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07-17-2008, 01:18 AM
Post subject: Walmart: My annual trip
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I've never really liked the place, but every once in a while (read: once a year or so), I'll venture into Walmart. Everybody loves the place, so why not me? 
Honestly, how does anyone shop at this dump? The entire place was dirty. The floors of the aises looked like they hadn't been washed in a year. In any given aisle, 2 carts (which were all broken and wouldn't easily go straight-forward without lots of effort) had to be *perfectly* navigated to get through. The place is *MASSIVE*. How does anybody find anything there? There wasn't even a clear cut main aisle like most department stores-- just random shit put absolutely everywhere with the obvious goal of fitting as much crap in one store as possible without any secondary interests such as comfort, organization, or cleanliness.
So here I am walking around this craphole, and people are cutting me off and giving me dirty looks all over the place. Like *EVERYBODY* seemed miserable and completely void of any manners or politeness whatsoever. I also got the feeling that the good looking, well groomed white guy in his early 20's wearing decent clothing and a nice watch didn't get a whole lot of respect.
Anyway, after a while, I notice a couple "urban youth" following me around everywhere. It was ridiculously obvious. Like for 15 minutes straight, I was walking up and down random aisles and whenever I'd peek over my shoulders, these same 2 idiots would ALWAYS be there. When I stopped, they'd pretend to look around for a bit. This wasn't just me being paranoid-- it was blatantly obvious and they either didn't care, or they were complete idiots about it. So I'm walking down one of the rare long aisles in this place, peek over my shoulder and sure enough, there they are. So I swing my cart around and start walking straight at them, with the deadliest, meanest look on my face imaginable. Now I'm usually a pretty nice, friendly guy, but I also have a 'don't fuck with me' side that most people don't see. They scattered into a side aisle, I followed them a bit, then decided that it wasn't worth getting shot or stabbed in the parking lot so I abandoned pursuit. I didn't see them again the rest of the time I was there, which was about a half hour or so.
A couple more people cut me off, I waited in an unimaginably long line, heard some crazy lady yell across the store "my son is over in Iraq fighting for your right to run over my foot and be a complete BITCH about it", and had an unfriendly, rude checkout lady run my shit. She dropped at least 3 things and was completely careless with some fragile stuff I bought as well. I rumbled my broken fucking shopping cart out of there and I'm never going back, promise, as long as I live.
Cliffs notes: Walmart sucks. The extra 10-20% you save there is not worth the risk of immediate death, disease, or famine of going there. If the small amount of money you save is worth it at this time, I recommend becoming smarter, working harder, or simply playing more poker to the point where it is no longer worth it.
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chardrian
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wow - I never woulda thought that lukie and my mom are so similar.
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Originally Posted by chardrian
wow - I never woulda thought that lukie and my mom are so similar.
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wow - I never woulda thought that lukie and my mom are so similar.
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This post says more about where you live than it does about Wal-Mart.
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Lukie
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Originally Posted by pankfish
This post says more about where you live than it does about Wal-Mart.
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It's actually a nice area... a suburb of cleveland called macedonia. It's about 10 miles or so from where I live (also a nice area).
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Lukie
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also, less talk about lukie and more about how terrible walmart is
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Originally Posted by Lukie
also, less talk about lukie and more about how terrible walmart is
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lol lukie shops at walmart!
walmart is terrible!
Close enough?
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Lukie
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I also got the feeling that the good looking, well groomed white guy in his early 20's wearing decent clothing and a nice watch didn't get a whole lot of respect
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i don't know if this sentence is funnier than lukie getting followed by the walmart security :P
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I also got the feeling that the good looking, well groomed white guy in his early 20's wearing decent clothing and a nice watch didn't get a whole lot of respect
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on second thought---maybe they were checking you out for a threesome
that area of ohio is very cruisy especially the walmarts
always nice to have a lukie story
and walmart sucks
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walmart owns retail. end thread
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idk why people hate on wal mart. its fucking dope. every time i go in there i feel its necessary to buy something cool. it allows so many poor families to shop for cheap.
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Originally Posted by will641
idk why people hate on wal mart. its fucking dope. every time i go in there i feel its necessary to buy something cool. it allows so many poor families to shop for cheap.
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come on will get with the thread
-make fun of lukie
-walmart sucks
i shop at walmart because i'm a poor family 
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Sounds to me like this is a case of poor management and location than it does about Wal-Mart in general. I like the Wal-Mart here in town (20k pop.). It always has everything I need. It's not dirty or messy and I've never had a problem with anyone in there.
On the other hand, the building and parking lot take up a lot of land... but that's the only downfall I can think of.
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Originally Posted by will641
idk why people hate on wal mart. its fucking dope. every time i go in there i feel its necessary to buy something cool. it allows so many poor families to shop for cheap.
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come on will get with the thread
-make fun of lukie
-walmart sucks
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i didnt read the thread .
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walmart does suck. its possibly the white trash capital of the world and i dont shop there.
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Originally Posted by pankfish
This post says more about where you live than it does about Wal-Mart.
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I beg to differ. Maybe there are some exceptions, but the rule says otherwise.
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those people following you just wanted to sell you some religion...jeez...no need to freak em out like that.
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In college we'd always go to walmart around 2am, that's the best time, you have the whole place to yourself and security really isn't present.
Fun times, fun times.
As for Lukie's experience, standard.
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the walmart by my house is so clean i would eat off the floor
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is Wal-mart like Primark in the UK ?
I went shopping for some holiday clobber, average costs of shorts £30 ($60ish) avg cost of T-shirts £20 ($40ish) in London...however in primark I got 2 pairs of shorts, 5 t-shirts and a straw hat (yeah, thats how I roll) for £26......i know kids in China are working 30hrs a day or whatever......but £26!!!
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no walmart is like asda. in fact walmart is asda since they own it i think.
wp buying a straw hat tho.
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no walmart is like asda. in fact walmart is asda since they own it i think.
wp buying a straw hat tho.
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Like Asda? Walmart is shit then.
I'm loving the straw hat. GF says I look like a twat....
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your GF looks like a twat WITHOUT the straw hat
imho
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she has a twat. thats all that counts....
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On the other hand, the building and parking lot take up a lot of land... but that's the only downfall I can think of.
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But just think of the efficiency. There used to be 25 shops around town that it took to service the same needs as one Wal-Mart.
Those 25 shops had to pay rent to a local businessman to sustain their locations, gouge their customers to make enough revenue for health insurance for family employees and to pay them a decent wage allowing them to work extra hours to keep the shops clean, organized, happily staffed. Meanwhile they charged more to support the 25 families that ran those shops so they could spend the profits at the 24 other shops in town.
Wal-Mart can cut out all that waste: they can save money on rent & buy the land, not waste money on advertising locally, manage all this from afar so you don't have to pay locals as much & use their economies of scale to cut margins for all their vendors & regional service providers. They can also squeeze the last bit of pride out of their employees, surrounding areas & even customers.
Definitely a fair trade off for cheap stuff and a liberal return policy.
And while we're making fun of Lukie:
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Originally Posted by Lukie
I also got the feeling that the good looking, well groomed white guy in his early 20's wearing decent clothing and a nice watch didn't get a whole lot of respect.
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You had to throw it out there didn't ya? 
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Originally Posted by BankItDrew
On the other hand, the building and parking lot take up a lot of land... but that's the only downfall I can think of.
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But just think of the efficiency. There used to be 25 shops around town that it took to service the same needs as one Wal-Mart.
Those 25 shops had to pay rent to a local businessman to sustain their locations, gouge their customers to make enough revenue for health insurance for family employees and to pay them a decent wage allowing them to work extra hours to keep the shops clean, organized, happily staffed. Meanwhile they charged more to support the 25 families that ran those shops so they could spend the profits at the 24 other shops in town.
Wal-Mart can cut out all that waste: they can save money on rent & buy the land, not waste money on advertising locally, manage all this from afar so you don't have to pay locals as much & use their economies of scale to cut margins for all their vendors & regional service providers. They can also squeeze the last bit of pride out of their employees, surrounding areas & even customers.
Definitely a fair trade off for cheap stuff and a liberal return policy.
And while we're making fun of Lukie:
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Originally Posted by Lukie
I also got the feeling that the good looking, well groomed white guy in his early 20's wearing decent clothing and a nice watch didn't get a whole lot of respect.
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You had to throw it out there didn't ya? |
I have a strong feeling that's why the "urban youth businessmen" were following me around. Seriously.
fwiw, diff watch than the ridiculously over-exaggerated vegas stories.
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cliff notes: Lukie went to Walmart; saw his watch on sale; went on life tilt.
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On the other hand, the building and parking lot take up a lot of land... but that's the only downfall I can think of.
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But just think of the efficiency. There used to be 25 shops around town that it took to service the same needs as one Wal-Mart.
Those 25 shops had to pay rent to a local businessman to sustain their locations, gouge their customers to make enough revenue for health insurance for family employees and to pay them a decent wage allowing them to work extra hours to keep the shops clean, organized, happily staffed. Meanwhile they charged more to support the 25 families that ran those shops so they could spend the profits at the 24 other shops in town.
Wal-Mart can cut out all that waste: they can save money on rent & buy the land, not waste money on advertising locally, manage all this from afar so you don't have to pay locals as much & use their economies of scale to cut margins for all their vendors & regional service providers. They can also squeeze the last bit of pride out of their employees, surrounding areas & even customers.
Definitely a fair trade off for cheap stuff and a liberal return policy. |
I couldn't agree more. The way I feel towards this specific subject is the same way I feel about building new highways to compensate for the bottlenecking we have going on here in Ontario and throughout other highly populated areas: one day production needs to cease to exist.
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cliff notes: Lukie went to Walmart; saw his watch on sale; went on life tilt.
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Originally Posted by WillburForce
is Wal-mart like Primark in the UK ?
I went shopping for some holiday clobber, average costs of shorts £30 ($60ish) avg cost of T-shirts £20 ($40ish) in London...however in primark I got 2 pairs of shorts, 5 t-shirts and a straw hat (yeah, thats how I roll) for £26......i know kids in China are working 30hrs a day or whatever......but £26!!!
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I worked at Primark for 9 months.
In our training we were taught to lie. :P
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Walmart sucks because they have no business ethics, in addition to Lukie's story being true at 100% of the Walmart's I've been to in like 5 different states.
Great post Eric. However it doesn't make up for your lame ass excuse for not coming to Vegas.
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cliff notes: Lukie went to Walmart; saw his watch on sale; went on life tilt.
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Walmart sucks because they have no business ethics, in addition to Lukie's story being true at 100% of the Walmart's I've been to in like 5 different states.
Great post Eric. However it doesn't make up for your lame ass excuse for not coming to Vegas.
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Ya.. I definitely should have came, especially with the amount of people that were going. Next time though definitely. I just hope we have the same turnout.
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And btw, your avatar chick is incredibly hot.
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In college we'd always go to walmart around 2am, that's the best time, you have the whole place to yourself and security really isn't present.
Fun times, fun times..
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I did the exact same thing, but I also went there at 2am to look at all of the absolute loonies that would be crawling around that place (either buying things or stocking the shelves)....
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