I rarely do. But it's a fine, low-end store with good merchandize, and a surprizing number of non-China brand names. I hate the checkout lines. Those are a nightmare, and the Wal-marts should consider opening a few more registers in the departments and allowing people to checkout there.
It's a disappointing corporate entity, no doubt. They apparently bent over backward to avoid saying - MERRY CHRISTMAS - when it was Christmas. Shame on them. There's another like that, whose management tend to be even Dem supporters. That's Costco. But I don't know where I'd be without the quality and discount of Costco. So I can't say I appreciate either management, or either corporation. But they still have very good stores, despite themselves. Maybe they'll manage all that away at some time, too. But not yet.
As for the union, I can't see that a reasonable union would be so offensive to Wal-mart, or any. But an intrusive union that sees Wal-mart as a money tree, and is plain in that cyncism, that sees Wal-mart as a sort of junior partner even, is one that might just make a Wal-mart close the store and say - fie upon it! Which is apparently what they did. If the unions would just stick to a few work rules, as they call them, a very few, to pure emergency leave, to perhaps a 'union wage', but not so much that it becomes unreasonable to the business model, and so on, I think Wal-mart and others would consider it. But unions aren't like that, now. Because they have labor or Dem support, they think they're practically an arm of government, and can command economies and businesses and bend them to their will by force of legislation. I'm glad some lousy managements are saying, despite their own incompetence, heck with you. Maybe if more business had the will, and the will to enact pro-business legislation with regard to unions, the unions might repair, gain genuine public support, and find their way back to productive legislation on behalf of the worker, rather than trying to run economies into the ground so that the workers, don't get any work.
I recently spoke to a person who has a sister in the post office. She was getting 16 weeks of paid vacation this year.
I work 51 weeks a year, and the buck stops at my desk.
I need unions as much as I need food poisoning.