Why won't middle class people shop at Walmart?

americanthinker ^ | Oct. 19, 2015 | Ed Straker

[Martin Tell]

I stopped shopping at WalMart and let my Sam's Club membership lapse when the WalMart CEO strong-armed the Arkansas governor into opposing a religious liberty bill. Any business that has contempt for my religious beliefs does not need my money.

BTW, I never really understood the "WalMart is a ghetto" meme until I went to one of the stores up north. It really was a ghetto, not at all like most of the WalMarts in the South.

[Perseverando]

My only complaint about Walmart is the people working there that can't speak English and of course all the friggin illegals.

I was talking to a lady a couple of weeks ago who works at our "urban" Walmart. She said almost all the daytime workers are part time. Full time employees, for the most part, are on nights. Sounds like Walmart really doesn't care about the full time people and would just as soon have more part time and fewer full time emplyees.

[CatherineofAragon]

One of our Walmarts is very nice...big, clean, and in a nice area. The people who go there look fine. I buy some groceries there.

There’s a smaller Walmart in Appomattox that has been practically taken over by Muslims.

[Kommodor]

Wish we had Meijer’s down here in the southlands.

[CatherineofAragon]

Don’t get me started on Kohl’s.

When ours opened a few years ago, I liked shopping there. Now it’s worse than any Walmart in the area. Clothes are thrown all over the fixtures and even on the floor...it looks like a bomb went off in the place.

[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

www.peopleofwalmart.com

[HotHunt]

If anything, the vast majority of people I see at Walmart appear to be middle-class folks. My wife and I have shopped at Walmart for years, in several parts of the country, and have experienced none of what I see written. The stores are clean and well-stocked. The prices are the lowest around. The one we frequent now is in the lower-income part of a northern Florida college town but I have never witnessed anything out of the ordinary there.

Most of these bad Walmart stories come from all of these emails circulating with bizarre people, supposedly photographed at Walmart. I always wondered why everybody else experiences these so-called problems but I never do. I believe it is because people make many things up and just go along with the narrative that Walmart is a bad place to shop.

However, my wife and I love it.

[central_va]

Because everything is made in the turd world and of questionable quality.

[right way right]

But, those ARE the middle class shopping at Walmart.

[discostu]

Because it’s an unpleasant shopping experience (too much crap in the aisles, too hard to navigate, not enough tellers), and they sell crap. Once one can afford better one tends to go elsewhere. Same reason they stop getting most of their clothes out of thrift stores.

[DoodleDawg]

When ours opened a few years ago, I liked shopping there. Now it’s worse than any Walmart in the area. Clothes are thrown all over the fixtures and even on the floor...it looks like a bomb went off in the place.

Actually I do most of my Kohl's shopping online so I don't have to worry about the mess.

[CatherineofAragon]

Good idea. I should do that; the store has become a complete turn-off.

[DoodleDawg]

Good idea. I should do that; the store has become a complete turn-off.

I like a lot of their stuff and rather than paw through the racks and hope they have the size I like, it's just easier to order it on line and pick it up at the store, and by doing that avoid shipping fees.

[CatherineofAragon]

Ah, good point about the store pickup. Thanks.

It’s reached the point that finding something on a rack anymore is nearly impossible; the items have been tossed around on several different fixtures.

[FourPeas]

Ed makes the mistake of thinking Yelp is reality. It’s not.

[riri]

Exactly. The ninnies (what I call brain dead suburban women) think it is a badge of honor to say they don't shop at Walmart. I guess you are supposed to think, "Ewwwww, she must be rich".

[publius911]

This type of thread keeps recurring and gets a couple of hundred replies, and I am baffled by that.

Must be on slow news days.

One visit to your available Walmart and the question is answered.
It either is a comfortable place to be, or it isn't. Why doesn't matter that much.
Six months or a year later it won't be much different. Multiculturalism and "tolerance" has its price.

[Brilliant]

Middle class people do shop at Walmart. In fact that is their prime clientele. Also they work at Walmart. If you are opposed to Walmart then you are opposed to the middle class.

[zzwhale]

shopping means buying at your economic advantage
of course physically shopping at walmart is in addition to some legit bargains
an entertainment experience and i have seen walmartians.......

[Servant of the Cross]

Clothes are thrown all over the fixtures and even on the floor...it looks like a bomb went off in the place.

Is that a reflection on Kohl's ... or possibly more about the good citizens of ole Virginny?