Super Walmarts suck!

[kh54s10]

I went to a Super Walmart for the first time today.

I will not be a frequent customer.

A full sized supermarket, larger department store (acres!). And too many low life shoppers who must think they are the only ones in the store. Standing in the middle of the aisle. Walking right across my path without even seeing me.

It was an unpleasant experience.

BTW, the local smaller one was closed when the BIG p.o.s store was opened.

 

[Pratzie]

But ******* its fun to people watch inside a Super store. I always walk out feeling better about myself.

 

[Airplanedoc]

I think my IQ drops in the parking lot, inside the store is is a real brain cell killer.

 

[Veedo]

Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way! I love to people watch, but Walmart has become sensory overload for me, and not in a good way. As we were walking out last weekend we watched a guy pull up to the main doors to pick his wife up, she proceeded to unload her cart into their car, then left the cart rooooolllll on towards all the other cars in the parking lot and then started to take off. My wife grabbed the cart before it hit anyone's vehicle and they watched her put it away while giving us the lights are on but nobody's home look.

 

[Zuljin]

There are too many better options. We've not been to "the Walmarts" in years and have not missed it. We don't need any socio eco political reasons. We just don't like it.

 

[smccarter]

It's ALL political with me.

Fugg the big box store and everythin they represent.

And fugg the Waltons. Yeah.... I said it.

 

[BrewWNC]

Walmart's craft beer prices and selection suck. The Ingles where I live sells the cheapest craft beer I have ever seen while Walmart (.2 miles away) sells next to no craft beer and what they do sell is ridiculously expensive.

 

[Pratzie]

Beer in Walmart?

Oh that's right, I live in PA :smack:

 

[Punity]

Um you went to a walmart what did you expect?

 

[Hang Glider]

Perhaps you'll recognize a few here - Wal*Mart seems to bring out the best.

 

[TxBrew]

I went to a Super Walmart for the first time today.

I will not be a frequent customer.

A full sized supermarket, larger department store (acres!). And too many low life shoppers who must think they are the only ones in the store. Standing in the middle of the aisle. Walking right across my path without even seeing me.

It was an unpleasant experience.

BTW, the local smaller one was closed when the BIG p.o.s store was opened.

They do that everywhere. No need to hate on the Supers.

 

[neo71665]

People being stupid and rude isn't limited only to super Walmart.

 

[Punity]

People being stupid and rude isn't limited only to super Walmart.

Right its all walmarts

 

[kh54s10]

People being stupid and rude isn't limited only to super Walmart.

No, but there are just so many more morons in such a big store. It is twice the size of the one replaced and it seems there was less elbow room.

I am not a Walmart basher. I liked the smaller stores but the superstores are ridiculous!

 

[Bullbythehorns]

I like the big Wal-Marts, they have more motorized carts than anyone else. That is such a bigass store that I get tired of walking through all of it I am glad that I can cruise the aisles and fill my cart with their goods.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I went to a Super Walmart for the first time today.

I will not be a frequent customer.

A full sized supermarket, larger department store (acres!). And too many low life shoppers who must think they are the only ones in the store. Standing in the middle of the aisle. Walking right across my path without even seeing me.

It was an unpleasant experience.

BTW, the local smaller one was closed when the BIG p.o.s store was opened.

The trick is to go on a weekday morning, before 9am. That way it's just you & a few old folks, who are usually alert enough & polite enough to stay out of the way. Avoid the heat, avoid the traffic, avoid the brain-dead, seething masses of shoppers. Hell, you can even get a good parking spot close to the door!
Regards, GF.

 

[cheezydemon3]

I am in a vacation destination and the bizarre shift in clientele is astonishing in a lot of ways.

Not saying that only intelligent people are vacationing here in these times, but it must be admitted that there is some correlation.
That said....

There are few options here for getting basics and not paying twice what you should here. A well placed Wal Mart about 1 mile from the beach, but tucked out of sight is unavoidable unless you want to buy toilet paper at a glorified overpriced gas station that also sells dehydrated ocean creatures with little plaques that say clever sayings...

The Wal Mart is a MAD house every saturday evening as the new batch of "check in saturday/check out saturday" travel weary vacationers arrive needing toilet paper, beer, and whatever else.

This well dressed woman looked like she was more than willing to run over my kids with her cart, and glared at me as I moved between her and my kids. Insanity.

While the "lights on/no one home" Wal Mart regulars may linger in the way, I would take them any day over the self righteous, homicidal douchers filling the wal mart down here.

 

[bern1]

Not a fan of Walmart. They don't make good neighbors. They move into towns and put the small business owners out of business. I avoid them if possible. Hope they don't get into selling homebrewers supplies.

 

[gdbrewer]

I worked at a super Wal-mart for a few years in my college days. I will NEVER do that again! Plus, I wouldn't be able to support my family on that $7.65/hour. I don't know what their pay is now, but I'm assuming it's somewhere close to that still.

 

[mbobhat]

I will say this though, if you don't care about service whatsoever and are willing to witness the most assbackery way of doing things, you can get the cheapest set of decent tires installed (you can purchase online and get shipped to store) compared to the rip off tire stores (something I don't like more than walmart).

So I ordered the tires to be shipped to store, got free shipping. I had to go to the front instead of the TIRE dept. (WTF) and they put them in a cart, and wheeled the cart of TIRES back to the TIRE dept. then installed them. Took maybe 5 hours because of the wait, and I only had to return once to have them rebalance a tire. I had a junkyard wheel replacement due to a bent previous one from a nasty pothole, but once he did a little better precision, it was much smoother.

 

[gdbrewer]

So I ordered the tires to be shipped to store, got free shipping. I had to go to the front instead of the TIRE dept. (WTF) and they put them in a cart, and wheeled the cart of TIRES back to the TIRE dept. then installed them. Took maybe 5 hours because of the wait, and I only had to return once to have them rebalance a tire. I had a junkyard wheel replacement due to a bent previous one from a nasty pothole, but once he did a little better precision, it was much smoother.

They did the same thing when people would put tires on layaway. I remember it being such a PITA, wheeling tires over to the layaway place, having to find a spot for them because the lazy layaway clerks always cried "they're too heavy", and then reversing the same process a month or two later. I worked mostly the counter in the automotive dept. and some in the shop, and I use the term "shop" loosely. It's more like a destruction derby than anything.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Perhaps you'll recognize a few here - Wal*Mart seems to bring out the best.

I got a picture on that site once . I hate going to Walmart because i used to work at one. Worst job i have ever had. People are alright except a few, and the management are d*cks even when they didnt have one. I butted heads with the management because they didnt know sh*t about my job or the vehicles (work in TLE) and telling me what to do. I can go on about walmart but i'm not. I just try to avoid it as much as i can. I just get angry the second i walk in the door. Horrible store.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Not a fan of Walmart. They don't make good neighbors. They move into towns and put the small business owners out of business. I avoid them if possible. Hope they don't get into selling homebrewers supplies.

They took our Jerrbs!

 

[unionrdr]

I like to go there to peruse the kitchen stuff isle. We don't have any sort of kitchen gadget stores here anymore. Nada. Zipo. Zilch. not many places to go. Target is kinda so-so compared to walmart. Kmart used to carry a lot of Cooper's stuff when I first started brewing,but that went south very quickly.
They're ok in kitchen stuff,but Wallyworld just seems to have a better quality of stuff where a lot of it is great for home brewing. Gotta watch the prices on some things though. The 10.25" dual layer fine mesh strainer would've been $30 from them. Cheaper from NB & Midwest. Things like that you gotta know your pricing. The $20 digital scale I got from them a year ago still works perfectly.
And with my bad back & hips,those motorized carts are a Godsend. I can enjoy shopping with my wife & sons again. And with that big basket on the front,I'm the cart & they're freer to shop unencumbered. She seemed to like that,as I used to push the cart in younger days so she could concentrate on the job at hand. Made me feel a lil happier again,which these days is a lil harder for me to come by. This aging thing def works...& yea,it doth suck mightilly...

 

[Pratzie]

This will be great. I want a front row seat to this frigging circus.

 

[gdbrewer]

This will be great. I want a front row seat to this frigging circus.

It already is, just most people don't know it. When I worked there, people would go over to the beer and wine section and pick fine beers like Busch and drink them in the store. We would find empty beer cans all over the place on a routine basis. Most of the time stuffed behind merchandise.

Maybe it was just an east Texas thing.

 

[Pratzie]

Sadly I live in Pennsylvania, where u need to jump thru 11,382 hoops to even be considered eligible to sell booze in a store.

 

[n240sxguy]

I feel the pain of the previous Walmart employees jn this thread. I worked for Walmart twice. I went from lawn and garden the first time to the management training program the second time. Ended up as a TLE manager. Walmart has not worked on a vehicle of mine since I worked there, and they only worked on mine while I was there. They don't pay enough for anyone to give a damn. I worked 50 hours a week making an average of $12.22 an hour. I still shop there, but not as frequently as I once did.

 

[fenderbass]

All Walmarts suck. Cheap crap from China's worst sweat shops and labor camps. You get what you pay for, and at walmat you get cheap a$$ garbage.

 

[DrunkleJon]

All Walmarts suck. Cheap crap from China's worst sweat shops and labor camps. You get what you pay for, and at walmat you get cheap a$$ garbage.

Must be a K-mart fan.