The low prices for the junk at Wal-Mart are never worth the pain -in-the-ass that is the Walmart shopping experience. I can never figure out why sane people shop there.
Pay a little more money for similar or better quality products at a real store. You’ll still have some bad customer service and unpleasant shopping moments…but the odds of such moments are considerably reduced.
So true, it’s not even worth it. I realized this about the time I was in the Wal-Mart garden center looking at a potted plant that didnt’ have a price on it. “I know! I’ll ask that Wal-Mart employee over there! If she doesn’t know, she’ll surely find out for me!” Once I snapped her out of her aisle-wandering, wallpaper reverie, I inquired as to the price of the plant.
Her: “I don’t know.”
Me: “could you maybe ring it up on the register over there and find out?”
Her: “No, I don’t have the code for that register.”
At this point I expected her to call this mythical person who had the code for the register, but instead she wandered off down the aisle, and resumed counting ceiling tiles.
Didn’t need that damn’ plant anyway.
I’ve worked in this situation. Given the choice between a warning and paying up out of your own pocket you pay up out of your own pocket.
I’m glad to know that not all Walmarts lack maternity wear. The ones I’ve been to in my area (Alabama and Florida) do. And I did ask, when I was pregnant with my first, where the maternity clothes were. They had a tiny rack on clearance–they were phasing out this section. Of course, none of the clothes were my size. Apparently, they figured that even if there just happened to be women who were pregnant in this town, none of them would be plus-size (actually, with the exception of specialty maternity clothing shops, this seems to be the case with ALL stores that carry maternity wear.). I started to wonder if they thought that no man would ever want to knock up a fat lady, so larger maternity clothes weren’t necessary!
I also had one cashier at Walmart refuse to take a somewhat large amount of change in payment for an item I was purchasing. The total was $5.12. I had three $1 bills, $1.25 in quarters, and the rest in pennies, nickels, and dimes–and she flatly refused to put that much change into her cash drawer! Because I was in a big hurry at the time, I wrote a check (no such thing as a debit card at the time!), but later that day, I came back and complained to a chagrined and apologetic manager. Don’t know how he handled it, but at least I did get an apology!
Have you ever noticed the maternity clothes dept is right next to the lingerie dept?
Next time you go into a dept store, take a look. I guess they figure if the black lace teddy works, you’ll need to come back in for the mumus.
The creepy Greeters and Customers of Walmart, the funky smell, harsh lighting, shoddy products, horrible service and massive parking lots all make it not worth my while to go there to save 13 cents on a pack of tube socks.
I would rather go to Target, Bed, Bath and Beyond or Lowes. Same prices or better without the ick.
Mmmmm Lowes. . . .
What I resent the most about Walmart, about the many things there are to resent, are the people who attack you on your way out of the store to carefully examine your receipt. I’ve got a cart full of flimsy blue plastic bags–should be pretty obvious that I checked out. Or when I’ve got a cart full of flimsy blue plastic bags and two bed pillows–I’m sorry, but if I were going to steal bed pillows I’d at least have the grace to stuff them under my shirt and pretend to be pregnant!
I’m a Target girl, myself.
Walmart… they seem to carry a bunch of merchandise everyone else does and sells it for less. Sounds like they could be big.
They have their faults like not stocking any black dress pants for the boy in a size 16…
You just have to go in with the knowledge that you’re not going to find rocket scientists working there and they might not be able to give you the kind of help you need. For that kind of service you have to go to Home Depot where most of the staff really know their shit backwards and forwards.
Sadly, they don’t sell black dress pants.
I think you just answered your own question there . . .
Wow. Am I the only one here who actually likes Wal-Mart?!? I’d rather go to Wal-Mart (or Dollar General) than K-Mart or Alco. K-Mart can kiss my ass. I’ve had so many problems with them in the past that I flat out refuse to go there anymore. Unfortunately the closest Target store is 45 minutes away from me so I don’t go there often but I do like the store. I’ve been going to Wal-Mart every week for the last 10 years and have never had a problem with them. If I need to return something they give me my money back, no questions asked… even if I don’t have a receipt. If I have trouble finding something they find it for me. If I don’t know the price I use one of the scanners located at the end of every aisle or ask one of the workers there. I’ve only been stopped once to have my receipt checked because I bought a new ink cartridge for my printer and it didn’t get swiped over that little pad correctly. Took about 1 minute for the person to look at my receipt and find the item and send my on my way. Wal-Mart would have to do something really really shitty to sour me on going there. But, if the money order situation had happened to me I definitely would’ve asked for Cindy’s supervisor and raised a stink over the whole situation. They’re usually pretty good about giving the customer what they want.
I have minimal problems at Wal Mart. I do most of my grocery shopping there, and that’s where I get the family’s prescriptions filled. My biggest complaint is that they don’t always have enough check out aisles open. I avoid the place during back-to-school insanity and shortly before Christmas.
Hate K-Mart, and the local Target always seemed to be in disarray. They just opened a new SuperTarget - I’ll mosey over and have a look, but WalMart is much more convenient.
Hmm, you’ve had better luck at Home Depot than I have. I’ve usually found them to be not much better than the Wal Mart types described here.
Like the time I went in for roof patch and got three different answers from three different clerks as to where it might be located, none of which was correct. I finally found it by the simple expedient of wandering up and down every aisle in the store.
I pity the poor folks who don’t have a Fred Meyer’s in their town. I love that place. Beats the various Marts cold, and most of the employees are actually competent.
I wear shoe in an 11 Wide.
Size 11 I can find in K-Mart. Target, etc.
But, no wides.
Wal-Mart gots Wides! 
I don’t really mind Wal-Mart. If I go there, it’s because I already know exactly what I need and I want to pay bottom dollar for it.
Sure, maybe the drones won’t be able to help me find the right size bike tire, but if I can find it myself and pay $7 instead of $12, I consider that a win.
I would just like to take this opportunity to state once again how GLAD I am that I no longer work at KrapMart.
That is all.
My local WalMart has its faults–the scarcity of open checkout lanes on weekends,and the odd grocery stocking policy that gives me a dozen different kinds of biscuits but just 2 kinds of jelly (3 if you count apple butter as jelly) to put on them are 2 that readily come to mind. But the one thing WalMart has over KMart is that when you take back an item you paid cash for to a WalMart you get cash and not a damn gift card as a refund.
I gotta hurry up and spend that last gift card before KMart goes belly-up!!
Oh, hell guys, just do all your shopping at Nordstroms
FairyChatMom lives in a parallel universe, where the Wal-Marts are organized and the Targets are in disarray. In my universe, the Wal-Marts look like a tornado has touched down in the middle of ladies clothing, and left a pair of women’s jeans in automotive (in addition to the other mess the tornado left behind). But Targets are generally tidy.
Amen!
Better advertising strategy than putting the condoms next to the baby formula, like most grocery stores do. Not too reassuring, that. :eek: