People of walmart

[Flipperk]

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.

[Tac]

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.

[Stalwart]

We must have the best Wal-Mart in the world here in Austin.

[Becinhu]

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

[VonMessa]

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.

[sluggish]

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.

[allaire]

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.

[Meatwad]

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

[Spikes]

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...

[Meatwad]

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.

[ariansworld]

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.

[Delirium]

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.

[Westy]

"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)

[Spikes]

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.

[Stalwart]

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.