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Every time we go to Walley World, it’s 200.00 gone.

$200...?

Hell that ain't nothing. Come with me to Costco and I'll show you how to turn $200 gone into $700 gone.

Either way you'll fill a suburban and be left with a stack of empty cardboard boxes. 😀

If you are going to Walley World, you got to get up early. That’s the only way to beat the Gimmie Dats. You see trashy people out the ass in the Walmart’s around here.

Our Walmart's sell firearms, just not AR's

That must be a Texas thing.

Mike

Thing is, here in Arkansas, if you don't shop at walmart, you either do without, spend a lot of gas looking for stuff, or order on line. Lots of other stores, that have little that I want or need. I do not know how they stay in business. miles

It's the store manager's call. When our local WalMart was managed by a personal friend, he ramped the sporting goods to the best I've ever seen. When he left, it became a mere shadow of its former self.

That's what people hate about WalMart, putting the little man out of business.

The little man put himself out of business. Around here at least. They quit carrying what you want to buy and stock up on what they want to sell. If you want something different, they will order it for you. Hell, I can order it. I used to try to buy local, but you can't do it. Even the new Tractor dealers, have no parts in stock, including bearings. The old ones have some stuff, maybe left over old stock. The new model that they learn in collage, does not work for small town America. Maybe for big business, I don't know. Mom and Pop went out of business when JR. took over. miles

We have a relatively new super center here. They've sold guns since day 1.

They just announced a new service that they're remodeling for - online grocery sales. You go online and order what you want and set a pickup time. They will put together your order and it'll be waiting for you when you arrive. They'll even load it for you. No extra charge. I can see that appealing to people on the run or who don't want to cart 3 small kids around in a store. It won't appeal to those who like to handle everything they buy.

if its $20 difference between Wal-Mart and a gun shop, I'm buying at the gun shop.

Same here.

Local Walmart grocery has offered the order online service for around a year now and it seems to be fairly popular so far. You place order online, they pull it, you pickup it all up at a drive-thru, and they load it into your vehicle for you. Our daughter-in-law buys almost all of their groceries that way now. She says it's been both a time and money saver for them. Time saved formerly spent wandering the store looking for particular items and then waiting in long lines at check-out and money saved by not buying a lot of impulse items. She does seem to make trips to Walmart more often now though than before since starting to use the grocery pick-up service. I can also see how it could be a handy service for elderly, those with health and/or physical limitations and pretty much everyone during flu season.

Personally I much prefer to pick out our groceries myself. For obvious reasons I would imagine store employees have been instructed to pull items with the nearest expiration dates first. I seriously doubt too they much care about going to the trouble and time to pick out the best looking, freshest meat, produce, fruit, etc. when pulling orders, either.

My biggest gripes about Walmart is probably their lack of staffing and they seem to constantly move items from one place to God knows where. Most departments seldom have clerks on site and of course the 20+ check-out lanes with maybe 4 to 6 open.

In the 1990s, Walmart went to one of the larger toy manufacturers and told them that they would buy x number of dolls at a certain price. The only way for the manufacturer to reach that price was to ship production to China. The Walmart price on the shelf for that doll was much cheaper than other stores were selling it for. I know this because my mother worked in the Toy Dept of a local retailer. Every year, she would accompany the buyers to NY for the big toy shows to help decide what would be purchased for the upcoming year. She had sales reps. tell her that was how Walmart was getting such low prices.

Walmart did this to many companies. They promised large orders if the manufacturer would meet their price point. Many smaller retail chains couldn't compete with the Walmart price.

I go to Wal-Mart three or four times a week and I never go to Wal-Mart.

Let me explain. Three or four years ago they built a new Wal-Mart neighborhood market a mile from my house. It is great. It is clean, extremely well stocked, always has most checkout counters staffed AND plenty of self checkouts for when things are busy. It is a cinch to pop in and buy a few items a few times a week. Most trips inside the store are measured in a few minutes. I once realized that we were out of ketchup right as we sat down to eat. Seven minutes later I was back and sitting down with a bottle of ketchup. It also has the side benefit of being the best place in town to watch soccer moms in yoga pants.

But since they opened that one, I haven’t been in one of the larger superstores in town more than once or twice. I buy the groceries at th Neighborhood Market and anything elsewhere.

They have smaller stores too?

Like the size of a regular grocery store?



Wild.


Whats next? Wal Mart gas stations?

I've never heard of Wally World not prosecuting shoplifters whether they worked for them or not. There's often a cop car parked in front to take some kid downtown for stealing some makeup or something. I'd have a hard time believing they don't prosecute employees who steal from them either and certainly would not retain them. Sound like fake news to me.

Not sure if serious.

Yes. All I have ever seen is the super store.

I was curious if they had smaller stores too. Thats what it sounded like you described.

If you're talking about something the size of a Quik Trip or so, nope, no joke at all. There was an article about it a couple of years ago in a trade magazine. Whether the idea is going to be tried, is being tried, or was tried is something I don't know. I'll get bored sooner or later and google fu the answer.