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Walmart...good or bad ...ya gotta love it or hate it.

I vary between the two opinions.

What I want to know is other people's experience when buying from them.

In my area, they have cameras pointing in every direction, in every corner, at every cash register ( don't blame them for that one at all) and then the big booming voices at the entrances and exits if what you buy does not get electronically deactivated at the cash register. When you come in, they use hand held scanners to show you are bringing something back. To top it off, they have people standing at the door to check your receipt if you buy a case of soda pop that they cannot bag. Or if you buy a storage container.

I had an episode the other day that makes me want to stop shopping at Wally world all together. The woman at the door saw me check out at the register and she still stopped me to 'check my receipt' on a case of soda pop.

One would say ...well why would it bother you if you did nothing wrong?
The point is that I feel like I am in the Soviet Union always having to show my papers in a place where I exchange my money for a product. I feel like this place is Nazi Germany instead of being in a free land. I resent being treated like I am guilty of theft instead of our country's signature premise of presumed innocence until proven guilty. Why can't all their electronic surveillance and screaming machines do the job instead of us being accosted and what we bought "searched" before we get out the door?

All the other stores I buy at do not treat their customers this way.

Do they do this at all the Walmarts around the nation or is this just an area thing? I do not remember being treated this way in other cities...like Cordova, Memphis and other little towns across North MS.

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We have a Target 1 mile from our house in one direction and a Walmart less than a mile in the other. It is absolutely amazing the difference in customers between the two! One seems to have a solid middle class clientele and the other seems to cater to Trailer Park City!

Having said that I still go to Walmart every week or two (or three) to pick up another box of cheap ammo. :)

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We do not have a Target in this area, but there has been talk of one coming. If they do build a Target, guess where I will be shopping? :happydance

Are you sure that the ammunition they sell aren't duds? :heeheehee

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Naw, it is named brand -just cheap. :)

And I've already shot a few hundred rounds of it.

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BJs and Costco is where I shop...

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For weekly general shopping, the only large stores here is Walmart, Sams and Kroger. There are dozens of Dollar General and Freds, but it's like do I want to buy from the store on Main St. or the store on Washington St?

There is zero variety in this area. All the stores carry the same generic stuff with a price difference of a dollar or two.

So why should Walmart give it's customers the Gestapo treatment?

I think that maybe I should just stay away from them and spend a few more bucks at the local stores and at Kroger. If I want to buy a toy for the grandkids, I'll go to Toys R us. Or if I want to buy clothes, I should go to the mall, the local specialty shops or sew my own.

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There is also Amazon.com where I do most of my own shopping.

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BJs is literally unknown to me. What is it?

There are no Costco's in this economically depressed area.

I may just take my money to Memphis/Germantown/Cordova area since I will be shuttling back and forth a good bit now.

In an agricultural state such as MS, there are very few organically grown veggies in the stores. There is one farmer's market, which is regulated by one certain city to open for 1/2 day on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

I want a WholeFoods store. I want more Farmer's Markets.

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Are shipping charges expensive?

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It's cheaper then Costco but more "upscale" then Sam's Club. It's currently my favorite place to shop. It's more of an East coast place so I've found out.

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They are all over the map based on the size of the item purchased and what Amazon warehouse it is shipping from. I paid 79 for an annual Amazon Prime membership which gives me free 2-day shipping on many items and unlimited streaming of their own video netflix-type service.

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I may want to look into Amazon then.

Concerning Walmart...do they have 'gestapo' guards at the door checking your ammo as you leave over where you live?

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Not at all. I walk right out with it even though you can make out the ammo boxes through the plastic bags. :)

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No nazis in our wally world either, tho I do remember them.
Up here, one gets wise to online shopping quickly;
and it is much better.
Been to cities w/o wally worlds, and they're better, too.

Walmart attracts the worse of the worse. I'm poor, but I'll drive 15 minutes on the hwy to shop at Target. Walmart is 3 minutes away, no hwy.

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The nearest Target to me is an hour and a half away.

I would still make the drive

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I may have to since I am getting to where I absolutely hate walking through the Walmart doors here in this area.

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Ha do yourself a favor. Get a paypal acct. already.

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The Defiance Walmart is not like your description. However, once I get a good job I will not go there very much.I like to buy USA made stuff. Right now because I am what you called trailer trash, as I live in a trailer, i buy what I have money for. I can not eat walmart hamburger--fresh meat or their fresh fruit as it taste bad and makes me sick.

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Too scared to go. Might end up on People of Walmart website. :lol

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The Wal Mart where I live has fazed out the people greeters. I have only a WAL-Mart and A Pic and Save grocery store in my town. I'm a few minutes away from The Wal-Mart so I shop there because I don't have much choice. We do buy things in Mobile where I get down there.
The PIC and Save is a pretty decent grocery store but they add a extra ten percent to the stuff you buy.

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Um, "Defiance" Walmart?

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In Orlando and in a few other areas where I've been, yes the Walmarts have someone there to check your bag as you leave.

I don't think the Wal-Mart in Waldorf, MD has the bag checker though-- from what I remember.


A lot of people think it's a good idea to try to steal from Wal-Mart because it's so big. So I think they purposely put the cameras in locations so that people can see them and not try to steal.

It's like hiring uniformed security guards for stores and malls-- the idea is not so much to catch people doing wrong as much as it is to deter them from doing wrong in the first place.

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It's a long story, but a local Wal Mart banned me for theft. I was a vendor with Flowers Bakery (Nature's Own, etc.) and I took some stale home as I had 100 times before. The store manager said no all of a sudden. The stale was never in their inventory (pay by scan). The manager, being new, wanted to show off. He said he'd not press charges if I didn't come back to that sorry excuse of a Wal Mart in a podunk Alabama town. I tried to explain I got free bread whenever I wanted, I didn't need to steal, but he had to show the underlemmings how tough he was pimping the white Wal Mart management polo.

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I understand the manager in the store where I reside is bad.

Does he cuss?

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that's in Defiance, Ohio. Pretty close to me, actually :)

The Walmarts in Toledo and also the one in Wauseon also don't have the door greeters anymore. Actually, I've heard people complain that they miss them.

I go to Walmart for a few select things: pop (2 liter bottles for 78 cents), Scott toilet tissue, and a very few other things. But every time I shop at Walmart, I kid you not - while I am walking thru the store I get a charliehorse in the bottom of one or both of my feet. It doesn't happen anywhere else. ONLY at Walmart.

We have Kroger, which is where I shop the most for groceries. It's the only grocery store we have here in our little town. If I want to go to Walmart or to Aldi's, I have to drive at least 20-25 minutes away. I do go to Aldi's about once a month tho. Can't beat their price on things like real butter, sugar, flour, pancake mix, syrup, etc. As far as meat goes, I will ONLY buy meat from our local meat market because there is such a huge, huge difference! They are VERY selective about what meats they process and sell - nothing with anti-biotics, etc.

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LOL! Sorry, but this is quite hilarious!:slaphappy:slaphappy I could just see your manager pimping the white polo! LOL!

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1. You are NOT trailer trash just because you live in a trailer. Anybody who calls you trash because you live in what you can afford, needs to repent of looking down on their brother. There are many decent people who live in trailers because it is all that they can afford.

2. You are absolutely correct in buying what you can pay for. That is why I've been shopping at Walmart. But, when it gets to where I feel like less than a human being after they check receipt slips to "make sure" I am not stealing anything from them. They refuse to have big bags or "paid" tags to put on large items. I have only 2 choices...either shop there and take it (their insult) or don't shop there anymore. Why all the electronic surveillance if in the end they have to have humans checking receipts?

3. I do not buy meat or produce at Walmart either. I bought some pork chops there once and it did not even taste like pork chops. If you look closely, the meat has a "shiny" appearance to it. I think that their label says something about injecting some sort of solution into the meat.

I want meat. Nothing added, nothing took away. I even want the bone in the meat but very few stores will leave the bone in the meat nowdays.

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Somebody started a forum about Walmart.
Your story reminds me of this thread on that forum.

http://www.walmart-blows.com/forum/v...126a1319c9db4b

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I really don't have a problem with all the surveillance equipment. I have a problem with them having all that surveillance AND stopping me from leaving the store before they check my receipt. It is especially bad when they are standing at the door and watch you at the register checking out and then pay for it and still ask for your receipt. The check out clerks are going to make sure they get the items checked since it is usually the big items that cannot be bagged that a customer gets stopped for search. Only a moron would go through the checkout trying to steal a large item. :rolleyes2 It is ridiculous.

Even the uniformed police at the mall don't stop people and make them pony up all their receipts before they go out the door.

Idk...maybe it is the worker's attitudes. Most of them are not nice about it. They treat you as if you are a potential thief demanding to see your receipt instead of treating you with respect. Maybe that is what irritates me so.

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When Wal Mart came to our little town we thought we were up town..... Now it's a Super center and a horrible place to shop.