Why are there so many jerks in the Walmart parking lot? Why can't people JUST take their empty cart to the cart corral thingy? It seems that as soon as a person exits the store with a cart, they immediately turn into the laziest person on earth. This has been bugging me ever since we had a Walmart built only a few blocks from our house. I have seen people drive their cart up to their car, unload their foodstuffs, get in their car and drive away while their cart is still sitting there in the same spot. Gosh!
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I am very sorry you have a Walmart next to your house. I personally despise that store. I refuse to go to one unless it the only store there. Luckily for me, the closest Walmart is 1.5 hours away! ;)
Same people who think only of themselves. Same people who don't stop when they cause an accident. Same people who cut in lines.
Oh, and I have to disagree with KL, I love Walmart. What it represents and what it has accomplished. Economies of scale and superior supply chain management have brought us mind boggling selection at the lowest possible price. Just the other day I was amazed that I could choose from twenty flavors of flavored, sparkling, WATER. And for only 64 cents a liter. In any other day and age the plastic bottle alone would be worth much more than that! Suppose you make minimum wage. Today it would take you less than six minutes of working to pay for a liter of flavored, sparkling water, and the bottle it comes in. That's today's exchange rate. In any other day and age, it would take much more than six minutes of laboring, perhaps, to even get a drink of plain old dirty water, before plumbing. To also get a reusable, water tight container along with your water, not to mention flavoring and carbonation, in an array of flavors, in exchange for six minutes of labor, is simply, a miracle of our age. Walmart has done a lot for our standard of living, and I am so grateful to live at this time.
Ok Scott. That is all fine and dandy. Great. We now have really cheap stuff being made by the Chinese. I hate Walmart for what they have become. Sam Walton used was a brillant man. He built an empire and USED to support products made in the USA. Now, it is run by a bunch of greedy capitalist. But hey, that is what this country is driven by right? It makes me sick to think that a company can be so greedy (and wealthy) as to provide their employees with crappy health insurance, and a who cares attitude. They drive the prices down so low, that the manufactures are barely getting by, mean while they are making MILLIONS of dollars a day. So why do manufactures do this? They are afraid if Walmart doesn't carry their products no one will. I think their whole way of thinking needs some serious help. Personally, I like the way Costco runs their corporation...or Menards.
I agree with Kaylynn about Costco. If you compare the employees at Walmart Vs. Costco, you can tell the employees at Costco are treated right.
This story is Why if Brenda or I are alone at the store with the kids we do not return the cart unless the return is very close to the car.
Baby girl snatched at Texas Wal-Mart
August 14, 2002
CNN
ABILENE, Texas (CNN) -- A month-old girl was grabbed out of her mother's van at a Wal-Mart store in Abilene, Texas, on Tuesday by a woman who then fled the scene in a car, police said.
The girl was abducted around 4:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m. EDT). Her mother had just placed the baby and her two other children, ages 6 and 2, in the van and had gone to return the shopping cart, according to police.
As she started to return a moment later, she told police she saw a woman taking Nancy, in her infant seat, out of the van and putting her in another vehicle.
The mother tried to stop the vehicle from getting away and was dragged across the parking lot and slightly injured, police said. Another bystander who tried to stop the car may have broken the passenger side window.
Police described the suspect in the abduction as a white female in her late 20s or early 30s, 5-foot-5-inches to 5-foot-8-inches tall, heavy set with a round face and clear complexion. She had shoulder-length brownish blonde hair with red highlights, possibly bleached, and was wearing a pink short-sleeve shirt.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/08/13/texas.infant.abduction/
we read this story back then and it has changed us and how we return carts. Now we do try to park close the carts, and do return them if we are together.
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