Why do you shop at wal-mart?

[Yo Ma Ma]

Originally posted by: RobCur
You know they suck right? using mostly foreign employee, rarely do I see Americans employed in their store... because they only accept lower pay, their more likely to hire an inexperienced foreigner then someone who is an expert at customer service or much more knowledgeable. Most of them just kept silence, no thank you after purchase. Never feel like I am appreciated, so screw them.

I'd rather just shop elsewhere even if I have to drive a few more miles or spend a little more. Starting to day, I will shop elsewhere and encourage all my relative and friends to do the same. What happen to buy Americans? We're selling outselves out to complete stranger everyday the more we buy and save, the evil corporation does not care about us at all.
BTW, did you know that most of them that shop their are foreigner and people who are employed by wally? lmao... makes perfect sense right?

Foreign employees? How far do you think someone will drive for a Walmart job? Those people are locals.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Wal-Mart Blog

If its a repost, bite me, I didn't make a new thread for it.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: RobCur
You know they suck right? using mostly foreign employee, rarely do I see Americans employed in their store... because they only accept lower pay, their more likely to hire an inexperienced foreigner then someone who is an expert at customer service or much more knowledgeable. Most of them just kept silence, no thank you after purchase. Never feel like I am appreciated, so screw them.

I'd rather just shop elsewhere even if I have to drive a few more miles or spend a little more. Starting to day, I will shop elsewhere and encourage all my relative and friends to do the same. What happen to buy Americans? We're selling outselves out to complete stranger everyday the more we buy and save, the evil corporation does not care about us at all.
BTW, did you know that most of them that shop their are foreigner and people who are employed by wally? lmao... makes perfect sense right?

Just in case you're needing help in this area....

It's 'today' not 'to day' and 'they're' instead of 'their'.

I could say so much more about your post but I think you already know what I would say. Or is it 'all ready'? LOL

P.S. I didn't know you could look at someone in a store and tell automatically that they're not an American.

Take care snookums.

 

[Aftermath]

Convenience and price. There is only one grocery store between my house and Wal-Mart, a Food Lion. The prices at Wal-Mart are better and the electronic/entertainment department is more than enough to convince me to drive the extra three miles to go there.

In this town though, there really aren't that many places to go for anything. Wal-Mart is honestly a one stop shop. My wife and I can go there any time and get anything we need. I prefer to go after 11pm when there are less people, but after 9pm Wal-Mart or K-Mart are the only two things open besides Dennys. Even if I just did my grocery shopping at the Food Lion or some other place, (I think there's a Bi-Lo a few miles away from Wal-Mart), they still don't carry the little knick knacks that I may be looking for, so I still have to make an extra trip to Wal-Mart/K-Mart/Target anyway. I would rather just go straight to Wal-Mart (post 11pm), get what I need and come home rather than make a multiple stops at a regular time, spending a little more money, using more time, and wasting a little more gas.

 

[imported_Mike]

People want the lowest price right now regardless of the consequences, it's quite sad.

 

[Babbles]

I avoid the place like the plauge. Last time I went there was a few months ago just to use the ATM. Before that it was probably close to 9 months since I have been inside. Anyhow ever sine my last adventure in there just for the ATM, I determined yet again never to step foot in there.

I find the people - both other customers and employees - rude, a dirty story, small selection (they got a lot of crap, but not actually a variety of products), horrible meats, crappy produce and just a headache.
It is my money and I choose to spend my money otherwise. If I need to shop at a big box store I go to Super Targer or Costco, depending on my needs

 

[Deslok]

Everyone should read this.
The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: Deslok
Everyone should read this.
The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

I live in a fairly small suburb of Philly, and they just built a Wal-Mart nearby (about 5 minutes from Longwood Gardens if you know where that is). The small businesses fought it tooth-and-nail for years, knowing exactly what Wal-Mart would do to them if one appeared nearby.

 

[Gurck]

Low prices + entertainment. No better place to spot people with 3 teeth who play the banjo in urban areas.

 

[aircooled]

I go to wal-mart to accommodate my homeowners manual instructions to grease the axle regularly.

 

[oogabooga]

target is closer, cleaner, and nicer looking, but mainly closer. Even if walmart is cheaper, the fact that it is a 20 minute drive, forget it.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Ugh, I've been at a walmart.... Once! It was a very excruciatingly painful, I was getting DVDs to watch on the plane (night before) and I really hated the atmostphere and their DVD selection is strictly limited to that of a 12 year old's likes and dislikes or below. (Most if not all DVDs where like Kill Bill, Liar Liar etc..) Not that I dont like those movies or that I didn't buy them but dont expect to find "A Beautful Mind" because thats anything but what the employee's or customers have (for the most part). So I buy a ton of DVDs and saved like a total of maybe $4 and I have to say it's really not worth it. So I get back to my hotel room and it turns out I have the full screen edition of Kill Bill so I go back to the store (next day, day of the flight) to return it and since I'm in a real hurry I run in and wait. So I'm waiting behind this guy dealing with returning clothing and say I'm in a real hurry, jumping up and down like I gotta leak and the clerk was being a real b!tch asking me why I didn't do this yesterday (so ready to strangle him/her/it) and the guy realized that I was in a real hurry so he was very kind enough to step aside to return it so when I returned it she/him/it was like "Oh its on a credit card, I guess I'm going to have to give you store credit" So I accept it anyways and now I have this store credit and no use for it.

God I hate walmart, stupid store credit! When first going around the store all I could find was garbage, just utter garbage I mean there wasn't really anything there at all. This is also true with K-mart and I now realize this with Target too. Sure target would be more middle class orientied and it's in the middle of our city but now when I enter target realizing it's a direct competitor of walmart I see there really isn't much to buy there. I have never purchased clothing there, I get my games elsewhere, I don't live off of junk food, I dont need paper towels for 99 cents so there is essentially no use for me being there. Target, Walmart, K-Mart essentially have nothing which is why I go to specific stores to get specific items. Stores like walmart only encourage obesity because "it's all there" when it's really not and you think it's all there. How often do you find a Mcdonalds in a best buy? Likely never, all of this is contributing to why the world sucks more then it did even 10 years ago....

 

[Schadenfroh]

only store in town

 

[Lounatik]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
I don't. Walmart is abusive to their employees. They pay them piss poor wages, they call full time 32 hours. Make employees clock out and continue to work. Medical insurance is so expensive that most workers can't afford it. They are the junk from China king of the world. I don't think anybody imports more crap from China then they do. They treat their vendors like sh!t often using threats.
The list goes on and on and on.

Go to sites like walmartwatch.com and see what this company is up to.

Oh and before you say this is just normal business, it isn't. Companies don't need to mistreat their employees and vendors. Target makes a nice profit and doesn't need to pull the crap that Walmart does.

I dont see that. I am a vendor that deals with Wal-mart on a daily basis and I have yet to see this "mistreating the vendors "stuff everyone speaks of. I do know that they want the maximum allowance on my product and by doing that , they proceed to pass that savings to the customer. Threats? Man, I cannot imagine what some folks are dreaming up. I am not going to that site, nor do I care what it says. I am telling you about my experience alone.

Another thing: I shop at a supercenter every two weeks for my family. I probably save AT LEAST 40-50.00 per shopping trip. How dare anyone else tell me how to save my money? I have a family that depends on the money I make . Not some stupid ideal of "they mistreat their employees and I am not going to shop there!" I do not care. Call me callous, an asshole,whatever.I am going to shop where my money goes the farthest for my family and the rest of you people can sit at home worrying about other poples business.



Peace

Lounatik

 

[jai6638]

Originally posted by: RobCur
You know they suck right? using mostly foreign employee, rarely do I see Americans employed in their store... because they only accept lower pay, their more likely to hire an inexperienced foreigner then someone who is an expert at customer service or much more knowledgeable. Most of them just kept silence, no thank you after purchase. Never feel like I am appreciated, so screw them.

I'd rather just shop elsewhere even if I have to drive a few more miles or spend a little more. Starting to day, I will shop elsewhere and encourage all my relative and friends to do the same. What happen to buy Americans? We're selling outselves out to complete stranger everyday the more we buy and save, the evil corporation does not care about us at all.
BTW, did you know that most of them that shop their are foreigner and people who are employed by wally? lmao... makes perfect sense right?

actuaslly never seen any foreign employees.. however, have always seen african american employees

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
only store in town

Sad, isn't it?

 

[Jeff7]

Convenience - I happen to work at one. It started as a seasonal job, a temporary thing for Christmas, because I needed a job and didn't know where to go. That, sadly, was two years ago. And I still haven't the slightest idea where I want to work, or what I want to do. Well, I know what I want to do, but nobody will pay me to sit at home and do whatever the hell I feel like when the whim hits me.

You know they suck right? using mostly foreign employee, rarely do I see Americans employed in their store... because they only accept lower pay, their more likely to hire an inexperienced foreigner then someone who is an expert at customer service or much more knowledgeable. Most of them just kept silence, no thank you after purchase. Never feel like I am appreciated, so screw them.

At least overnight, we've got a good number of non-immigrants working there. The few that do are usually friendly, though tough to understand sometimes. Some of our least courteous cashiers are good 'ol Americans. Not to be disrespectful of the accent, but with the foreigners, you at least will get a smile and "Sank you, have nice day."

We're selling outselves out to complete stranger everyday the more we buy and save, the evil corporation does not care about us at all.

I don't want to sound like I'm saying "I love Walmart" - I can't stand it there much longer - but exactly where are you going to find a "good" corporation? They are all there just to make a profit, and funnel more and more of it upwards in the company. The high ups do less work, while pushing the underlings to do more, only to make the high-ups look good, so that their stock price goes up.
The whole "buy American" thing too - we buy all kinds of stuff from other countries. Take a look at the computer you're using right now. I bet you that not much of it came from this country. I'm no researcher in the matter, but I only know of one motherboard company that makes boards in the US - Supermicro. And they likely use Taiwanese capacitors and other foreign components, just like the others. Global economy. As sending material from one place to another gets easier, trade increases.

I never shop at Wal Mart. I'll go there on occasion in place of visits to the zoo.

Saturday nights are great times. Sometimes people will just come in there at 2am, and sit in the furniture department like it's a great hang-out spot. I can't possibly imagine anything I'd rather be doing on a Saturday night than sitting on a sofa at a Walmart. But then, I could be somewhere else, like outside, watching wind erosion in action on a rock, or something similarly entralling.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

I don't

 

[Fritzo]

I go there about once a month (it's on the other side of town). They have unusual stuff there a lot of times, but you have to watch. A lot of their items are cheap knockoffs of brandname items, and they usually SUCK. Clothes, electronics, tools...ugh. They have the occasional good deal but I prefer Target over all.

 

[acemcmac]

Only place I can get 100 packs of 14" freezepops for a few cents over two bucks...

 

[Amused]

Lower prices.

Convienent.

I have never had a problem with returns or CS at a Walmart

I'm a capitalist. Any store that can give me what I want at the cheapest price ans still offer an acceptable return policy will get my business.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: FoBoT
a gallon of milk at Target is at least $0.50 more than at wal-mart

i piss it out within a few hours either way, why would i want the expensive Target milk?

have kids.

then you will really love that it is $.50 cheaper etc.

when all 4 of us (my wife drinks almost no milk)

Dude, your wife better be getting some type of calcium suppplement. I hate for her to get osteoporosis when she gets older. Milk is so important.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
I don't. Walmart is abusive to their employees. They pay them piss poor wages, they call full time 32 hours. Make employees clock out and continue to work. Medical insurance is so expensive that most workers can't afford it. They are the junk from China king of the world. I don't think anybody imports more crap from China then they do. They treat their vendors like sh!t often using threats.
The list goes on and on and on.

Go to sites like walmartwatch.com and see what this company is up to.

Oh and before you say this is just normal business, it isn't. Companies don't need to mistreat their employees and vendors. Target makes a nice profit and doesn't need to pull the crap that Walmart does.

you do know walmart is not the only store that does this right?

If the people working there want higher wages or better insurance they are free to go find another job. Thats one of the things that is nice about the country. If you don't like your job then go get a different one! if that is the only skill you have. then tough poop!

At least they offer insurance. They do not have to. Why should the employer pay for it? it is used as a bonus to pay to get people to take the job. Walmart does not need to worry about getting the best or the brightest. it is not hard to run a register or stock shelves.

 

[MeanMeosh]

dunno where you are, but the walmarts here employ mostly "american" people (cause you know... just cause a person is brown or black or yellow, they can't be "american")

 

[amdskip]

Walmart never hired illegal immigrants, it was a contractor
Most of the employees at our store are Americans
Do you really know how much the wages are? Do you know what other large retailers pay their employees?
Does Walmart have to offer any benefits at all to their employees?
The pay is not minimum wage. It is always above that.
They do not make employees clock out and work. It's called a person needs to stand up for themselves. Sure there might be an instance here and there of this but that could happen to any company.