On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 11:49:25AM -0600, Liz Burke-Scovill wrote: > Go down to Bentonville, AR, and look at their stores down there. The > stores close to Corporate Offices are immensely cleaner, and everyone is > treated with respect...(they also have more variety - did you know WalMart > has a grocery store chain?) Sam Walton's philosophy was customer first and > foremost. If you compare Target up here, well, taking the two into > consideration, Target stores close to Corporate are dirtier than WalMart > stores close to Corporate. I've gotten lots o' rudeness out of Target > employees. > I'd say the cleanliness and quality of a store have to do with the people working at them, Minnesota isn't a very popular spot for Wal-Mart due to the fact that the state has one of the highest merchandise theft rates, where I lived in Texas we had *two* 'super wal-mart' stores within 10 miles of my home (considering I lived in the middle of nowhere, this is amazing) Both stores had a *fully* grocery store plus your standard Wal-Mart, it was always very clean, and they even had a gas station outside (Murphy's oil, who is, I think, owned by Wal-Mart) with the cheapest gas in town, and a $.03/gal discount if you use one of the little wal-mart gift cards (which are free anyway). As for target and k-mart in Texas, the ones I've seen are all decaying or dirty, much like the Wal-Mart's I see up here are. Ever wondered why this state is just now getting 'super' wal-mart's? > They're retail stores - they have lots of people who work for them for > close to minimum wage - frankly I have my qualms with both of them, but I > still find myself going to WalMart over Target these days. The store > closest to me has more variety than the closest Target, etc etc etc... Ditto. > > I know that WalMart takes complaints about stores very seriously - I know > that they base their purchasing on local demographics - ie., if a local > population ismore prone to buy cheap stuff rather than well-made stuff, > you'll find a higher porportion of cheap stuff in that store. I know if I > go up to the WalMart in Eagan, I have a higher chance of finding the dance > stuff I want for my daughter than going to the one in Apple Valley. > > *shrug* Giving more choice to the consumer is always a good thing in my > opinion, whether it's linux or clothing. So - thi sis a good thing IMO. Absolutely, besides, without a monopoly (which they don't have) they have to be doing something right to be #1. > -- > Imagination is intelligence having fun... > e-mail: kethry at winternet.com > URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203