[tcostell]

The Walmart on Rt 6 in Peekskill NY is clean, the service is decent, and ammunition is 20% to 40% cheaper than the sporting goods store down the street.

My wife just bought me a Winchester Turkey Vest there (retail $60), and only spent $20 on it. How can you not love something like that?!

I know how entertaining it is to bash the big bad consumer giant, but in my personal world where cash is not limitless, price matters, and I'd rather buy a name brand at a 2% markup than a 10% markup. You gotta love a place that does volume (and has does "end of season" discounts on hunting supplies).

[PhiKapMom]

Here in Norman, OK, we have two super Walmarts -- very clean, very friendly, and low prices on a lot of items I buy for the house. Not going to pay higher prices when I get the same item cheaper at Walmart.

I have noticed while traveling across the Country that in some areas Walmarts are taken over by kids whose parents leave them there so Walmart can babysit and their video section along with others are pretty much trashed if you go there first thing in the morning. Makes me proud of the area I live in even though flyover Country gets knocks from both coasts!

Not that way here in Norman -- shelves are stocked, nothing on the floor, and I don't see groups of teenagers and pre-teens roaming the aisles.

Maybe it is the mindset of the area and its people that makes crummy Walmarts! Noticed also in those same areas that their Mall stores have clothes on the floor where someone was going through the stack and knocked them off and they lay there as other people walk over them.

[Xenalyte]

I know how entertaining it is to bash the big bad consumer giant . . .

How is it "bashing" to note that a store is unclean and unkempt? Truth used to be an affirmative defense.