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The recession steered a new type of customer to Wal-Mart — deeper in the pockets and suddenly looking for bargains. Now the world’s largest retailer has to figure out how to keep that customer when the economy recovers.
So Wal-Mart is bringing in more brand names, ditching scores of other products and even redesigning hundreds of stores to give them wider aisles, better lighting and better sight lines.
I thnik the real insite here is that wal-mart would do this at all.Could tell yuo what the biggest andmost successful retailer thinks about the length of a real recovery and the charges coming.Long aftre some industries recover;areas of the country and the consumers will still be in a recession of thier own.It seems more and more look for sectors of the economy to take decaddes to recover. Then the consumer might have changed forever .
Agree. They might pick up some of the poseurs who were shopping over their heads with plastic, but that's about it. Biff and Buffy big-bucks are not going to put up with WM service and clientele. Costco is actually pretty popular with the monied crowd in my area, and i don't exactly consider Costco to be high-end. So, if Sam's Club were to transition to an upscale wholesaler, i think it would attract and retain the high-enders, but not Wal-Mart proper.
Last edited by Stratford, Ct. Resident; 06-25-2009 at 12:54 PM..
My wife was at one of the wal-mart yesterday and their were alot of executive around. One asked if he could assist her and he told her they were going to completely remodel the store which is about 5 years old. This wal-mart is packed about all the time.I don't think Sam's will ever be anything but like a wearhouse type store for qaunity shopers really as that is its intent. It a no frills shopping experience. Costco I have visited are much nicer IMO.Wal-mart is in fact attracting more highend customers according to all reports.
our walmart is actually pretty nice - it's only a couple years old an draws the wide range of crowds
i would say about 8 months ago I noticed they modified their food selections - coming down the aisles they added little "bubble shelfs" - basically semi circles that curved out from the normal shelves
those bubbles featured higher end products, organics, etc
not sure how successful it's been, but they haven't switched it yet
I live rural so WallyWorld is a must in order to keep costs down. The one nearest me just did the major overhaul and it's quite nice.
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