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This is more of a convenient stop for me. It's the only place that's open 24-7 and has a good amount of products to choose from. Luckily they also have a grocery section as well. Hallelujah! For this, I don't need to venture even further into the abyss for, what I'd call, basic ingredients.
Sure, Wal-mart gets high rankings as far as cost goes (usually) but I'm not too satisfied with their ethics as far as employee benefits is concerned. Yeah, I'm one of them folk. Get a job elsewhere if they don't like it, right?? Well, sometimes people gotta do what they gotta do in the employment department and it would be NICE if a company had their laborers backs. JUST SAYIN'!
Anyway, I'm here a lot but that certainly doesn't mean I love the place. You have to understand that I live in the middle of nowhere and the local Food Market and Family Dollar in Rocky Ford don't exactly make the cut from time to time. So, I need to travel a few miles of open road to get here so I can acquire a little bit of sanity. Yeah, they don't have everything I need here but they come pretty close. Good for them!
The only other thing besides corporate ethics behind my 2-star rating is... well, my own personal problem. Let me explain. I was at Wal-Mart with my family in the morning, about 7:30am on a Wednesday, and my husband bounces a rubber ball in the toy department about... oh, 5 times (to be fair). A manager comes up to us all "managerial" and asks him to stop bouncing the ball. Maybe I'm just a b!tch but I thought that was nonsense. There's ZERO patrons around us and we were going to buy the darn thing. I can't test it's ability to bounce a few times for the sake of product satisfaction? Yeah, I see where I'm being a little hot tempered, but the ball wasn't ricocheting out of control off of isles of merchandise. I guess it just bugged me that someone would flex his authority @ 7:30am in the morning when we were pretty much the only people in the entire store. && yeah, I took a good look at his name tag but what good will it honestly do me if I post it?!
I've experienced better service and product availability at Wal-Mart stores located in more populated areas. I'm sure that has a thing or two to do with it. Oh well!
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