That's my take as well - it depends upon the manager. All this can-you-top-this "filthy stores, people, etc." is in many was just pure B/S. Same with showing some of the people dressed up in dorky outfits - probably a fancy dress attendee or someone in a Halloween outfit - evidently no distinction is made in the zeal to bash Wal-Mart.
I worked as a night stocker in a W-M in Eastern Nevada and never saw any of those "dirty" people or any of those pictured. (There were some wild tattoos though.) Lord knows, I had grievances with some of the idiot supervisors but by and large, both the employees and customers were run of the mill middle class.
As with managers, it's also location, location, location.
Stores in my area are badly understaffed.
It isn’t the local managers here. Even shift rosters are directly dictated by Bentonville.
Before you bad mouth the manager at any particular location it behooves you to see if they still have any real authority, since we are talking Walmart.