Wal-Mart pitting #666

The BBQ Pit
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I fucking hate Wal-Mart!!!

It started out simply enough.
I wanted to print out about a half-dozen pictures from my trip that were worth framing, or at least putting in a little picture holder.

I needed a stand-alone photo printer, a couple of frames, garbage bags and a box of shells for my .38 revolver. Thats all I needed.

I drove 10 minutes to Woodland (a few miles north of Davis). With my MemoryStick in hand, I stode over to the electronics section. Their stand-alone machine was out of order. I became agitated, but instead went on to look for garbage bags.

I was looking for something in the 20-gallon range. No. Wal-Mart Has Decided that the only sizes customers need at home are 13, 33, 39, and 55. I JUST WANTED A BOX OF FUCKING 20GALLON BAGS!!! I became mildly ticked off. I then tried to find picture frames. I had planned on making 4x6 prints. Since I was here, I didn’t want to waste the trip. No. WalMart had other plans for me.

The SMALLEST picture frames they carry are 5x7. ARRGH!!! FUCKING WALMART! Its not that they were out of stock, the entire fram section was full, 5x7 is just the smallest they had. They didnt even have anything for smaller wallet prints. By this point I am sick of WalMart trying to limit my choices to what THEY think I need. At this point I am walking around the store mumbling to myself about how much I fucking HATE WalMart. I avoid employees, because I know they hve shitty jobs in a shitty store, and I don’t want to take my rage at the Waltons out on them.

I decide that buying ammunition when on the verge of a mental breakdown is a bad idea. I left the store, and decided to hit the new SuperCenter WalMart in Dixon. Dixon is about 8 miles west of Davis. So I hop in the car, head south to Davis, then skip the exit, and hop onto I80 West. I think to myself “I’ll give WalMart one more chance to satisfy a customer tonight before I hold a lofelong grudge”.

It is now about 10PM. I arrive at the 2nd WalMart and go in. Their photo printer is not out of order, but they turn it off when they close the photo department (several hours earlier). ARRRGGHH!!! The worst part is, the photo department is closed, but staffed. The girl behind the counter says I can drop off my memorystick and pick up prints tomorrow, but they’ve already turned off the machines and aren’t allowed to turn them back on. I now Hate WalMart With A Passion. Furthermore, WalMart has squandered this second chance, and is still trying to force me to buy 33 gallon trash bags and 5x7 picture frames.

HOLY FUCK!!! I am so pissed I power-walk out of the store and head home. I have wasted 2 hours of my life putting up with WM’s bullshit.

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Um…usually I’m all for pitting WalMart but I don’t really see anything Pit-worthy here.

  1. You want them to carry a size bag which they probably don’t carry because it doesn’t sell too well.
  2. Same with the picture frame.
  3. And it’s your responsibility to find out when the photo department is open. You think they should turn on all the machines just for you? What makes you so special?
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Now wouldn’t it be better if you could walk to the photo store, get your prints and frames, then stroll to the general store where they have the trash bags you want, know your name, and if you asked for a brick of .38 a fellow in that department would bring them to the register?

I’ll never give MallWart a dime.

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What the fuck? You were “on the verge of a mental breakdown” because you couldn’t develop pictures, get trash bags, or find a picture frame? This has to be the most ignorant rant I’ve read in weeks, maybe even more stupid than grienspace’s ill-concieved pitting of USAMA.

Get over yourself.

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Did you try the wallet section? :wink:

This is almost as lame as my pitting of XP’s re-registration system after a system crash. Almost.

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If the OP gets this cranked up over flippin’ garbage bags being the wrong size, I’m not sure he should be trusted with ammunition at any time.

For the frames, isn’t there a Michael’s or some such arts & crafts megastore near Davis?

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Wow. The first Walmart you went to didn’t have what you want, so you went to ANOTHER ONE?

You, my friend, should pit yourself.

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Try Target - when their standalone picture machine couldn’t accept my USB drive(after I had called and asked) a guy spent half an hour trying to trick the machine into accepting it.

Walmart isn’t worth it, just learn this now.

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Sometimes Walmart is the only game in town. The last place I lived, it was hit-or-miss if you were looking for something in particular. If you don’t drive or if it’s a lot of driving, it becomes time consuming to collect everything you need, and sometimes you end up travelling out of town or settling for a brand or a style you didn’t want. I don’t see anything wrong in blowing off a little steam about that.

I don’t know about your Walmart, but I noticed something about the one where I used to live–brand selection was dwindling. I noticed that in the grocery store there, too. Sometimes, there was only one brand offered for a particular item, when there used to be at least two. Sure, the store will carry what makes sense from a business perspective, but I didn’t like having no choice at all.

And I don’t think this thread is more ignorant than the USAMA thread at all. That’s just crazy talk! :slight_smile:

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I would like to apologize for my lame rant. I should have put “lame rant” in the title.

Right up there with “Don’t drive while drinking” should be “Don’t post while pissed”. Only Bad Things happen.:smack:

Also, I should have mentioned that my tranquil mental state had been torqued already that day by previous events; I don’t wan’t everyone to think I’m a basketcase who goes into Wally World and flips out because they don’t bow before me.In my defense, I think we all get more upset than we should over things once in awhile. This was one of those times.

In short, sorry for the lameness and ignorance. Please don’t think I’m a COMPLETE nutjob. Partial nutjob is ok. :slight_smile:

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hehehe. No fuckin’ way. Close, sure. :wink:

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We wandered into Wal-Mart the other day because Ms. Booka just HAS to have their deli meat. (Truth be told, anything I buy there in the food market part of their store worries the hell outa me - but that’s another story.)

We walks up to the meat section looking for beef tenderloin. Basic beef tenderloin. We don’t see any. We redouble our efforts to search them out.

Nada.

So we go find the meat market Wal-Mart humanoid, and ask him if he has beef tenderloin there in the back.

“Nope. We don’t stock beef tenderloin.”

I said “Really? That’s kind of a basic thing for a meat market.”.

He tells me again that they don’t stock it.

I turn to the wife, and say “Well, based on that we better go, because they probably have decided not to carry milk and eggs.”

Fuckin’ dumbasses. If they only realized that Dale Earnhardt ate tenderloins, the aisles would be full of them.

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You will be getting my hospital bill for the cost of suturing the seam I split in my side laughing at this. :smiley:

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Your Wal-Mart sucks. All the ones around me have an entire ailse of frames with plenty of wallet and smaller sizes, even a couple of the elusive 3.5"x5" Now, when I was looking, I didn’t see anything I liked, but they had 'em.

4"x6" are usually easier to find at a place like Walgreens, where their photo labs seem to be at least marginally more professional and not just slapped extras on a megasuperduperdeluxe store. If you were printing your photos out though, couldn’t you just print 5"x7"s?

I hate WalMart too but for other reasons.

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MallWart sucks, any pitting is fine by me. :slight_smile:

Oh, and Fuck!

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I won’t hold the lame rant against you, CynicalGabe.

As far as frames go, check your local dollar stores- generally the bigger ones. I know it sounds lame, but I get all my frames from this Dollar Tree by my house. They have some really nice ones in many sizes.

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The ink in most home printers is bad to use for photos you want to keep for longer than a few months. Many times it will quickly fade or otherwise degrade, even if not in sunlight.

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I’m 25 days into a Wal-Mart boycott. Fuck them, they don’t get one damned dime of mine. Don’t get bent, just do business with someone else.

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Preach it, sister!

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I honestly didn’t realize it was you, Gabe. You get a pass, I guess, cause you’re a nice guy.