Posted on 04/15/2015 12:01:28 PM PDT by FR_addict
I’m sure if you scaled it up size-wise it would easily be that.
Still a little odd. Our local Wally World was completely remodeled, while the store stayed open. They just shifted stuff around. And I’ve seen them move product, install close to an acre of tile, and put product back in one night. And periodically, if you shop at night, you can witness major installs of security equipment, with the store still in operation.
Most of the water is on the edges of the building...and it can’t all fail at once. For example, most have public restrooms in both the front and the back of the store - hard to imagine what could happen to close both at the same time, unless its the main line into the building...which takes a day to fix.
The only thing I can think of that would close everything down is the fire sprinkler system - but it probably only takes a few weeks to install that in the first place.
if....Walmart’s plumbing problem[s’ are “shutting down stores across America,” something is very amiss somewhere
Yeah, my first thought was: “sabotage”.
The stores are in different states, so I doubt they were built by the same contractors, so where is the common source for a plumbing problem. However, all the stores might have dissatisfied workers who are colluding with the unions (or simply union thugs posing as customers to get in the store and do some sabotage).
That is too recent to have had much of an effect (if it will... Wally World might still be the least bad of the bad).
Given that WM has a handful of standard store layouts they use everywhere that sameness could also go below the foundation. Since bathrooms will be in the same place, pipes will probably be in the same place. This could just boil down to “you put a u-pipe where?!”
Might be, might be some pretty nasty sabotage too like putting plaster of paris down drains, something that can’t just be cleared out with a snake.
Well still, why bring a whole store down.
Sounds like a building I once worked in.
It was 25 years old, when the toilets at one end of the building began backing up. It turned out that a sewer main tile in the bldg. was installed backwards, so after 25 years of sludge building up on the backwards joint the pipe clogged.
Contractors had to excavate down the middle of the hallway, 6 feet deep, to replace the tiles.
Major time lost on a 200 million dollar contract. The building was leased, so the owner took it in the shorts.
Supposedly, the one in Florida was in a good area.
Depends on how much floor you need to carve through. Also they probably have to shut down the bathrooms and most states have laws about the availability of public restrooms. And you never know how much foundation got rotted out before they found the problem.
FEMA detention centers. Jade Helm 15
Contaminated?...with ....something?
There were at least five stores in various parts of the country closed for 6 months at the same time for plumbing problems. The employees were not given any prior notice.
Although the last line..in the article I posted...might speak something...If they re-open..all employee's will have to re-apply.
“Jones said when the store does reopen, all employees will have to reapply.”
Sounds like a way to fire all the employees in stores that were in low-income areas (and hence, where the employees might have been more susceptible to union influences).
But that’s just a guess...
Sounds suspicious to me....
this could be viewed a Bit like a Recall in that regard?
Something stinks. You can build a Walmart in less that six months. What do they have, four toilets and a couple sinks?
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