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Originally posted by ALIAS Jerk:
I used to like wal mart, but now I dont at all... Not for the reason of "Destroying other companies" but moreso for their service, yes I will go there if I can get a product a lot cheaper. But I dont prefer to... For Example, I got 2 pairs of speakers for the contour from there for 55$ a pair, not bad... Considering they would have been 80$ a pair at Best buy. BUT they sold me a repackaged product, it was missing the warrenty card and wires needed for installation... So I took it back, they put me through hell, needed identification (for what reason I do not know) made me walk across the store 4 times. stand in line for 30 minutes while she waited for her manager to come by and type in a damn code so she could process the exchange... it was rediculious.
I will NEVER buy an open-box product at Wal-Mart for exactly that reason. I worked in the electronics dept. for little over a year and we'd receive returned/opened items and put them right back on the shelf at full price. Display models are "clearanced" at best 10% off normal price, Wal-Mart is extremely stingy about giving discounts.
I do work there (part time) and for the most part enjoy the people I work with, don't exactly love the job but it's a job. I will buy certain things there for the prices (of course with my employee discount  ) but am extremely wary on huge purchases that I might want a warranty for, as well as anything open-box.
Because Wal-Mart is the closest retailer around, we get all sorts of people. I will agree with sentiments against "some" customers, but I'd say over 60% of the customers are decent. If I eliminated Wal-Mart and Target out of my list of places to shop, I'd be taking away a lot of choices for things to buy because there are not many other retailers of that type around. (Our Target is new, less than a year old. Wal-Mart singlehandedly took down Bradlees, which itself had replaced a local retailer known as The Fair that collapsed when Wal-Mart came in, K-mart, another local conglomerate known as Spags, and a whole host of other local choices.)
I will agree about the waiting for a manager to type a code, it is an incredibly stupid method for the amount of things that managers are required for.
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