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Printer Bandit said:
Target is a breath of fresh air compared to Walmart
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That may be true, but in my market area Walmart is a bigger store and has groceries....they carry more inventory. Until they build more and more of the Super Targets or larger format stores, Walmart will continue to beat them. To put it plainly, why go to Target when you can't buy everything you need. It would be ridiculous to go to Target and Walmart when one trip to Walmart would suffice.

Personally, I don't shop at Walmart that often and usually go to Target for most things. I'm just saying, when I need certain items (automotive/lawn&garden/housewares, etc), my Target store just doesn't have the square footage to compete.
 
I have no problem with walmart, or shopping there. My other option is going to Target AND Hy-Vee (grocery store). So two stops in one, and at a cheaper price. Sure.

It does annoy me that it seems like when I walk in there are a billion checkout people waiting at the end of their lanes, but when I go to check out, all full.
 
I'm so glad I don't live in either the ghetto or East Bumfuck Tennessee. The Walmarts here are actually clean, the employees aren't all morons, they have people manning the registers until about 11PM and the self-checkouts never have a line.

My biggest frustration with them has been that they regularly discontinue grocery items that I buy every week. But I just go to on their web site, request that the item be stocked again, and it's back on the shelves within a couple of weeks.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Or the fact that it's not everywhere. No Target (or any of the other stores mentioned) here, not even sure where the closest is.
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That's the funny thing. Where I live, there are Walmarts and Targets in the same shopping center. I would think Walmart would get obliterated as it's like a cheaper K-mart, but shoppers flock to both. It makes me wonder if people really are going there to save that extra nickel or two.
 
I can't figure out why Walmart wouldn't want a few more lines to be open. Maybe I'm unique, but I can't help but wonder if there are other people like me - people who shop elsewhere simply because I don't want to spend 10 minutes waiting in a line. Or, even 5 minutes.
 
Walmarts vary in quality. The one I usually go to is pretty nice. I went to a different one last week, looked for a cart, found none. Went to the other end of the store, there was only one cart, and it wouldn't roll. D: The greeter said there was only one person getting carts in. Went out to the parking lot, got a cart for myself, and two more for other people. ()🙂
 
I once ordered a $48 item with a $2 "filler" item to get free shipping (IIRC $50 was the threshold).

I never got the filler item. I filed a missing item complaint and they never bothered responding except to request feedback on how well they resolved my issue.

Obviously, they got something similar to the OP.
 
that was like my experience picking stuff up from the store after ordering online. Except I only had 1 person waiting behind me. But so many walmart employees walked by and did not offer to help or ask if anyone helped me yet.

All that to save a few bucks....oh well, its the slickdealers way!!!
 
HamburgerBoy said:
You really should change your avatar, I keep thinking that you're Harvey.
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Ditto.
RossMAN said:
Happy to hear I'm not the only one.

I'll change it if you can find a nice picture of Emily Bett Rickards (from Arrow) with glasses on :thumbsup:
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Delivered.
 
Oh, Miss Smoke!

Walmart.com is walmart, or rather owned by it and the same brand. Regardless of whether outsourced or not. Online order of a local pickup item can even be returned at that physical locatjon. I have done some store pickups of online stuff recently and they worked okay.
 
The CEO was on the news yesterday, albeit 40-something years old, has been with the company since he was a teenager. He does surprise visits to Walmarts to see how they're operating and that one of their biggest worries is the e-commerce landscape which they invested over 3 bill in . This complaint now validates they still got a lot of work to do to compete with the big dogs at least managerially, in-personnel, and operationally.

PS: CEO says Walmart gets a bad wrap for how they treat their employees. They will be getting paid more than minimum wage and most of their employers are full-time....mean while in North Korea....EVERY BODY LOVES NORTH KOREA!
 
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Wow that's exactly the same thing that happened to me. I stood there thinking to myself my the fuck was I so cheap to pay the extra dollar to buy my item at Target.
 
madoka said:
I still can't figure out why Target hasn't blown Walmart away. Could it really be that the fact that it's like $0.5-$0.10 cheaper per item than Target?
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There are more walmarts than targets?

I went to Walmart today, only place that has the handicap carts. Filled my cart, checked right out zero wait. There were many lanes open, I was very surprised.
 
I avoid WalMarts at all costs. The money savings, if any is lost on the time sink of just waiting in line ridiculously long at any time of the day.

To be fair, most of the time it's not because they are understaffed but the customers trying to do stupid things / not understanding how to pay / trying to negotiate prices with the cashier / etc.

They get my money for the kids school uniforms since they have the required non-logoed stuff. They also got my money for the $100 off phone upgrades they had a few years ago when I wanted to upgrade to the iPhone 4s and buy one for my fiancee.

Our office once had something ship-to-store and it took over an hour for them to find it.
 
DrPizza said:
I can't figure out why Walmart wouldn't want a few more lines to be open. Maybe I'm unique, but I can't help but wonder if there are other people like me - people who shop elsewhere simply because I don't want to spend 10 minutes waiting in a line. Or, even 5 minutes.
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I'd tolerate the place more if they didn't make me wait in line to pay.
 
I HATE waiting in line. I shopped last night at Walmart and they only had about 10 of the 20 checkout lines open and I had to wait behind someone else. Three, four minutes even. I was so pissed off.
 
Regs said:
The CEO was on the news yesterday, albeit 40-something years old, has been with the company since he was a teenager. He does surprise visits to Walmarts to see how they're operating and that one of their biggest worries is the e-commerce landscape which they invested over 3 bill in . This complaint now validates they still got a lot of work to do to compete with the big dogs at least managerially, in-personnel, and operationally.

PS: CEO says Walmart gets a bad wrap for how they treat their employees. They will be getting paid more than minimum wage and most of their employers are full-time....mean while in North Korea....EVERY BODY LOVES NORTH KOREA!
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Or else...
 
It's walmart. What did you expect? For what it's worth, waiting in line never bothers me though.

I was in walmart a couple of days ago and the people in front of me had approximately 900 items to check out (2 carts full to the brim with things like antiperspirant, coffee filters, bars of soap, etc.). I had to wait at least 45 minutes for them to get through, but I amused myself by trying to figure out exactly what they were buying all that stuff for.

Why 40 sticks of anti-perspirant, 200 bars of soap, 300 coffee filters, but only two steam irons? I settled on nudist retreat. Not much need for irons there. I should have asked them if they had any open spots...
 
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