leavingit27 wrote:  They told me, whenever I worked there, right after the store was converted to a supercenter (which was in 2001 by the way), that sam walton did not want the store open 24 hours, or to sell groceries.  He wanted a down home convience store on a grand scale, like a modern day CVS with a few more items. I do know that I didn't work long after it became a supercenter as it went downhill fast.  I think when his greedy children got ahold of the company, they wanted to be the biggest, and the only store of the type.  Thats why they wanted to do exactly what K-mart had done.  The walmart store closest to our house is the scariest place I've ever been to, and this is the affluent side of town.  Whats funny is I only see the type of people that would be on that POW link, and apstolics (you can tell a mile away) shopping there.  There is a fight about once a day, and 3 cashiers working means you have to stand in a line with people who look at you like they'd like to take a piece out of your #@!.  No thanks, I'll choose target anyday, but I guess I am one of those people who's attracted to target anyways.  Otherwise I'll go to a local grocery store.  I never did like walmart, even when I was fundie, but maybe I never really was.
The stores I worked at converted to Super Centers in 2002 and 2003 respectively, and yeah, after that service really sucked. The one down here converted to a Super Center and moved into a new store in 2007, and none of them are particularly freakish. I've never heard of there being a fight in any of the stores I've shopped at regularly or worked at...although at the second store I worked at people were always getting busted for stealing. The funny part was it was often kids wearing "Christian" T-shirts that got caught. You sure do see the Pentes and Fundies in all the wal-marts in my part of the state...even in places like here where there are only a few of them and/or they're not an obvious presence in the area.