Go On Take the Money and Run or That's where the money's at

I am not a big fan of walmart, I use to work there and I hated it, they work you hard for a little bit of pay, we have two walmart close by me, I don't shop there I like shopping at Target myself, they get all my business, to me Target is a nicer store.

hi, i know that there is a walmart in a fairly weathly city that is close to the city i live in and the number of times that i have been in, it has been fairly busy. i have an aunt that is very wealthy but was raised during the depression so she is pretty cheap and looks for bargains all the time.

Hmmm. I think that rich people probably shop at Walmart... some of them anyway. I mean everybody has to buy things like cleaning products and household items, right? Unless they hire a cleaning service or have a live-in housekeeper. Walmart is as good a place as any to buy things like that. I personally have been avoiding Walmart because the one in my town is really ghetto, the last time I went in there I got irritated because I was returning a dvd player that got recalled due to it blowing up or catching on fire during use. Guess where that dvd player had been living? In my daughter's PLAYROOM! I had to wait a good 20 minutes before they refunded me, first because they didn't understand it was a RECALL and then after that trying to get the information because apparently it was the first recall dvd player that had been returned to their store. They didn't even give me what my husband paid for it, he said it was $29 and they gave me $22. I didn't have a receipt or anything because we'd had it over a year and a half.

I have had to seriously change my idea about what rich means since the economy took a nosedive. I mean, I know people who seem to be rich, but they are the people who are scrambling to figure out what they can just not pay. Then there are people who DON'T seem to be rich but they take vacations with their familes every few months. I think regardless of your yearly income, if you have more expendable income every week or every month for whatever you'd like to do, then you are richer than someone who makes 6 figures but has to check every time they want to spend $2 on a hot dog for the kids....

Sorry, I didn't mean to get all philosophical but i think rich is an attitude, not just a measure of financial wealth.

Actually you are right on point!
My wife was complaining how much the prices at walmart have gone up recently(about 3 months ago), and how store brands are becoming less available. A few days after that I saw a small blurb on some news program about given the state of the economy, many wealthier people are now shopping at walmart for the savings. And walmart in return is now catering to that clientel. So that answers that question.

I was reading the other respondants and thier views on target. Personally I do not like target. They dont have nearly the hunting/fishing/mechanical/gardening inventory that walmart does. Our local walmart had just finished remodeling the inside of the store. I told my wife that I didnt like the new layout, it reminded me too much of target. I started talking to an employee (I said nothing about target to her) and she told me that the former CEO of target is now in charge of walmart.
Perhaps you will start likeing target less and walmart more now, and I will do the opposite.

well thats just unfair. but you know what? i've been thinking a long time that no matter how cheap/reasonable prices and such, Walmart has just always been about the money. they have pushed out just about every other store and are now even cheaper on some things then the dollar store and yet they still seem to make lots of profit. wonder why they dont just build another one thats what they usually do.

Well, it is interesting to see how many times WalMarts end up moving around to where some of the Bigger known businesses are. Maybe it is just because they want to be in a more shopped area, and then maybe it is to try and produce more sales. Personally I have seen a lot of WalMarts in my time, as my husband and I tend to stop at WalMart no matter where we are at, and it is amazing to see what type of people shop there depending on where the store is located for sure.