I quit shopping at Walmart. The stores are dirty, and filled with hateful and stupid people. When I came out of Walmart after shopping, I felt like I needed a bath. For groceries, I shop at Publix and for home goods I shop Target.
Posted on 04/24/2015 6:52:30 AM PDT by Star Traveler
From crime to labor issues to an intricate military coup of the entire United States, conspiracy theories are flying around the closed Wal-Mart supercenters in Tulsa and elsewhere.
The official reason for the sudden closure of the store at Admiral Place and Memorial Drive last week was two years of plumbing issues that would take six months to fix.
That was the same reason given for each of the four other Wal-Mart locations, which all closed at the same time with just a few hours’ notice. The other stores are in Brandon, Florida; Pico Rivera, California; Midland, Texas; and Livingston, Texas.
Though the fuel pump and the pharmacy remain open at the Tulsa Wal-Mart, most of the supercenter has gone dark. One entrance is covered in black tarp, while the other is guarded by two Tulsa Police Department cars.
One of the most commonly-cited theories cited by commenters on the Tulsa World website and the Tulsa World Facebook page is that the store was closed due to crime problems. In February, officials from the Tulsa Police Department complained that the store received 1,500 larceny calls between 2012 and 2014, which is 400 to 500 more than other supercenters.
(Excerpt) Read more at tulsaworld.com ...
Actually, what they do is bring in great big grinders and grind the floors and walls into gravel.
All that’s left when they are done is a big pile.
all six store at once and all for the same reason?
someone wasn’t even trying very hard
sometimes a coincidence is not a coincidence
Interesting. Could it be that wallyworld over built?
It is true the stores are often a magnet for miscreants. There are some in our area that are simply unsafe to go to at any time of day.
If you ever want to be convinced there are zombies and other ghouls... go to wallyworld after midnight.
Couldn’t you say the same thing of most businesses in the vicinity of Admiral and Memorial though, or even along the entire length of Admiral?
I could care less...they can do as they please with their own stores.
I've looked and looked and I cannot find anything that says Walmart cannot close a store, or for that matter, that anybody with a business cannot close it, period.
The damned libs think that Walmart must exist for the sole purpose of giving jobs.
I think if I had a business wherein the union-loving assholes agitated day after day, I'd probably close it, too.
And I ain't a Walmart lover ...but I do shop in them...after all, there is no alternative for all the chinese-made crap I need.
Gibbs rule #39....
Yep, it’s too close to North Tulsa and too close to where all the ILLEGAL ALIENS are ... :-) ...
Translation of “plumbing issues”, “need for closure” : “These places have turned into S*** holes.”
People don’t realize that Wal-Mart has more stores than a lot of medium sized companies have employees. To put it in perspective, a better way of seeing this is they are a medium sized company that just laid off five employees for the same reason. It just SEEMS odd that they would close the stores for the reason they stated.
i.e. this is probably legit.
BTW, when I lived in Seattle there was a bread store in Loeman’s mall (Factoria area) called Harvest Breads or something like that. It’s a Seattle chain. Anyway, they closed down the store and laid everyone off because it was “underperforming”.
In reality, they closed it down because one of the employees was a “practicing witch” and scaring the heck out of everyone to the point that the company really HAD to get rid of the person. However, they feared both legal and, much more significantly, personal retribution from the person involved. So the safe route was to “close” the store and then re-open it six months late - in the same location and with no remodeling changes.
There could be something “generically wrong” at these five wally world stores and they are just going for the long term fix.
Well ... that “agitating” that you’re talking about, doesn’t work for Tulsa. The agitators did their agitating at another Tulsa Wal-Mart store, and didn’t at this one ... and yet ... that other one was not closed, but this one was. If you actually saw this store, you would have wanted it closed, too! ... :-) ...
Asymmetric warfare, in my opinion.
What was wrong at that Tulsa store is that it was a CRIME-INFESTED, even by Wal-Mart standards (their stores are usually crime-feasted anyway). This store was FAR BEYOND what normally goes on in other Wal-Mart stores!
the stores were dumps, losing money. So they closed them fast - they made the SMART business decision.
That’s an interesting story about the practicing witch! ... :-) ...
Yeah. I believe it because a personal friend worked there for a long time and was one of the ones that was laid off - and re-hired when the store re-opened.
She told me before they re-opened what was going down. And it seems that IS what was happening, considering they re-opened just like she said they would. But without the witch.
Interesting. Could it be that wallyworld over built?
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Possible in Tulsa as they have three super centers and five or so Neigherhood markets.
That wouldn’t be the case in Livingston, Tx.
Why does Wal-Mart even have to give a reason why they are closing a store? Just close it.
I quit shopping at Walmart. The stores are dirty, and filled with hateful and stupid people. When I came out of Walmart after shopping, I felt like I needed a bath. For groceries, I shop at Publix and for home goods I shop Target.
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