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- sQPha7e, on 10/12/2007, -17/+285I thought walmart always looks like this.
- RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -18/+170"but as someone who has gotten paid WAY to little to clean up this crap for years, it's not the people that work there's fault."
Ahhh the american way huh, being lowly paid doesn't mean you can get away with crappy work ethics mate. - SOhp101, on 10/12/2007, -8/+108It's ludicrous (amusing or laughable), not Ludacris (R&B artist).
You did certainly prove that you do live in the 'ghettos,' however. - EGOvoruhk, on 10/12/2007, -8/+88domataos: My local Wal-Mart looks similar. The Target right down the street, does not
- Skunkhair, on 10/12/2007, -4/+76as someone who's managed retail for more than 10 yrs now, this completely made me cringe.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+71Every time you don't think for yourself, you get 5 more years of being a virgin.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -4/+61Wow, that Wal-Mart is almost down to K-Mart standards...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51This is why I shop at Target.
- tommyhanks, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52@domataos
Why should cleaning up ***** be a high paying job? What skill does it take? Personally I think anyone who is paid $12 an hour to stock a shelf is being fairly compensated. From 1998 until 2003 I made less than $8 an hour to put up with retail *****. Then I got a real job. - gweedoz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Yikes, that was pretty horrid. You should send something to wal-mart corporate so some heads will roll.
- CardinalFang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29The Walmart where I used to live was open 24/7. It looked like a warzone even at 4AM, plus the place would still be busy as hell. Customers are always putting things back wherever they felt like. I even saw a guy put a frozen dinner in a fish tank.
- smithy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25You mean the same terrible sideshow function with the forward and back arrows.
- goodkidyo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26apparently this was the original text that accompanied the flickr album:
"It had been a long day so I drank a fifth of whiskey to calm my nerves. Then I realized that I was out of cotton swabs so I went to the Wal-Mart. Upon entering around 8:30pm, I was completely blown away by how disgusting this entire store was, I had to go out to my car and grab my camera. I then proceeded to coat the lens of my camera with a very light, even coat of Vaseline. I could not believe my eyes. This place was absolutely filthy. True Story." - Misos, on 10/12/2007, -8/+31Damn, I didn't know someone could take so many blurry pictures in a single sitting. Bravo.
- aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Something tells me this store must be being closed or something, I would think no matter how bad the local management is, Bentonville HQ would keep sending out fresh shipments of goods and produce, but this store is almost empty of everything. the other side effect being employees must be laid off and the remaining workers have a "why bother" attitude.
- kfconme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21"I would rather sand paper a bobcat's ass in a phone booth than go into Walmart."
that is highly quotable. - rm999, on 10/12/2007, -14/+33"Ahhh the american way huh, being lowly paid doesn't mean you can get away with crappy work ethics mate."
I think his more valid point was about man-power. They don't pay ENOUGH employees to do the work, so each single employee has to do more. Pretty demoralizing when you make 12 dollars an hour... - sparkrainfir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19i don't think his message is "hey look at my photography skills" but i could be wrong.
- pairanoyd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22There are two Walmarts near where I live and they are freaking horrible.
There's filth all over the parking lots, dirty diapers, beer cans, liquor bottles, half eaten food, cups, plastic bags, you name it.
There's nothing that they've forgotten to throw out in the parking lots. The smell of the parking lot alone makes you want to vomit. It's BAD..
Then, when you get to the door, they're thrown down millions of cigarette butts. The smell of the butts is disgusting, I have to hold me breath as I walk through that gauntlet, not to mention the half dozen people standing around the entrance smoking, including several employees taking smoke breaks AT THE ENTRANCE.. Yeah, I have to go through their second hand smoke.
I don't buy food there because if they can't keep the outside clean they certainly won't worry about cleaning the inside.
I walked past the meat dept. ONE TIME and the smell was vulgar. That's all I needed to know about their hygiene practices.
I only go to Walmart when I have no other options, like when I need some cheap $10 shoes every other year.
I would rather sand paper a bobcat's ass in a phone booth than go into Walmart.
Walmart here is revolting - UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19@domatoes
So its the customers job to throw away old fruit that should no longer be out for sale? - iloveyouguam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18was this their first time in a walmart, or in South Carolina? I thought it looked pretty clean. Question: Can a big pool of cleaning products actually be classified as "filthy"? just curious.
- ogden, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I worked at a walmart after college ...
First off, if this store is in a poor neighborhood then the customers will trash it. Poor people don't have respect for *anything*, That's a good part of the reason their poor. This isn't just restricted to Walmart.
Second, Walmart generally doesn't start cleaning up until 10pm-12am. That's when the overnight people get in. They work all night to clean up and fix all the ***** everyone has done to the store. It's the most thankless and worthless job in the history of man. If it looked like that the *NEXT* day then something is wrong.
Perhaps they don't have enough people (it would not be uncommon for 5 or 10 people to all quit at the same time). Perhaps their is a supply chain problem, Walmart keeps *VERY* little product on hand at all time. If the trucks stop coming for a couple days -- the place empties out quickly. Lastly, Walmarts ERP system is one of the most sophisticated in the world, and it is not without its own quirks and it is frustrating as hell. The computer decides what product to send you, based on god knows what. There's nobody you can call to ask for something, say you have too much of something, or too little or that a customer has asked for something. You simply get what you are sent. When it works this is great -- it predicts your needs before you even know about them and thus allows them to hire idiot managers. However, when it goes bad, it goes *VERY* bad. I worked in the shoe department and the computer shipped us just too many god damned shoes. We had an entire stock room full of shoes, and an entire shipping container full of shoes (a full sized container to, not a small one). And every day more shoes came. My primary job was to somehow every day make room for the incredible amount of shoes that nobody was buying. You'd go out to the floor and squeeze everything you possible could out there (this is the only part that makes sense). Then every day you'd re-arrange the entire stockroom to cram new boxes in. Then if you could make room you'd stuff them in the shipping container. And inevitably when all that failed, you'd simply do what the ***** ever with them. Throw them away, pile them, hide them, it didn't matter. Nothing that happens at a walmart matters :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Wal-Mart, 28 days later.
- spiffyfitz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Ugh. I've been to Wal-Marts that aren't that nasty, but some are pretty close to it. I hate Wal-Mart and they're building a "Supercenter" one less then 300 feet from my house now. I'm going to be dropping bad comments in the comment box all the time. (That's right, I'm *that guy*)
- 35chililights, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14i think it is pride thing.
some people have it, and value it. others seem to value different things.
if i make a mess in a store, i feel bad. i at least help clean it up, because the mess was my fault.
i think less and less people have these feelings. - hiney, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19How about some image stabilization.
- ogden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Target girls are hot to (at least here in california), the walmart girls are all snaggle tooth burnt out husks.
- Jerim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13@mrASSMAN
I am happy that you don't have to visit a Wal-Mart. However, for most of America, Wal-Mart is the cheapest place to shop without visiting second hand, or dented can stores. Wal-Mart caters to the lower to middle class. Sure, if we were all upper class, and driving BMW's then we could afford to shop at finer stores.
I have a friend who only goes to a more expensive market in town. He is a bit snobbish, making fun of those who go to Wal-Mart. He is also pretty well off, and just can't understand that not everyone has his type of money. - kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Same here - I did retail management fifteen years ago and a cardinal rule was to keep shelves faced off and full.
WalMart exists because they could exploit both employees and vendors. For example, did you note that all produce is trayed? Makes it easy to just slap a tray out rather than unpack a box. And employees are treated like so much dirt.
I think there's a backlash coming against Walmart. - sergiolopes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"There's filth all over the parking lots, dirty diapers, beer cans, liquor bottles, half eaten food, cups, plastic bags, you name it.
There's nothing that they've forgotten to throw out in the parking lots. "
Well, that says a lot about people in your neighbourhood, right? I know walmart staff have to clean that up, but someone had to mess that up in the first place! - cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I worked at Kmart in the 80's and they would lock people in too. Every Sunday there would be 2 stock boys that had to come in at 4:30 or so and work. The manager would open the door, tell us what to do, walk out and lock the door. There would be a cleaning crew there too. Their boss was usually not there and they were locked in.
- sinfree, on 10/12/2007, -10/+21FTA: "Upon entering around 8:30pm, I was completely blown away by how disgusting this entire store was"
This would indicate that it isn't typically like that. - xJudahx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12You get what you pay for...
- NewNole2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"That's cause it's in Taylor (sic), South Carolina. Everything looks like that in rural SC."
I grew up in Taylors, and actually worked at the grocery store across the street from this Walmart. I hate to break it to you, but the area this Walmart is located in is by no means rural. The Greenville-Spartanburg metro area in 2000 had a population of nearly 1 million people, and, based on the the growth I see when I return to visit family, I would say it is at least 1.3 million now.
Not many rural areas have over 1 million people.
Granted, I left as soon as I started college because I didn't like living in the bible belt. - Eggzb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13If I worked for Sam, I wouldn't give a ***** either. Locking people in the store at night. WTF is that?
- gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Brockway, Ogdenville, and NORTH HaveRbrook, dork.
Oh wait... that makes me the dork. My apologies. You win. - andrewbutts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10What would the poster think of an open-air market in southeast Asia or South America? This store isn't filthy. It just looks mismanaged. The poster wouldn't have contracted cholera or typhoid from one of this store's drinking fountains, and hey, look, there aren't even any flies on the rotten peaches at this store. By global standards, this store is very, very clean.
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12yeah, i was wondering if they were out of tripods as well...
- GamerzCorner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11EGOvoruhk:
I agree there are 2 walmarts by me one brand new and both are rather unclean to say the least. However I walk in the target and it is clean and full of a more friendly staff as well.
Target: 2
Walmart: 0 - Jerim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Of course, write a letter so everyone gets fired. Corporate pays low wages with no health insurance, understaffs on all shifts, and uses termination as a motivator to get employees to pull double shifts or to come in on a day the employee scheduled two months ago to have off to attend a family event. So clearly the problem here is the employees.
I worked for Wal-Mart in my younger days while going to college. I have never seen a store as bad as that. Either the store is full of lazy idiots (unlikely), or more likely, they are just tired of taking corporate's crap, and have decided to treat the job the same way they are treated. Yes there may be a better way to solve an issue, but this is just what happens when all a business cares about is finding the lowest wage earner and then abusing them. I see this as no different than going on strike.
Where I live, no one except managers make over $8 an hour at any Wal-Mart in the area (You might have the occassional cashier who has been there forever who peeks just over $10 an hour). So I don't really know where this $12 an hour stuff is coming from. - remyz16, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I don't care how dirty the place is as long as I can still get a $2 case of soda and a bulk box of Slim Jims at three in the morning.
- manova, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The 24/7 Wal-marts where I used to live looked like war zones almost all of the time. One thing you have to consider is the type people who shop at Wal-mart, they will ransack the place. From college students to the not-so-rich, people will tear the place up, place discarded products anywhere, and will spill things without bothering to tell an employee. The Wal-mart staff would start re-stocking the shelves around midnight and if you came in around 6am the store looked fine, but by 6pm the store was half empty and dirty again. The customers that make the mess should share some of the blame.
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8i can see secret Wal-Mart assassin ninjas coming to his home right NOW....
- 40-Dan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Was there, by chance, a major INS raid in your area recently?
- angusm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"Cleanup in aisle 4 ... 5, 6, 7 and 8 ... ah, what the hell ... just start at the end and work through."
- stuartpetty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I agree I'm from the UK so we have Asda who are owned by wall-mart, the store always looks like this at eight at night!!
Anywhere that is busy gets dirty and untidy from time to time, you should see what a professional kitchen looks like after a busy "service" you would never want to eat out again!! - bryanedds, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Must... find... any... reason... to... hate... on... Wal-Mart...
- nicklassa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9did they have any Wii's?
- RiemannLebesgue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I live right near this Wal-Mart. I have not heard anything about it being on the list to be closed. That still wouldn't excuse stuff thrown all over, moldy produce, etc.
Also,we have many other grocery and department stores in the area that are kept spotless, so please don't go thinking the area is trashy. I can confirm though that this Wal-Mart does look like this a lot. - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8""Ahhh the american way huh, being lowly paid doesn't mean you can get away with crappy work ethics mate."
I think his more valid point was about man-power. They don't pay ENOUGH employees to do the work, so each single employee has to do more. Pretty demoralizing when you make 12 dollars an hour..."
12 dollars an hour!? Yeah right, more like half that. -
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