You're 400% more likely to be attacked at Wal-Mart than Target stores

[wetcat007]

http://www.walmartcrimereport.com/

Wow you can check on the number of police incidents reported at your local walmart... lol

 

[Electric Amish]

Two words....


DU - UH!

 

[Ricemarine]

745 in the Walmart closet to me...
Now where can I find info about target police reports?

 

[waggy]

yeah so?

how many more people shop at walmart vs Target?


oh yeah its forgot. we are sopposed to bash walmart blindly

 

[dartworth]

yes, let the wallyworld bashing begin...:thumbsup:

walmart sucks...

 

[zerocool84]

5,436 police reports of all Walmart's within 10miles of me. I avoid Walmart at all costs and this is just another reason why not go there and seeing as it is more lower-income people that shop there, more crime comes hand in hand

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

You're 100% more likely to save money by going to Wal*Mart than Target too

 

[waggy]

also how many of those are shop lifters? how many are accidents? how many are emergancy's? etc etc.


there is enough legit stuff to bitch about walmart. whis is nothing.

 

[dartworth]

walmart is for bottom feeders...

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: waggy
also how many of those are shop lifters? how many are accidents? how many are emergancy's? etc etc.


there is enough legit stuff to bitch about walmart. whis is nothing.

You can read the reports I found some interesting ones such as someone stabbing their child with knife on one. Although you're right there are a lot of shoplifting ones.

I saw this and thought it sounded about right, walmarts around here have very poorly lit parking lots at night and that probably helps contribute to crimes being they're open 24/7.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Walmart carries cheap generic Splenda, so I will continue to go there when I need it (I say this though I just discovered it last week). Haven't been stabbed so far.

 

[Trevelyan]

Walmart sucks and I have a stack of receipts to prove it.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: wetcat007
http://www.walmartcrimereport.com/

Wow you can check on the number of police incidents reported at your local walmart... lol

i'd have said part of it was the neighborhoods these walmarts are in but the targets are often only half a block away

 

[Minjin]

Couldn't find any stats on customers per year but I think this tells enough:

FY2005 Revenue Walmart: 315,654,000,000

FY2005 Revenue Target: 52,620,000,000

 

[ultimatebob]

2,307 was the worst Walmart around me, which also had 4 car thefts and a robbery.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: wetcat007
I saw this and thought it sounded about right, walmarts around here have very poorly lit parking lots at night and that probably helps contribute to crimes being they're open 24/7.

That basically says everything right there. Targets close at 10PM and don't open back up until 8PM more often than not. Wal-Mart is open 24/7 so they have 10 hours extra a day for something to happen. Not to mention those 10 hours are probably the most dangerous hours for ANY business.

Throw in the greater volume of people that go through Wal-Mart than a Target and it is no surprise.

A per capita comparison would probably have been better.

 

[CanOWorms]

9848 at the worst Wal-Mart around me, with 679 cases of 400 pound behemoths with 11 oversized children swarming and eating another customer.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: Minjin
Couldn't find any stats on customers per year but I think this tells enough:

FY2005 Revenue Walmart: 315,654,000,000

FY2005 Revenue Target: 52,620,000,000

I believe they analyzed 460 stores from each company probably in similar areas, walmart has a lot more stores than target obviously, so they have a lot more revenue as well.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Sorry, we have no data for Wal-Mart stores within 100 miles of 39440. Please write your local police department and request a report

FY2005 Revenue Target: 52,620,000,000

That was their target revenue, what was their actual?

 

[paulney]

http://www.walmartcrimereport.com/storedetail.html?id=76

!Rape & Sex Crimes 1
!Auto Theft 1
!Robbery 4
!Weapons 1

Great. That WalMart is not just a ghetto place, it's like a third world country in itself. *shudder*

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: paulney
http://www.walmartcrimereport.com/storedetail.html?id=76

!Rape & Sex Crimes 1
!Auto Theft 1
!Robbery 4
!Weapons 1

Great. That WalMart is not just a ghetto place, it's like a third world country in itself. *shudder*

Walmartistan, ruled by the Ayatollah Walmarti?

 

[Minjin]

I'm reading the full report right now. But the first thing I noticed is that Pennsylvania (where I live) has the lowest number of crimes reported per store.

edit: all right, they use these claims of 551 stores and then 460 stores when in the end they actually pick the 32 worst stores and then use them to compare to nearby Targets. Talk about cherry picking...

 

[Malak]

What if Target has a company policy of not caring and that's why they have fewer police calls?

 

[GregGreen]

My closest Walmart isn't listed but I know most of their calls are for bad checks and shoplifters.

 

[chrisms]

My Wal-Mart isn't on there, must be no crimes ever committed there. Ever.