I Confronted A WalMart Door Greeter this Morning

[rsmith6621]

Wal Mart just opened a Super BigBox store in the city I live last week....this morning out of curiosity I decide to go lurk around.

On my way out the door the Greeter wished me a great day, I thank him and told him the store was HUGE....he the started rambling about how the store is the largest in the Northwest and it was built in record time and that they expected more growth around the property including a Carl's Jr and several other fast food restraunts and the the T.L.E had 7 bays and that they will soon have 30 gas pumps at the entrance of the store......then he said something real stupid...he said that Wal-Mart opened up this store to put Costco out of the gas biz and to close the store down.....I said YOUR KIDDING ME......RIGHT!!!! he said NO I said how are you going to do that...he said with lower gas prices, I replied you will have to sell it for about a $1.50 a gal and absorb the loss in the price of your store product.......and then I said you wont be able to put Costco out of BIZ ....he ask WHY...I said DIFFERENT CLIENTEL and a different BIZ philosophy....he said how so!!!!I said they sell bulk items...they sell more name brands that are higher quality...they specialize in customer service....they have an untarnished good name....AND....the Costco management supports their UNION EMPLOYEES and allow them to have a union shop and WALMART Doesn't!!!!!....I asked him if he received Walmart anti union speech as part of the training process he said management told them during training that they were better off without a union...I asked him what the consequences were for talking PRO UNION.....termination he said....I asked him if that was fair and about that time the assistant manager walks around the corner and ask if everything was all right....then he said what is this talk of UNIONS and I said I was just telling your employee that the store you plan on putting out of BIZ down the street allows their employees to organize and have a UNION to represent them and your store doesn't and your employees are not even allowed to entertain it with out suffering consequences......the manager said that unions drive the prices of products up and moral is lower....I said your wrong...Costco sells the same appliances for the same price as you do and the moral of their employees is one of ownership and anything that is higher in price people don't mind paying it because Costco stand behind their product even after it has been used for a long period..... He then said that their store has improved the quality of life in the community because now more people are now working he said they will employee about 250 after the grand opening is done and then I asked what the average hourly wage was....he then dismissed his employee.....and said it is higher than fast food wages......I then said is $7.75(thats what they advertised in the paper) an hour enough to live on with an average 23 hour work week??? and not all of the employees are from my city.......then I said the average Costco employee starts at $12.50 an hour and Costco's earnings are nowhere near Walmarts..And Costco employees haven't had to stand in line at the welfare office for medical benifits ..he then fiddled with his cell phone and magically it rang and he excused himself to take care of some biz.....

Geez I hope the greeter still has his job.....

[MissB]

1. A letter-to-the-editor would've probably been more productive.

The greeter was misinformed, but not really deserving having your undivided attention for what was apparently several minutes. The manager is a corporate dude, but so what - he probably didn't want to waste his time trying to convince you to shop at Walmart.

You could still do a very effective LTTE, based on your story.

[redqueen]

9. I agree - that would make a *great* LTTE!

*If* it was published.

[Deja Q]

13. Add in my vote.

Well, it's "morale" but when it comes to Wal-Mart, "moral" isn't always off-kilter either... :(

Just wait until costco is knocked out... prices will go up. It's WM's MO. Definitely get that into the LTTE as well.

[grace0418]

95. Costco won't be knocked out. The customers are different and most would

never shop at Walmart but LOVE Costco.

[Kashka-Kat]

85. Why not do both - talk face to face w/ people instead of hiding behind computer is a GOOD thing

Free & open exchange of ideas- that's what democracy is all about.....

[Duer 157099]

2. Good on YOU!!!

There's a walmart just down the road from my Costco, and yet they are worlds apart -- I'd NEVER shop at walmart, but I LOVE my Costco!!

You were very cool to confront them about this.

[Balbus]

3. The greeters at the Walmart I shop at just say "Hi."

I feel ripped off.. :(

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. Ha!

I was feeling rejected that I've never had such a verbose Wal-Mart greeter as the OP until I read your post. Mine at least ask if I'll be needing a shopping cart today or not. :D

[liberal renegade]

50. our greeters say hi

upon arrival, when leaving, may I see your receipt and contents please... That really pisses me off and if I had a choice, I would no longer shop there....

[fishwax]

69. I've only had that happen at Sam's

never at Wal-Mart (unless the cashier forgot to remove a tag and the alarm went off). That would definitely get on my nerves x(

[Cobalt Violet]

77. They do the same thing at Costco.

They check your recipt and what you bought. At least at the 3 I've been to.

[badgerpup]

81. They do that in my town too...

Costco, I mean. But it's not a big deal...not like you're maybe stealing something...just what they do.


I know I'm not the only customer who's so well known that I don't need to pull out my Costco card until I hit the checkstand...unless the person on the door is new.

At my Walmart the greeters may stop and chat with you for a few minutes if it's not too busy...and they only check your outgoing stuff if the alarm goes off.

But there's NO WAY Walmart's gonna put Costco out of business in this town.

[SammyWinstonJack]

83. You can't get out the door at Costco without showing your receipt and

having your cart checked. Big deal. I still shop at Costco.

[mondo joe]

84. It's required at Costco. What's your problem with it?

[ContraBass Black]

100. Wal-Mart greeters are required to demand a receipt if you have merchandise

That isn't in a bag, but not allowed to tell you why.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Hmmmm. I Got To The End And Woulda Sworn You Were Gonna Be Offering A Bridge For Sale.

Pretty good story, but please forgive me for not believing a word of it, other than that maybe the greeter said "Have a great day". Story is just a wee bit too perfect and I couldn't even begin to see such a lengthy and perfectly role played conversation actually happening at the exit of a walmart. Also could never in a million years see one of the greeters going off about how they're trying to put Costco out of business etc..

Hey, may I'm wrong, But I just didn't get the slightest vibe at the end of it all that the story was real in any way, even though it was well told and written. To each their own perception of it I guess.

[ieoeja]

8. "Gimme a 'W'!"

"W!"

"Gimme a 'A'!"

"A!"

"Gimme a 'L'!"

"L!"

"Gimme a DASH!"

"DASH!"

"Gimme an 'M'!"

"M!"

"Gimme a 'A'!"

"A!"

"Gimme a 'R'!"

"R!"

"Gimme a 'T'!"

"T!"

"What's that spell!?!"

"WAL-MART!"


Given that every employees meeting at Wal-Mart is supposed to include the "Wal-Mart Cheer", is it so difficult to believe the Ass Mgr might add, "and we're gonna put that Costco down the street right out of business!!!!"

[rsmith6621]

18. Read the post again....

....I said the greeter brought that up....

[ieoeja]

94. And where would the greeter have gotten that information?

OPERATIONMINDCRIME was skeptical about your claim that the greeter said this. I don't know if s/he was skeptical that the greeter would know about such plans or just that the greeter would share such plans. I was painting a picture of a Wal-Mart staff, sorry, "associate" meeting with its rah-rah nonsense.

I believe this demonstrates why it is not unlikely that a greeter would know what you claim the greeter said. It also illustrates the mindset Wal-Mart attempts to instill in their staff that would lead to the greeter bragging about their aim to bring down Costco.

I was addressing OPERATIONMINDCRIME's skepticism with known Wal-Mart tactics supporting your claim.

[Hangingon]

12. Big battle here in South Texas

WalMart and HEB (big grocery) have squared off. I don't see any big effort to put HEB out of the gas business. I think that greet must have an active imagination.

[ContraBass Black]

14. How exactly does one get to the end of a page-long run-on sentence?

That aside, I'm also skeptical.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

17. LOL

Good imagination though. :)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. Very, very painfully.

Ellipses should be used sparingly. Very sparingly.

[blondeatlast]

48. Hey, they coulda been commas,,,

:evilgrin:

[LostinVA]

76. Agreed.... and agreed

[blondeatlast]

47. I must agree. In any case, the greeter was NOT the right person to

take on.

[rsmith6621]

55. The Greeter was the ONE to open his TRAP WIDE...

He made several other facts that were wrong....if your going to say something that bold you better be able to back it up and know your facts...

[Alcibiades]

97. I agree with ieoeja

This part of the story is absolutely plausible. Probably, at some point during the process of opening the store/indoctrinating the employees, some prick from Bentonville arkansas showed up and explained the whole thing to all the employees. Does that make sense? Probably not, I'm sure most WalMart employees don't drink the Kool-Aid (the ones at my wal Mart across the street certainly don't act like they give a rat's ass, much less a damn about Wal Mart's corporate success). Anyway, in the documentaries on Wal-Mart, they are always depicted as very open with regard to their monopolistic intentions/pretensions, to the point of including all employees in on such things at meetings. One Wal-Mart cheer from years ago, back when their target was small-town America and not Costco, went like this: "Price 'em low/ Stack 'em high/ Watch those downtown merchants cry."

Anyway, the story does ring true. Wal-Mart has a scary, totalitarian ideology. Unlike most corporations, they are very open about their overall intention to crush their competitors, damn the consequences--unlike most of them, however, they really push the idea that doing so represents a victory for the little guy.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

99. You're Entitled. I Don't Buy It For A Second. Not Even One.

In fact, though it contained everything that those who are strongly against walmart would want to hear, I found it incredibly improbable that such a conversation would ever take place with the greeter of a walmart. That's not to say that there is no chance this happened. I just consider it to be highly improbable and will remain 99.99% skeptical.

[liberalEd]

6. Walmart has greeters? n/t

[ContraBass Black]

26. They stand by the doors saying hello and goodbye

To discourage shoplifters.

[liberalEd]

64. Ah, OK -- watching for shoplifting employees and customers

The term "greeter" threw me.

[WI_DEM]

7. how old was the guy?

[rsmith6621]

15. mid 50s

[Bjornsdotter]

10. Perfect example

....I have a Wal-mart less than 2 miles from my house, Costco is about 27 miles.

Guess where we shop?

Yep, Costco.....it's worth the drive, just on how they treat their employees.

Cheers

[tanyev]

11. Asst Mgr shows up immediately after the talk turns to unions...

Hidden microphones on all the employees?

[monmouth]

16. Costco also offers drug prescriptions lower than anyone, including

the drugstores...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Congratulations! You HARASSED an underpaid employee. Either that or...

Bounce, bounce, bounce.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

53. I agree...

I'm saddened for the employee. Don't these people deserve sympathy? Not condescension and harassment? I think the OP crossed a line. Have your convictions, but don't shit all over someone because you don't like where they work. Let the guy think what he wants. He has to work there, why can't he make the best of it?
Duckie

[Change has come]

70. I agree

especially if the employee is in his mid fifties. Unless he's already wealthy and just looking for a job to remain productive, He's looking at bleak future.

[Name removed]

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Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[kwyjibo]

21. wow, I think that was the longest run on sentence I've ever read...

[Connie_Corleone]

22. Can someone summarize what was written?

While summarizing, can you please use sentences and paragraphs? Thank you.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

25. Quick Summary: He Went Into Walmart And The Guy Said "Have A Great Day".

[blondeatlast]

49. ...

:rofl::thumbsup::rofl:

[Heywood J]

57. Here you go. Took a few Find/Replace runs to get it

legible.

Wal-Mart just opened a Supercenter store in the city I live last week. This morning, out of curiosity, I decided to go and lurk around.

On my way out the door, the Greeter wished me a great day. I thanked him and told him the store was HUGE. he the started rambling about how the store is the largest in the Northwest and it was built in record time and that they expected more growth around the property including a Carl's Jr. and several other fast food restaurants, the T.L.E had 7 bays, and that they will soon have 30 gas pumps at the entrance of the store.

Then he said something very stupid. He said that Wal-Mart opened up this store to put Costco out of the gas business and to close the store down. I said "YOU'RE KIDDING ME, RIGHT?” He said "NO". I asked, "How are you going to do that?” He said, "With lower gas prices." I replied, "You will have to sell it for about a $1.50 a gal and absorb the loss in the price of your store product," and then I said, "You won't be able to put Costco out of business."

He asks why. I said "DIFFERENT CLIENTELE and a different business philosophy." He asks "how so?" I said, "They sell bulk items. They sell more name brands that are higher quality and they specialize in customer service. They have an untarnished good name. The Costco management supports their UNION EMPLOYEES and allows them to have a union shop. WAL-MART doesn't!"

I asked him if he received the Wal-Mart anti-union speech as part of the training process. He said management told them during training that they were better off without a union. I asked him what the consequences were for talking PRO-UNION. Termination, he replied. I asked him if that was fair, and about that time, the assistant manager walks around the corner and asks if everything was all right.

He asks what's with the talk of UNIONS. I said, "I was just telling your employee that the store you plan on putting out of business down the street allows their employees to organize and have a UNION to represent them. Your store doesn't and your employees are not even allowed to entertain it without suffering consequences." The manager said that unions drive the prices of products up and morale is lower.

I said, "You're wrong. Costco sells the same appliances for the same price as you do and the morale of their employees is one of ownership. Anything that is higher in price, people don't mind paying it because Costco stands behind their product, even after it has been used for a long period."

He then said that their store has improved the quality of life in the community because now more people are now working. He said they would employ about 250 people after the grand opening is done. Then, I asked what the average hourly wage was. He then dismissed his employee and said it is higher than fast food wages. I then said, "Is $7.75" (that's what they advertised in the paper) "an hour enough to live on with an average 23 hour work week? Not all of the employees are from my city. The average Costco employee starts at $12.50 an hour and Costco's earnings are nowhere near Wal-Mart’s. Costco employees haven't had to stand in line at the welfare office for medical benefits."

He then fiddled with his cell phone and magically it rang. He excused himself to take care of some business.

Geez. I hope the greeter still has his job.

There's a quick attempt at paragraphing for legibility, not for related grouping. No time to fix the tenses.

[Quantess]

23. I don't agree with your method of "confronting" WalMart.

Poor guy. He's just an underpaid worker.

[smtpgirl]

60. The Wal-Mart greeter is probably some schmuck

that had his job outsourced to India, Taiwan or somewhere else.

It is sad that in some places, only Wal-Mart is hiring at $7.75 and there are no other jobs paying even that. Geez, the McDonald's in my neighborhood hires for $10.25 per hour.

[Marie26]

24. You rebel, you. nt

[fujiyama]

27. You confronted some poor guy

in his mid-fifties, who likely got this job as an act of desperation.

Then you post a wild run on sentence about the experience with the closing line "
Geez I hope the greeter still has his job.....", which comes off sort of hollow and insincere.

Hmmm, sounds like a giant waste of time if you ask me. Unless you had to buy something, there are alternative ways to get exercise to wandering around a Wal-Mart.

[Guaranteed]

43. It sounds like it wasn't so tense until asshole-boy showed up

with the anti-union shit.

[fujiyama]

46. I don't think the OP was being rude to the greeter in any way

and I don't really think it was a confrontation. In fact, the OP may have done one good thing - and educate the greeter about the better wages COSTCO is offering. The manager sounded like an idiot.

But it was still a waste of time. And either way, getting into a "debate" over wages with an employee there is not productive. Also, it's unlikely the man is working there because he wants to. I think it would have been better for the OP to consider his position, and risk making it looking like the man was not doing his job, thus putting his job in jeopardy. Why go wonder around a Wal Mart in the first place? I avoid the damn store like the plague and have stepped foot in them maybe twice. But I also have alternatives, which I realize are not available to many.

[rman]

75. confronted with truth

poor guy.

[tabasco]

28. Speaking truth to power!

You really straightened that greeter out.

[JVS]

68. lol

[nicknameless]

29. Not much of a confrontation. You should have written "educated".

I think the assistant manager probably excused himself to go find out if Costco is hiring.
$12.50 v $7.75 as starting pay. The greeter will probably be checking out Costco as well.

[Raydawg1234]

30. But all the sheeple keep shopping there.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

54. You know why?

Because people are paid so little they have to go where they can make their dollar go the furthest! It's elitist and rude to call them sheeple. When you're as poor as a lot of people, you have no choice but to go to walmart to do your best to make ends meet. Makes me wonder if the people who always say this stuff about people who shop at walmart have ever been poor and struggling in their lives.
Duckie

[tuvor]

31. I can't read all of this. My eyes are hurting. But I gather...

...you're pretty pleased with yourself over confronting a newly-hired greeter.

Way to stick it to the man.

[frustrated_lefty]

32. Why the hell *confront* some poor guy earning a buck?

If your goal is to assist the Walmart employees, why not print out a fact sheet and plaster it around the Walmart? Hand out a few dozen Costco job applications everytime you visit Walmart?

It sounds like you ranted at some poor man trying to put food on the table. That aside, KNOWING Walmart's business practices, what were YOU doing shopping there?

[tuvor]

34. He wasn't "shopping".

He was "lurking". Out of "curiosity".

[Texasgal]

40. Yeah...riiight. n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

33. well

you certainly showed THAT old guy!

[sundog]

51. he should do stand up

[karlrschneider]

35. Wow, I thought e e cummings was dead.

:eyes:

[Goblinmonger]

56. Hey, don't insult e. e. cummings

He is one of my favorite modernist poets. His use (abuse?) of punctuation is always for some visual effect, not random rantings.

[karlrschneider]

58. No insult meant, the OP looked a bit like his pomes, at a distance.

:D

[driver8]

36. Right on!! This union member says, "Thank you."!

It is time for people to pull their heads out of their asses and quit believing everything they are told.

Wal-Mart doesn't give a f*ck about its employees. Just the mention of a union sends them into a frenzy.

Thank you for speaking out.

[walldude]

37. Put Costco out of business... now thats funny..

Take your best shot. I can't go to Costco without having to wait in line for 20 minutes. And I'm happy and grateful to do it.

[bridgit]

38. that's allot to lay on a person maybe trying to make a little extra money...

and still qualify for SS bene's :shrug:

[zbdent]

39. If you ever go back there, you should ask this guy (the greeter)

what he USED TO MAKE at his old job ... he knows, the one with benefits ...

[Straight Shooter]

41. Since you're getting a bit slammed on the spacing of your post ...

When you post something long like that, click on "Preview" and see what it looks like before you click "Post Message." Your message window remains open at the bottom of the page and you can fix it.

Truthfully, it's very hard to read, and a lot of people will forego reading a post that is constructed with all the text so densely packed.

:)

[Guaranteed]

44. I liked it. It was stream of consciousness. Totally got everything.

all that matters is that the words are there

[Straight Shooter]

45. Not for me. And this isn't the first time this sort of complaint has been raised on DU.

You should see my screen.

If you can tell me how to increase the text size for our DU message windows, I'd be grateful. At 1280 by 1024 resolution on this monitor, it's a strain. :)

[JVS]

62. here is a tip to help you

Go out to the GD list and look to the upper left above the list. There will be a link there that lets you switch to a bigger font. Click that and come back in and there might be less strain

[Straight Shooter]

93. Thank you!

I knew there was a technique on here somewhere, but I always get to the threads via Latest and Greatest. I remembered reading about how to do it long ago, but had forgotten the details.

Now I can sit further away from the screen. Thanks!

:hi:

[JVS]

96. I'm glad I could help

[Quixote1818]

71. Me too. The OP writes the way I think. It was an easy read. nt

[Guaranteed]

42. NICE job, sir/ma'am. That was awesome. nt

[DireStrike]

52. Well congrats... but please use some periods

If this were one of the other internet communities I frequent, one of the less civil ones, I would simply say TLDR - Too long, didn't read. Which isn't usually about length but rather formatting.

Anyway, good job spreading the truth!

[smtpgirl]

59. What is so ironic about this piece is that I don't believe

that this greeter spoke to the poster like that.

We have had a change-agent in my office for about 2 months, does my company take his recommendations?

That remains to be seen.

The change-agent is a German citizen living in The Netherlands, do you know what his next gig is?

Wal-mart in Bentonville, AK.

The change-agent doesn't shop at Wal-Mart either, he dislikes the employment practices. So what kinds of changes can he suggest for Wal-Mart? And does Wal-Mart bite? I would love to be a change-agent.

I am with the change-agent, I haven't stepped in a Wal-Mart since 1999. But I work with drones and they always clamor about the prices, sheesh, what kinds of drugs are they on? On any given day, there are lots of products that Wal-Mart does not sell at rock bottom pricing, but those items are the most dusty.

[BamaGirl]

61. I haven't posted in awhile

I'm a hit and run poster. (Was that tacky? Oh well.) I'm kinda scratching my head at some of these replies. I don't know where the OP is from or where the repliers are from (not clicking on all those profiles). Aside from a lamentable lack of punctuation knowledge though, this just doesn't seem that unbelievable to me. Maybe because I don't have a Costco or a Target or Trader Joe's so I'm stuck with Winn Dixie and Walmart. I live in a small city, my hubsband is in the only police dept union in the state of Alabama, my district votes about 73% Rep, and we're Southern so people run their mouths. Everywhere. With complete strangers. And the anti-union attitude? It's ugly out there, man. I've had conversations with Walmart greeters about many things. Not unions, but it could happen and I'm betting, knowing my area, they would come down on the anti side. That's a real shame since most of them are past retirement and working. A union might have prevented that. And should an adult who's stupid enough to work a pissant job and who is vocally anti-union not be called on it?? Cry me a river. Now I live in an economically disadvantaged area. I understand the need to take what jobs are available and shop where it's necessary. Hell, I got 3 kids and a husband to feed. I understand about that. What I don't understand, and what I won't stand by and not challenge, is the corporate anti-union mantra. It's one thing for them to say it. I get that--they want to make more money. But an employee who is screwed over by these policies? I expect someone with a little age to have better sense.

[Mick Knox]

63. I once yelled at a girl scout who was selling corporate cookies

Ok, no I didnt.

Good story though.

[Dorian Gray]

65. That's quite a conversation. NT

[Quixote1818]

66. I am sending this out as a bulk email. It's awesome! nt

[and-justice-for-all]

67. We dont have a CostCo where I live...

..But we have two great big fucking Wal-Marts and a Sam's Club!

[Quixote1818]

72. I don't think the OP was rude to the employee at all

I am puzzled by many of the posts who think he/she was hard on this worker.

Thats how conversations happen. You start taking and they say something that blows your mind and then you put your chit chat hat on. Sounds like the employee's eyes were open a little bit. It never hurts to stir the pot a little bit, especially when you get a big nasty corporations people riled up.

Good Job!

[prolesunited]

73. shenanigans.

[mdmc]

74. trash a bank if you got real -----

[MyNameGoesHere]

78. Awesome job!

You showed that underpaid greeter that you were better than him. To be berated at the work place is a great way to make friends or enlighten people. You rock

[Cobalt Violet]

79. I've been so sick lately.

My brain fog is very bad sometimes. So bad that I can't even read some of the longer posts. But I had no problem reading and understanding every word you posted. I really like this post and really liked what you said to the Wal-Mart employees. I like your writing style, it worked and flowed nicely for me. I agree with the others who said it would make a great LTTE.




The hell with the grammar/spelling/punctuation/composition nazis!

[Heywood J]

87. Yeah

> The hell with the grammar/spelling/punctuation/composition nazis!

Yeah...damn...usforWANTING...to be!!!!! able to READING????? the.....text.

[Cobalt Violet]

91. A little creativity is a good thing.

Does everything on an internet forum have to be written as if a professional writer wrote it?

I had no trouble reading your sentence either.

[Canuckistanian]

82. I took my sister to a Walmart once

She really needed some things and she's on a very fixed budget.

I told her I would NOT be going in with her and she asked why. So I told her. She was curious and said she agreed that Walmart was terrible, but she had no choice.

When she came out, she said she had asked the cashier how she like working there. The cashier said it sucked and the pay was terrible but that SHE had no choice but to work there.

Walmart - a benefit for the poor as well as creator of poor people.

[theboss]

86. You had this conversation with a ninety-year old at a Wal-Mart?

Who has the time?!?!

[RedCappedBandit]

88. Short summary of my friends visit to Walmart:

My friend, who is from Bangladesh, was for some unknown reason inside this disgusting building known as "Walmart." Inside, he encountered an incredibly stupid old man who began to blame Katrina on him and "his people"

In contrast, my experiences at Costco usually go like this: "omg FREE SAMPLE.. mmmm.."

[Danascot]

89. I hate those f*ing greeters

The lines are 10 deep, get on a register and leave me the hell alone.

Why don't they just have a creepy animatronic mascot like McDonalds? ... though come to think of it, it's possible the greeters ARE animatronic.

[raccoon]

90. Why? They're just doing their job. Since most of them are over

50, it may be the only job they can get.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

92. Curious

did you buy anything?

Wal Mart just opened a Super BigBox store in the city I live last week....this morning out of curiosity I decide to go lurk around.

[Pawel K]

98. They are trying to compete with Costco here too

In albuquerque they opened up a Sams club right next to a costco that has been in that location for years. I guess this is their new business philosophy, try to run the people that take care of their employees out of town. Then again I guess that has always been their philosophy.