on sale Walmart will be about as low as anywhere. And the Walmart house brand is priced quite low.
The cashiers are never well trained , they are rude , slow and busy gabbing to each other .
Publix (this is Floridas best supermarket) all cashiers are well trained . If they see more than 3 people in a line they will call people off the floor to open more registers. YOU NEVER GET LIP from any of their cashier , no smart remarks because the management just will NOT put up with it . The store item per item is a little more than Walmart BUT they have great sales and a fantastic coupon policy .
If you plan your meals around their sales YOU WILL end up paying much less than shopping Walmart and not have to deal with any of the BS .
I am not the only one who says this . Look around the net and you WILL SEE tons of people complaining about how bad Walmarts service is.
Walmart prices seriously, are not that great...
“These comments about Walmart always tend to be tied to the local market and demographics. Here, the cashiers are pleasant and many of their customers know them personally. One recently died and a bunch of people went to his memorial. Regarding service, I would say though it isn’t the style of the business to have sales staff follow the customers around the stores like Nordstroms or somewhere. In fact, I won’t shop anywhere they do that. Many employees are stockers or another specialized position and won’t be able to answer questions about products nor should they try. As far as grocery prices, you can often do better with sale prices at pure grocery chains, but if what you want isn’t on sale Walmart will be about as low as anywhere. And the Walmart house brand is priced quite low.”
Add to that, the Union thugs and paid anti Walmart posters who hate Walmart.
In our Walmart, if a competitor has a better sale price on an item, you mention it to the clerk when he/she starts to check out an item, and you get the competitors’s price.
Costco has better prices on some items like large size household items/cleaning stuff. So we make a monthly trip to an out of town Costco for that stuff and their fresh meats/fish from Alaska. We fill up on gas at about 25 cents less per gallon.
In the growing season we use our local farmers market and a farming family we have used for decades for fresh fruit and produce.
Our Walmart is about one mile away and other super markets are several miles away with usually some heavy traffic. So Walmart is like a 7-11 for us with better prices. We use their 20 item or less checkout lines. They were understaffed for a while, and I took some pictures of the long lines at the registers and emailed them to their home office. In about a week, new checkers were hired, and there is usually a minimal wait.
We park on a side parking lot, and spread the word to friends. Now, we joke that it looks likes a Lexus, Merc, BMer and other premium car parking lot with $30-40 K suvs and pick ups.
Anti Walmart/Thugs complain about surly clerks at Walmart, the most surly checkers here are union thugs at the other markets. Whom, we often see shopping at Walmart, because they can’t afford the price difference between their stores and the lower prices at Walmart.
“These comments about Walmart always tend to be tied to the local market and demographics. Here, the cashiers are pleasant and many of their customers know them personally.”
EXACTLY....
I’ll drive 20 miles to a smaller town Walmart where things are actually in stock, the store is clean, my car isn’t in danger in the parking lot, and the employees are pleasant, thus avoiding the noise and “Demographic” of the city.
I think good store managers have as much to do with the experience, as does the demo.
Pricing isn’t much different than Meier or Kroger, although Meier still has in-house butchers, making the meat quality the best in this area.