This location is not your average Walmart. I know this from experience, having lived in large urban cities for the majority of my life (45 years in Dallas and Los Angeles). The only place in urban areas that I have been to where you will see a Walmart that looks like this, is on their website. The big city locations are almost uniformly dirty, poorly staffed with employees that do not have a good work ethic or care anything about Customer Service, from the manager on down. In the Walmarts that I have had available to me, you would find clothing strewn about the floor because uncaring customers would take an item off the rack to look at it and then just drop it on the floor instead of putting it back on the rack. The clothing would remain on the floor, because the employees did not care enough about their store, to pick up after their awful customers (not meaning that all Walmart customers are awful, only meaning the ones who act like this are awful). It would be the same situation in the shoe department. Shoes would be strewn all over the aisles, and if customers bothered putting them on the shelves, they just stuck them anywhere. Again, the shoes remained on the floor and mismatched on the shelves, because the employees did nothing to straighten up or keep them in order after awful customers acted like this.
It seems to be pretty universally common for people to complain about Walmart, even here locally. Without addressing any of Walmart‘s policies or salaries or any affect that they have had on smaller and mid-sized cities that they have moved into, customers that have this particular store available to them do not know how lucky they are to have such a clean and well-staffed store, if they choose to shop there.
My question to Walmart would be, if one of your stores can look this good, and be run as well as this location (where there is not a large population to draw from), why can’t you find qualified managers/employees in large urban areas, that will run their store and care for it like they do here?
In this time of increasing inflation, Walmart is here with usually the best pricing, making it easier for people on limited budgets. People of middle or high income also have it available, if they choose to. I completely believe in supporting local merchants as well, if you are in a financial position to do so, and I think it is important to the continuity and lifeblood of small to mid-sized towns.
Respectfully,
Steve
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(tagging this post in the hopes that management/employees at this store take notice of my appreciation for what a great job they do, and for Walmart headquarters to recognize what a great location this is, but to also be aware of just how much improvement is needed in their urban locations)
NOTE: All pictures included in this review are actual photos that were taken by me personally, at this location that I have reviewed. ~Steve
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