walmart is here!

varunkapahi · #1 05-31-2009, 12:23 AM

they opened a store in another city, its for retailers and middleman not for consumers. but its obvious they'd be spreading their wings all over soon. so what should i be expecting? the good the bad and the fugly?

WalterBush · #2 05-31-2009, 12:55 AM

You'll be able to buy strings in the middle of the night, 365 days a year if they set yours up right. Drumsticks, too.

warwick.hoy · #3 05-31-2009, 01:03 AM

Cheap beef for everyone.

Sorry for the cultural insensitivity...just testing the limits.

René_Julien · #4 05-31-2009, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by WalterBush

You'll be able to buy strings in the middle of the night, 365 days a year if they set yours up right. Drumsticks, too.

Wait, is a Walmart open 24/7 ???

We must have that over here.

warwick.hoy · #5 05-31-2009, 01:13 AM

C'thulu....the Super Wal-Marts (grocery store/pharmacy/department store) are open 24/7 Regular department store Wal-Marts are not. I know they sell cheap instruments, but not accessories.

The Wal-Marts around here are full of welfare moms and juggalos...I'd be afraid...very afraid.

René_Julien · #6 05-31-2009, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy

The Wal-Marts around here are full of welfare moms and juggalos...I'd be afraid...very afraid.

We already have such kinda grocery stores here. Just not called Walmart and not open 24/7.

I could give an example, but I don't think it will appropriate here on TalkBass.

**Vorago** · #7 05-31-2009, 02:35 AM

Aldi?

varunkapahi · #8 05-31-2009, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by WalterBush

You'll be able to buy strings in the middle of the night, 365 days a year if they set yours up right. Drumsticks, too.

that i'll be awesome! but dunno if they would think theres much market for strings here

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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy

Cheap beef for everyone.

Sorry for the cultural insensitivity...just testing the limits.

for me, food is good and food is food

but they'll be shut down and stoned and sent back home the moment they start selling it openly

René_Julien · #9 05-31-2009, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Vorago

Aldi?

Don't tell me you're one of them?

Well, I heard many hear-say stories.

Some men hanging around at the parking lot... waiting to prey on some women... offering to pay for anything they want to buy, if they may go home with them... and the rest is better not described here.

Actually, it's not funny but a bit tragic.

**Vorago** · #10 05-31-2009, 03:05 AM

Ehm, that's the first time I've heard that about Aldi parking lots...

True, the clientele are mainly lower class folks, but harassment in the parking lot?

Anyway, I have a Aldi talk cellphone card, I like it, it's 6 eurocent / text and it works as good as the next provider.

René_Julien · #11 05-31-2009, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Vorago

Ehm, that's the first time I've heard that about Aldi parking lots...

True, the clientele are mainly lower class folks, but harassment in the parking lot?

Anyway, I have a Aldi talk cellphone card, I like it, it's 6 eurocent / text and it works as good as the next provider.

It's not harassment... it's more like, you know: some women "work" the streets, other "work" parking lots.

This can be very random, and doesn't occur that much. And mostly in specific lower class neighbourhoods.

Also non-random cases, where it happens on regular basis where a both parties live in the same street for example.
I know of two of those situations for certain, and it happens a lot more.

That's life... sadly.

Sorry for this distasteful derailment of this thread.

drteeth · #12 05-31-2009, 03:24 AM

C'thulu, where in Belgium do you live exactly? Because I have never heard that before ...

(The absurdity of going home with someone for a case of golden power and some cheap cheese)

René_Julien · #13 05-31-2009, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by drteeth

C'thulu, where in Belgium do you live exactly? Because I have never heard that before ...

(The absurdity of going home with someone for a case of golden power and some cheap cheese)

Right now in Dilsen, Limburg. But over here these thing rarely or even don't happen. (Haven't heard of it yet.)
But I used to live in Boom, Antwerpen.

The two cases I am certain of were in the general area I used to live, de Rupelstreek.
And the hear-say stories I've been told where in the area of Mechelen and areas around Brussels. But I wouldn't be surprised that it also happens in different areas of Belgium. I assume in big cities with poorer neighbourhoods.

It mostly involves single moms... and mostly more ethnic people. Sorry to say this, I don't wont to come off racist but this is the case.
I feel disgusted about this also.

RyRob813 · #14 05-31-2009, 05:13 AM

Wal-mart should be the subject of a new "Decline of Western Civilization" documentary.

The best image of a Wal-Mart shopper I've ever seen was about ten years ago, I saw a guy actually walking around the Wal-Mart shopping, EATING his Wal-mart chicken.

Quadcam · #15 05-31-2009, 05:14 AM

Hmm wonder what took them so long to get there? leave it to corporate America, I mean even Mcdonalds found a way to open up shop in India, talk about being able to sell a katsup popsicle to a woman in white gloves.

What to expect from Walmart, low pay and putting all local family owned shops out of business within a 20 mile radius. Sad but true, I have a love/hate relationship with Walmart and most big retail stores who drive all the competition out of business. It's hard to avoid them because they have the lowest prices and they buy in such bulk that there is no way a small shop can compete.

I had the same problem when I was building PC's, how are you supposed to make a living building PC's when people can go to Dell, HP etc ect and buy a brand new PC for $300 when it costs me $600+ for the parts alone.

Walmart spreads like roaches, once they build one they just keep adding more and more.
next thing you know you have one every 10 miles and not long after you have Super Target right across the street.

Where I live the entire city is just big box stores and strip malls, Home depot, Lowes, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, GC on and on...

at least here you can play Walmart Bingo

varunkapahi · #16 05-31-2009, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Quadcam

Hmm wonder what took them so long to get there? leave it to corporate America, I mean even Mcdonalds found a way to open up shop in India, talk about being able to sell a katsup popsicle to a woman in white gloves.

What to expect from Walmart, low pay and putting all local family owned shops out of business within a 20 mile radius. Sad but true, I have a love/hate relationship with Walmart and most big retail stores who drive all the competition out of business. It's hard to avoid them because they have the lowest prices and they buy in such bulk that there is no way a small shop can compete.

I had the same problem when I was building PC's, how are you supposed to make a living building PC's when people can go to Dell, HP etc ect and buy a brand new PC for $300 when it costs me $600+ for the parts alone.

Walmart spreads like roaches, once they build one they just keep adding more and more.
next thing you know you have one every 10 miles and not long after you have Super Target right across the street.

Where I live the entire city is just big box stores and strip malls, Home depot, Lowes, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, GC on and on...

at least here you can play Walmart Bingo

hmmm i get you
Mc donalds has been here for ages, there are about 60 of them in my little city alone! at times you'd see three of them in a 1.5km radius. prolly walmart is just slow

rustynuts · #17 05-31-2009, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Quadcam

I have a love/hate relationship with Walmart and most big retail stores who drive all the competition out of business. It's hard to avoid them because they have the lowest prices and they buy in such bulk that there is no way a small shop can compete.

I have the same love/hate relationship with all the big box stores, including Lowes and Home Depot. I always swing by the little guy hardware stores first only to find that they often don't have what I need or are 25 to 30% higher on the price for it. I was looking at drill presses this week and the local shop had it priced at $529, while the same exact model was $399 at Lowes.

It's the same with Walmart. When they moved into town here 20 years ago the downtown area was a flourish of specialty shops and dime stores. I moved away right as Walmart came in, but moved back again some years later to find that now downtown is a tourist trap, full of restaurants, old book shops, antique shops, etc.

A couple of years ago they built a new Walmart here, the biggest one in four states. You can pull into the automotive service center, drop off your keys for an oil change and new tires, wander over and pick up a fishing license, go grocery shopping, stock up the tool box, pick up and eat dinner at their in-store deli (baked chickens, fried foods, side dishes, salads, sandwiches, etc.) or the Subway or McDonald's inside the store. You can stop for a family portrait, get new eyeglasses, have your prescriptions filled at the pharmacy, grab some dog food and a couple of goldfish, pick up a potted tree or two for the yard and stop to renew your cell phone contract on your way back as you hear your name being paged to tell you your car is ready.

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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy

The Wal-Marts around here are full of welfare moms and juggalos...I'd be afraid...very afraid.

Thankfully, our town doesn't have much of a poverty problem so you don't see many welfare recipients at Walmart. You do find quite a few rednecks though! Some of the stores up in Louisville are in lower income areas so I know what you mean. There was one that I was uncomfortable to visit, even though they had parking lot and in-store security. They finally closed that one down last year....Good riddance. I hate being stereotypical but that store's clientele was a stereotype unto and of itself.

CrashClint · #18 05-31-2009, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy

C'thulu....the Super Wal-Marts (grocery store/pharmacy/department store) are open 24/7 Regular department store Wal-Marts are not. I know they sell cheap instruments, but not accessories.

The Wal-Marts around here are full of welfare moms and juggalos...I'd be afraid...very afraid.

No pics, no welfare moms and juggalos, lol.

Darkstrike · #19 05-31-2009, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by C'thulhu

Don't tell me you're one of them?

Well, I heard many hear-say stories.

Some men hanging around at the parking lot... waiting to prey on some women... offering to pay for anything they want to buy, if they may go home with them... and the rest is better not described here.

Actually, it's not funny but a bit tragic.

We have an odd variation in the local towns at night, where a lady will offer you a bit of fun in an alley(not for money), but while the deed is happening, will steal your wallet, lol.

I've not heard of your storys(for lack of a better word) happening in the Lidl and Aldi's here, but I don't ever visit them at night, so it is a possibility.

WalterBush · #20 05-31-2009, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by CrashClint

No pics, no welfare moms and juggalos, lol.

Why??? Why would you want to even tempt me to walk across the street to my local Wal-Mart and take pictures, thus adding to the creep factor already inherent to a Wal-Mart parking lot ???

We've got three, and a Sam's Club (warehouse/members only version of Wal-Mart). Whether your Wal-Mart is a pleasant shopping experience or not depends entirely on the people in the neighborhood it's in. The stores themselves are fine, as far as I'm concerned...their arrival didn't put anybody out of business here at all; the products simply weren't available before.

All the Wal-Marts in this neck of the desert are open 24/7, and the two in the Bay Area were, as well. Didn't know there was a small variety of Wal-Mart before!