Posted on 09/06/2016 10:49:30 AM PDT by PROCON
GREENSBORO, NC -- Are some Walmarts "better” than others?
We're talking good customer service. Clean stores. Stocked shelves. Short check-out times. According to a new study, yes.
Andy Reich, a Columbia University Assistant Professor of Sociology says his study has revealed not all Walmarts are created equal.
To simplify his findings, he says, White and rich neighborhoods have better Walmarts than Black and poor neighborhoods.
“People used words like ‘unorganized’, ‘nasty’ and ‘worst’ to describe stores in communities of color much more than they used those words to describe Walmarts in Whiter communities,” Reich said in a Skype interview.
He says he analyzed 35,000 Yelp reviews across 28-hundred Walmart stores in the U.S. He then used those keywords and matched them with the reviewers' race and neighborhood they live in. The data was collected between 2004 and 2015.
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If you want to know about a neighborhood head to the nearest Walmart at 6 PM, IMO.
Threr was an article not long ago, can’t remember where, that talked about how “white privilege” is actually earned, because whites pay an “opportunity cost” when they do things like not shoplift (or, presumably, mess up store displays), and thus are “rewarded” by having businesses move to areas with high concentrations of whites, and by not having store employees follow white shoppers around to make sure they’re not pocketing things etc.
If the Walmarts in predominantly “colored” neighborhoods are not as nice, I’d bet a fair amount of the reason is less effort being put out by the store to keep the place nice because it’s not cost effective to do so. Probably the rest is the quality of the employees, who are presumably sourced from those same “colored” neighborhoods.
The Walmart near me must be super safe, because there is always a police car parked in front.
It is an armpit that is not a product of Western civilization or culture. It is not safe, and I insist my wife does not go there alone.
The only Wal-Mart store to close was in Tuskegee Alabama.
I don’t know if that is still accurate but the reason was, well I don’t know for sure but it was said to be from loss of merchandise.
“He says he analyzed 35,000 Yelp reviews across 28-hundred Walmart stores in the U.S.”
Well no sh*t Sherlock. I avoided a certain WalMart which closed this year on a black blvd here in L.A. If you read the Yelp reviews, the Yelpers let it rip with no pc nonsense. Yelp is run by libs but the users usually are spot on.
I’ve been in both and I can verify this. In the non-white majority neighborhood the employees are rude and avoid customers. I’ve had a cashier close her register and walk away with no explanation after I’d been waiting in line for a while. They never speak to you (sometimes even when you speak to them first). They just point at the total on the display.
OH MY SIDES! As if Yelp is an honest, unbiased indicator of ANYTHING!
I once went to a Mexican restaurant (a "high end" one at that ..) based on Yelp reviews. Worst dining experience I ever had. Horrible food, horrible service, horrible place. Yet, some 1,000+ Yelp reviews all said it was the "finest mexican cuisine" in the Chicagoland area.
Oh my sides!
I learned after that "dining experience" there is no such thing as "mexican cuisine."
not necessarily. both my kids live in “better” zipcodes than i do, but they save their Walmart shopping for my neighborhood. and we have a nice Walmart!
only if whitey riots and burn cars but that only occurs when the local team wins the championship or Guns N Roses shows up
It’s both.
Well, everything in white neighborhoods is better. Live with it.
Yes, any review site like Yelp that is open to comment by the “general public”, is worthless.
who they hire and who shops their stores...if you have crappy people....white or black or yellow...leaving trash all over, spilling things, not flushing the toliets, not washing their hands, arguing with staff....you betcha stores are going to be different...
Same with grocery stores. In retail every store is its own profit center. A store with high costs, such as damaged goods and shoplifting will have higher prices, as the cost to operate is distributed over the other goods. Nicer areas almost always have better prices for the same products.
Crap customers = crap store.
Bingo! In some areas Walmart is regarded as a daycare for single moms to let their welfare spawn roam around for hours, ripping open candy or snack bags, leaving half-filled soda cans on shelves or in carts, or toys taken out of boxes, played with, and left on the floor.
Decades ago supermarket chains left St. Louis ghetto areas when the losses (and crime) could no longer be tolerated. Walmart will likely close some of its stores for the same reason.
Shoplifting. More of it in non-White neighborhoods. Employees taken from surrounding area.
The conclusion is obvious.
A WalMart Superstore in east Raleigh closes at midnight because..........
It's both. Have a look sometime at what customers typically refold and rehang clothing and other merchandise once they've determined they're not interested, and what customers don't.
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