Hopefully this abomination dissappears soon.

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Hopefully this abomination dissappears soon.

Move to Europe and enjoy the pain in the @$$ of driving or more likely taking the bus/subway/tram all over the place to do basic shopping.  In all seriousness though I like the aesthetics of a lot of European cities like Vienna.  But you pay a price.

I like the super Wal Marts......one stop shopping, good prices.

My parents live next to a new well run Super Wal Mart.  The place is amazing.  They currently live in a rural area but I can easily walk into the Wal Mart and purchase all the basics for life at a reasonable price.  For reasons that are not clear the checkout lanes are pretty decently staffed.  Near where I live in an urban area out of state there are no decent Walmarts.  There are no Super Walmarts.  All the Walmarts are decrepit and understaffed.  I don't go there much anymore.  My time is worth more.  I suppose if money was tighter and I was shopping for an entire family my attitude would be a little different.

To the Walmart haters out there please realize there is a wide variation in the quality of the stores.  As far as the labor practices... I think they are pretty crappy everywhere.

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Okay by "new" I mean around 4 years old.

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It takes time for the older stores to sink into decrepitude of poor service.

I hope that doesn't happen.  It really is the best shopping experience around.

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It takes time for the older stores to sink into decrepitude of poor service.

I hope that doesn't happen.  It really is the best shopping experience around.

I like a lot about Wal-Mart but "best shopping experience" isn't one of them. They have a wide variety of stuff at cheap prices. That's about it. If you want a good shopping experience, go to Target or a frou frou grocery like Whole Foods or Fresh Market. You won't leave with the indellible stench of failure.

I meant in that middle of nowhere town not the entire planet.  There is no Whole Foods in BFE.

And Walmarts out in the middle of nowhere aren't just filled with the poors.  A lot of middle and some upper class people shop there because they have all the basics in one place at a reasonable price.  It is a very different dynamic than some urban Walmart's I've been in.