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16 Reasons I Hate Going to Wal-mart
Published by Jo Oliver in Humor
June 6th, 2010
I have come to positively hate going to Wal-Mart.
1. Every handicapped parking space is taken, most of which do not have a handicapped parking permit.
2. Buggies have congregated in the few other empty parking spots, but the buggy collectors only seem to be concerned with the buggies near mini skirt girls.
3. Wal-Mart traffic does not seem to understand that those yellow lines in front of the store means to yield to pedestrians. Target makes it real simple with a big red STOP sign.
4. Wal-Mart shoppers seem clueless that “entrance” and “exit” posted above the doors should direct traffic flow.
5. The people greeter stands there like a zombie as I enter. You can not get so much as a “how are you.” And, God forbid they strain a bit to push a buggy toward you….they might have to take a sick day.
6. Don’t dare ask an employee where something is. If they bother to acknowledge you at all, they give you a bewildered look and an I don’t know shrug.
7. I know the first place that I would look for the gift boxes of candy is in the jewelry dept. I wouldn’t dare go down the candy aisle to look for candy! I would definitely know that straws would be hanging next to the milk cooler….not aside the plastic cup, plates, forks, etc..
8. What is so hard about just putting a price on something? I really don’t want to lug ten rolls of paper towels to a price scanner to see which are the cheapest….not that it will do me any good since the price check scanner is usually “out of order.”
9. Wal-Mart Rollbacks? Ehh, more like a roll twinge. If you are going to tout mark downs, then really mark it down. Don’t go from $5.00 to $4.98 and act as though you’ve done me some favor. Some genius decided to mark all the Kit-Kats down from .50 cents to .49 cents last week. I pity the employee that had to move all those candy bars from the register to the mark down aisle over a penny.
10. Medicine is never actually ready when the automated refill line tells me it will be ready. After I stand in the pharmacy line 30 minutes, I’m told that it isn’t “quite ready yet, but they are working on it.”
11. Don’t even think about perusing the products on the shelf. An employee quickly arrives to all but push you out of the way to “straighten” the shelves. It might be prudent for them to let folks figure out what they want to buy….since that is kind of where the paychecks come from.
12. There are 28 or so registers, but only 6 manned. 10 buggies are lining up each register. Meanwhile, several managers are surveying the situation. By the time they figure out to open the other registers , I will probably be at home recuperating from the trip by savoring my Häagen-Dazs chocolate on chocolate bar.
13. It is always wise to put all the tobacco products at just one register. That wouldn’t cause a traffic jam or anything.
14. Pop quiz hotshot- I am still unloading groceries, the conveyer belt is full, and you have run out of bagging space….what would you do? A) Look at the customer with an infant and child in a wheelchair to go get another buggy. -OR- B) Get, or call someone to get, another buggy. I think even Keanu Reeves could figure out that the answer is not A.
15. Now, I am not a rocket scientist or anything, but frozen foods and cold foods are labeled as such because they are supposed to stay frozen or cold until consumed. It really makes me think twice about the frozen goods in my buggy when I see a frozen pizza in a restock buggy as I go to the bathroom on arrival and then still see that same pizza sitting there two hours later when I am checking out.
16. As I exit, the zombie people greeter from earlier has magically transformed into a piranha. She attacks me for a sales ticket on a $7.00 bag of dog food, albeit underneath $200.00 dollars worth of bagged Wal-Mart groceries. Yes, I am going to steal a $7.00 bag of dog food after paying for all these bagged groceries~
Despite all the reasons I hate going to Wal-Mart, I find myself going back. I do think the idea of getting everything you need from one store is great. Having a handicapped child and a newborn would make it very difficult to load and unload at several stores, pharmacy, butcher, etc.. However, I think that Wal-Mart has gotten a little too big for their boxer shorts. They know that they have a monopoly on this appealing niche market, and that comfort has obviously made them lax on customer service.
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I can really relate to a lot of what you are saying. In the winter our walmart has the guy from camping and sports, also do the material and crafts department. Funny thing is he is nicer and better at the job than their regular help!
Not to mention that Wal Mart sends all its profits OUT of your community forever… sucking your local economy dry… killing off locally owned business.
and once all that is done.. who is to say they dont raise their prices when there is no competitors left?
I feel your pain, Jo – I feel your pain…
(I dread the ennui of Walmart!)
Nice share.
Been to Wal-Mart lately? I can tell. Thanks for the article…I enjoyed it. You said a lot of things that I’ve thought about during my trips to Wal-Mart.
glad to know I’m not the only person perturb with those lazy shoppers at WalMart. I wrote on my pet peeve (uncourteous WalMart shoppers) and had one come back at me with an excuse for her actions. Well written, concise and to the point…
Great article! Definitely true about that place…. I don’t try to shop there anymore because of the Sweatshop Labor.
Wow!!! Is it that bad?
I too heard about this from my cousins who stay abroad.
I can relate to every bit of it.
Congrats on your baby, Jo! Great article. Frankly, I don’t feel safe at our local Wal-Mart with all the hoods hanging around, so I waste my money and go to Jewel. I hadn’t paid good attention to the “RollBacks” and didn’t realize they were only dropping the merchandise by pennies. What nonsense!
This is so true! Wal-Mart is a waste
Ha! I can totally agree with 9.
really? haven’t been there… but I think it is common in any mart..
Number 16 is AWESOME, I hate it when they do that. Should just run out of the store screaming some nonsense. Just “you’ll never take me alive” or something else funny.
Nice article. It seems to me that at the Wal-Mart I shop at they seem to do a lot of #12 and #14. I stopped getting my prescriptions filled because of the way the Pharmacists act. I had been waiting for a prescription for longer than the 10 mins. I was told it would take, when I went to find out if it was ready the Pharmacist told me I would have to wait until after he had his lunch break.
Wow this is the first time I have heard about this kind of problems with Wel-Mart. If I were you I would be getting loud and asking for a manger. If they are not helpful ask for the number for the General District Manager. They are not often in the store but for checking to see if things are moving correctly. You can also go to their website and find them and let them know what is going on. Get other people in your area to do the same. They will send someone in that they don’t know and find out if this is true. Then they will be in trouble.
Interesting article, would you mind if I wrote a rebuttal? There’s two sides of the coin for every story.
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Wal*Mart seems to have cheape prices on many things, more than Target or HyVee. Also, there are some flaws in other stores that could be put into an article as well. They also list the unit price which makes it easier to find the best buy. They often don’t put the total price, which makes comparing to other stores inconvinient.
I totally emphasize with you on pretty much all of what you wrote. My Walmart just underwent a major renovation where they moved everything around. I spent 10 minutes looking for the craft section; I asked 3 Can-I-Help-You people and none of them knew either. Totally dumb idea if you ask me.
A terrible store indeed…
could happen to any other place too… could it be target, ralphs, marshalls, fallas paredes, no matter how HR train their people, they ‘re just people too and they make mistakes…lots of it… lolz
# 17: They now charge you $.15 for a bag to put your groceries in. If you don’t want to buy the bag, you are stuck carrying an armful of groceries to your car.
infuriating to say the least! I think most super markets have the same problems! I hate shopping full stop!
I have similar problems at Morrisons!
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Sorry to hear that the Wal-mart in your area didn’t make your shopping there a pleasure. I hope that you sent the manager of that store a letter letting him or her know that you were not happy with shopping there.
I don’t think that it’s fair to say that all the Wal-mart stores around the country are this way. I hope that is not the only one in your area, and that some of the problems that you commented about here have been taken care of.
It makes me want to go over there and put underwear on my head so I can run screaming through the aisles just to see what would happen. The greeter always seems much friendlier on TV and of course there’s Mr Rollback. I guess he replaced that cookie or maybe someone ate him.
Number 9 is soo true
I shop at four Walmarts in my area and they are all great places to shop. I wonder what happened at your store.
I haven’t lived in the US in 11 years a dream of going to Walmart. Here is what a friend wrote me today who just returned to the States to go to school,
“The best thing is Wal-mart.. they have anything you can think of and I just go there and hang out and look at all the stuff they have, still amazes me…”
Unfortunately for me our Walmart is closer than its Canadian rival, where I prefer to shop, so I always end up there(plus my dog only eats Old Roy) Our greeters are great, but the in store experience is somewhat lacking for me.
This Christmas season, after I passed about 100 EMPTY handicap parking spaces to find a spot , I pushed my way through broken automatic doors , made 20 trips to a price checker machine, asked 3 people in Walmart smocks that had no idea where ANYTHING was, went in and was almost going to use a dirty bathroom (where I encountered a man coming out of a stall) and then when I was in line, was puked on by a child sitting in a cart who`s mother had seen fit to feed him several pieces of chocolate BEFORE PAYING for it.
This is not Walmart…this is EVERYWHERE.
There’s no Wal-mart in my area (thank god) and after reading this I’m very pleased that my city council voted against bringing one here a few years ago.
hahahah thats a good article
Good Job
Right there with you on this one…
if u have a meijers, they are great, at least mine is. all the same stuff or more with better quality…usually around same prices…and usually don’t stand in long lines.. as soon as they see 3 customers in each line they call 3 ppl or more to come help and the managers actually hop on the registers instead of just standing there watching with dirty looks to all the customers.
Great article, Jo! I agree with everyone of them… lol
I never have problems at walmart.
I agree, Walmart is a pretty bad thing for the economy and it’s so sleezy!
I am 100% in agreement with you and find the employees to have “attitude” and are not friendly one big when you get to the register. I call this place “The Necessary Evil” in that there are just some things we have to get there, but I hate going there! Great article!
Thanks for sharing how it is in the other side of the world. Over here, the problem is very basic– not having the money even to buy the basics.
I worked at Wal*Mart for a year after my life fell apart. The management is constantly being shifted around by the region. The pressure for profit and following the rules is amazingly horrid. The people who work–part-time cart guys to Store Managers– there fear termination on a daily basis. Overhead, cameras watch your every move. Make a mistake. Get fired. All this for a job that pays $10 an hour. Yet, while I worked there, over 1/3rd of the employees were full time students because the store would permit you to work a schedule that permitted school. (I knew one woman who had worked Friday/Saturday/Sunday all through college and through 2 years of law school.) I assure you, working at Wal*Mart was challenging.
Now it’s working Jo. I blogged it at http://www.friendsrevolution.com/2010/06/reasons-to-hate-walmart.html
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