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The average weight of a shopper is probably higher in Walmart than in other stores, so people move slower. Also, it has dusty blue and white - cold - colors inside, so people kinda dose off, I guess.
The local Walmarts are extremely disorganized, and you wind up moving more slowly because you have to hunt for what you're looking for, versus just get in, find what you need quickly, and get out. Like items are not always shelved with other like items, so you wind up having to waste time scanning shelves.
I personally find the having to backtrack all over the stores to be more of am annoyance than people's pace.
There's an app for that!
The Wal-Mart app will give you the isle number of what you are looking for.
Just tell it what you are looking for and which store. I think you can use it with a barcode scanner, but I'm not sure. This works for groceries and regular merchandise.
What's the point? You'll buy the same Chinese crap elsewhere at a higher cost.
In some cases your right but I refuse to shop at Wal-Mart for other reasons as well. There are still places you can buy made in America IF you look hard enough, you'll pay more but for some it's worth it.
And that extends to all the big box retailers, the online sellers, the big grocery chains, everybody.
40 years ago K Mart hurt local small businesses when they built a store. 50 years ago Sears hurt small local businesses when they built a store. Lowes, Home Depot, Best Buy, the grocery chains, same deal. Now Amazon is hurting the big retailers. And if you eat at any fast food or restaurant chain, you're screwing local eateries.
Your knowledge of retail is very obvious.
Especially your last (BOLDED) statement. In nearly all cases, those fast food restaurants you are talking about are locally owned by small local business people. They are franchised, and they pay some money to the parent company for using their name and building/equipment lay outs. Instead of opening Pop's Diner, they open under one of those franchised names, and in either case it is a local business, owned and operated by local business people.
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I don't buy that. Because they are there longer because why are moving slower. If you move faster you can buy more in the same amount of time.
Again you still do not understand retailing. Slower moving shoppers, buy considerably more goods than the fast moving ones. When they move fast, they know what they are going to buy, and only take as much time as it takes to get those few items. Slow moving shoppers, will buy several times as much as the average fast moving shopper. The goal of any big box store, is to slow down the customers movement through the store, so they will buy more goods. This is the first principal of retail stores.
Your logic makes no sense. If a person in target goes down 4 isles in the same amount of time a person in Walmart goes down 1, how is moving slow better?!
You still don't get the first principal of retail big box shopping. Rushing down an aisle means you are after maybe 1 or 2 items on that aisle, and are not looking to see if there is something that you may want or need that you had not gone into the store to specifically buy. Slow shoppers are looking to see what else they may want to buy, now they are in the store. Looking for ideas of something they had not considered buying before they went to the store.
Big box stores really understand what they are doing, and it is their goal to slow down the shoppers so they will sped another $50 or $100 and sometimes more on that trip to the store.
It's like saying loitering in a store is good because you spend more time there. This isn't rocket science or had to understand.
Exactly. The more time they spend in the store, the more money they will spend.
I've noticed this across the country. Both employees and customers in Walmart move extremely slow in the store. I've seriously seen turtles move faster than employees and customers in the store. What's up with that?
There's something in the air in that place. It always makes me feel both irritated and depressed, at the same time. Just one minute back out in the fresh air, I feel good again.
I guess the big box store "business psychology" that slows people down doesn't work on me, lol.
Below is what I wrote earlier in the thread:
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Originally Posted by 16 Acres
When I go into to Wal-Mart, I zip. I park near the Garden Area, which is pretty quiet, go through the Garden Dept door, grab a cart from the closest area, zip through the store almost too fast (I know the store pretty well and can usually find things pretty quick), cash out also at the Garden Dept (I usually get less than 15 items), back to the car, load and I'm gone, lol.
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