***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!
It’s interesting to see the conservative freepers and the liberal freepers also splitting on Walmart, our liberals seem to hate the store, and have all kinds of experiences and anecdotes that most of us don’t run into.
Let me point out one outfit in Tulsa which one “could” say - gouge the working man. That’s QuikTrip. However I don’t say that they gouge the working man with some of their high prices.
For example, I might pay $1.00 more for some Gatorade I get there, but in QuikTrip’s case that’s fine with me. QuikTrip is an ABSOLUTE JOY to shop at (and get gas from) with the BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER! I’m happy to shop there!
Across the entire USA, I have NEVER seen a place as good as QuikTrip for everything they do. You can’t say enough good about them! And, they are paying their people there $40,000 a year (just the ordinary worker).
NOW ... I have been to other mom and pop stores where they will charge me a dollar more and THEY ARE RIPPING ME OFF! But, QuikTrip ... no they’re not. They’re just the BEST IN THE USA!