Why does anyone shop at Walmart?
95849
I don't know - some people will do anything to save 42 cents on Comet so they can buy a DVD they don't need.  I hate that store.  I would like to say I hate it mostly because of their business practices, but that's not the real reason.  The real reason is because the stores seem dirty, there are too many snotty-nosed filthy screaming children, and I feel like I need to shower as soon as I come out.  Of course, I've only been inside two (2) Wal*Marts, but that's enough for me, thanks.
319289
Have not really thought about it. For some reason in my area, Walmart does not seem to be offering the products I want at better prices than what I can get elsewhere. When I visit friends and family in the midwest it seem the Walmart there seem have better offers.\n\nAs far as the services they offer I have not taken advance of their credit or banking service.
966343
I am a fan of WalMart.  There are two where I live.  Many people say they hate WalMart, but I sometimes see those people shopping there.\nOne WalMart has everything including groceries, the other doesn't sell groceries or have a auto shop, it just sells parts and oil and cleaning supplies for autos.\n\nIn the both stores they sell clothes for men, women and children.  They sell shoes. They sell fabric, yarn and craft supplies.  They sell toys, plants for indoors or garden & supplies.\nThey sell outdoor furniture and some indoor furnishings, like curtains, linens, shelves, lamps, electronics, etc.  They have pharmacies.\n\nThe people who work there are pleasant and personable.  WalMarts give money to local charities.  After the Katrina hurricane, they got clean water and food to people faster than the government, and re-opened and gave people jobs.\n\nIn the newspaper today there was an article on how WalMart is using waste oil for heat, has tried to use solar energy, is using wind power to make electricty to for their stores.\n\nI hope this is what you are looking for.\nLink to green schemes story:\nhttp://www.cantonrep.com/topFive.php?vote=5&Headline=Wal-Mart+%27Green%92+Trials+and+%28Some%29+Errors&ID=319217&Category=5
1179884
Walmart has a small selection.
539169
it is available at Walmart.
264052
Some things are pretty bottom-of-the-barrel, but no one is forced to shop there. 80% of Wal-Mart's merchandise is the same you get anywhere else, but cheaper. \n\nI'd rather buy a $12 pair of Wrangler jeans to work in than to spend $60 for a pair of some designer crap that will only be in fashion for, oh, 30 minutes or so.
812335
Walmart is an evil corporation that sells shoddy merchandise to Americans.
742286
That's great but it doesn't make Walmart this nice company.  They're obviously just doing what it takes to get the dollars at Christmas.\n\nHERE YOU ARE, YOU'RE HEART ALL WARM ABOUT SAYING MERRY CHRISTMAS BECAUSE YOU'RE GLAD THEY'RE KEEPING CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS YET YOU CALL ME STUPID.  THAT'S VERY LAME.
736340
I wonder same thing.\nI thought they hate wal mart?\nFLIP FLOP!
491090
I hate Wal-Mart! I never shop there unless I have to I absolutely cannot find the item anywhere else. \nI boycotted them for several reason:\n1) the reason you stated. Have you seen the episode of  Frontline about it?\n2) extremely poor service. If you go in there looking for something, you can never find it & if you ask someone that works there they send you on a wild goosechase before you find out they do not even carry it! Last time I was in there, I went for two items, it took forty-five minutes & I was not able to get either one of them! One of the items [Scotchgard] they did not even know what it was! Then I lost money in the soda machine, but the line for customer service was wrapped all the way around to the corner of the store, filled with people wanting to make returns. I asked a manager if they could help me & they said waiting in that line was the only way to get my money back. They only had one of three counters open, but there were several employees just standing around gossiping. The manager could have at least sent people over to open the two other counters so people did not have to wait so long. I have had several similar instances when the employees are unhelpful. I work in customer service & it just makes me so mad that I bend over backwards to help my customers but that it is extremely difficult to get good service when I go somewhere. Like, when you ask their employees if there are any in back---they do not even check. They just say the do not. Or when you ask where something is and they say "If it's not over there I don't know where it is" . \n3) Lack of selection. In most cases they only carry one name brand & their housebrand & the namebrand carried is not the one I use.\n4) Some items (especially the clothes) are low quality. We used to call them "Wal-Mart-fall-a-parts growing up.\n5) I can almost always find stuff cheaper somewhere else. I do not know why everyone thinks they are so cheap!\n\n(Sorry for any typos, spell check was not working.)
501435
Wal-Mart needs to take its own share of responsibility for the workforce it hires and to the communities around where it builds.  To date, it does neither.\n\nSure, Wal-Mart supplies cheap goods to the middle class.  But, at what a cost?  They do hire lots of people, but they don't treat those people properly.  Much of Wal-Mart's workforce can't even afford the health insurance they offer on what they get paid.  Even Wal-Mart's CEO has stated that the 'free' healthcare systems may offer better coverage than Wal-Mart's plans.  Only Wal-Mart can get away with shoving off their employee's health concerns to the state and local free healthcare system.\n\nWhat people need to realize is the difference between what Wal-Mart sells and how they operate their business.  While Wal-Mart does offer good deals on items, the way they operate their business is separate from the goods they sell.  So, as a discriminating consumer, you have to diffentiate between Wal-Mart the corporation (with shady business tactics) and Wal-Mart the store (out to sell discount items)... it's basically two different things (although still connected).  While I agree we need discount stores, we don't need corporations willing to do anything to make a buck even at the expense of other businesses, workers and the local economy.\n\nCorporate Wal-Mart decides where stores are to be built and how to manage all of the details around procurement of the land, building, construction details and stocking the stores (including tax abatement and various other incentives to get them to build there).  After the store is built, however, then it's operated by the store manager who tries to do the right thing (obviously directed by regional directors and corporate HQ).  Likely most, if not all, of the not-so-savory ways of doing business are handed down by corporate WM and not by the stores or the store managers.
118507
To be honest, most low-income people don't know the whole story about Wal-Mart. However, a lot of them have worked there, along with myself, and most of us will tell you that company is scum. Their low prices are designed to do nothing but monopolize an entire region's shopping. My manager even told us his aim was to eliminate the rival grocery store. This chain should go to court for predatory pricing. The supermarkets Wal-Mart have are extremely basic, and I prefer the local rival Meijer over it anyday. The good news is that there are stores like Sav-A-Lot and Aldi that you can shop at instead of Wal-Mart. I had the worst employment experience ever in my life at Wal-Mart, management did nothing but spy on employees with their billion and one cameras and harass us for even talking with the coworkers in our department and customers! This store has some weird religious agenda too that supercedes profits...they pay $1 extra an hour on Sundays for employees working that day, even though they screw them everywhere else. Weird place, never work or shop there.
609173
Bottom line MONEY.  The UFCW will tell you time and time again it's for the benefit of the Walmart employees, but that's a blatant lie.  It's for the benefit of the UFCW management.\n\nIf WalMart Employees wanted a union, they could form a powerful union on their own.  The major problem with this issue, if you increase costs to Walmart, you increase prices of products, you reduce your market share, and then the jobs start going away.  That's probably the reality the Walmart Employees understand.
1176023
I hate Wal-Mart! I never shop there unless I have to I absolutely cannot find the item anywhere else. \nI boycotted them for several reason:\n1) Have you seen the episode of Frontline about it? (If not check out the site at the bottom---you can see the full show online.There is another documentary available on DVD about it too, which I have not seen entitled " Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" by Edith Arana, Red Esry, Rev. Altagracia Perez, and Donna Payton. Supposedly Wal-Mart attempted to have it stopped but was not able to. I do know people that work there that were instructed not to watch it.) \n\n2) extremely poor service. If you go in there looking for something, you can never find it & if you ask someone that works there they send you on a wild goose-chase before you find out they do not even carry it! Last time I was in there, I went for two items, it took forty-five minutes & I was not able to get either one of them! One of the items [Scotchgard] they did not even know what it was! Then I lost money in the soda machine, but the line for customer service was wrapped all the way around to the corner of the store, filled with people wanting to make returns. I asked a manager if they could help me & they said waiting in that line was the only way to get my money back. They only had one of three counters open, but there were several employees just standing around gossiping. The manager could have at least sent people over to open the two other counters so people did not have to wait so long. I have had several similar instances when the employees are unhelpful. I work in customer service & it just makes me so mad that I bend over backwards to help my customers but that it is extremely difficult to get good service when I go somewhere. Like, when you ask their employees if there are any in back---they do not even check. They just say the do not. Or when you ask where something is and they say "If it's not over there I don't know where it is" . \n3) Lack of selection. In most cases they only carry one name brand & their housebrand & the namebrand carried is not the one I use.\n4) Some items (especially the clothes) are low quality. We used to call them "Wal-Mart-fall-a-parts growing up.\n5) I can almost always find stuff cheaper somewhere else. I do not know why everyone thinks they are so cheap!\n\n(Sorry for any typos, spell check was not working.I do not think it likes long answers.)
221687
Unions are so strong that they will stop at nothing to defeat a non union shop.  All the people that are saying bad things about Wal Mart don't work there.  Every time I go in there, the people are VERY pleasant (not like someone who hates their job).  It's too bad, but people don't take the time to find out for themselves, so they just believe what they hear and call it fact.
1148126
I always shop at Walmart, same brands, lower prices... I love it. get all my cleaning products, shampoos,....etc. My friend was looking for a stroller that was stolen from her while she was at an amusement park. when I told her to look at Walmart, she answered that she never shops there, I went online and found the same exact one for only $13.00 she was shocked and ordered 2 ....hhhhh
406733
i LOVE shopping at target!  everything there is so cute and its SO inexpensive.  yeah, sometimes i like to go splurge a little but when i need something and i dont want to spend a lot of money on it target is where i go!  its WAY better than walmart and they still have everything you need from clothes to groceries to electronics.