All the following thoughts come from personal experience, from watching TV, reading articles, and from what I consider reputable online sites, such as Yahoo Finance, CNN, etc.
THING I LIKE ABOUT WALMART(tm)
You can see what WalMart carries and where they stock it. For example, I looked up Nescafe(tm) Cafe Mocha Creamer. Their website walmart.com said they had it and listed to be in 35A. This is wonderful information for someone who needs a particular ingredient and other things. Sure beats the heck of searching stores all around the county, going up and down one aisle after another. Thumbs up, WALMART.
Unfortunately . . .
THINGS I HATE ABOUT WALMART
1) Their chaotic parking lots.
2) Many of their aisles are tiny.
3) Their apparent war on checkers. I went their today. My WalMart had only one of about twenty checkout stands with a person at it. Of course, the line stretched to the next time zone.
4) Not everyone agrees with me on this one. I hate the self-checkout stands. I always have problems with them. I have seen people who’ve had many experiences with this machine, have problems.
5) I DON’T work for WalMart. I don’t want to do the checking out. Don’t make me do something that all other supermarkets and superstores do.
6) Don’t take jobs away people. Hire more checkers and have fewer checkout machines.
7) Pay your workers more. Do that and stop telling your workers how to get municipal and state assistance. Stop making taxpayers pay your employees.
8) This is no fault of WalMart’s, but more shoppers there seem to block aisles with their carts than anyone else.
9) Hire checkers with more experience. WalMart checkers seem to need more assistance than anywhere else. Walmart might need to pay more money to get better workers to fix this problem.
10) Stop driving long-standing small stores out of business.
11) Then closing a WalMart. Small towns have seen their small stores shut down because of WalMart. Then when WalMart decides to leave, the small community has nothing. No where to shop. Nowhere to get together.
I’m not a complete grump. I do like some supermarkets. They include Stater Bros., Grocery Outlet, and Sprouts. I also like Target.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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