I don't believe Wal-Mart's "LOW Price" slogan any more.

These days, I always find BETTER/CHEAPER deals elsewhere (Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, Amazon.com) than Wal-Mart.

I mean, this company is fooling it's customers. They really hardly have the Lowest price than the ones I listed above, period.

Clearances at Wal-Mart is a Joke! Just some cents off and they call it a Clearance? Hell, goto Target, they are more generous and give 30%, 50%, 75%, etc not just a few cents, dollars like Wal-Mart.

I actually went to the Clearance section in Electronics at Wal-Mart and said out Loud "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"

And, a search on this forum, in Hot deals I don't see much deals at Wal-Mart at all. It's sad, really.

So, I hardly go there anymore. Actually, majority of going to Wal-Mart is to rent movies from RedBox! But I don't go inside much no more, all it will do is just waste my time come back out empty handed and shaking my head.

As a customer who regularly checks the FW HD forum and combs the clearance section, Wal*mart is probably glad to be rid of you.

JediFreeStuff said:I actually went to the Clearance section in Electronics at Wal-Mart and said out Loud "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"

People probably thought you found a great deal and came running to check themselves!

Yeah, I agree. WallyWorld's idea of a clearance is 10% off if you are lucky. The exception is seasonal (right now, fans and the like) that they are blasting out of the stores. Sam's is the same way - I think they raise the price on clearance since it's in limited supply

mienhmario said:WalMart should be boycotted. All companies should be unionized. I shop at WalMart, too, though.
People here amaze me sometimes.

More room for me to move my cart, thanks!

mienhmario said:WalMart should be boycotted. All companies should be unionized. I shop at WalMart, too, though.

Classic do as I say and not as I do. If you are going to have principles at least have the balls to stand by them.

WalMart has changed their slogan to "Save Money. Live Better."

spdracer5g said:I love the WalMart haters, I worked at a WalMart, and the truth is that they paid better than most of their competitors. I don't think there was anybody in the store making minimum wage. I worked in the Tire Lube and Oil shop, and was making more there than an inexperienced tech would at any of the oil change shops in town and most of the dealerships, and at WalMart you were offered benefits, which is more than I can say for most of the autodealerships I worked at.

Yes, that technician you take your shiny new car to is probably making about $10-12 an hour (they are told they are making more, but when you do the math that is what it comes to), and have no benefits at all. To make it even better at most dealships they will fire techs at the drop of the hat, I saw techs fired for missing two days of work in one year, thats right, the first time they were warned, the second fired, at many shops illness is not a valid reason to miss a day. I saw a technician fired because he left a greasy paper floormat in a customers car, no he didn't get the car greasy, that is what the paper mat was there to prevent, the customer felt it was poor customer service to leave it, so the service manager fired the tech who worked on it. But yeah, WalMart is awful, paid sick leave, paid vacation, reasonable wage, management being required to have a valid reason to fire employees! What a sweat shop!

I've worked at both a car dealership and Wal*Mart. I hated the dishonest crooks at the car dealership, but if forced to choose between giving up one of my nuts and going back to the car dealership or going back to Wal*Mart I would choose the car dealership without giving it a second thought. The salesman at the car dealership would rob your grandmother and leave her homeless to make a few extra dollars on a sale but at least you knew they were motivated by money and could react accordingly. Plus they were nice most of the time. The Wal*Mart managers I experienced were soul-less bastards that would lie to your face multiple times and would seemingly find joy in their ability to screw over their employees, but it was hard to tell what their motivation was because they were such sad SOB's that they never seemed to be happy.

Given the numerous discrimination lawsuits and horror stories you hear I'm inclined to believe my experience is closer to the norm at Wal*mart than yours.

These threads always give me a chuckle. Somehow people feel the need to declare to the world they won't shop at some retailer, and then try to justify their decision so that the world can agree with them. A anonymous psychological thing perhaps?

Anyway, the way I see it is if you don't like it, then take your business elsewhere. There are always alternatives, good or bad. If there is somethng fundamentally wrong with a business, they will discover the problem via heavy drop in foot traffic. They can change to reverse the drop or don't change and die. Like other posters, I shop at Target, not WalMart because I like the atmosphere and the friendly customer service people. Not all their prices are rock bottom, but I don't care since they average off anyway. Of course, not all Target reps at all Target stores are friendly, so take your pick. I don't shop at BestBuy either because I've found there are too many choices out there that sell the same things as BB better priced or better serviced. I take my pick. When my car has issues, I take it to my local mechanic who has a small shop but provide great service at moderate prices. For those who are in small towns who doesn't have the choices, then you pick the lesser evil or you DIY.