Very reluctantly and only if I have to. It's not so much the employees (although that does certainly add to the experience). I just can't take the people. Believe it or not I'm not the best people person. I get annoyed very easily at the lack of thought process and common sense with people these days. I try not to analyze things too much, but I can't help it. People are stupid and it's really scary out there. Wal Mart seems like central command for them too. I bought eggs, milk, and celery. I didn't get a greeting. I got run into by 2 shopping carts. I ran into someone I was following that decided to stop dead in her tracks in the middle of the aisle. I got sneezed on. Had to walk around the an aisle that the eggs were in to get to the other side because a family of 11 decided they were the only ones in the store and taking up the whole thing. Passed a dude that probably hasn't showered in 6 days. Grabbed my stuff and was pretty much sprinting to the finish line humming the theme song from chariots of fire. Cashed out, didnt' get my greeting and got out of dodge. Ohhhhhh but it doesn't end there. Now you have to navigate around the entrance/exit and the people that have nothing to do with theirselves but talk to eachother in front of walmart and stand in your way. FINALLY the peace of making to your truck and closing the door. Only one more step. Dealing with the parking lot and entrance to Wally world (just to send you off a little more irritated). Here, no logic or trafic laws apply. Do as you please, pay no attention to common sense. Just cut whoever off and go wherever you want to get your greeting. Yield? That sign probably doesn't mean much. Take that right hand turn back on the highway and sigh a deep breath of relief.
Certainly walmart does have a good people watching crowd... The one in Effingham, IL could be used for an educational video titled "This is what Meth does". Where I used to live, in the armpit of NE IL, the walmart was smelly and dirty and the entrance/exit way was paved with mosiac of chewed gum. (eww!) I only went there in dire instances. (for the record, the Kmart was even grosser/scarier) Rudeness and unpleasantness isn't just a walmarty thing. Last week I was up in Chitcagoland and shopping at a Costco. This is an 'upscale' crowd for the most part - my mom's 2002 lexus looks like a beater in that parking lot compared to the all the newer, spiffier rides. (and I seriously feel like a redneck parking my bloody, muddy, rusty truck there) But I have to say, the crowd in there was the most miserable, unpleasant group I've seen in a long time. Everybody scowling, getting in each other's way, thinking only about themselves I'd guess. I'd flash a smile at these people and they would just scowl harder. Sure they all had designer clothes and $$$$ worth of goodies in their carts but dang what a pathetic way to live. I have go up there about every ten days or so. It's not all bad. For instance there are few things more satisfying than seeing Chicagoland disappearing in the rear view mirror. :D
I'd take the Katanas in there and show them all what's up. Bet you get to the front of the 15 items (or so) line real quick.
I take that to mean they're all bright, full of energy, youthful looking for someone over 40, and always doing something constructive.
[h=6]Went to Wally World tonight for a few muzzleloading items and some other stuff. The whole list had 20 items on it. After spending 35 minutes in the store, I was able to locate one item. I spoke with management and was told that corporate determines what they do and do not receive. Evidently corporate doesn't understand hunting in the midwest. I'm done with those fools. The manager actually told me that she shops with the competitors because she can't get the items she wants at her own store. [/h]
They just closed the worthless little Walmart here and opened a Super Walmart. The new store is worse than the old one and I have shared that very conversation with both mgrs and got the same answer.
Went to Wal Mart.... again (dont' want to talk about it). Had an older guy this time that greeted me! Went over and gave him a high five told him to have a great day. He laughed. Softened the blow of dealing with the Martinites.
