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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Meatwad on September 07, 2009, 10:59:39 AM
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Just when you thought you seen it all, up comes a new chapter in the book of the utterly strange and mysteriously odd.
http://peopleofwalmart.com/
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You see all types in there. My favorite recently was a group of teenage kids with mullets...in a HUGE redneck part of Alabama south of Birmingham...with tuxedos and prom dresses all buying condoms. At least they were being considerate of the teen pregnancy rate here in Alabama.
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hahaha wow. Yea go to walmart at 11pm-3am and you'll seem some very very strange peeps there.
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hahaha wow. Yea go to walmart at 11pm-3am and you'll seem some very very strange peeps there.
How would you know? Unless of course you are one of them... Hmmm... :D
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Linky no worky...
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Not working for me either.
And now for something completely different
(http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/155990/469173.png)
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:rofl
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My ex stepdaughter use to work there and I would go pick her up sometimes.You see some mighty strange things sitting in the parking lot at midnight on a Saturday night.Does make you feel better about yourself.
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Never been in a Wal Mart.
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Never been in a Wal Mart.
You and George Bush. :lol
I heard President Nixon went to a Wal-Mart long after he retired and was just amazed, telling Lady Bird "Look, they have everything here, clothes, housewares and even lawnmowers!"
I've lived in a few small towns were Wal-Mart was "the mall" in the city. In those towns they have even more variety in-store than they have in your suburban Wal-Marts.
I love Wal-Mart, because they're helping me make ends meet each month. I know a lot of people hate Wal-Mart either because they have issues with their labor policies or they hate the competition. You can compete with Wal-Mart, but not on price, not selling the same stuff.
Try to buy a chess set at Wal-Mart.. You get maybe two choices of cheap plastic stuff. Want to compete? Open a store that caters to chess and offer 100 different sets in wood, rock, metal, resin, etc. and in multiple themes. People gotta come to you for stuff they want that they can't find at Wally World. Same concept times a thousand different product types... You can compete.
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Selling to wallyworld is just as bad. They have closed down many companies by pretty much stealing their product and process and getting the chineese to make it for pennies.
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Never been in a Wal Mart.
it must rock livin in the US Virgin Islands :rock
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OMG, in the middle of that site there is a guy with a jean jacket and a unicorn painted in whiteout. At the bottom of the super cool jean jacket is his youtube link. youtube.com/rickytic3, some purely classic stuff in there.
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Try working at a wally world overnight. Worked at one a couple years ago and we had a guy that would come in and DJ the radios in the electronics department. They had to ask him to leave one night because he started to use profanity during his argument with the people in the picture frames. Hell I had to talk to the man when he wondered over to where I was working. Said to me one night the he found a duck in Burns Park that looked just like me :uhoh. I guessed then that he prob had a mental problem and that was confirmed here about a week ago. It scared the crap out of me that my origanal belief that he was schizophrenic was correct and that every now and then he would come off his meds.
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it must rock livin in the US Virgin Islands :rock
Not if you wanna go to Walmart. :D
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Walked into the Walmart in Plant City FL one afternoon during strawberry season. Forgot about the Border Patrol hat that my brother in law had given me. :rofl You should have seen some people scatter. Didn't know what the heck was going on til I got home and realized that it was about the hat.
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Walked into the Walmart in Plant City FL one afternoon during strawberry season. Forgot about the Border Patrol hat that my brother in law had given me. :rofl You should have seen some people scatter. Didn't know what the heck was going on til I got home and realized that it was about the hat.
I need one of those.....
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Me too
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Taken from the main entrance of our local Wal-Mart Super Center...
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/skilless/thisone.jpg)
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Here ya go - http://www.4armedforces.com/product/2097_JW_BORDER/Border_Patrol_Ball_Cap.html
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Here ya go - http://www.4armedforces.com/product/2097_JW_BORDER/Border_Patrol_Ball_Cap.html
That's the one I was wearing. :aok
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Looks like Walmart is ready to take out the rest of the retail store.
Walmart loves to shock and awe. City-size stores, absurdly low prices ($8 jeans!) and everything from milk to Matchbox toys on its shelves. And with the recession forcing legions of stores into bankruptcy, the world's largest retailer now apparently wants to take out the remaining survivors.
Thus, the company is in the beginning stages of a massive store and strategy remodeling effort, which it has dubbed Project Impact. One goal of Project Impact is cleaner, less cluttered stores that will improve the shopping experience. Another is friendlier customer service. A third: home in on categories where the competition can be killed. "They've got Kmart ready to take a standing eight-count next year," says retail consultant Burt Flickinger III, managing director for Strategic Resources Group and a veteran Walmart watcher. "Same with Rite Aid. They've knocked out four of the top five toy retailers, and are now going after the last one standing, Toys "R" Us. Project Impact will be the catalyst to wipe out a second round of national and regional retailers." (See 10 things to buy during the recession.)
Though that's bad news for many smaller businesses that can't compete, Walmart investors have clamored for this push. Despite the company's consistently strong financial performance, Wall Street hasn't cheered Walmart's growth rates. During the 1990s, the company's stock price jumped 1,173%. In this decade, it's down around 24% (Walmart's stock closed at $51.74 per share on Sept. 3). "Walmart is under excruciating pressure from employees and frustrated institutional investors to get the stock up," says Flickinger.
Many analysts believe that the store-operations background of new CEO Mike Duke will keep investors quite happy. Though the recession finally caught up to Walmart last quarter, when the company reported a 1.2% drop in U.S. same-store sales, Walmart was a consistent winner during the worst days of the financial crisis, as frugal consumers traded down. While most retailers are shutting down stores, Walmart has opened 52 Supercenters since Feb. 1. Joseph Feldman, retail analyst at Telsey Advisory Group, estimates that each store costs Walmart between $25 and $30 million. In order to continue the momentum that it has picked up during the retail recession, over the next five years the company plans to remodel 70% of its approximately 3,600 U.S. stores.
So what does a Project Impact store look like? One recent weekday afternoon I toured a brand new, 210,000-sq.-ft. Walmart in West Deptford, N.J., with Lance De La Rosa, the company's Northeast general manager. "We've listened to our customers, and they want an easier shopping experience," says De La Rosa. "We've brightened up the stores and opened things up to make it more navigable." One of the most noticeable changes is that Project Impact stores reshape Action Alley, the aisles where promotional items were pulled off the shelves and prominently displayed for shoppers. Those stacks both crowded the aisles and cut off sight lines. Now, the aisles are all clear, and you can see most sections of the store from any vantage point. For example, standing on the corner intersection of the auto-care and crafts areas, you can look straight ahead and see where shoes, pet care, groceries, the pharmacy and other areas are located. And the discount price tags are still at eye level, so the value message doesn't get lost. (See how Americans are spending now.)
"They are like roads," De La Rosa says proudly. "And look around, the customers are using them. We've already gotten feedback about the wider, more breathable aisles. Our shoppers love them."
The layout is also smarter. "You can kind of guess where everything is going to be," says Sharon Tilotta, 73, a shopper in the West Deptford store. The pharmacy, pet foods, cosmetics and health and beauty sections are now adjacent to the groceries. In the past, groceries and these other sections were often at opposite ends of the store, which made it more difficult for someone looking to pick up some quick consumables to get in and out of Walmart. "Under Project Impact, Walmart is providing more of a full supermarket experience within its walls," says Feldman. "The biggest complaint against them has always been that it takes a long time to get through everything. This definitely improves efficiency." De La Rosa also points out the party-supply section. Favors, wedding decorations, cards and scrapbooks are all in one area. "In the past, these products would be in three different places," he says.
And although Walmart won't admit to targeting specific competitors - "We're just listening to what our customers want," De La Rosa says - it's clear that, under Project Impact, Walmart will make major plays in winnable categories. The pharmacy, for example, has been pulled into the middle of the store, and its $4-prescriptions program has generated healthy buzz. With Circuit City out of business, the electronics section has been beefed up. Walmart is also expanding its presence in crafts. Sales at Michael's Stores, the country's largest specialty arts-and-crafts retailers, have sagged, and Walmart sees an opportunity. Stores are chock-full of scrapbooking material, baskets and yarns. "Look, they're selling the stuff that accounts for 80% of Michael's business, at 20% of the space," says Flickinger. "It's very hard for any company to compete with that."
Apparel, one of Target's traditional strengths, gets a prominent position at the center. The color palettes of the shirts and dresses are brighter and more appealing than they've been in the past. "Walmart has figured out fashion for the first time in 47 years," Flickinger says. "They've gone from a D to an A-minus." Briefs and underwear have been shuttled to the back. "That's a smart move," Flickinger says. "People know to come to Walmart for the commodity clothing. Now, they have to walk past the higher margin, more fashionable merchandise to get what they need."
Of course, Project Impact isn't perfect. You'd think that if Walmart was going to open a massive new store with a cutting-edge layout, the company would at least put a sign up. In West Deptford, it's easy to miss the entrance to the Walmart - which is buried in the back of a parking lot - while driving along a main thoroughfare. And of course, customers will always nitpick. One elderly shopper complained about a shortage of benches in the store (she needed a rest). Another had a more esoteric, yet legitimate, gripe. "Their meat is leaky," says Jeff Winter, 30, a West Deptford shopper. "And instead of giving you a wet wipe to clean it off, they give you a dry towel. How's that going to prevent E. coli or whatever?" (See which businesses are bucking the recession.)
What analysts really want to see from Project Impact, however, is a faster pace of implementation. "The biggest hurdle facing Walmart is the speed with which they can roll this out," says Feldman. As more Project Impact stores pop up, the existing stores appear worse by comparison. For example, while the merchandise at the Project Impact store outside of Philadelphia really speaks to that particular market - there's tons of Eagles and Phillies gear - at one regular discount store outside New York City, Minnesota Twins and Seattle Mariners pajama pants wasted away on the racks. There were plenty of associates staffing the electronics section at the Project Impact store; at the discount store, five frustrated shoppers waited in line for help from a customer-service rep. Soon, it was closer to 10.
What about the friendly service? In West Deptford, the associates were sunny and bright. At the New York–area discount store, not so much. "You'll notice we've been in the store for two hours, and no one has even said hello to us," Flickinger says after he and I toured that store. He's right, we weren't feeling any love. But if Project Impact keeps picking up momentum, many more Walmart salespeople, and shareholders, should be smiling.
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I heard President Nixon went to a Wal-Mart long after he retired and was just amazed, telling Lady Bird "Look, they have everything here, clothes, housewares and even lawnmowers!"
:O do tell!
:noid
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Project impact will be wal-marts collapse as a company.
I predict if they do indeed wipe out their competition, all it will take is one screw up on the companies end (and it will happen) and another company will take advantage of the opprotunity and step in as a better company than wal-mart. With wal-mart being so big the customer mass will dwindle rapidly, maybe only loosing 10% in its first quarter of being competitive with this "new" company, but 10% of 200 million customers is 20 million. If the average person spent about 400 bucks in those 3 months thats 8 billion dollars lost. Now of course they will able to cope with this for awhile, but not for too long. Over the years they expanded too much, and that lose of 8 billion every quarter adds up quick...stores close, more customers lost, and employees...more people switch more customers lost, along with employees. Its a vicious endless cycle to collapse.
I predict IF project impact goes through wal-mart will be gone in 10-15 years.
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Not only that but they are setting themselves up to be hit with FTC antitrust/monopoly charges. Ever since Sam Walton went to that great retail store in the sky his company has been going downhill fast. The company no longer cares about it's employees only the bottom line. Walton's kids spend money hand over fist when their workers need decent and affordable health insurance, not the catastrophic insurance crap they have now.
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I made the mistake of wearing my WW2 paratrooper uniform to a Wal-Mart on the way to an event. I won't do that again.
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F**K Wal-Mart!
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:O do tell!
:noid
:rofl I guess I botched that one.... Maybe it was LBJ. Or maybe it was Nixon's wife. lol I doubt Nixon was in Wal-Mart with Lady Bird. :o
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I'm reading some of the posts in this thread and I'm wondering who you people are. Do you hate Wal-Mart because you hate capitalism? You hate the idea of a company making a profit? You hate the idea that the best business models should survive and weaker ones should decline? Are you the same people who want to level the playing field by propping up weak businesses and punishing strong ones?
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I hate walmart because its walmart. Their prices aren't better than everyone elses. They have just brainwashed the mindless drones (white-trash) of this country that they are. Ever went to walmart to find a "sale" item? Did you ever find said item in stock? They are always "out of stock" on large sale items. And they are also the only company I have ever dealt with that doesn't know when their next delivery is or whats on it.
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I'm reading some of the posts in this thread and I'm wondering who you people are. Do you hate Wal-Mart because you hate capitalism? You hate the idea of a company making a profit? You hate the idea that the best business models should survive and weaker ones should decline? Are you the same people who want to level the playing field by propping up weak businesses and punishing strong ones?
If the company would focus on its employees and customer service then I might actually want to go there...its a horrible shopping experience, and i know a lot of people who work or used to work there. They really do not care about their employees, wal-mart is turning into a huge biological mess.
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actually becinhu, in the wal-marts in my town I always find their 'sale' items stocked. Perhaps the people in your area are rabid shoppers and get there before you do ;)
"Their prices aren't better than everyone elses."
I agree with this 100%. The wal-mart 'promise' is that they have it cheaper. However you see item X on several other stores for...say, $50.50 and walmart will beat it with an amazing $50.45 price. ( lol ).
The only reason I shop in walmart is because I can get it all in one go without having to drive or walk back and forth between different stores.
On the flip side though, walmart does keep its costs down by selling rather low quality stuff and squeezing their employees.
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We must have the best Wal-Mart in the world here in Austin.
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Speaking frm experience...I stopped by the local crapmart to pick up item A that was supposed to be at a fabulous price. Not in stock. I asked the head of the department when the next shipment would be in. I get "I don't know". So I reply "you don't know when you next truck comes in, or you don't know when you will get more of item A?" He replies "We get trucks every night. However, noone knows whats on the truck until its unloaded." My problem with this answer is that I manager a local restaurant. I do the order for my 2 weekly delivery trucks. I can tell you whats on each truck and what time they will show up. The simple fact that a high-level employee has zero knowledge of the availability of an item in their department is mindboggling. The next best issue with walmart is when you ask someone in the sporting goods dept. about the shooting range of a certain rifle in stock. The wonderfully informed person has no clue. Example: I was with a friend who is also an avid deer hunter. I used a .30-30 for almost 15 years. I asked the chap working the sporting goods desk about their .30-30. I told him I was looking for a flat shooting gun with good range. His response was that the .30-30 can drop deer accurately well past 400 yards. Since a .30-30 round is at 4 inches below center at 200 yards the only way I'm dropping a deer past 400 is if the bullet hits it on top of the head and knocks it out.
Wal-mart: staffed by morons, shopped at by morons, a match made in heaven
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Speaking frm experience...I stopped by the local crapmart to pick up item A that was supposed to be at a fabulous price. Not in stock. I asked the head of the department when the next shipment would be in. I get "I don't know". So I reply "you don't know when you next truck comes in, or you don't know when you will get more of item A?" He replies "We get trucks every night. However, noone knows whats on the truck until its unloaded." My problem with this answer is that I manager a local restaurant. I do the order for my 2 weekly delivery trucks. I can tell you whats on each truck and what time they will show up. The simple fact that a high-level employee has zero knowledge of the availability of an item in their department is mindboggling. The next best issue with walmart is when you ask someone in the sporting goods dept. about the shooting range of a certain rifle in stock. The wonderfully informed person has no clue. Example: I was with a friend who is also an avid deer hunter. I used a .30-30 for almost 15 years. I asked the chap working the sporting goods desk about their .30-30. I told him I was looking for a flat shooting gun with good range. His response was that the .30-30 can drop deer accurately well past 400 yards. Since a .30-30 round is at 4 inches below center at 200 yards the only way I'm dropping a deer past 400 is if the bullet hits it on top of the head and knocks it out.
Wal-mart: staffed by morons, shopped at by morons, a match made in heaven
I find it very difficult to believe that one of the largest retailers in the world does not get a manifest or pick sheet telling them what is on the delivery truck.
I receive about 6 to 10 deliveries/week at the window and door company that I work for. I get, at the very least, a tentative load sheet from each vendor about 2 days before the truck arrives.
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Speaking frm experience...I stopped by the local crapmart to pick up item A that was supposed to be at a fabulous price. Not in stock. I asked the head of the department when the next shipment would be in. I get "I don't know". So I reply "you don't know when you next truck comes in, or you don't know when you will get more of item A?" He replies "We get trucks every night. However, noone knows whats on the truck until its unloaded." My problem with this answer is that I manager a local restaurant. I do the order for my 2 weekly delivery trucks. I can tell you whats on each truck and what time they will show up. The simple fact that a high-level employee has zero knowledge of the availability of an item in their department is mindboggling. The next best issue with walmart is when you ask someone in the sporting goods dept. about the shooting range of a certain rifle in stock. The wonderfully informed person has no clue. Example: I was with a friend who is also an avid deer hunter. I used a .30-30 for almost 15 years. I asked the chap working the sporting goods desk about their .30-30. I told him I was looking for a flat shooting gun with good range. His response was that the .30-30 can drop deer accurately well past 400 yards. Since a .30-30 round is at 4 inches below center at 200 yards the only way I'm dropping a deer past 400 is if the bullet hits it on top of the head and knocks it out.
Wal-mart: staffed by morons, shopped at by morons, a match made in heaven
Two things...
First Wallyworld is incredibly micromanaged. I have no doubt that department managers have no idea what they get shipped on a daily basis.
Second Wallyworld is a self-serve retailer. It is not a place you go to to get knowledge about a product. If you seek knowledge about a gun, go to a gun store. The reason the prices are higher a a gun store is that part of the price pays for the SERVICE that you get. Wallyworld is for the person who knows what they want, knows where it's hidden in the store, and doesn't mind lugging it up to the cashier and scanning it themselves.
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Lets watch it with throwing around the white trash comments. On the topic of wally world people knowing about their shipments. When I was an overnight stocker the management didn't even know how many pallets they were getting until home office and/or the distribution center sent them a list of what they were getting on the next shipment. That goes the same for the grocery side as well as the rest of the store. The department managers make a suggested order and it is approved by whoever, the distribution center gets the order, sees how much they have in stock and decides what stores get how much.
As far as this goes: I'm reading some of the posts in this thread and I'm wondering who you people are. Do you hate Wal-Mart because you hate capitalism? You hate the idea of a company making a profit? You hate the idea that the best business models should survive and weaker ones should decline? Are you the same people who want to level the playing field by propping up weak businesses and punishing strong ones?
WalMart is the prime example of how far you can go in capitalism; but the company is also one of the US's worst about how they treat their employees. I have a big problem with their virus like business plan of move in to an area and remove all competition. Hell right now if that plan is true it stinks so badly of a monopoly that I would kinda like to see them pull it off just to watch the FTC take the company apart.
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I get a kick out their "clearance" items. Regualr price is $11.97, its on clearance for $11
I wont heardly touch anything clearance unless its a minimum of 65% off
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Speaking frm experience...I stopped by the local crapmart to pick up item A that was supposed to be at a fabulous price. Not in stock. I asked the head of the department when the next shipment would be in. I get "I don't know". So I reply "you don't know when you next truck comes in, or you don't know when you will get more of item A?" He replies "We get trucks every night. However, noone knows whats on the truck until its unloaded." My problem with this answer is that I manager a local restaurant. I do the order for my 2 weekly delivery trucks. I can tell you whats on each truck and what time they will show up. The simple fact that a high-level employee has zero knowledge of the availability of an item in their department is mindboggling. The next best issue with walmart is when you ask someone in the sporting goods dept. about the shooting range of a certain rifle in stock. The wonderfully informed person has no clue. Example: I was with a friend who is also an avid deer hunter. I used a .30-30 for almost 15 years. I asked the chap working the sporting goods desk about their .30-30. I told him I was looking for a flat shooting gun with good range. His response was that the .30-30 can drop deer accurately well past 400 yards. Since a .30-30 round is at 4 inches below center at 200 yards the only way I'm dropping a deer past 400 is if the bullet hits it on top of the head and knocks it out.
Wal-mart: staffed by morons, shopped at by morons, a match made in heaven
Went into my local walmart to pick up some .223 and .270 ammo with a friend of mine as we were going to shoot his M&P15 and my dad's Remington 7400. Walk up to the counter and the person working says "What do you need?" C'mon...not even "how may I help you?" You know it DOES say "How may I help you" on the back of their vests...
So I said "Can we get a box of .223 ammo and .270 ammo, the worker, looking puzzled, said "hold on one minute" and walked over to another worker and asked her "What is .223 and .270 ammo?" Yes she asked her that, the other worker was standing a mere 5-7 feet away (not working in the sporting goods section). She may have been new, but cmon, dont put someone in that section if they don't even know what an ammo caliber is...
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I also love the response "Its not my department". They wont even make an attempt to help you.
All the places I worked, I learned where everything was at even if it wasnt my dept and I was never needed over there. I did this all just to help the customer find what they needed and answer any questions they had.
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Well let me put it this way. I NEVER know what is coming on my stock truck, I only know if a special order is on it or not. I get 3 a week. So I personally can imagine that they would not know what is on their stock trucks, because I am going to assume that they have some kind of computer system in place to keep track of what is in stock and what is not. Now from how my stock order works, it is computerized, IE saturn sends me stuff to replenish my stock based on what I have in stock and based on my stocking policy. IE item A can have a stocking policy of 2 and I have one in stock. I cannot tell you when that will be replenished. Now, when my stock truck does get here I get a packing slip with ORDER numbers on it. I check those into the system, and it will replenish the stock on the computer and fill special orders. I have a window where I can view what is in transit, BUT it only says when it is on order and transit; it wont tell me what truck it is going to be on or what day it will be here: note this sentence is for stock only. Now for the special orders, based on what day I order the part you want, I can look at a sheet and see what day it is supposed to come on. For instance, if I special order something on a monday, it would be here on thursday.
Anyhow cut the people at walmart a little bit of slack, as there is no way of knowing what STOCK order will come on what day.
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People have to realize that saving a buck here and there is not always more convenient nor does it help their community.
That is one of the reasons I hit my local hardware store first before I go to a Home Depot/Lowes store.
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"Lets watch it with throwing around the white trash comments."
REALLY! Come on.
I mean when you look at the pictures of those people on that website it's self-
explanatory and all we can do is kind of just nod knowingly (and snicker) ;)
IMO there's nothing wrong with Walmart. IMO retailers have set out take as
much money out of my wallet as they can but it's my duty to keep as much of it
out of their hands as I possibly can. I don't like the clothes or electronics at
Walmart. And most of the stuff in the hardware section (cept some paints) is
absolute bottom of the barrel crap. But all of our laundry detergent, paper goods,
cereal and dry goods as well as personal hiegene stuff comes from them. Why
throw your money away spending more for the same exact things at other stores?
for example, people go out of thier way to save 5 cents on a gallon of gas. So
why spend a $1 or $2 more for a case of Scotts toilet paper somewhere besides
Walmart?
(note: I dislike Lowe's and Home Depot mainly because the sell the same crap
at each store and it's often what they call "contractor grade" which is junk. Most
of the time I fnd a better selection and grade of hardware at True Value or other
local HW stores and at just about the same price. Or if different it is worth the
increase)
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People have to realize that saving a buck here and there is not always more convenient nor does it help their community.
That is one of the reasons I hit my local hardware store first before I go to a Home Depot/Lowes store.
Exactly. I always go to the local gun shop, food store, hardware store, car place, etc before hitting Walmart. Walmart will survive without my small amount of money compared to their billion dollar corp.
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All you folks that condemn Wal-Mart, do you also codemn Best Buy? How about Home Depot or Lowes? Are all big box stores evil? Pet Smart? How about a department store like Sears?
People have to realize that saving a buck here and there is not always more convenient nor does it help their community.
That is one of the reasons I hit my local hardware store first before I go to a Home Depot/Lowes store.
I go to Wal-Mart all the time for every-day stuff, and don't feel any guilt about it at all. However, I shop other stores for specialty items you would never find at Wal-Mart. Try finding a quality racing suit, or quality bike seat stems, or a 12" radal arm saw at Wal-Mart. Successful competitors to Wal-Mart will be businesses that differentiate their product line and service offerings. If you want to pay a dollar extra for an item you could have bought cheaper at Wal-Mart, that's fine. You also have the opportunity to send in some extra tax dollars every year when you file your return. I guess there are some people that do that too.
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I condemn Walmart for having restrooms with stalls whose locks don't work, along with the idiots who work there. I once went there to buy the new guitar hero game, and decide to buy the bundle. Right as I am walking out of the store, I look at the box and it says "Game not Included." I walk back to the counter and ask for the game that I paid for. The twits say, "Oh, sorry, we're outta stock." THEN WHY DID YOU SELL ME THE BUNDLE?! After all, what good is a plastic toy guitar when you have no game to play it on?
All you folks that condemn Wal-Mart, do you also codemn Best Buy?
I condemn Best Buy for their horrible service and selection. Circuit City was much better.
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"Lets watch it with throwing around the white trash comments."
REALLY! Come on.
I mean when you look at the pictures of those people on that website it's self-
explanatory and all we can do is kind of just nod knowingly (and snicker) ;)
Well I've meet some people that have looked like a majority of the ones on that site. Most of them just have a horrid fashion sense or that is all the cloths they have, but they are nice folks that make do with what they have. I just don't understand how you think that is the right kind of attitude to have. Do you also think the same thing about other ethnic groups?
All you folks that condemn Wal-Mart, do you also codemn Best Buy? How about Home Depot or Lowes? Are all big box stores evil? Pet Smart? How about a department store like Sears?
Department stores don't apply in this conversation since they required their employees to know the products and to help customers. Best Buy's prices aren't that different from local stores on somethings and when they are it is because that can afford a much larger quantity that a local small shop. There really aren't that many local pet stores where I live so the Pet Smart example is moot in AR. As far as Home Depot and Lowes If I'm looking for tools and there is a local smaller hardware store close by I go there but if I'm looking for wood, pvc, and crap like fasteners I will hit up the big stores for the prices. It should also be mentioned that none of those stores have been accused of the same business practices and treatment of employees that wally world has.
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Right as I am walking out of the store, I look at the box and it says "Game not Included." I walk back to the counter and ask for the game that I paid for. The twits say, "Oh, sorry, we're outta stock." THEN WHY DID YOU SELL ME THE BUNDLE?! After all, what good is a plastic toy guitar when you have no game to play it on?
If it said "game not included" how can you say it was the game you paid for ? Why did he sell you the bundle? because it was what you asked for. Do the sales guys have to read the contents to you ? or did the wording only appear after you paid for it ?
That's like complaing you chute didn't work even though it was stamped "open before impact"
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"I just don't understand how you think that is the right kind of attitude to have.
Do you also think the same thing about other ethnic groups?"
Um. Yes I do. I'm definitely an opinionated sphincterhole. I like to mock and
will lol at jokes involving hillbillies, fat people, people who smoke and, for
example, Indian's who work at 7-11. People like that shown on theWalmart
website are "special" and they need laughing at too.
Who are you to deny them that?
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I hate walmart because its walmart. Their prices aren't better than everyone elses. They have just brainwashed the mindless drones (white-trash) of this country that they are. Ever went to walmart to find a "sale" item? Did you ever find said item in stock? They are always "out of stock" on large sale items. And they are also the only company I have ever dealt with that doesn't know when their next delivery is or whats on it.
Huh, I don't have that problem at my wal-mart. :lol
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Walmart is one of many American base companies that will contribute to the collapse of this country because most of there products are made in another country. If Sam Walt was still alive, he wouldn't never aloud that to happen.
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My Uncle worked for a large accounting firm. Walmart contracted them to run some books. Walmart would send back the work refusing to pay, saying that the numbers were wrong somehow. They'd do this for months. My uncle personally told me that they'd send the same numbers back and have them accepted after having the work rejected 3 months in a row. They'd refuse to pay each time. My Uncle's company now refuses to work with Walmart.
Walmart will hire "full-time" employees but only ever schedule them for 39 hours a week. They do this to avoid being forced to give good benefits.
Walmart has the worst customer service of any buisness I have ever been to. I've been told: "I don't know", "Not my department", or just flat out ignored many times. Bad management in general.
Walmart will make contracts for goods that require the price they pay to steadily decrease each year. Businesses think they've got it made at first with such huge orders for product but loose out over the long run when their profit margin keeps getting cut into each year and cost cutting can only get you so far.
And finally: Walmart sells a bunch of cheap plastic crap that won't last and is an incredibly unsustainable business model. Why is all manufacturing moving to China? Because they are making all the cheap plastic crap with no environmental protections to keep them from dumping unbelievable amounts of toxic waste straight into the rivers.
That about sums up why I probably only go into a Wallyworld once a year and immediately regret the decision.
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sphincterhole.
I love the word filters :)
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They are cheap asses. If you have a contract with them to sell you product, you have to have a representative work at their HQ year round.
Here some good sites:
http://hatewalmart.com/ (http://hatewalmart.com/)
http://ihatewalmart.blogspot.com/ (http://ihatewalmart.blogspot.com/)
http://www.walmart-blows.com/forum/ (http://www.walmart-blows.com/forum/)
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Its the "I dont know" and the "its not my department" comments that bring my ((*# to a boil.
I worked as a Kroger Supervisor for a little over a year, and even though I did not like the job, I still treated every customer with respect and if i did not know an answer I sure as hell went to find someone who could answer it. Even if they wanted to know about some things that I really could have said not my problem, I still went to the meat, deli, dairy, grocery department heads or employees to find the answers. Why? Because i took pride in what i did even though I hated it, because the customer always deserves respect.
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If it said "game not included" how can you say it was the game you paid for ? Why did he sell you the bundle? because it was what you asked for. Do the sales guys have to read the contents to you ? or did the wording only appear after you paid for it ?
That's like complaing you chute didn't work even though it was stamped "open before impact"
When you buy the bundle for guitar hero the game is included with the bundle.
He asked for the bundle, which includes the game itself, along with the guitar.
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People have to realize that saving a buck here and there is not always more convenient nor does it help their community.
That is one of the reasons I hit my local hardware store first before I go to a Home Depot/Lowes store.
All of our local Wally Worlds are tremendous supporters of our Soldiers. For that reason alone I'll make a trip into there for bread, eggs, milk & shampoo. May not be helping the community by saving a buck or two, but I'm glad to support the places that support our Soldiers.
Don't go for clothes or shoes... but just about everything else. :)
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All of our local Wally Worlds are tremendous supporters of our Soldiers. For that reason alone I'll make a trip into there for bread, eggs, milk & shampoo. May not be helping the community by saving a buck or two, but I'm glad to support the places that support our Soldiers.
Don't go for clothes or shoes... but just about everything else. :)
Hey, Mom. Do we just have better Wal-Marts than everyone else? Or do we just see it different?
:salute
Stalwart
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I dunno. There's one wal mart I won't go into though unless it's off-hours, otherwise it's messy and crowded, which annoys me terribly. But I still do all my pharmacy stuff there & go at about 8 am.
There's one I go to at about 11 pm for bread, eggs & milk. But that's just to make sure I can go without having to bring my kids. Even if I went during peak hours it would be not crowded, and always clean.
Either way, I'd still put up with a little inconvenience if it meant supporting them as a thank you for all that they do in support of the soldiers. :)
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I worked at a high end furniture store for a couple years before joinin the USAF.
Every time we had a 'sale' on La-z-boy chairs (for example) ..it was due to the manufacturer raising the price.
SO ... the new higher price was put on the tags with the 'sale' price what it was currently selling at, 'on sale' for the next week,
..then prices would go back to 'normal' .. or a hundred bucks more, on average .. ROFL.
But you're absolutely right, the sales dweebs in suits could spew facts about all the way cool stuff in the store.. most of which was massively overpriced. (ya, check out them 1500 dollar lamps, the ones that said 'made in china' on the bottom)
I saw the same scheme worked at speed shops I worked at while I was in the USAF.
I have no doubt Wally World does it too.. it seems to be the norm in retail sales.
As for customer service, Wally World is understaffed
..if any of you have worked there you know on the weekends its a zoo.
An hour after we opened we would have more cars lined up for oil changes than we could do in an 8 hour day.
I especially enjoyed an older lady telling me she would have my job.
I told her it started at 8am and she had better work on her people skills because she sucked at it.
She swore up and down that I had stolen her car keys.. had never given them to her ..bla ..bla .. bla.
She refused to check her pocket ..until the manager insisted.
Bingo.
The manager pulled me into his office later and told me that was one of the hardest things he had ever gone through..
..keepin a straight face at the things I had said to that imbecile.
I got one if the highest raises in the department.. it was still crap.
It amazed me how many people came into the store just plain rude from the start.
I had one guy come in just all kinda pissed off yelling and calling us all a buncha schoolyard names.
My supervisor was a bit taken aback when I confronted him and told him to get out.
A younger lady, she had no idea that people that work in a public retail chain have rights too.
If you ran into me on a busy day and wanted to start crap, I would arrange a police escort off the property.
-shrug- ..been there done that.
As far as customer service goes, you get what you pay for.
I was makin 8 bucks an change an hour .. not much incentive to put up with crap from jerks.
Had a young guy outta high school ask me if it was worth pursuing a career there.
I told him to go to college (like I was doing at the time) ..get a degree in something he wanted to do,
and move on. Wal Mart is just a job, and not a good one at that.
-Frank aka GE (just sayin)
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For so many in this thread that dislikes the store, y'all sure seem to go there a lot. :D
Just observing.
Fred
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Once a year is about all I can tolerate. Not knowing the local stores in WV limits my choices on my way to Masontown for the All Good music festival.
TxMom, I'd rather spend my money locally with the businesses that most likely have family members serving than a big company that is using patriotism as a marketing tool.
It really bugs me how much Wally World cons us into thinking how great they are for the country while they get more and more cheap crap from China...
Anyways, i looked through all the pictures and I couldn't stop laughing at the guy with the flashlight duck-taped to the bumper. Classic
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I just saw a guy in spandex pants, with a yellow smiley for underwear :confused: :huh
im now going to go out back and shoot myself :eek:
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TxMom, I'd rather spend my money locally with the businesses that most likely have family members serving than a big company that is using patriotism as a marketing tool.
Sure, if that was the case, I'd agree...
But our wal marts do more than use patriotism as a marketing tool. Quietly, they do at least the following (and probably more that I don't know of):
Provide school supplies & school related prizes for an annual back to school bingo, at which military children are invited to attend (it's a free event, only for military kids, and every attending child is given a bag full of school supplies, in addition to at least 100 free raffle opportunities ~ all school supply related ~ and awesome winner prizes ~ also school supply related)
Provide drinks and snacks for soldiers (by donations funneled to the USO) at deployments/redeployments
provide volunteers for military related events
So they're making an actual impact, not just giving lip service like most businesses or organizations do when they hang a little sign in the window that says "We support our Troops."
They'll get my money any day of the week.
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I've had no problem with Walmart so maybe it's just luck. However their business model seems to be working.