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Not going to their physical stores can be rational. The one nearest us is sadness made manifest. All the workers and shoppers seem like they hate life. Plus, no
by ashark 9y ago
Not going to their physical stores can be rational. The one nearest us is sadness made manifest. All the workers and shoppers seem like they hate life. Plus, no-one who shops there knows how to exist in a space with other people without constantly being in the way. The place can be 1/2 as busy as Target, and feel twice as busy because no-one there knows how to walk properly, nor do they seem aware there are other people in their world at all. Perhaps this relates to the intense sadness they all project. They seem lost in a fog, emphasis on lost.
The checkout lines are also usually 2-3x as long as Target, no matter how busy or not-busy it is (they more aggressively cut employee hours to the bare minimum required to function, I'd guess).
None of those apply online, though.
- maxerickson 9y agoThe Walmart here is having trouble hiring. (which I understand means they aren't offering high enough pay and so on, but the staffing levels they maintain are an interaction of multiple factors, customer traffic, pricing expectations, etc., not just arbitrary cutting of hours)
- petra 9y agoWalmart has a solution for the WalMart atmosphere/class issues - offline-pickup. Order online, don't leave your car, and someone will place the order in the trunk.
- upvotinglurker 9y agoInterestingly, in my small midwestern US college town, I have the opposite experience. The college-associated people who consider themselves educated/intellectual/cultured gravitate toward grocery shopping at Kroger, while the "townies" and not-particularly-academically-serious undergrads go to Walmart. I choose Walmart because Kroger "feels" much more crowded and the members of the crowd seem to exhibit much less situational awareness.
- intopieces 9y agoThis sounds like Bloomington, IN. Except that town's Wal Mart crowd is mostly dictated by location. Kroger locations are walking distance and short bus ride, Wal Mart is predtically out of town.