How often do you shop at Wal-Mart?

USA - centre of the universe.

I've only been to a Wal-Mart about twice in my life (and that was strictly for entertainment purposes).

I love WalMart!!! I spent $200 there yesterday.

never if i can help it but in my city sometimes in the middle of the night when i need a plunger or some other item, it is the only place open in town. otherwise i try to steer clear!!!

Yes, from time to time. I just bought bunch of junk food from there.

Never seen a Wal-Mart.I suppose there are similar places,but I hate them.

Yeah, they are good. I actually thought they are crap, until I got there (like By-Way). But you can get so many things for lower prices - like house things, and cosmetics, and toys. The thing I'd never buy there is clothes and shoes.

No Wal-Marts in sunny Dundee unfortunately. Yay for Lidl!!

I got the idea for this survey the other night while walking through Wal-Mart. They beat out most other competitors for household items, laundry detergent, cosmetics and similar stuff. Their clothes aren't great, but if I need a bunch of household stuff I'll drive the 10 miles down the highway to Wal-Mart. If I need just one or two things it isn't worth the gas.

i like walmart but the closest one to my house is about an hour away.

I have ordered a couple of things from their website in the past couple of years, but that's it.

never. I prefer to support local businesses, even the lame hardware store we go to.

Never. A new Wal-Mart was built a year ago, but it takes two buses to get there and two to get home, nearly an hour one way. I can get to Target in less than half that time.

No Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, etc. in our town. The closest thing we have is a Sears catalog store where you can order stuff shipped in. We do have a hardware store which my dad shops at a lot. I've never been inside a Wal-Mart.

Never. This is one of the few US chains we don't have in Australia. From what I've heard it's probably a good thing.

I have been to the new Wal-Mart exactly once and didn't buy anything. My roommate wanted to get something there and I just went along for the drive. My biggest complaint was that while there was a greeter at the door, when my roomie and I were trying to locate what he wanted we couldn't find a clerk to save our souls! I've never had that problem at K-Mart, Bi-Mart or Target, or for that matter, at any other large store I've shopped at, just Wal-Mart. I don't plan on visiting Wal-Mart anytime soon again as their customer service sucks!

I went to one once. I went looking for one once but I went to the right town, wrong state. Plus there was this huge blizzard and they told all the cars to stay off the road but I had to have my Lego set, man! Anyway I didn't find it.

You are right in that they don't have anyone to help you once you're past the "greeter". Worst is to try to get paint mixed. Takes 20 minutes on average to find anyone to help you. I don't buy paint there anymore.

I don't blame you. You'd probably have better luck going to someplace like a True Value hardware store or the like. I've always gotten better service at places like this. They may be smaller than Wal-Mart, but they try harder to please the customer than Wal-Mart does. What a sham those Wal-Mart commercials are. It gives you the impression that there are clerks everywhere, but you and I know that isn't true. Just to brighten your day I'll tell you a funny incident concerning Springfield's new Wal-Mart. About a month after it opened we had a bad windstorm here and there were massive power outages over much of Eugene and Springfield. This happened in February, 2002. Well, the power went out at Wal-Mart and the customers started stealing stuff right and left, some wheeling cartloads of stuff out to their cars. There was only one security guard and as usual, hardly any clerks so a lot of people got away with a lot of stuff. My son and his friends were driving by Wal-Mart and saw this happening and later that evening ran into an acquaintance that had been in the store when the power went off. He said the store didn't even have a back-up genny so the security systems and cameras didn't work, so they have no way of catching all these people. There weren't enough employees on hand to catch all the thieves.

Ha. And, if you know Wal-Mart security procedures, their security officer(s) are not allowed to accost or physically subdue a perpetrator. They could get sued otherwise. All they can do is ask the person to give up.

Tough to say.. I hardly ever go there but, my mom works there and picks things up for me all the time. So, if that counts, a few times a month. If it doesn't, a few times a year.

It depends a bit on what you mean by "Wal-Mart". In the UK, the Asda supermarket chain is owned by Wal-Mart, and some of the larger stores (the ones that sell a lot of non-food items) are co-branded as Asda Wal-Mart, but the smaller ones are just plain Asda. The one nearest to me is an Asda Wal-Mart, and I shop there occasionally for clothes.

I prefer Target, but if I need something in the middle of the night I'll go to Wal-Mart.

Not too often cause it drives me crazy, there are always people cutting you off and the parking lot is packed with idiots!

Once in a while. It has been about a year and a half since I went to Wal-Mart, but when I went that time, I had just been there a few days before.

I didn't know that. That makes the situation much more funny! I can just see the security guard begging these looters to please stop stealing from the store while he stands there looking all ineffectual!

*screams*
ICKY!!!!!!!!!

Probably a couple of times a year. There isn't one close to where I live right now, and I don't like them much anyway. They have cheap film developing though.

Never; I do not have a Wal-Mart to shop at. There is no such store in my neighborhood. I do not drive, and would not go out of my way on public transportation just so I could go to a Wal-Mart, wherever one might be in my city, county or state. Besides, I have little money to shop; when I go to a drugstore I go to one called "Walgreens" which locations are numerous in my city.

I go probably once a week. I don't have a grudge against Wal-Mart because they're the world's largest corporation. They provide jobs for millions of people.
The owners also donate millions of dollars to the University I work at. Don't ever let anyone tell you that a rich person is a selfish greedy person. I see the opposite of that everyday while I take care of donations to the school I work for. It's just another liberal socialist lie.

Geez, remind me what town you live in so I never go there. That's an awful story. Sounds like the whole town is full of degenerates. I feel sorry for the local owner/manager of that store. What a huge loss.

And to wimp down the security like that, that's just wrong.

I wouldn't go so far as to say my town is full of degenerates. This could happen to any town at any store during a power outage because wherever you go there will always be people taking advantage of a situation. It's happened in other towns besides where I live, in fact it happened on and after Sept. 11, 2001 when people were claiming they were in the WTC when it was attacked, some were saying they had lost relatives and family members in the WTC attack when they hadn't. What I'm trying to say is that it doesn't matter where you live in this world because there is a good chance that if a situation came up such as a power outage or there was some type of disaster, people will lie, they will steal for monetary or material gain. It's even happened after hurricanes in Florida with people looting homes that were abandoned as their owners sought shelter from the storm. This actually happened after Hurrican Andrew.

About every other week.

There isn't a Wal-Mart where I live. There is one in the next town over which is around 40 miles away, but why would I go there when we have K-Mart and Target in my town and they are only a few miles away.

No Wal-Mart in Beaverton. It's too much of a pain to take the bus or the Maxx into Portland to go to Wal-Mart. I'll stick with K-Mart.

I think I've been in a Wal-Mart store three times in my life. I have purchased something there once. So, depending on whether "shopping" is defined as entering the store or purchasing something there, I either shop there once every 13 or 40 years.

Exactly. I know this because I read about Wal-Mart (I call it "Wally's") being sued for a security guard grabbing and physically holding them until police arrived.

My son used to work for Walgreen's. He said the same kind of thing. Stores cannot accost you, or subdue you if they 'suspect' you of shoplifting. If they do and you weren't doing anything wrong you can sue their ass off. So, all you shoplifters, don't fret so much. Just make sure you beat it out of the store before they call the cops to come. You're stuck if that happens.

Oh, another tidbit of information. Wally's and other stores have all those "black balls" hanging from the ceiling to watch shoppers on video cameras. Only 1 in 5 is actually "real". The others are fake, and put up to make you feel you're being watched. I would think the real ones would be in ladies' cosmetics where teenage girls would be pocketing stuff, and maybe the electronic section. Like, who would be watching the pet food aisle to make sure you weren't snatching a can of cat food?

They have extra security at Fred Meyer's near the meat counter. Especially where the nicer cuts of steak and the roasts are.

Ha. Never heard of anyone trying to heist a cut of meat from a grocery store. That's a good one. Only thing locked up and watched here are cigarettes. At $5.00 a pack I can see why.

It can be a real problem around here, especially with the high rate of unemployment. Sometimes people get desperate.

At least once a week. I buy a lot of birdy food for my wild yellow finches & blue jays. I love that store!!!!!!

I WISH it were 24 hours!!!

So do I!!!! I Love Walmart!!! I wish ours was 24 hours. Is your's 24 hours? Hawaii's Walmart is 24 hours.

BTW I spent just a little bit more than you did yesterday. I purchased a little TV/VCR, a CD radio/cassette player,the movie "Monsters Inc." & a thingy of white chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies.
What did you buy? Just curious......

I used to love shopping by catalog for Sears years ago. How much is their catalog now? Geeze! You must live in the middle of nowhere.

Is your WALMART 24 hours??

Let's see... A jacket for my older son (winter's coming), household stuff like new ironing board cover, plastic wrap, tin foil, a tie out for our new dog, socks, dog chew toy (so, hopefully, he won't chew any more of my shoes), lots of little stuff -- I can't remember it all now. Oh, and another $300 on a new pair of glasses since I lost mine 3 months ago. I won $1500 at bingo so I could finally afford to buy new ones.

I guess you gotta eat. I can see pocketing small stuff from store shelves but not actual cuts of meat. The other option is to walk through the store, eat stuff as you go, then leave.

No Wal-Marts here.
Have been to one in the States though.

yeap

Or do as Bluto did in Animal House. Remember him sucking Jello off a plate and stuffing entire burgers in his mouth?

Yeah, I remember. In the past I've been guilty of eating donuts and stuff in grocery stores. Sometimes eat part of a bag of something, then put it back. My favorite thing used to be macadamia nuts. Open up the bottle, pour them into my pants pocket then put the bottle back. Too expensive to buy.

Where you been? Sears hasn't had a big catalog for quite a while now. Only JC Penney, which is much better than Sears. I hate frickin Sears except for their Craftsman tools, which I now can get in town at the local hardware store Sears teamed up with. Means I never actually have to set foot in a Sears again.

Bad boy! I've never done this because I'm WAY TOO CHICKEN!

I live in a small town in Iowa called Onawa. We have less than 3,000 people. I don't know how much the Sears catalogs are because there isn't one in the house. My mom or dad usually go to the catalog store, go through the catalog and submit their order there. We used to have a Montgomery Ward catalog store as well, but they are gone.

It varies. If I'm in Hong Kong, I don't shop at Wal-Mart because we don't have one. In Georgia, probably once a week. It's a big thrill actually, but we live in the boonies. If we had a Target nearby, I wouldn't go to Wal-Mart. As it is, Wal-Mart is a 45-minute drive each way.

You gonna spank me? Think I saw in another comment by you that you like paddles.

No, I LIKE to be paddled! But only by Dino.

Never. Wal-Mart is evil. Every Wal-Mart should be razed.

Whenever i feel like wasting time in a gay store i go to walmart.

More than once a week. We have a Super Wal-Mart about 5 minutes from here so we go for groceries and clothes, as well as household items. It's my favorite place to shop!!!

I really don't like going to into those big super stores where they move stuff all the time and you spend hours there for toothpaste waiting in the checkout line.

To those of you who think Wal-Mart sucks. So do you, get a real life

Everyday baby!!!!!

Wow, big Wal-Mart fan, do you own stock or do waste your time fighting for strange things?

Wow!!! You won $1500.00 at bingo?? You go girl!!! I never paid that much for glasses before.

Your so lucky to have a Walmart that's 24/7 I wish we had one where we live.

Dang!! That's what I get for moving to the middle of nowhere. Murrieta California ain't all it's cracked up to be.

I loved the Montgomery Wards stores. They closed them all down in southern California.

They closed them down in our area as well.

Where the hell is Murietta? I've heard the name. My Wal-Mart is 8 miles away.

About once a week except for around Christmas i might go there a couple of times.

Why the heck did they have to go & do THAT for?? I loved that dang store!! Now I gotta shop at Target,Walmart & Kmart. Not that I don't like those stores but.........I loved the heck out of Montgomery Wards. My husband & I bought our first lounger there.**thinks happy thoughts**

I live in Murrieta California. How 'bout you? Where do you live?

Murrieta is in the southern part of California. It's located in Riverside county.
Actually, I live closer to the San Diego border line (10-12 miles) than Riverside. Like first there's San Fransisco,Los Angles,Orange County(that's where Disneyland is)Riverside,San Diego, Mexico.

Why? Where do you live??

Onawa, Iowa.

South of San Jose. Heard on the radio that Riverside/San Berdoo is the #1 fastest growing area in the country.

Wow! San Jose?? You live in the same general area as another SC user....in fact two SC users. I was up around that area when I was in the 8th grade. I lived on the base at Fort Ord. Kinda not too far from Monterey, San Jose, & San Francisco.

Yep! Riverside county IS growing by leaps & bounds. The traffic is catching up with Orange counties traffic conditions. San Bernadino is kinda nice still.

Of course Ford Ord is closed now. Been turned into a college.

Fort Ord is closed??? When? I never knew that. A college huh? Right on!

Never. But they did take over Asda I think so if I ever shop there it will be a bit like shopping at Wal-Mart. What a silly name for a shop....

every few months we'll trudge through wally world

Wal-Mart is far too low class for me. It's all about K-Mart dude.

I would go there more often, but it is in a nasty congested area.

Well I suppose ASDA is technically part of Wal-Mart, but I still never shop there.