Anyone been to the Wal-Mart in da 'hood? (Chicago, Addison: middle-class, sales)

[skipcromer]

Originally Posted by Drover

Well it's terrible enough that we won't be back any time soon. My wife was so frustrated by the end of our trip that she was on the verge of tears. And it sounds like the one in Austin or whatever is no better. *sigh*

Its ok, I cry anytime I set foot inside a Wal Mart as well.

[coldwine]

I'm terrified, terrified to think of what an urban Walmart would look like.

Have you seen some of the people that shop at a normal Walmart? It's like the Genetic Last Pick. But in the city? Good heavens, I can only imagine.

[Venom]

Originally Posted by coldwine

I'm terrified, terrified to think of what an urban Walmart would look like.

Have you seen some of the people that shop at a normal Walmart? It's like the Genetic Last Pick. But in the city? Good heavens, I can only imagine.

[Chicago60614]

Originally Posted by Drover

Well it's terrible enough that we won't be back any time soon. My wife was so frustrated by the end of our trip that she was on the verge of tears. And it sounds like the one in Austin or whatever is no better. *sigh*

Given our lives being on the internet with power, water, cable, food, fresh water and education - no one should ever be brought to tears because of visiting a retail store that isn't up to their standards!

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

Given our lives being on the internet with power, water, cable, food, fresh water and education - no one should ever be brought to tears because of visiting a retail store that isn't up to their standards!

There's a little more to it than that and I don't care to elaborate. But in any case we won't be making any special trip to the one in Niles any time soon. Or the one in Austin either, it sounds like.

[surlycue]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

Given our lives being on the internet with power, water, cable, food, fresh water and education - no one should ever be brought to tears because of visiting a retail store that isn't up to their standards!

I may have an inability to detect internet sarcasm but there is a strange dichotomy of the "Walmart experience" versus say, a trip to Target. It always seems that the very few times I have been to a Walmart there are a number of difficulties that need to be tolerated just to save $3 or $4 on my overall purchase.

The way their business model is set up; paying their employees the bare minimum, making sure that few if any are able to work a true 40 hour week and thus be unable to receive benfits, putting organization and presentation of their stock at the bottom of their priority list all in the goal of saving you money just seems so fundamentally backward to me. Waiting to check out is like purgatory and that doesn't even take into account the dregs of society that lurk about there. I can see how a pragmatic woman would feel drained by the entire experience. If I find that a local store or Target does not stock my item, I will always put it to the wayside or order it online rather then subject myself to the unneeded stress of a Walmart visit.

/rant.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by Drover

There's a little more to it than that and I don't care to elaborate.

I get it. Drover, you lady killer.

[Chicago60614]

I just drove by the Wal-Mart on North Ave with my friend yesterday afternoon. I about fell over laughing, it just comes out of nowhere and looks crazy right in the middle of an urban neighborhood. That entire area over there is like a plot of suburbia that landed on the West Side. With that huge Menards or Home Depot or whatever, and the Old Navy and Food 4 Less....

I knew they opened a Wal-Mart in the city, but I never really bothered to think about where it was. I tried to get my friend to go in just to see what it was like, but he said no way.

[Venom]

I walked from Pulaski to Cicero along Grand avenue up to fullerton left to laramie at night.
I walked behind it and it looks like any other factory or industrial thing. Esecially with the rusty train bridge.
wacha

[noid_1985]

Some Wal-marts are indeed better than others, but at the end of the day they all suck. The Wal-mart on North and Kilpatrick isn't as bad as the ones in Forest Park and Northlake