- Feb 25, 2004
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This doesn't really surprise me. While Walmart likely isn't going anywhere, their business model is based on rapid expansion. At this point, the market is saturated and there's no where to expand. I don't know if this is just plain an inevitable outcome, or terrible management. However, their management certainly doesn't seem in touch with reality based on some of their decisions lately. I don't know much about their complete and utter failure in Germany, but I do know that Walmart attempted to sell an upscale clothing line and ended up with a pile of unsold merchandise big enough to fill the grand canyon. What were they thinking? Walmart makes its name synonymous with cheap shit...throws some expensive clothes on the shelves and expects people to fall all over themselves to get them?
Without getting into the macro level of it, I'll just say this. I hate that fucking store. Not even thinking about their bad business practices, its just that the only one near me is a nightmare of epic proportions. Just as a consumer, its not a good deal. Is stuff much cheaper there? I don't even really know or care.
All I know is this:
Half the aisles in the store can't fit more then one cart down them...forcing some one to back up. The employees are useless, but thats pretty much par. There's always huge lines and like 2 registers open, so its impossible for me to just run in and grab one item. Everything I want is (apparently) out of stock (again). It smells bad, but I can't really place what the terrible odor is. I always have to park 5 miles from the store. And its always full of bad smelling people with nascar hats that are to fat to fit down the aforementioned aisles.
The store is just to much work to shop at. Obviously, if its that full they must be doing something right. But I have to wonder if drawing every welfare bum in the tri-state area to buy stuff at razor think margins is really a viable business model.
This doesn't really surprise me. While Walmart likely isn't going anywhere, their business model is based on rapid expansion. At this point, the market is saturated and there's no where to expand. I don't know if this is just plain an inevitable outcome, or terrible management. However, their management certainly doesn't seem in touch with reality based on some of their decisions lately. I don't know much about their complete and utter failure in Germany, but I do know that Walmart attempted to sell an upscale clothing line and ended up with a pile of unsold merchandise big enough to fill the grand canyon. What were they thinking? Walmart makes its name synonymous with cheap shit...throws some expensive clothes on the shelves and expects people to fall all over themselves to get them?
Without getting into the macro level of it, I'll just say this. I hate that fucking store. Not even thinking about their bad business practices, its just that the only one near me is a nightmare of epic proportions. Just as a consumer, its not a good deal. Is stuff much cheaper there? I don't even really know or care.
All I know is this:
Half the aisles in the store can't fit more then one cart down them...forcing some one to back up. The employees are useless, but thats pretty much par. There's always huge lines and like 2 registers open, so its impossible for me to just run in and grab one item. Everything I want is (apparently) out of stock (again). It smells bad, but I can't really place what the terrible odor is. I always have to park 5 miles from the store. And its always full of bad smelling people with nascar hats that are to fat to fit down the aforementioned aisles.
The store is just to much work to shop at. Obviously, if its that full they must be doing something right. But I have to wonder if drawing every welfare bum in the tri-state area to buy stuff at razor think margins is really a viable business model.
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