“Rare is the time my wife and I go to the grocery store or Walmart and NOT have someone do something rude.”
I try to go to Walmart in off hours. The earlier you go the lower the probability of running into someone who is rude. My suspicion regarding the rude people I have run across is that they’re drug/alcohol users or have some other negative social trait. People like that stay up late and sleep late.
Never go anywhere you aren’t thoroughly regarding as safe after dark. Doubly true after midnight.
Interesting thing about Walmart. Here in CA I live in a Republican plurality, law and order semi-rural county. Two Walmarts nearby. Both are clean. Not that you never see anyone colorful there, but not really more than stores in general.
My sister lives 70 miles away in a different majority rat semi-rural county. The county seat itself is big enough to support two Walmarts. And it is the wild Wild West in both of them. You know, the culture the democrats would like to bring to every county in the country.
It’s all a matter of what the local population and government officials are willing to put up with