SC's will be upset in San Diego.

[Becks]

Am I the only person who doesn't find Wal-Mart to have inferior quality products? I like shopping there, and oddly enough, I DON'T have a mullet or consider myself trash. {sigh}

Target's stuff isn't as good as people seem to think...

[AFpheonix]

Oh Becky, I wasn't dinging you. Just the mutant Walmart in Mcminnville. Of course, Yamhill county is one big mullet anyways.

[Jester]

That's just because they'd have to dredge up a new key to hold one, Jester.

1. You assume too much. We DO have some chain stores here. Ross, K-Mart, Sears, Champs, Foot Locker, Sam Goody, Express, Coach, Banana Republic and Office Max, for example. And we used to have a JC Penney's when I first moved here.

2. Dredging is how half of Key West ("New Town", where I and a good portion of the residents live) got created, thank you very much. Wouldn't surprise me if/when they DID dredge a new Key.

[Pagan]

So there most likely will still be Supercenters popping up over here, too bad really, because any area a Wal Mart opens tends to become a dump.

Excuse me? What a sweeping comment to make and I really take exception! I live less than a mile from a Supercenter in Albuquerque (on the west side). We're far from being a dump! As a matter of fact, the west side is mostly where all of the new development is. Lots of big houses, lovely Cottonwood Mall, lots of really nice little shops, lots of good restaurants, and, best of all, near Balloon Fiesta Park. Pretty much the only reason I go across the river is for work and for one shop that I like.

[Palsgraf]

You've forgotten one thing ...

Where will all the SC's shop if there isn't a WM for them?

YOUR store!

And you'll be asking yourself, "Shouldn't you be shopping at the nearest Wal-Mart instead?"


It's the question I ask when I find myself waiting on a table of people with multiple coupons, who keep asking about prices and complaining about how expensive everything is, and insist that I can have the kitchen make something because - even though it's not on the menu - they'd had it the last time they dined here ... about four years ago.

I ask myself: "Shouldn't you be dining down the road at Denny's?"


(No offense to Denny's employees. It was my first table-waiting job, and of all the restaurants I've worked at it seemed to draw the cheapest, whiniest customers. Bennigan's and Joe's Crab Shack tie for second place. To be honest, we still dine at Bennigan's about once a month or so, and Denny's is a great place to eat when everything else is closed in the middle of the night).

[Jester]

I worked for Denny's for 8 months. And it was the worst restaurant job I have ever had. Period.

That being said, when I later worked in an upscale Scottsdale brewpub, I had some coworkers remark that they "would never work in a Denny's."

My response was simple: "1. You would if you were broke, unemployed, and had just been forced to move back in with your parents for six months. 2. You couldn't. It requires hard work, and is the hardest restaurant job you will ever have. So shut the hell up."

Generally, they shut the hell up.

[Kusanagi]

I live in San Diego and we have plenty of them, one for every major county/division it seems. Not too bad, considering they're all about 20+ miles from each other and the nearest one to me is 15.

Good for me, because I don't come up with a list when I shop. If I need it, I get it. When I've been finishing a costume I've been known to go there two or three times in one day...

[Kogarashi]

...and generallly poorer customer service (no disparagement ment toward our Wal-Mart members!), then a smaller store may close. ... (well, the checkout is what I really hate. I self-checkout if at all possible)

No offense taken, though I'd love to hear what you'd say after going through my line at Wally-World. I rarely get customer complaints, and regularly get compliments (and the occasional regular).

Am I the only person who doesn't find Wal-Mart to have inferior quality products? I like shopping there, and oddly enough, I DON'T have a mullet or consider myself trash. {sigh}

Target's stuff isn't as good as people seem to think...

I rather like the stuff there too. Though Wal-Mart brand "Pringles" are one generic product I avoid. They're denser and harder than real Pringles. Ick.

::checks head:: Nope, no mullet.

Wal-Mart has been nothing but good for this community.

Same with my parents' community. More development and general improvement around where the Supercenter opened 12 years ago, plus an actual increase in local jobs (helped by the Distribution Center--warehouse, for those who don't follow WM terminology--opening nearby at the same time). One local grocery (a Grand Union, I believe) was actually bought out by Price Chopper, which is still doing its own steady business, and the other local grocery (a P&C) was dying long before Wal-Mart showed up. P&C only tried to hang around because it was right across the street from the college, but that didn't save it any. Most shops in town have held firm through Wal-Mart's arrival, largely because, in my opinion, the local shopowners know how to find a niche and fill it. Even my mom's scrapbooking store did well in its first year (breaking even, I think) because she had a much larger selection than WM and offered classes and the like.