Walmart
 

Are all people that work at Walmart frigging morons? I work in a small town that is 45 minutes from home. If I need to get anything during the day I have to go to either Walmart or Kroger and that's about all I have to choose from. I have had to go to Walmart twice this week and each time I have spent more than 10 minutes in the checkout line...and I was the NEXT person!

My second gripe is that Walmart must not have a dresscode because all of their cashiers looked like they just rolled out of bed.

My third gripe is CAN YOU PLEASE MOVE A LITTLE BIT FASTER? The lady was moving like a 90 year old person!

AND I have been late back to work twice this week! I could understand if the store was busy but it hasn't been either day that I've been there!

Ok, I'm done...

There is a thread on how much Wal-Mart blows, but I completely agree!! I hate Wal-Mart. Every time I set foot in that store, it's full of white trash people....with their entire family...who feel the need to stop in the middle of the aisle, or weave back and forth, or spread out so that there is no way for me to get around them. Then I inevitably land behind them in the checkout lane, (and of course I unfailingly pick the slowest checker in the entire store) and their white trash kids stare at me (either that or one screams the whole time.) Anyhow, you get the idea.

ThetaGirl- It is as if you read my mind and put it down in writing. I hate going to Wal-Mart! People do not know how to push their carts and I almost always get run over by a cart. They stop in the middle of aisles. Ugh!

Yeah, I was hating my life the other day. I needed to get some big tupperware storage containers for some winter stuff I was putting away and The Container Store was across town, (through construction..I might add) so I thought about Wal-Mart....on a saturday...in the afternoon.... I did it anyway, and hated myself for it. Standing there in the households section.... screaming brats and Lionel Ritchie BLARING on the speakers "oh what a feeling...were dancing on the celing" Yeah, I almost went back to the sports section and put a rifle in my mouth.

I actually like Walmart
 

Sorry, I guess I'm the odd man out...I like Walmart. It must be because the one I go to is in a plaza close to campus, so it's nothing but college kids (except for weekday mornings or late at night when there are the white trash families). It's the place we go for everything.

I like Walmart, too! I always leave there happy and with exactly what I needed. Sure, the lines move slowly, but I manage to pick the slowest line possible in whatever store I'm in, anyway.

Walmart is the spawn of the devil.

Hey, I worked at WalMart-

Granted I hated it...

I was a fast cashier and we DID have a dresscode, no denim, no tennis shoes, no shirts that had the name of another store... but think about it... you arent going to go to work at WM all dressed up like you work at a dpt store!

Althouh when youre training, they brain wash you with crap about Sam Walton... like hes god or something!

Walmart Sucks.

Wal-Mart blows. When I do go there for groceries, I buy in bulk to avoid having to go very often.

A very good friend of mine worked there for a semester, full time. He hated it. Always came home with a funny story about moronic customers (He's hella smart - a rarity amongst their employees). He said that there was a giant picture of Sam Walton in the break room wearing a "hi my name is Sam" nametag,a nd the nametag was clearly superimposed on the photo. He was unable to explain this to the other employees.

Other friends of mine that worked there were dating. The other cashiers couldn't believe they didn't have any children yet. "Girl, what you mean you ain't got kids yet? You've been together 3 years!"

I hate Kmart much much more than Wal-Mart. I love Target though. I can't WAIT until they open one here. Its got everything - Pottery Barn knockoffs for cheap AND Hello Kitty accessories! :D

So one lucky Christmas, Santa brought me some shitty little small-electronics bauble I couldn't possibly use no matter how I'd try, so I got the receipt, and lucky me had to return it to GOD DAMNED Wal-Mart.

Well, I walk into the door, and there's two people working the front door area - one kind-looking old man, obviously a retiree working this job to stay around people. He was the greeter; just sorta jolly, laughing, having a good time.

The other employee was equally friendly, perhaps even more so, a younger woman in her mid-30s. She too was very cool, and having a good time - she was also in a wheelchair, with only partial use of her arms. So, of course, she was assigned to stamping the items you were bringing in for return, with some sort of gun-type device.

What sort of lunatic would give the job requiring manual dexterity to the person who, unfortunately, doesn't have use of her arms/hands? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Watching her struggle with the gun, and the ensuing line (not to mention people getting pissed off, like it was her fault), well I didn't know whether to cry, help her out, or laugh my ass off at how ridiculous the whole thing became.

It was off the chain - to this day, I can't believe that some 'manager' didn't decide to, maybe, switch the jobs between the two?

But what the hell do I know, I guess . . .

Well, I go to Walmart if I have to. I work at the competition though, Zellers. I admit Zellers has smaller selection in some areas (we have no craft dept, practically no groceries) but we're friendly. (Our customer service workers have been known to take back items that we don't even sell!!bad for business, good for reputation).
A lot of customers complain, "i'm going to walmart, it's cheaper" But you know what, not everything is cheaper, and besides you can spend your money on gas to get there.

Walmart just built a new building next to their old one. The new building is much larger but their organization skills are crap. I went in there last week and they had stacked boxes in almost all the aisles! and not the big main aisles, but the tiny ones too. You couldn't go anywhere with a cart!

anyway, that's my opinion on that!

I read a list in the newspaper a few weeks ago that showed the, I think, 20 richest people in the WORLD. Three of those people were Sam Walton's widow and two of his children.

IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!! :eek:

That news is a big contrast to the folksy, down-home image the chain tries to project of the late owner. It's hard to imagine someone accruing that kind of money if they're not at least a partial bas***d.

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Note: The above is the opinion of KillarneyRose only and not of GreekChat. Please don't sue us, Wal-Mart! Sam is good, Sam is good, Sam is good...

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The other employee was equally friendly, perhaps even more so, a younger woman in her mid-30s. She too was very cool, and having a good time - she was also in a wheelchair, with only partial use of her arms. So, of course, she was assigned to stamping the items you were bringing in for return, with some sort of gun-type device.

What sort of lunatic would give the job requiring manual dexterity to the person who, unfortunately, doesn't have use of her arms/hands? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Watching her struggle with the gun, and the ensuing line (not to mention people getting pissed off, like it was her fault), well I didn't know whether to cry, help her out, or laugh my ass off at how ridiculous the whole thing became. [/QUOTE]

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Key to fast checkout at Wal Mart
 

The key to a fast checkout at Wal Mart is to ALWAYS get checked out at either the electronics or sporting goods counter. They won't care what you bring up -- especially if you build a good rapport with them.

I'm sure it might be a different issue if you had groceries and such but they have never questioned me. I don't believe in waiting in lines at Wal Mart.

Re: Key to fast checkout at Wal Mart
 

Yeah, I'm one of those people who sucks up to the photo department employees so that they'll ring me up there. Hey, most of their business from a single person probably comes from me, anyway...I take sooo many pictures.

ps: the "I hate Walmart" anecdotes so far are hilarious!
pps: Target is better, but for different things

I've never been to Wal Mart. They don't have them here. I have been to K-Mart. My family saw Martha Stewart shopping there. :p :eek: :D

The first time that I went to Walmart this week I was buying storage containers also. I needed FOUR of the really big ones and they are stacked really high. I pulled the entire stack off the shelf and then I found out that that particular stack was holding the shelf up above it. I damn near emptied the contents of the shelf into the aisle...I should have!! To make matters worse, I dropped the stack of containers on my foot (I was wearing sandals) and it hurt like hell.

At least 5 employees walked by me and they never said one word to me!

They just closed all the K-Marts in Oklahoma... So if I want one of those category killer type stores Wal Mart is the only answer. They've also been raising their prices since their competition's demise.

Nope... you have to keep laughing until Walmart restocks the clue department. :D

God it keeps getting worse.


My design firm just got a client - one of those Banks in walmart. Guess who has to deal withthem? Yeppers. Me. So I am schlepping through the parking lot in 100 degree heat dodging shopping carts and spilled icee's like its the freaking Batan Death March cause the parking lot is bigger than my hometown.

More importantly, WHY is there a bank in the wal-mart? WHO WOULD BANK THERE??? Seriously... THe point of banking for me is service and convience. WHAT IS CONVIENIENT ABOUT WALMART? Yeah, everythign is there, but its a pain in the ass to get there and inside and the fool asss employees, white trash families and kids EVERYWHERE at midnight! I never saw midnight as a kid till I was 17! THe old people in the "Grill" waiting for death like its some sort of retail retirement facility and the smocks OH MY GOD THE SMOCKS. No you cant help me.....I HATE WALMART.......

The walmart we had in our college town wasn't too bad, but then again, it couldn't be... it was the only store of it's ilk for about 20 miles. And it was mostly college students, so you didn't have (much of) the WT.

Now that I live in Milwaukee, however, it is a whole new ballgame. Target is the only "mega-store" I can go into without wanting to attack everyone with a knitting needle. Walmart is slow, slow, slow and messy... and don't even get me started on K-Mart. This is really disgusting, but... the place always smells like urine. I've ventured in there twice, only out of extreme necessity... and both times I've had to leave within moments because I just couldn't take it. The smell... the bratty kids who run over your feet with a shopping cart (hope I don't see you in the parking lot, kiddo...) and the screaming, oh lord, the screaming.

In comparison with all that, Target is a nice, happy quiet place, with nice, happy bright colours...aah....

Or how about the McDonalds-in-WalMart concept? How's that for proof of the "Aldus Huxley was prescient" theory?

I got it - let's roll two of the biggest commercial titans (and coincidently, signs of the COMING APOCALYPSE) together - then, oh yes, we can have our white trash families utilize the McDonald's like a f-ing babysitter, allowing them to watch TV and stuff their collective face full of greasy garbage while Mommy buys the largest box of Ho-Ho's the Earth can sustain. Nothing like raising your kids in a GOD DAMNED McDonald's, then piling them into the rusty white Chevy cargo van and heading back to the trailer park. It's almost unreal to see it, it's just bizarre.

Hell, might as well be able to pay the (minimum payment on the) credit card bills while you're there, too, I guess. I got it - let's put showers, cots, and maybe a social services desk in there, too - then some of my distant relatives wouldn't ever have to leave the freaking Wal-Mart.

Society is swirling around the porcelain, for sure.

Dammit your ass is CRAZY. I just finished reading you and lifesaver's first posts and had composed myself only to get to your next set and damn near wet myself from laughing.

When I get to Charlotte, I will have to check out their Wal Marts but I pray none of this thread's posts come back to haunt me.

At the Wally World near where I live, you see all kinds- people- i.e. women will come dressed in their robes (the night gown type), slippers and curlers. One guy even came in wearing only a pair of boxers a t-shirt and shoes. When he was asked to leave, he said "The sign on the door says, "no shirt, no shoes, no service." It doesn't say anything about underwear. OMG! WTF? I think all of the idiots of the community go there to congregate. It's the only place they feel of "normal intellect."

Why DO women go out in public with rollers in their hair? I have yet to understand this. Isn't the point of rollers to curl your hair so you look nice? Then why would they go out looking like crap in public? They're trying to look nice...so the first step is take out the rollers! Unless they need to leave them in b/c they're getting married that day or have an event later on that day and it's an emergency...but highly unlikely. :rolleyes:

They leave the curlers in their hair because they are lazy slobs! Besides, it's the "I'm only going to Wal-Mart" mentality.

Ok Lifesaver, RELAX, RELATE, RELEASE......BREATH! :D

WELCOME TO AMERICA!!

Hmm...speaking of gas....I would not be surprised at all if they would to build a filling station on the parking lot some day.

They have. I can gas up at any of the 4 superwalmarts here in San Antonio.

They are also selling cars in the Houston Markets.

As a side note, last night after drinking I convinced my roomate to take me to walmart so I could by some coax cable for the dish so I could watch TV in my room. I ended up shopping. Dropped about $40 bones. I have decided that I can only handle walmart when I am loaded. Wasnt that bad. Did get some messed up stuff tho. heheh. Neoploitan Ice Cream, Socks, Armorall and Coax cable. Only in Walmart.

I hate Walmarts, because it kills local business. Everyone now goes to the chainlink stores like K-mart or Walmart, and the local businesses hurts because of that.

I try not to go to Walmart so often, if I can, I would go to Main Street and buy something from the locals.

LOL Can I play?
 

I worked for Walmart in college and just after I graduated, so I can't say all bad things about the company. Here's a manager story for ya', though.

I got married 2 days after Christmas the year I graduated from college, and I was still working there. So, I went to fill out the request form for time off. The manager told me I could only have the day before, the day of, and the day after my wedding off. Why? Because he desperately needed me there to help with returns following the holiday. I worked in health and beauty. I held keys, so I couldn't even leave the department, let alone do any returns.
By the way, he also asked if we would consider getting married in the snack bar so I could go to back to work as soon as the wedding was over.

Oh, sure. We can do that. :rolleyes:

LOL
 

LOL I have jsut gotten home from a 7 hour shift waiting tables..........i think i got some of those white trash ppl....and this thread has now put me in a good mood.........and i mus tsay all of this is right, but in college station all you have is walmart,
but my pet peeve is those ladies who have kids screaming at the top of thier lungs for a toy or some crap, and thier parents are just shopping along not taking care of the kid or the problem and they can be heard screaming a mile away! :mad:

Maybe it's just because I'm a psychology major, but I LOVE going to Wal Mart at about 2am, to take a study break or something, and watch all the people. The day time is entertaining enough, but in the middle of the night, it's 10 times better. It's like real life Jerry Springer. We have 2 Super WalMarts near my school. One is decidedly in the ghetto, and the other is in a fairly nice part of town, but is close enough to the outskirts that they get all the WT folks. These people are so entertaining to watch and my friends and I often try to figure out their "story." You know, like what the heck could those people be doing with a gross of beer? Obviously they must be having a kick a$$ party, maybe we should go talk to them, try to get ourselves invited. Or, wow, that person has been talking to themselves for 10 minutes now. Maybe they have a psychological problem. They look a little crazy...what if they're a serial killer?
I always seem to have to go to WalMart for something. They are definitely a huge resource for social outfits. They have great camo gear, cowboy stuff, cheap kids costumes, and tons of accessories. Actually most of the stuff there is pretty cheap, and the craft/fabric section is great! When you think about it, it's the only place that you can grocery shop, while getting your oil changed, while having your pictures developed, get eyeglasses, and have your hair cut all in the same place! (Not that I would do some of these things at WalMart - esp. getting my hair done - but you could, if you wanted to.)
For those of you who hate the people at WalMart, perhaps you should treat your next visit as not a dreaded trip to the WT hell hole that it truly is, but as a sociological adventure!

I really love the phrase "white trash people" LOL :D

Where do you live??? I think, wait i know, i need to move there asap!!

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I use to live rt. behind the Wal Mart at 2818 and Longmire. Isn't there a target now? At that time I loved wal-mart-thought it was the greatest store-WTF? What can I say I was a poor college student and where else can you get your oil changed/tires replaced/car fixed at the same time you shop for household products.