Walmart

[Roadhawg]

I hate Walmart and don't know why I go back there. I went Friday after work (3:30) to get 5 things. One of them, and most important, was a full beef brisket for the smoker. They didn't have any out so I tried to find somebody in the meat section. I went ahead and got my other items and went back to the meat section 3 time and still nobody. I finally found a guy and he went in the back and came back out saying the meat guy was on break and to try back a little later. So I walked around another 15 minutes and came back and still nobody and I went in the back myself and found somebody, he went and looked for me and said they didn't have any. I was peeved because I was already there over 45 minutes for 5 - 1 items.

The under 20 items lanes were backed up to Tulsa so I went to a regular lane with only 3 people ahead of me and they didn't have that much. Needless to say it must have been a new person because it took me another 30 minutes to get to my turn. Needless to say I wasn't a happy camper, especially since I had to go to another store to get my brisket.... NEVER AGAIN will I go to Walmart.

[MDot]

Eff Wal-Mart.

[MrZ]

I needed something that several other stores did not have and I tried the Wal-mart at I-240 and Santa Fe and they had it. This was a few minutes after 10PM on Friday night and they had 2 lanes open, the 20 items and under lane where they sell cigarettes and one normal lane. Each lane had at least 10 shopping carts lined up. I set the stuff down and went home and ordered it online. I wanted it then but wasn't going to wait an hour in a line.

[Swake2]

You are better off anyway. Walmart's meat is terrible

[SoonerBoy18]

Lots of teachers here in El Reno travel to Yukon's wal-mart instead of shopping at our own.

[Roadhawg]

I wonder if the open carry law passes the Walmart checkout lines start moving a little faster.

[redrunner]

I hate Walmart and don't know why I go back there. I went Friday after work (3:30) to get 5 things. One of them, and most important, was a full beef brisket for the smoker. They didn't have any out so I tried to find somebody in the meat section. I went ahead and got my other items and went back to the meat section 3 time and still nobody. I finally found a guy and he went in the back and came back out saying the meat guy was on break and to try back a little later. So I walked around another 15 minutes and came back and still nobody and I went in the back myself and found somebody, he went and looked for me and said they didn't have any. I was peeved because I was already there over 45 minutes for 5 - 1 items.

The under 20 items lanes were backed up to Tulsa so I went to a regular lane with only 3 people ahead of me and they didn't have that much. Needless to say it must have been a new person because it took me another 30 minutes to get to my turn. Needless to say I wasn't a happy camper, especially since I had to go to another store to get my brisket.... NEVER AGAIN will I go to Walmart.

Sounds about right.

[WilliamTell]

this is why we rarely shop at walmart.

[RadicalModerate]

Walmart Sux.
More to follow.
With specific details.

[WilliamTell]

We used to shop entirely at walmart because we thought it was cheaper , but after moving we tried buy for less and crest on a whim and have found that buying the same amount of items each week i can go into walmart and leave for around 110 and go to crest or buy for less and leave for around 90.

Plus i love how i can go into a grocery store that actually has people working instead of having 25 lanes and 3 of them open. One of the most profitable corporations in the history of the world but you cant pay someone 8 bucks an hour to check my purchases out? I'll take my business elsewhere.

[Roadhawg]

I go to Buy 4 Less when I can and that's where I went to get my brisket. Walmart is only 5 minutes from work and didn't think it would be a major cluster at 3:30 but I was wrong.

[corpsman]

That's why they are one of the most profitable retailers in the world. Their treatment of customers is kinda like this definition of fair market value...whatever the public will tolerate without screaming to loudly and refusing to return

One of the most profitable corporations in the history of the world but you cant pay someone 8 bucks an hour to check my purchases out?

[oneforone]

I shop there about as often as I do everywhere else. I have come to the conclusion the worst times to shop are late at night, on the 1st & 15th and prior to any major event. I do find it amusing that Walmart is like the slow kid in the class at school. Everybody trashes Walmart because it's the popular thing to do and it won't defend itself so we have nothing to fear of it.

I have noticed the experience at the Midwest City and Del City stores has gotten better. There employees are making the effort to greet and actually know the products and the layout of the store. I have ran into clean cut helpful employees so many times I have lost count. It may be the store managers expecting more of their people because so many retailers have defaulted and those retail employees had to find work some where.

My sister went to work for them for a few months in between jobs. (She had to find something to feed the kids and she didn't want to take the public assistance route.) After two weeks on the job they offered her a promotion and more money then what most people would expect from Walmart. She turned it down because she was completing her nursing degree and she made it known she was just there to make money between jobs. They told her when she left she was welcome to come back anytime she wanted. Her experience there was that they pay people well who want to make the effort. The mouth breathers who just want a paycheck make crap wages. It's there way of hopefully running off the dead weight. Then again that's all some people want is the cheap wage so the checks from Uncle Sam will keep rolling in.

[bucktalk]

I don't suspect many will agree with me BUT I predict unless Wal-Mart improves customer service they will go the direction Sears is going....strong at one time...but ultimately failed due to lack of customer service and the changing times.

[HewenttoJared]

You get what you pay for.

[Richard at Remax]

you get what you pay for.

^^this

[OKCTalker]

^^this

^^that

[Bunty]

I just go try the next nearest Wal-Mart when one is out of something.

[Bunty]

I don't suspect many will agree with me BUT I predict unless Wal-Mart improves customer service they will go the direction Sears is going....strong at one time...but ultimately failed due to lack of customer service and the changing times.

I don't know. Hasn't Wal-Mart been known for lack of service when you need it for decades?

[UncleCyrus]

For grocery shopping, I actually bypass two Wal-Marts and go a few more miles out of my way to shop at Crest. They have more selection and plenty of service. The last few times I was in WM, they were out of several items on my list, and a lot of the stuff that was in stock was either smashed, dented, or sliced open by an overzealous box cutter. And after all that, the pleasure of waiting 20 minutes in line with an increasingly impatient one-year old in the cart. I don't need that hassle anymore.

Oh, and don't even get me started on Sears...

[metro]

Belle Isle Walmart, worst ever!!!

[RadicalModerate]

Obviously, you never went to the "vintage" (c.1980s) Walmart just south of Target near the intersection of Midwest Blvd. and 10th. This was the place where my "disappointment" with this toxic retail giant began. You apparently haven't been to the one on N. Penn either.

Is "Less Worse" a fair phrase to use when speaking of and/or comparing Walmarts?

[rcjunkie]

I often shop at Walmart, mostly due to convenience and price and i have never been unable to find what I'm after, as for long lines, to me it's worth the savings.

[Roadhawg]

I often shop at Walmart, mostly due to convenience and price and i have never been unable to find what I'm after, as for long lines, to me it's worth the savings.

As previously posted the savings aren't that great anymore plus my time and aggravation are worth more than the few penny's I save.

[RadicalModerate]

I wonder if anyone has ever solved the riddle of why Walmart tied all that money up in placing a couple dozen checkout lanes in the stores and only opening about three at a time . . .

I must say that the one positive thing about Walmart is that it led to the creation of the People of Walmart website.