I love wallyworld. Great prices, name brand products.. Only place where you can shop for groceries, clothes, electronics, eat McDonalds, get an Auntie Anne's pretzel, a haircut, an oil change, new tires and rent a movie.



Why are so many against this fine establishment ?

 

1. Customer Service sucks. Nothing like standin in line for 20 minutes staring at a sea of EMPTY unmanned registers.

2. Deceitful Presentations to the community: "walmart will create 100 NEW Full time jobs when we open"; the standard line gicven at meetings. What they dont tell you is that full-time is considered 28 hours per week.

3. Predatory Supplier Pricing. Walmart will say: You will sell me 1 gallon jar of pickles for $1.00, if you dont we wont carry the rest of your product line.



Need more reasons?

 

Wal-Mart is the perfect distillation of everything that is bad about "big business". They flat-out suck.



Politics aside, from a customer standpoint, much of their product offering is made in China crap, and their customer service is lousy, particulary with regard to the checkout situation mentioned above.



Let's see... the product sucks...the customer service sucks. What else do they have to offer?



Not a damn thing!

 

Companies will make different product to be sold in walmarts. I know this bc i bought some hanes socks at walmart and target on the same day and the ones from walmart crapped out a lot sooner than the target ones. Actually i think i still have some of the target ones, and that was a few years ago. You guys may say that there was a difference in production time or whatever but go look at products at walmart and then look at the same item somewhere else. The one at walmart will probably be much lower quality than the one from the other store.

 

Oh and walmarts get out of paying taxes. They will bargain with cities before they build and get a period of like 10 years where they dont pay taxes. Cities know that walmarts create economic growth, if you dont beleive me look where theyve built a new walmart, that area will be the area of new development. They do also create quite a few jobs for the welfare leeches, from the barber shop, the optometrist, the mcdonalds, the bank, the deli, the pharmacy, the bakery, the shop, and the rest of the store. When the end of the tax free period comes they just build a new store and close the old one.

 

[quote name='banzaitoyota' date='Aug 27 2005, 04:36 AM']1. Customer Service sucks. Nothing like standin in line for 20 minutes staring at a sea of EMPTY unmanned registers.


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i waited in line one day for about 10-15 minutes to return bad meat... they gave me double my money back because the meat was bad. i thought that was pretty good.



maybe its just because we got a new superwalmart here about 1-2 years ago.. everything seems like its running smoothly.

 

i know i would never buy meat at walmart. Everything else is second rate, i would guess that the meat is too. I dont even want to think about the conditions of the stockyard where the meat comes from

 

[quote name='Shane.Trammell' date='Aug 27 2005, 05:45 AM']i know i would never buy meat at walmart. Everything else is second rate, i would guess that the meat is too. I dont even want to think about the conditions of the stockyard where the meat comes from


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well after 2 bad experiences with their beef, i now buy all meats locally up the road at a small meat market..



but minus the quality of the beef, I still think its a cool place. seriously, i went to food lion and safeway after shopping in wal-mart and the prices for some foods are almost double.

 

i dont really mind shopping at walmart, but i usually just buy toiletries there. It seems like everytime i go there i get cheered up bc it seems like everyone is in a good mood and friendly (not the employees but the customers). Maybe its bc there are people of all different races there and it seems like theyre all getting along, something you dont really see around here otherwise. Or maybe its bc i see all of these people who dont have much money and it makes me see how much i actually do have.

 

Yeah, I'll buy little random odds and ends there. But I'll never buy meat there instead of the Supermarket. I'll never buy expensive electronics there instead of going to Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. The only major investment I ever made at Wal-Mart was some of those kickass fake "Dubs" that you put on over you're factory wheel. Its lightweight plastic, good for racing, and when ever they get a "scuff" you can just spray paint over it.