Walmart is an abomination

Anonus · 2017-09-22 13:20:05

The entire experience is godawful

You can't ever just get in and get out. You have to stand in line behind other shoppers who have 500 items. At least if you go when the self-checkouts are closed.

Klinotaxis · 2017-09-22 13:22:00

Walmart is godawful but not for reasons that are true of any busy store

Anonus · 2017-09-22 13:28:14

Those too

Imipolex G · 2017-09-22 16:32:28

I always use self-checkout

the whole place is mental health-draining so it's like a heat run, I gotta save whatever seconds I can

glennmagusharvey · 2017-09-22 16:35:49

i don't go to walmart if i can, unless my mom wants to shop there (which is disappointingly often)

Salix Babylonika · 2017-09-22 17:18:48

I legitimately get physically ill when I am inside a Wal-Mart.

Start getting really dizzy and short of breath. Dunno why! Sometimes happens in other big box stores too but with Wal-Mart it's a sure bet.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-09-22 17:35:47

maybe it's due to some cleaning chemicals they use? or maybe the feeling of being in a place with large crowds of people?

lee4hmz · 2017-09-22 17:42:49

wal-marts tend to run hot, so that may be a factor too

Salix Babylonika · 2017-09-22 17:49:39

might be all three I have no real idea. I brought it up with my doctor once and she was basically like "yeah that's super weird, no clue".

Imipolex G · 2017-09-22 18:14:28

you're allergic to Walmart Capitalism

Princess Alice · 2017-09-22 21:20:24

I avoid Walmart as much as possible but every once in a while they have the best deal on something I need so I brave the store...though even then I usually order online for in-store pickup.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-09-22 21:24:24

my mom likes their rotisserie chicken

i just get that at the supermarket instead

Obā-san · 2017-09-22 21:26:45

I go to Walmart when I need fabric dye b/c they're the only ones that carry it around here?

Tatterhood · 2017-09-23 00:11:25

I go to walmart for grocery shopping because no frills doesn't exist in waterloo

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-09-23 01:19:31

We tend to shop there because most things are less expensive there and it's faster to get everything in one place. If Target were closer we'd probably just go there. It's a better experience and the checkout isn't egregiously understaffed.

Anonus · 2017-09-23 01:21:19

Indeed!

Also ngl I made this thread in part because the Walmart in a shopping center near me has killed the Office Depot and is about to kill the Bed Bath & Beyond there

Those places are/were much better to shop at

Bee · 2017-09-23 01:26:05

When Walmart moved into my hometown, they said explicitly in a press release that their goal was to force the local K-Mart, Office Depot, and about half the local mall out of business. Zero of those things remain.

Anonus · 2017-09-23 01:33:54

Fuckers

Crystal · 2017-09-23 01:34:22

Anonus said:
Fuckers

Anonus · 2017-09-23 01:34:25

At least the Office Depot and Bed Bath & Beyond lasted about a decade (the Office Depot closed last year or thereabouts and the Bed Bath & Beyond closes in November)

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-09-23 01:48:15

There's an Aldi within a five-minute walk of the Walmart here and an Acme about a mile or two off. Both are doing fine. We go to the Acme fairly often to get our prescriptions filled and the Aldi more rarely to get the sort of things one gets at an Aldi.

Anonus · 2017-09-23 02:06:33

the King Soopers is doing fine, which is great because a trip to King Soopers does not feel like going to a hell dimension

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-09-23 02:09:29

The people who actually work at our local Walmart are incredibly nice, so that's a perk.

Obā-san · 2017-09-23 02:16:07

each walmart is imbued with the soul of an innocent, strangled to death by a member of the Walton family personally, and bound in eternal agony to the cornerstone of the building

Salix Babylonika · 2017-09-23 02:17:26

fool, Walmarts are non-euclidean and have no need for cornerstones

Princess Alice · 2017-09-23 02:17:41

Tatterhood said:
I go to walmart for grocery shopping because no frills doesn't exist in waterloo

It took me a moment to remember that "No Frills" is the name of a chain in Canada and not just you generically describing, say, Aldi or Save-A-Lot.

Salix Babylonika · 2017-09-23 02:20:12

don't forget bottom dollar who are so cheap that they can't afford capital letters for the name of their store

Obā-san · 2017-09-23 02:23:02

tbh, the awful, tangible feeling of decrepitude you get inside of a walmart AND ONLY WALMART has legitimately caused me to question my hardline materialism

it's a malevolent, spiritual force created from the unrestrained greed of the creation and operation of the place that resonates in a baleful manner with the human soul

Obā-san · 2017-09-23 02:27:52

like, ok

the walmart closest to me (4, maybe 5 blocks away), it's right next to a strip mall

and in that strip mall, there's a tobacconist that sells drug paraphernalia, and next to that tobacconist there's a dollar store

and the dollar store but it sort of serves as a control group, because it's in about the same place as the walmart, and it's similarly unpleasant, from just the perspective of how its physical existence exists

and that dollar store feels like a goddamn bergdorf goodman compared to that walmart

Imipolex G · 2017-09-23 02:50:59

Tamlin said:
tbh, the awful, tangible feeling of decrepitude you get inside of a walmart AND ONLY WALMART has legitimately caused me to question my hardline materialism

it's a malevolent, spiritual force created from the unrestrained greed of the creation and operation of the place that resonates in a baleful manner with the human soul

this is a good post

Salix Babylonika · 2017-09-23 02:52:23

Tamlin said:
tbh, the awful, tangible feeling of decrepitude you get inside of a walmart AND ONLY WALMART has legitimately caused me to question my hardline materialism

it's a malevolent, spiritual force created from the unrestrained greed of the creation and operation of the place that resonates in a baleful manner with the human soul

I think y'all just have that headache thing I have but not as bad

or I'm more spiritually attuned than the rest of you. One or the other.

Obā-san · 2017-09-23 02:53:12

tbh you strike me as a very spiritually attuned person generally speaking

it goes with the whole witch shtick in my mind

Salix Babylonika · 2017-09-23 02:54:51

I did recently become a philosophical neopagan without telling anyone so maybe you're right.

lee4hmz · 2017-09-24 22:06:31

Bee said:
When Walmart moved into my hometown, they said explicitly in a press release that their goal was to force the local K-Mart, Office Depot, and about half the local mall out of business. Zero of those things remain.

how this hasn't resulted in an antitrust lawsuit somehow is beyond me

eriophora zia · 2017-09-24 23:08:32

The Walmarts here are tiny. It's very strange. Everything is bigger in Texas, except for Walmart.

Odradek · 2017-09-24 23:12:19

Tamlin said:
tbh, the awful, tangible feeling of decrepitude you get inside of a walmart AND ONLY WALMART has legitimately caused me to question my hardline materialism

it's a malevolent, spiritual force created from the unrestrained greed of the creation and operation of the place that resonates in a baleful manner with the human soul

I felt this way at Atlantic City

Bee · 2017-09-25 08:41:55

lee4hmz said:

Bee said:
When Walmart moved into my hometown, they said explicitly in a press release that their goal was to force the local K-Mart, Office Depot, and about half the local mall out of business. Zero of those things remain.

how this hasn't resulted in an antitrust lawsuit somehow is beyond me

Because they weren't out to become a monopoly by combining with those other places. They were out to become a monopoly by killing those other places dead. That is perfectly legal.

Walmart is an abomination

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