Wal-mart

[ameliaj]

My husband's (who despises Wal-mart):angry: favorite wal-mart story: My daughter desperately needed a pair of red soffees for cheer camp. We thought we would just quickly run into the Wal-mart on the east end of PCB (over by Captain Andersons). Unfortunately is was 6:30 on Friday night and the folks piling into town to stay in the huge high rises were all in the store. (thousands of them). Every checkout was open with 7 or 8 people in line. Most of whom were wearing tank tops and no shoes. All the shopping carts were filled to the brim with gallons of milk, cases of beer, huge bags of potato chips and giant boxes of Cheerios.


My husband freaked out. Went to non-busy customer service counter and told the girl that he would pay her whatever it took to just let him out of there with the red shorts. Obviously she saw the panic in his eyes and checked him out. Thank god she did, because his next plan was to just toss $20 onto the counter and walk out.

I did get the girl's name and send a nice letter into the company.

 

[Smiling JOe]

For future reference, tell your husband that, as long as he doesn't have produce items which need to be weighed, he can also check out at the "Jewelry" counter and the sporting good counter, which are usually not nearly as busy as the front counters during spring break.

Here's some trivia for you from a few years ago -- not sure if it still holds true today, but out of all the walmarts in the world, the one in Destin had the highest dollar volume of sales for wine, and the one in Panama City Beach had the highest dollar volume for beer sales.

 

[ShallowsNole]

The average family's grocery bill at Wal-Mart vs Publix is why I do not believe a Publix would thrive in DeFuniak. I have listened to many of my co-workers lament how expensive Winn-Dixie is. And Winn-Dixie isn't expensive.

I try to avoid the Wal-Mart in DeFuniak like the plague. However, I do shop the one in Destin on occasion, normally when I have to go for several items and we are running low on frozen foods. For example, a Tony's frozen pizza is $2.00 at WalMart, and I happen to like them. Can't do that at Publix. But I try to make an event out of it so I don't have to go for another month.

Nobody can argue that Publix is more expensive than Wal-Mart. Everything is more expensive than it is at Wal-Mart. But being the fourth buggy in line with $200.00 worth of Wal-Mart and only three lanes open really, really sucks, and fortunately I am no longer in the situation where it is my only option.

 

[hnooe]

My husband's (who despises Wal-mart):angry: favorite wal-mart story: My daughter desperately needed a pair of red soffees for cheer camp. We thought we would just quickly run into the Wal-mart on the east end of PCB (over by Captain Andersons). Unfortunately is was 6:30 on Friday night and the folks piling into town to stay in the huge high rises were all in the store. (thousands of them). Every checkout was open with 7 or 8 people in line. Most of whom were wearing tank tops and no shoes. All the shopping carts were filled to the brim with gallons of milk, cases of beer, huge bags of potato chips and giant boxes of Cheerios.


My husband freaked out. Went to non-busy customer service counter and told the girl that he would pay her whatever it took to just let him out of there with the red shorts. Obviously she saw the panic in his eyes and checked him out. Thank god she did, because his next plan was to just toss $20 onto the counter and walk out.

I did get the girl's name and send a nice letter into the company.

Locally, if you want to vist the bottom of the Walmart foodchain, please vist the Walmart in DeFuniak. It is a complete Diane Arbus photo study just waiting to be published....

 

[rapunzel]

This is a great movie if you want to understand the impact WalMart has on a local economy. Especially if you believe that commercial about Wal-Mart helping Americans live better.

http://www.independentamerica.net/

 

[Smiling JOe]

Locally, if you want to vist the bottom of the Walmart foodchain, please vist the Walmart in DeFuniak. It is a complete Diane Arbus photo study just waiting to be published....

I can tell by your post that you haven't been to the Walmart on 23rd street in Panama City. :funn:Talk about the bottom.

 

[Mango]

They were thinking either

A) There are a lot of incontinent old people who will probably have visitors over the holidays and will need something to drown out the reek of urine in a way those subtle and delicate Glade Plug-Ins can't.

B) Camp Creek Kid's family may be in from Utah...we must do something to hide the vomit smell!

They were there before Halloween and I thought they were to ward off the evil spirits.

 

[ameliaj]

Here's some trivia for you from a few years ago -- not sure if it still holds true today, but out of all the walmarts in the world, the one in Destin had the highest dollar volume of sales for wine, and the one in Panama City Beach had the highest dollar volume for beer sales.[/quote]


I don't doubt that for a second. The entire beer aisle in PCB was cleaned out by 7:00pm on check-in day.

 

[JustaLocal]

I absolutely LOVE the $4 prescription drugs. I only take one medicine. I was paying $129 per month for it. Then, I went to Wal-Mart on-line and printed out the list of $4 drugs for my health problem and took it to my doctor. He switched me to one on the list. Needless to say, at $125 per month richer, I am very, very happy. The employees are always very friendly to me at the Destin Wal-Mart.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I don't doubt that for a second. The entire beer aisle in PCB was cleaned out by 7:00pm on check-in day.

I never knew that Walmart sold kegs until I was in PCB for the Gulf Coast Triathlon (the one during spring), and I had to park near the Walmart on middle beach rd. While walking through the parking lot, I saw no less than ten cars being loaded with kegs, and the people didn't seem to know each other.