# Attention: Wal-Mart Shoppers... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-wal-mart-shoppers/283346 "2005-01-06T05:07:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-wal-mart-shoppers/283346/21 "2005-01-07T16:48:37Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > I see (and hear) this kind of complaint endlessly about Wal-Mart and the other big, crowded stores, but _people keep on going back there._ I don’t understand it. If I find someplace unpleasant, I tend to stay away from it. I don’t get these experiences in Wal-Mart, as I’ve never been in one. I get them in the NYC Subway and Bus system. 1. We’ve been waiting in the cold rain for a bus for 20 minutes. You can see the bus coming from two stops away. When you get to the fare box is **not** the time to start trying to find your Metrocard. 2. Move to the back of the bus / interior of the subway car. Or at least don’t get mad at me when I do, because I _will_ tell you what you can do with your indignation. 3. Do not enter a subway turnstile and **stop**. HeyZeus-frickin’-Kreest, there are dozens of people immediately behind you. Move out of the way. Stopping on the, or at the bottom of the staircase is also in bad form, and you have no reason for complaint when my footprints are on your back. 4. Do not try to enter a train I am exiting until after I exit. You will likely not push your way past me, and I will not make myself ‘small’ to let you past. People exit first, then you enter. I would love to stay away, but I’ve yet to win the MegaMillions jackpot. It would probably help if I actually bought a lottery ticket, but the chances really don’t improve that much. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-wal-mart-shoppers/283346/22 "2005-01-07T17:08:07Z")
Wall-mart patrons. Heh. My husband told me this little story when he was shopping at Christmas. He had a cart, had placed an item in the cart, and stepped away from it for a second. When he turned around, the cart was gone! He hurried along and spotted the thief, because he had his item in the cart. When hubby caught up to him, and said “This is my cart!”, the thief turned to his wife, chuckled, and said, “Well, I tried!” No apology, no nothing! And then it happened again! And at this point he had the last one of some other gift. But this time he was not so lucky as to find “his” cart again. Assholes. Get your own damn cart! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-wal-mart-shoppers/283346/23 "2005-01-08T01:46:09Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > Nonetheless, he looked up just in time to see a woman walking hand-in-hand with her young daughter, coming straight down the aisle, daughter aimed by the mother’s pathway straight for the end of the cart, and before he could call out a warning, the mother walked the kid right into the front end of his (non-moving) cart. My husband, in a way, does this to me. Say we’re walking in the mall on an uncrowded day. I’m walking to his left. Doodly doo, we walk along. Someone will be walking in the other direction, face on with me. My husband doesn’t move to his right to allow me to stay abreast and get past the oncoming traffic. He just keeps moving straight forward. He also doesn’t move to allow me to pass kiosks or something similar. Even more annoying, he does this even if we’re holding hands. So, I end up having to drop back behind him in order to get past the oncoming pedestrian. Even worse than that? He’s a drifter. We’ll be walking along and he’ll drift toward my lane, forcing me to drift or drop behind him. I can’t even imagine how annoying he would be to other pedestrians. I am married to a WalMartian, I tells ya. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-wal-mart-shoppers/283346/24 "2005-01-08T02:02:20Z")
> [@Dolores Reborn](#): > > Wall-mart patrons. Heh. My husband told me this little story when he was shopping at Christmas. He had a cart, had placed an item in the cart, and stepped away from it for a second. When he turned around, the cart was gone! He hurried along and spotted the thief, because he had his item in the cart. When hubby caught up to him, and said “This is my cart!”, the thief turned to his wife, chuckled, and said, “Well, I tried!” No apology, no nothing! > > And then it happened again! And at this point he had the last one of some other gift. But this time he was not so lucky as to find “his” cart again. > > Assholes. Get your own damn cart! I had something like this happen to me once at Target, except that I hadn’t put anything in my cart yet, and it was a store flunky that “stole” it – probably just thought someone had abandoned an empty cart so they decided to take it back to the front of the store. By the time I caught up to him he was already back to the cart rack. Argh. > [@LifeOnWry](#): > > Not to mention that everybody (EVERYBODY!) is so caught up in their own damn selves that they come to a complete stop while walking in the mall, and it never even occurs to them that someone might be right behind them. Or they walk four abreast, oblivious to the fact that they’re taking up entire aisles. I have a theory that the number of people walking abreast is inversely proportional to how fast they walk. Four people walking abreast will walk twice as slow as two people walking abreast. (And are twice as hard to get around.) ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-wal-mart-shoppers/283346/25 "2005-01-08T04:50:14Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > As for me, I’m fortunate enough to have a plethora of local stores to walk to, even in my rather small-townish NYC neighborhood. I spent 20 minutes in a WallyWorld in Albuquerque in 1997 (dragged there by a friend) and still want them back. All of the Wal-Marts in Albuquerque suck, but some more than others. Believe it or not, the least sucky one (talking about damning with faint praise) is the one at Wyoming and Academy. I absolutely can’t stand the one at Eubank and I-40. The funny thing is, Sam’s Club isn’t very bad. Probably because you have to pay to get in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-wal-mart-shoppers/283346.md?page=1)