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just wondering how many people out there shop at the GREAT
WAL MART

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ohh man walmart sucks, not even getting started on their horrible business practices.... they just suck as a store.

Not that i am unbiased seeing as i work at the great mighty red bullseye:) but walmart does suck, always dirty, cranky people, aisles are way to narrow, stock all over, messy, forget that stuff.
I'd rather show at kmart then walmart, but a super target trumps them all!

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I'd select the "oh man... I wouldn't buy junk there with your money" option.

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Super Target has better sales

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I'd shop at Ames :)

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Whats that place

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A de-funked department store. They went bankrupt in 2002. I worked there for 2 years in H.S.

I went to college and they called it quits. ;)

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I never used to shop at walmart. But when I came up to Williamsport for college I started to shop there, because I know that I can find what I am looking for there. I don't know where else to find some things.

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I wouldn't spend a dime in Walmart.

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Please correct me if I am wrong.

There was a thread here on chiefdelphi a few days ago about "Home Depot" ... and basically the ones who posted in that thread said, "there is no point of bashing at some store, and this is not the place to do it either." I feel like that, this thread is putting Walmart down. There are atleast 2, 3 negative posts about Walmart in this thread.

Now back to the topic,

What I think is, Walmart has its advantages and disadvantages. But it is always depending on what you are looking for. For example, There were several times I stopped by Walmart in the morning to get packs of gums.

-Arefin.

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Its a free market...if they have it for less, i'll buy it.

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I do go to Walmart depending on what I need especially since there's one located only two miles from where I work.
Just two weeks ago they came in real handy. I was driving to work in the snowstorm and the drivers side windshield wiper on my Camry suddenly folded flat against the windshield. When I stopped to look at it the plastic clip that holds it on cracked so I stopped at Walmart and bought new wipers in the morning before work so I could at least see on the way home without having to lean over and look out the passengers side.
I also bought a coffee maker, the filters for it, and coffee. It comes in handy for our late night team meetings! :D

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I used to never go to Wal-Mart.

Unfortunately, the siren song of low prices lured my broke college student self to them.

...and does everyone hit a massive line at the checkout, or is that just my store?

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Usually, if I can get what I need somewhere else, I will. But since moving to Houghton, there's not much of a choice. We have ...

Walmart (soon to be a Super Walmart)
Shopko
Jim's (liquor store)
Econo Foods
Festival Foods
A small mall (JCP, bookstore, Bath and Body Works, sports shop, Cost Cutters)

... and some restaurants. But as far as shopping goes, that's it. You can either shop at Walmart (sometimes Shopko, but it closes at 8 pm) or take a whole day to drive to and from a decent sized city.



Oh, I didn't choose an option on the poll. If I were to choose one, it would say, "I do shop at Walmart, but I'd rather shop somewhere else."

Same here. Cheap = good when you have no money ... and yes, I hit the big line at checkout too.

Walmart: Always low prices, Always long lines. ;)

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Woo-Hoo.

Katie is now a Michigander. It's a proud and reputable thing. We even have our own speak - and we love it!

:D

But I shop at Wal-Mart. Rember the bins of 2003? Where do you think I got ALL of them at? Their prices are good - and the one over here in the Taylor area is kept really clean/decent people/and the asles are bigger. Now K-Mart - I'll never go in there. Rude, not clean, just all-around bad.

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Not that I'd know; the K-Mart in my town closed two years ago because of Super Wal-Mart. Of course, it also broke up Dillions' monopoly on groceries, so nobody really misses K-Mart.

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Haha, I was born in and lived in Michigan 'til I was 7 ... Not only do we have "Michigan speak" up here (from all the trolls :p) we have "Yooper speak" as well!! ((And no matter how long I live in Michigan, it'll still be soda, not pop!!!!)) We're using a whole week in my Language & Society class to talk about the differences in speech between Lower Michigan, the UP and Wisconsin.

Same here!! I had bad K-Mart experiences when I was a kid. The K-Mart (in Midland, MI) was so gross and dirty ... ew. Then, we moved to Appleton, WI and had dirty K-marts; they all closed 5 years after we moved. Now, I won't shop there (though my mom swears that the K-Marts in Brookfield, WI are clean!!) :yikes:

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As a college student i also shop at the super walmart, but you will never catch me in there atleast before 3am becasue i cant stand the amount of people there durint the day. So i will usually do my shopping there when i get off at work at 3

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Every now and then I will go to Wal-Mart.

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My teacher says u lose a little bit of ur soul everytime you shop at walmart. lol

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Dude, it all depends on the store itself, for example, Wal-mart at point A is crappy (can i say that?) and dirty etc., but the Wal-mart at point B is perfectly clean & fine.
(personally, I'd take target though, my local wal-mart kinda sucks) (can i say that?)

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The nearest Target is maybe an hour away from me. I normally shop at K-mart because it's the closest, but I will shop at Walmart just because of their low prices if I'm in the area. I don't really care much for Walmart's business practices, but cheap is cheap. And I always get stuck in the ultra-short line right behind the lady who has forgotten how to write a check for $0.76.

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Because Walmart, like other stores, only has minimal staff coverage on the checkout lines.

I seriously do not know why they make a store with so many checkout lines (re: 15-20) if they only have 3 of them open.

What is the point of that??


As for the question at hand, yes.. I do shop there, because simply put, I am a consumer and I look for places with the lowest prices.

Whether or not the way they have the lowest prices is legal, or even moral, is yet to be seen, but if it is illegal in the way they acquire products, and sell them, then in the end they will end up like the other stores like Ames, Caldor's and Bradlees.. and just be another empty building.

(And I liked Ames...:( )
But in truth, all the stores have their faults. Target is overpriced for most stuff, K-Mart has lots of good stuff but also lots of junk, and Walmart has bad business practices.

But, you know what.. I don't care. I just like most of the rest of the selfish consumers that we all are, just care about getting something for a lower price, and having that item available to me at my convenience and at a close place to my commute. :)
And I have shopped at all three at one time or another..

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I have already mentioned tha tI shop at walmart. I can find what I'm looking for there and it is cheap (I am also a college student). But I have not experienced long lines at any point. The longest it has ever taken me to get through the checkout at walmart is probably 3 minutes. 15-20 check out lines is a lot? Most of the stores like walmart, k-mart, target, grocery stores, etc. that I know of (especially back home) have at least 15 check out lines. If I go into a store of that nature and see fewer than 15 checkout lines I would be suprised.

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Wal-mart is so far away for my house. i like Canada-Tire better

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I don't stick to one store....I go to Super Wal*mart Meijer and Super Target :)

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That must stink

IM SRY :o

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I did not mean that in a rude way sorry

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when you say "its ok I would rather shop at the BIG Names", I am woundering what you mean.
Because Walmart has the most income of any company... Thats why there are several people in the walmart family that are all billionaires... if you add up their total amount of money I believe its more that gates has.

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Walmart is taking over the world, one city at a time.

Within 50 years, the Waltons will hold a dictatorship over the entire United States with their army of Walmart greeters and cashiers.

To put it nicely - I only go to Walmart when I am forced to go :]

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I like walmart. They are one of our team sponsors!!!

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Thats cool

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I absolutely hate Walmart. All I have to say is that if you own a small business and you shop at Walmart... You are shopping yourself right out of business.

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Only if you own a small busines that sells similar things to what they sell.
If you have a business like what I am going to build, computer software, then you really are not shopping yourself right out of business

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So, I'm gonna be honest here, and say I really don't know much about Walmart's business practices. I go there when I need cheap, fast stuff. Most everything important I can buy online, and I see their clothes as bad quality.

But random stuff? Yah, that's not hard.

I'd like to point out, that as far as I know, Walmart is far from the only store in America or anywhere else with shady business practices.

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Lesson of the day. Don't go to college. =p

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I don't shop at Wal-Mart often, since they usually don't have a lot of stuff I want...that and Home Depot is closer to me.

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All I have near my college is Walmart. There's even a free bus that goes there! (Must stop spending money there.....)

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I hate walmart.

It stifles local business (and I feel this directly working at a small independent toy store next door to walmart). They treat employees worse then thier customers do. As a result, their employees are apathetic and usally unhelpful. They have messy displays, cheap product, worthless customer service and poor store layout. If my store were as bad as that, we would be out of buisness in weeks.

But...

I shop there sometimes. I work store hours, and when I'm not working, Walmart is often the only open place that will have what I need. I would love it if I had the time to drive from small store to small store during the day. I really would. But, at the end of a long day helping people shop, the last thing I want to do is spend a lot of time shopping. Walmart is cheap and close by. It didn't become the largest retailer in the world by underpaying it's staff alone.

-Andy A.

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You hate walmart even though it serves you a specific purpose, to provide you a place to get everything you want fairly cheap, at hours of convenience.

Just pointing something out, I know the reasons you hate it.

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If they're that bad then you don't have anything to worry about because they'll be out of business in no time.

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I am not a huge walmart fan for more political reasons than anything else.

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I just find it ironic that Sam Walton found a way to make money selling to small businesses with one store (Sam's Club) while at the same time running them out of business with another (Wal-Mart). I don't see why they feel a need to eliminate their competition by forcing them out of business. There is a Wal-Mart near my parents' house in South Windsor, CT and it seems to coexist very happily with a Target, a Best Buy and a sizable mall. There seems to be more than enough business for all of them, so why can't other Wal-Marts handle competing with a few small businesses?

My $0.02, not meant to be offensive to anyone.

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Well the reason that they feel the need to get rid of the small businesses is because even though all seperate they have only a few million income, together they are worth more than Walmart. So they want to make sure they get their business too, so they can be more than twice as powerful

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Exactly. Despite anti-trust laws, they want to eliminate competition, not be nice to them.