[2ndDivisionVet]

Spin this one, Mr. Gibbs.

[doc1019]

Thank you again Obama.

[Signalman]

This can’t be right, we’re in a “recovery”.

[NonValueAdded]

This sure as heck matches the reality on the ground. Hey, Obama, reality check on line 1.

[Domandred]

The Sam’s Club in Nampa, ID is in a really bad location, and has two established Costco stores to compete with.

[SeaHawkFan]

Sam’s Club cannot compete with Costco for either selection or value. It’s not even close.

[trumandogz]

Costco is kicking Sam’s butt.

[Brilliant]

“Spin this one, Mr. Gibbs.”

“We all knew that the prior administration had brought us to the brink of Depression.”

[mylife]

As crappy as this Gov is, I would think that 50 roll crates of TP would be in demand.

[mnehring]

Considering how many they open daily.. just media spin, probably moving with the population.

[SamAdams76]

Then again, Sam's Club is a miserable place to shop as they treat you like a criminal. They won't even let you out their door without some minimum wage "security guard" checking your cart. They don't just give the cursory look either, they take your receipt and painstakingly check every item in your cart against it.

Don't forget that this is after the cashier carefully does the same thing and insists on putting the rung-up items in your cart for you. And if you buy anything expensive, they won't even let you put the item in your cart. You have to pay for it at the register and then stand in another long line to pick it up (only to have it checked against the receipt on the way out the door).

[familyop]

"in the Louisville area, city officials anticipate that the shuttering warehouse club will cost the area more than $500,000,..."

Louisville is just outside of Boulder. Corporate-government employees don't find their preferred varieties of convenience products in Sam's. They would rather have more precooked foods and the like.

[MarkL]

I'm surprised that the administration isn't trumpeting the good news! The evil, NON-UNION stores are closing! Well, we all know that the way to fix this is to force Walmart and Sams Clus to unionize, and then force them to keep the stores open!

Mark

[cva66snipe]

I think within a decade likely less unless they do some major changes Walmart will be the next K-mart. I have never seen a chain try so hard to put itself out of business and anger customers. It's not the store workers or even the store managers the problem is in Bentonville.

The newer Super Stores are pathetic. Walamrt has gone on an inventory reduction on time deliver kick that is leaving shelves empty of high demand quick turn over items. It's not even on time delivery any more as the item may be out of stock a week. Not having items like Penzoil 10/30 is crazy. It's loss of sale. Worse thing is they don't care.

I've seen in my area an overall general decline in the Walmarts and they can't blame it on COSTCO here because there aren't any and Wally has no real competitor except K-mart and Target.

Used to Walmart was a one stop store for about anything you needed in the way of food, heath and hygiene, electronics, pet food, crafts, hardware, etc. All these departments in the last couple of years have been greatly reduced and many items discontinued. Walmart even on 12 packs of Cokes is usually higher than many local grocery stores.

The store managers know the problem but are powerless to do anything about it. Whoever the brain was behind the Super Store overhauls needs to be fired. The smaller Walmarts fair a little better and prices are somewhat cheaper there.

The Walmart new "GREEN" policy stinks as well. Like putting in skylights in parts of the country where partly cloudy is the usually daily weather. Now you see, now you don't, now you see, now you don't, as each cloud rolls by.

Walmart is not the place for outdoor power equipment either. A read of a popular article "The man who said no to Walmart" is very informative as to the quality you get and I'd say such items as TV's etc are no different. I'd love to see another Big Box Store move into East Tennessee and force Walmart to either get their act together again or be ran out.

One last thing near and dear to many people was Layaway. Layaway was replaced with Wally Credit. Many used layaway to avoid going in debt and it could not have possibly been a loser for Walmart when they had trailer loads of goods placed in there for things like Christmas. Some used it to buy more expensive items like TV or school clothes. Like I said it seems Walmart corporate management in Bentonville is trying it's best to loose it's customer base. Maybe someone in here can shine some light as to what changed a few years ago in Bentonville?

[Patrsup]

Well - My wife has a Sams club membership - I have a free Costco membership - I HATE going into Sams (Full Disclosure - my brother has worked at Sams for over 30 years).

The Sams is dimly lit compared to the Costco - the people working there seem less helpful, the lines at checkout are miserable, the whole place is just very trashy. The aisles are narrow - its just a bad experience for me - my wife on the other hand doesn’t mind at all.

Both places have the exit checker - I’m not much on it and from what I hear from my brother - they don’t prevent much stuff from disappearing....

[truthandlife]

Mr. Gibbs: "More good news economically. Sam's Club just shut down 10 stores. This shows you that the American economy is recovering. Americans are not shopping for discounts anymore. They want to pay retail price and go to a store where they pay retail. Those 1,500 workers will be working at retail jobs in no time and won't have to work in the poor working conditions of warehouses. We are well on the economic recovery trail thanks to President Obama."