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You are so right on! My Wal-Mart is, I guess, a Super Center because it has a grocery store, hair salon, optician, and car service center. However, it has not lost that small town atmosphere. I see lots of people I know there and we stop to talk. I recently was helped in the toy department by an employee who just moved here in September from PA. She had family here and she loved our community. She used to work for Babies'R Us up in PA. She is very happy at Wal-Mart and was going to be a cashier starting the next week. She and I talked for quite a while during the time we tried to find the toy I was looking for.

I love that Wal-Mart. So do most of the folks that I know. People from every walk of life shop there.

And, no, they have not run any small businesses out of business as far as I know. We have plenty of small shops in town and 3 groceries stores and 4 pharmacies. Oh, yes, our Wal-Mart also has a pharmacy. Subway just moved into Wal-Mart, but we have another on the other side of town and a pizza place is in the same little plaza with Wal-Mart as well as 4 other fast food places. There is plenty of business for everyone.

As for people working on the Sabbath and 24 hours a day, other people have to work those shifts, too. Hospital workers, restaurants, retail stores, etc. That is what consumers demand now days.

I am glad you are standing up for your employer. So few people seem to want to do that these days.

The way I look at it, if you don't like where you work, find a job somewhere else. If you don't like a certain shopping place, find somewhere else to shop.

Thanks!

I agree with you on everything you said!

We all have our own choices to make on where we want to work and where we want to shop!

I would not be working for WALMART if I wasn't treated right and I certainly wouldn't shop there if I had a bad experience with the store!

I had bad experiences in both of our two Super centers and I have never gone back!

If I can't find what I need at the store I am working at,I'll buy it somewhere else.

The way I look at it is ,that WALMART employees contribute to the local economy by buying things in other stores that WALMART doesn't carry !And what is wrong with that?

The way I look at it, if you don't like where you work, find a job somewhere else. If you don't like a certain shopping place, find somewhere else to shop.

That's exactly the attitude I have about this.

Your local Walmart sounds just like the one I shop in - I've run into my state Delegate, who also happens to be my attorney, many of my daughter's teachers, and even some of the wealthier residents of the area. In many ways it's no different than a local 5 & 10 or the hardware store - you're always ging to run into someone you know - or at least meet someone new :)

It also seems that everytime I turn around another new store or restaurant or office is opening up in the vicinity.

I'm glad Mrs.Nooseman has been participating in this thread and setting some of these people straight - whether they believe her or not, at least we know that the impressions we have gotten of the local Walmarts we patronize are not out of the ordinary.