Thread: VERY disappointed with Wal-Mart

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I keep on going back to Walmart hoping things will get better. I also live in Nd and there is no spirit, or any halloween only stores. Target, walmart kmart and kmart and target are way better. Our spencers well enough said. We have a party america I told the owner well you are the only game in town, other then buying a strand of lights at walmart-target or kmart this is where I will be, and they are not that great either, but it is all I got!!!!

I remember in past years going to Walmart to check out the Halloween stuff was something I really looked forward to. All the great stuff they had. One year I just started grabbing things to throw in my cart. One cool find after another. I went to Walmart after work tonight to get some things and wanted to look at the Halloween items. Costumes, costumes, and more costumes. That was pretty much it. I thought they sucked last year but this year they outdid themselves.

I was at another Walmart yesterday (9//24), and they had JUST RECEIVED some more Halloween stuff.

I noticed the boxes were large, so I went to look. It appears they are finally getting the props, foggers and such that I saw at some other stores.

I guess we all need to remember that it's not even October yet!

I keep checking our Wal-Mart, but I think I'm giving up, its just too depressing. They have quite a few boxes left to open, but really I can't imagine there is anything good in there. I was at Target yesterday (which I feel is sorely lacking this year, in quality and quantity) and they JUST finished putting up their sad, sad Halloween department, but low and behold they almost have more CHRISTMAS out than Halloween!!!! I'm really disgusted this year too. Normally I have so many things that I want to buy, this year I think the Dollar Tree has gotten most of my business. I feel like writing these companies, not that they care, and letting them know just how disheartening it has been. I wanted to spend some money on Halloween, but no one has anything worth buying.

I hate Wal-mart! They have nothing but my main complaint, and I know I can't be alone on this is:

Ok so you have a buggy full of groceries or whatever. you pull up to the conveyor belt to put your stuff on it to be checked out. As the cashier is scanning your stuff you are still unloading. Now the cashier is not loading your stuff into another empty buggy on the end. They are loading it onto the carosel and in the bags and in the floor and wherever. Then when you are finally done putting everything on the belt you have to go to the end and load your stuff into the buggy you just emptied. Not only can you not make sure that didn't overcharged you, it is a HUGE pain in the @$$.

So I ask them why don't you keep a spare buggy at the end load it and then my buggy becomes the next persons receiving buggy. "We've never done that" I argue they have.

I think that they do it so WE have to do all the work. Because here where I live All the walmarts make the customer put the stuff in the buggy. All they do is scan it and bag it. Which you can do yourself at the self check. Which I think is their plan.

So one day I am in a particularly bad mood. So I decide I am not going to load all of my stuff on the belt. I load a few things and then I wait for her to ring them up. I load a few more etc. The cashier gets so mad at me. She says "You have room for alot more" I say "I know but this is how I like to do it, that way I can watch the numbers" Finally it's just me handing it to her a piece at a time. Then I moved my buggy down and I would not load it. I just sorta goofed off with my wallet etc. She had to load it cause someone had loaded down the belt after me. To not make myself sound too mean I will say that this was my first shopping trip after having surgery and I was not supposed to lift too much. I hope they treat elderly better.

The store layout makes no sense and they just don't have very good merchandise anymore.

I think we all are so into Halloween that we notice when there are no items but does everyone else? How can there be such a need for Christmas stuff when it seems pretty much the same from year to year? I am disappointed in some way with most all stores this year as far as Halloween goes. What is with that brightly colored monster stuff that Target has? And the Halloweeny stuff they do have is more Royal themed. Home goods had alot. And our Spirit store wasn't too bad but other than that this year sucks.

I am in Central Florida and my kids in North Florida........all Walmart has is Costumes! No inflatables, no life size animations, nothing! Kmart had a little better selection, but no life size animations like they had last year!

The demand for this stuff seems to be great enough. I asked the cashier when the good Halloween stuff was going to be put out and she looked at me like I was crazy. She said "What do you mean? Everything was put out on Friday".

VERY disappointed in this years selection. We have a spirt store, but they are SO expensive! My greatest joy was going after Halloween and getting great items at 50-75% off for the following year. Doesn't look like this is going to happen anymore.

Our Walmarts are full of Christmas stuff........same old stuff year after year.

I just went into Wal-Mart, and they had 2 aisles of just candy, those black pumpkins with lights in them from last year, no cutouts I seen, no animatronics, and the rest were costumes.

I went into Wal-Mart, and than I went into Target after that. This wasn't too see the difference in the store, (really looking for a product at both of them) but just started looking at the both of them, and the new Wal-Mart seems like they want to copy off of huge aisles like Target is, and I think they are crazy for doing that. Target doesn't make as much as Wal-Mart does. Wal-Mart makes 3 times as much as Target does, but yet they are copying their competitors store in regards with nothing in the middle of the aisles.

In that special, they said that Wal-Mart was suffering because of people's opinions of the company, and that it wasn't clean enough. Some people believe that Wal-Mart should pay more money to workers, and yes I do agree that all retailers should pay more money, but people attack Wal-Mart because they are the number one store. That's how all the other retailers, and fast food places are giving their employees money. The thing they were saying why they were losing people is because Wal-Marts are evil, and because they have low prices, they eliminate the smaller businesses. The way I see it is this.

Wal-Mart has a selection of Toys, but it doesn't have the big selection that Toys R Us has, or it doesn't have the amount of trains that a Hobby shop might have. Also, clothes, there are so many places people can shop for clothes, and I don't see that many people shopping for clothes at Wal-Mart. People are picky in their clothes (I would think), and they don't just want anything. For food, who's to say that another store doesn't have the ads, and when stuff is on sale, it's cheaper than Wal-Mart?

People have the freedom of choice to go where they want. If they want to go to Toys R Us, a hobby shop, or a local bakery, let them go. However, you have other stores that are more centralized in products that might visit. Wal-Mart has hardly any hardware stuff compared to Ace, Lowe's, Menards, and Home Depot.

I am telling you guys.... Go to Wallgreens!!!! They got strobs, tomb stones on sale for 3 for 10, and 2, for 10..... they have ALOT of kool stuff, I just got back, yea i know it is almost 1 am and i sepnt like 2 hrs sitting on the floor in Wallgreens with my feince trying to decide what to get to put in our hall of our bld. lol. I got this halloween knives on a rope set, wall cling gelly blood, a Huge Vamp bat that has led red eyes for 15 bucks! I will take pics tomm, dont think the nebs want me in the hall any longer tonight. lol.

^I was just going to say something about Walgreens false advertising in their new ad for Sunday. It says SALE $14.99 (bullets for each of these) 18 in Heads Up or Knife Monster, Flashing Gargoyle with Eerie Sounds, Snappin' Sam Candy Bowl, Jack in the Box, Light Up Pumpkin or Skull, Trio with Sound, and Hangman Skeleton.

They are already $14.99!! That's not on sale unless they are more money not in my area???

WOW i just saw those for 10 bucks in the wallgreens by me. they are having a 33% off sale..... yess 33% lol. But that is in NY everything in ny is like biening in a diff world. lol.