I’ve been in Walmart, and still go many times ... to grab just specific name-brand items that I can get cheaper ... i.e. “cherry-picking” select items only.
So, I do know about Walmart, from direct experience ... and I gotta say they are the worst kind of retailer that exists in the marketplace, in that category of business. They hire absolute MISFITS to work in that place and those workers there could care less about the customer. They basically don’t have customer service skills.
I just get in and then out as quick as I can, hoping no one sees me in such a trashy place. If I can just snarf just certain name-brand commodity items, that’s all I care about. I would never touch their off-brand stuff, as it’s absolute crap, from what I’ve seen from another relative who has gotten some of it before.
If it’s a Walmart brand, don’t bother ... it’s trash.
I don’t get other things there, as I have no intention of filling Walmart’s money coffers with a full shopping basket ... just because I happen to grab something else that is “name-brand” (thereby sold on its own merits and not Walmart’s merits).
When I leave Walmart after grabbing a couple of items, I feel like I have to take a shower to get the “dregs of humanity’s smell” off me, from those defects they hire as employees. I don’t know how some of those workers even manage to live in real life.
As far as even being able to keep things in stock ... I’ve never seen a worse store in my life (and I’m talking about 50+ years of seeing other places). They will have some name-brand item there one week, and then for the next six weeks ... it’s nowhere to be found. You might have some name-brand product that has a selection of (let’s say) six varieties. But Walmart doesn’t ever bother keeping any of the varieties “in place” ... so it’s hit or miss on what will be there for the next two months.
They’ve got “holes” on their shelves which will stay that way, sometimes for several weeks, and then eventually, another product will “cover the hole ... and maybe two months later, the original product will show up again.
Afterwards, I will go to another “normal” and well-run store, just so I don’t continue to feel so depressed, considering that I just came out of Walmart. Then in the other “normal” store ... I see that there really does exist normal workers, who know customer service, and even know how to talk intelligently to you. My spirits are even uplifted in the normal store by even the customers who are walking around in the store. They are actually normal people and not the majority of misfits as I see in Walmart, shopping.
Going to Walmart is like going to some third-world country ... you might visit there, but you can’t wait to get out. You’re always happy to leave Walmart and get back to normal again.
Lol, thanks for making my point.
Elitist much?
You should avoid shopping at a place that you hate so much, and have to be among people that you hate so much and that requires so much labor, like showering and visiting “normal” stores every time you stop at Walmart to shop, especially since it causes you to slip into depression when you do it.
Someone so emotionally unstable should quit doing what is affecting them so much and causing such powerful and negative emotional episodes.
You sound pretty neurotic and obsessed, and rather bizarre.
“They hire absolute MISFITS to work in that place and those workers there could care less about the customer.”
They don’t seem to care about their employer either. The last two times I bought items from the garden department, the checkers missed one or two fairly expensive items each time. I told them and they scanned the missed items, but I could see that they didn’t give a hoot.
Wait a few more days. With the ports closing up on the West Coast, their inventory is going to start coming up short.
In 30 days, their shelves will have big holes in them.
***and I gotta say they are the worst kind of retailer that exists in the marketplace***
I’ve seen worse. The small Mom and Pop stores that have under the table handshake agreements with other stores in town not to undercut each others prices, thus keeping prices high to gouge the poor working men who shop there, and a city council who gets their cut and keeps real competition out.
Then there are those isolated towns with ONE store in which the owner gouges you and treats you like s#!t because he knows you can’t travel 40 miles to the nearest retailer.
I’ve seen those kind of stores in New Mexico and the back hills of Arkansas.
I will take Walmart any day!
I feel the exact same way.
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I think it depends upon WHERE the Walmart is located....police here specifically told my hub NOT to go to Walmart in one part of town, especially on Friday nights....not safe...
Well, they certainly seem to discriminate against hiring engineers and CPA's.........
It’s a free country (so far), so frequent the stores that you desire to frequent and don’t go to the stores that you hate.
Some Walmarts are better than others. In my area, there are two stores less than 6 miles apart and one is clean and well stocked and one is dirty and you can never find anything. I don’t frequent the one that is dirty very often.
IMO, the article is biased based on the union’s inability to make inroads with WM employees. Again, if it were that bad for the employees, they would organize.
We have a Walmart in an upscale local community. Clean, with nicer and more high end items. No food shop and one of the older smaller stores but very nice. I think the place helps define it.
LOLing! Everything you say about Walmart is so true!