Wal-Mart Sucks- Page 2

[Pinguin]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 9:52pm

HAHA, oh TheatreDiva, that is definitely a good tennant to live by :0)

[Dame Fanadette]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 10:14pm

Wal-Mart is the devil and so is Starbucks most of the time, but right now they have the Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Yummy, they are so good!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 10:25pm

So, you are easy?

[Dame Fanadette]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:06pm

I am easy?

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:05am

I love me some Starbucks. . Wal-Mart, eh..

[justme2]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:08am

what the hell, people! Target and Wal Mart are the same thing!

Huge ass store with:

* everything from toothbrushes to oil cans (insert joke here)
* screaming, wild, shoeless children at 10pm at night.
* aimless "wandering folk" who stop their carts right in front of you or the aisle you need to get into. Then they get on the cell phone to find where their better half is...in the store.
* Cafe section with the "eau de la burned popcorn" scent.
* "Staff" made up of 16-18 year olds who giggle when you ask them where the underwear section is.

They are the same thing!

[kate2]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 2:50pm

personally, i prefer Dunkin Donuts Coffee to Starbucks anyway... i buy dog food and things like that at walmart just because its cheaper, but i wouldnt want to buy food in the same store that sells chainsaws. they just dont go together!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 4:41pm

Corporate America is certainly something to be concerned about---where will it all lead. Imperialism would be a scary thing.

My choosing Target over Walmart is based on 2 things

1. Target has nicer products

2. Walmart donates heavily to the conservatives/Republican party

However, having shopped at WalMart all my life, I do feel a bizarre fondness for it in that regard.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 4:53pm

Target has FAR superior merchandise, but Wal-mart has better prices. I shop at Target pretty often, but for everyday stuff, I just get it at Wal-mart. There are no Super Centers where I moved, so I have only been to Wal-mart twice in 6 weeks. I have been to Target tons of times. I actually bought a beautiful coat there last week...lol.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 5:02pm

Hate Wal-Mart.
LOVE Starbucks.
Couldn't live without venti soy raspberry lattes.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 8:22pm

I love Kohol's (or as my Pakistani co-worker calls it "Co-whole's").

The other day they had a 50% off sale, and I had a 15% off coupon from clothing I had donated to their Katrina clothing drive. I was flirting with the guy behind the check-out counter and he gave me the senior citizen discount as well. All totalled, I had an 80% discount!!!!!!

Gotta love a place like that!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 8:59pm

WalMart is the #1 company on the Fortune 500.

When you shop WalMart, you shop at the world's largest distributor of Chinese goods. They import somewhere between 20 and 30 BILLION dollars worth of Chinese-manufactured products PER YEAR. Those goods are manufactured by workers who are paid 50 cents PER DAY.

WalMart offers health insurance to less than half of its 1.3 million employees in the US.

From the Wake Up WalMart website:

"Despite $10 billion in profits, President and CEO Lee Scott said, 'In some of our states, the public program may actually be a better value - with relatively high income limits to qualify, and low premiums.'" (Transcript Lee Scott Speech 4/5/05)

In other words, WalMart's employees are encouraged to go on public assistance to get some decent health care coverage. This is America. The richest company in the country. Encouraging its employees to go on welfare, while the company spends money on political candidates who work to eliminate social service programs.

When you shop at WalMart, you're buying into a system that is even MORE corrupt than the average corrupt system.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:11pm

Diva -

Costco sells both food and underwear, so I have to make an exception to your rule.

But . . .

I will not shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club, for many of the reaasons mentioned in this thread. But, that is a purely personal choice.

I do shop at Target though.

There was a thread on this a while back on Wal-Mart, Costco and Target.
Costco/Wal-Mart Thread

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:16pm

And Walmart isn't happy with just being number 1--they want to be bigger and richer at anyone's expense.

[etoile]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:20pm

When I grow up I want to be a greeter. I don't want to work for them, just stand inside the door and greet.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:21pm

That's because you're a natural born hugger.

*hugs etoile and uses other action words placed inside a pair of asterisks*

[etoile]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:23pm

*hugs Namo back because he's so darn astute*

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:26pm

I can think of several verbs I would like to perform between Namo's asterisks!

Updated On: 11/5/05 at 09:26 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:28pm

Sing it, Namo. Admittedly, I've never had the choice of "Wal-Mart or nothing"- the northeastern suburbs I've lived in tend to be mall territory- but their abusive employment practices, not to mention their outright terrifying control over entertainment products, make them beyond the pale for me.

[Liam]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:40pm

i think you will have more fun after reading this:


1. Take shopping carts for the express purpose of filling them
and stranding them at strategic locations.

2. Ride those little electronic cars at the front of the store.

3. Set all the alarm clocks to go off at ten-minute intervals
throughout the day.

4. Don't bother doing your own shopping. Simply find someone with a full trolley containing roughly the items you need, and when they are not looking take it and go pay for it at the checkout. (this is not stealing, they did not own the items yet, they were simply 'moving them around')

5. Contaminate the entire auto department by sampling all the
spray air fresheners.

6. Challenge other customers to duels with tubes of gift-wrap.

7. Leave cryptic messages on the typewriters.

8. Re-dress the mannequins as you see fit, then arrange them into erotic poses. (be creative with the gift-wrap tubes used in point 6).

9. When there are people behind you, walk really slowly,
especially in thin aisles.

10. Walk up to an employee and tell him in an official tone, "I
think we've got a code 3 in housewares," and see what happens.

11. Turn all the radios to polka stations; then turn them off
and turn the volume up to full blast.

12. Re-enact a fatal incident involving the automatic doors.

13. Walk up to complete strangers and say, "Hi. I haven't seen
you in so long." etc. See if they play along. Insist on calling them 'Bob', and if they protest, get angry about it (violent if necissary).

14. While walking through the clothing department, ask yourself
loud enough for all to hear, "Who buys this crap anyway?!"

15. When you leave the store, try your car keys in the door of every car in the car park until you get to your own. Then drive off as if this is perfectly normal. (Note- if you don't actually own a car and walked to the store, attempt the above by substituting car keys with your house keys).

16. Ride a display bicycle through the store; claim you are
taking it for a test drive.

17. Follow people through the aisles, staying about 5 feet
behind them. Do this until they leave the store.

18. Ask if you can test some super-glue before buying it, then walk around the store gluing random items to other items/customers/staff. For added fun: See how many cashiers you can glue to each-other before any of them notice.

19. As the cashier runs your purchase over the scanner say "BEEP" in a loud voice. Repeat this for every item, and for other customers items. If the cashier protests, kill them.


20. Take off your shoes and tell them you want to return it and
when they say you didn't buy it there say "The customer is always right dammit!!" Make a scene.

21. Move "Caution : Wet Floor" signs to carpeted areas.

22. Set up a tent in the camping department; tell others you
will only invite them in if they bring pillows from Bed and Bath.

23. Test the fishing rods and see what you can catch from other
aisles.

24. Ask other customers if they have any Grey Poupon.

25. Drape a blanket around your shoulders and run around saying,
"I'm Batman. Come Robin, to the Batcave."

26. Climb things.

27. Randomly throw things over into neighboring aisles.

28. Play with the calculators so that they all spell "hello"
upside down. Once you have mastered this, progress to "boobs".

29. When someone asks you if you need help, begin to cry and
say, "Why won't you people just leave me alone?"

30. When 2 or 3 people are walking ahead of you, run between
them yelling "Red Rover."

31. Make up nonsense products and ask employees if there are any
in stock. (i.e.: Shnerples). Do a vague hand-mime of what a 'Shnerple' looks like to assist them.

32. Take up an entire aisle in toys by setting up a full-scale
battle with G.I. Joe vs. X-men.

33. Take bets on the battle from above.

34. Test the brushes and combs in Cosmetics on all the live animals in Pet-Care.

35. While handling guns in the hunting department, suddenly ask
the clerk where the anti-depressants are. Act as spastic as
possible.

36. Hold indoor shopping cart races.

37. Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from
Mission Impossible.

38. Attempt to fit into very large gym bags.

39. Attempt to fit others into very large gym bags against their will.

40. Say things like, "Would you be so kind as to direct me to
your Twinkies."

41. Set up a "Valet Parking" sign in front of the store.

42. Two words: Marco Polo.

43. Leave Cheerios in lawn and garden, pillows in the pet
section, etc.

44. "Re-alphabetize" the CD's using an alternative alphabet of your choosing.

45. In the auto department, practice your Madonna look with
various funnels.

46. When someone steps away from his or her cart to look at
something, quickly place random combinations of items in their cart, such as 'A Large Cucumber and a Tub of Vasceline'.

47. Relax in the patio furniture drinking beer until you get kicked out.

48. When an announcement comes over the loudspeaker, drop to
your knees and scream, "No, no, its those voices again."

49. Pay off layaways 50 cents at a time.

50. Drag a lounge chair over to the magazines and relax. Go to
the food court, buy a drink, and explain that you don't get out
much and ask if they can put a little umbrella in it.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:46pm

Liam, I hope you don't really do that when you're at Walmart. It's not a very good protest tactic - who has to clean up after those messes? Not the guys responsible for every single reason people on this thread want to boycott them, but the workers who are already treated like crap by their employers and then have to clean up after you randomly throw things into other aisles!

[etoile]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:57pm

And, since I must be in a serious mood tonight, one thing I definitely give them credit for is establishing a sound and efficient Code Adam system. For those not knowing what that means, whenever a child is reported missing in their store, the store immediately goes into "lock down" mode.

[hot_brdwy_diva]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 10:12pm

I'm a Customer Service Manager at Walmart. Around here, walmart or fast food is about it if you don't have a degree. (currently working on mine.) Oh yea, and I'm the "Associate of the month"

-Code Adams scare me... since I'm usually the one who has to deal with the frantic parents and make the call... everytime I am practically on the verge of tears for the lost child(except the people who lose their kid EVERYTIME they come in...)

The pay is good but the benefits do suck. They give you a choice of like 5 different health plans... but only one of them would actually do you any good and with the pay you get, you can't afford it.

...I also don't understand why every likes target better... Every target I've been to has been dirty and hardley has any registers!

I've also noticed that most wal-marts in the NY/NJ area are a disaster. We have to constantly send people from our store to help them so they don't get shut down.

Walmart is just a job for me... but for alot of people it is their "career". I don't know how other walmarts are but the people at my walmart are so great. Whenever an associate is in need we have raffles and raise money for them. Walmart also(at least mine) gives jobs to the elderly and the handicapped.

You can hate walmart all you want but please don't hate the people who work there.
...man do I have alot of mean customer stories lol

Updated On: 11/5/05 at 10:12 PM

[ljay889]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 10:14pm

Wal Mart is interesting. My closest Wal Mart is next to a trailer park (lmao) and on the other side of the trailer park is a K mart!

And get this, they will be knocking down the trailer park (rehousing them elsewhere) and building a target! So we'll have a Wal Mart, Target, K mart in a row. And near K mart is Staples, Tj Maxx, and Michaels.

I can't wait for our Target though, Target is obviously a step above Wal and Big K, but my wal does sell Broadway CDs, so it's cool!

[CJR]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 10:56pm

Uh oh, ljay's gone and inadvertantly insulted the trailer parks......

I know this sounds horribly snobby but I wont buy clothes at Target and I certainly wouldnt ever buy clothes (or food for that matter) at Walmart. Maybe it's just the ones around here but it all gives me a skeevy feeling. I'm all about saving money and getting things at a lower price but I'd much rather go scouer the sales racks at Macy's, Old Navy and other stores of the like. With stores like Walmart and Target you most definitely get what you pay for. The clothes are shoddy and fall apart easily and more over from that, they never fit properly.

Maybe that's just me....

Hang on, I think I need to go offend someone else on the board. I'm convinced that by the end of the night my opinions will have offended everyone. lol