I would also hope that customer service is awesome all the time, but saying the greeter was not nice enough is a pretty specific dog whistle. I shop at the wally all the time, and I am just calling an elitist a spade free of any strawman you want to pile on.
> I would also hope that customer service is awesome all the time, but saying the greeter was not nice enough is a pretty specific dog whistle. You're probably white and haven't experienced casual racism that exists at Wal-mart and less worldly venues > dog whistle > calling an elitist a spade free of any strawman you want to pile on. Is it an elitist dog whistle when less affluent people also avoid Wal-mart on the s…
Just say no. They won’t/can’t stop you. Costco has it in their membership agreement but stores that aren’t memberships; you didn’t agree to it and you have no obligation to show it. Worst case you get banned.
> Worst case you get banned. I would much rather stop for 30 seconds than be banned from my local grocery store.
They're not going to ban you for saying no. This is pretty well settled stuff.
And yet I don’t use them. I use Etsy. I use chewy. I use other niche e-commerce but I never use Walmart online. They can’t just replicate Amazon they have to be better than Amazon.
They are better than Amazon. You can filter search results on Walmart so that you don’t see third party reseller Aliexpress garbage and only stuff sourced by Walmart themselves. Last I checked, Amazon had removed that option as of maybe a decade ago, and they commingle inventory so they do not assure me of any supply chain integrity. And they are more expensive for any dense, heavy, especially liquid products.
I honestly just don’t care. If I want high quality I don’t go to Amazon I go elsewhere to niche retailers.
I never went to Walmart for better quality. Heck that’s why I personally use target more now. Slightly higher price and slightly better quality.
I think Wal*Mart has an image problem. I’ve gone into their stores. Their stock assortment isn’t bad compared to the competition. In fact, aside from Whole Foods on the organic/bio side of things, they measure up very well and better compared to their competition. They are more of a hypermart where you can do one stop shopping ala Carrefour. The issues I see are: very drab color palette. Working class shoppers. Sure,…
Observations about the nearest Wal-Mart: 1) All the employees look sad, all he time. 2) They've obviously carefully tuned their check out staffing so that the lines are always long. This is such a constant that it has to be intentional, and they're doing a good job of it. 3) Sometimes they attempt to check receipts at exit. I don't get that at any other non-membership store. 4) All the shoppers look sad. 5) It's the…
It’s funny seeing many posts on HN rallying against capitalism, decrying the cycle of poverty and food deserts and then see someone complain about seeing poor people at Walmart.
Upscale urban areas won't let Walmart even try to build something. Target worked really hard pitching their upscale "City Target" sub-brand to get San Francisco to let them in.
Walmart is experimenting with something they call “Walmart Neighborhood Market” but I think they’d have done better to leave the Walmart name off it. People who don’t like Walmart won’t try it and people who do like Walmart will be pissed it’s not a Walmart just a grocery store.
I had one right by my college apartment and was really happy with it. Very clean and always had what I needed, but not 'everything.' If they rebranded & incorporated them into suburban neighborhoods with a focus on walkability it could be a smart move to capture the wealthier 'conscious' shopper.
I think Wal*Mart has an image problem. I’ve gone into their stores. Their stock assortment isn’t bad compared to the competition. In fact, aside from Whole Foods on the organic/bio side of things, they measure up very well and better compared to their competition. They are more of a hypermart where you can do one stop shopping ala Carrefour. The issues I see are: very drab color palette. Working class shoppers. Sure,…
Observations about the nearest Wal-Mart: 1) All the employees look sad, all he time. 2) They've obviously carefully tuned their check out staffing so that the lines are always long. This is such a constant that it has to be intentional, and they're doing a good job of it. 3) Sometimes they attempt to check receipts at exit. I don't get that at any other non-membership store. 4) All the shoppers look sad. 5) It's the…
Then you live in, or near, a shithole.
Nothing about your list describes Walmarts in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, except perhaps the poorest parts of Dallas, which I have not personally visited.
Grapevine, Flower Mound, Roanoke, Rome, Keller, Preston Hollow Walmarts are all immaculately maintained and clean.
Right, the DMV has a monopoly on a service most adults require. There are competitors for simple services like registration renewal @ AAA, but that's less available in smaller communities. So when you go to a DMV somewhere there's only one DMV serving the region, it's a pretty good cross-section of local society. Another interesting window in this vein is the local courthouse. The smaller towns don't separate out tra…
Profit per dollar for grocery stores is about half of one cent for every dollar of revenue. Shrinkage eats into that profit very quickly. This is why Walgreens is closing stores in SF. They cannot survive with the rampant unprosecuted shoplifting in SF.
I would have to guess, that Walgreens is going out of business, because they are the one store which hasn't ever improved their POS methodology beyond what we used to find in Sears, or Rite-Aid, holy cow, I've not forgotten, what did they used to be called ? Lol. I go to Walgreens to buy cigarettes because I know and live around the checkers who work there, but it is always a complete disaster. Today, was a perfect example. They "found" a device on the pin pad, and it took 10 minutes to find people in the store to man another register, then look at it, make sure it wasn't compromised, and there were 15 people in line. But par for the course in there. There will be 10 people lined up at the front, and they'll still man cosmetic and photo stations with no customers, and never really reposition employees. I don't get mad anymore. I go in and know what I'm in for. IC3 .... IC3 ..... IC3 ....
Observations about the nearest Wal-Mart: 1) All the employees look sad, all he time. 2) They've obviously carefully tuned their check out staffing so that the lines are always long. This is such a constant that it has to be intentional, and they're doing a good job of it. 3) Sometimes they attempt to check receipts at exit. I don't get that at any other non-membership store. 4) All the shoppers look sad. 5) It's the…
It’s funny seeing many posts on HN rallying against capitalism, decrying the cycle of poverty and food deserts and then see someone complain about seeing poor people at Walmart. Sorry you have to mix with the “rabble”!
Jesus, tell me about it.. the entitlement in this post is un-fucking-believable.
Furthermore, I'm wondering what shitholes these people live in or near where they actually experience this sort of thing.
The Walmarts around Keller, Texas are nothing like what's being described here... although granted, this is an upper middle class area of Texas, and unlike California, we don't allow people to steal shit out of our pharmacies with impunity, nor do we allow people to shit on our streets.
Walmart gets a lot of flak for being old school and allowing Amazon's rise, but they are one of the very few retailers who have actually been able to respond to competitive threats over the last decade or two. Walmart Labs has some great tech and hires top software talent in the industry. They aren't shy about making large acquisitions when needed (like Jet). They have built out their own delivery and logistics netwo…
Walmart doesn’t pay that well and isn’t regarded as a great tech place to work. It’s a good job, but someone who’s really serious about programming wouldn’t work there