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Originally posted by BGCarrera32
I always feel like I need a shower after I leave Walmart.
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HA, well said.
They seem to be the only store to carry Mobil-1 in the 5-qt jugs.
If possible I send my wife to do the dirty-work of entering that store. (she seem to have a higher pain threshold for those type of shopping adventures . . . some how the scent of out-gassing formaldehyde, and fluorescent lights illuminating things I just don't want to see, gives me a bit of an adversion to that type of store.)
As to their operational model; While I am impressed with how quickly, and subtley, they can change product pricing, I think people will figure-out their not always getting a great price on their Chinese quality products. . . . seems they have stealthy "bait & switch" type pricing.
Also, while many small businesses tend to have aspirations of being part of the community, places like Wal-mart tend to be purely focused on profit. Sure they spend money
telling us how "nice they are", but when a store is going in to a community, all I've seen from "caring"
Walmart is a bull in a china shop.
how nice: Word quickly gets out that the reason some old guy greets you at the door, is NOT because they want you to "have a nice day" but rather that some study somewhere said that people are less likely to shop-lift if their presence has been acknowleged by an employee.
. . .then doncha feel all warm and fuzzy on the greeting?
. . . They may as well ask, "are you here to rip us off today? . . . we had something else in mind."
sheesh, just thinking about it. . . I need a shower now.