If they can hold down the shoplifting to 15% of the merchandise sold they will be lucky.
Why do they write about the District as if it’s a real state?
Quote from article:
“The time had finally come for Washington, D.C. — the last holdout in the lower 48 —to get its first two Wal-Mart stores.”
one city of Washington DC -— population — 632,323. Now has Wal-Mart.
33 cities and towns of San Francisco/San Mateo County/Marin County, California ————— population — 1,821,243. And still no Wal-Mart.
I drove a cab in DC in the 80’s. 1st and H was and still is no place to be. Ever.
Here’s the ‘Death of small stores map’ http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/
I used to really like Walmart. Lots of stuff made in the USA, decent prices, and they would readily take stuff back if you weren’t satisfied, or there was a problem.
Today not so much. Hard to find stuff made in the USA, prices on stuff is often higher than Country Mart or Dollar General, and there willingness to take stuff back has definitely become onerous.
Recently, I went to Walmart and the cashier’s were complaining about how slow and boring it was that day. Just not very busy ever since the new Country Mart opened. It made no sense to them, because they said - our prices are cheaper.
I just had to speak up at that, and told them that on the majority of the items I purchase they are cheaper. Then they said, but we will match any price so what difference does that make.
I asked them how that would work, if no one went to Country Mart and they went out of business. Wouldn’t we all be stuck with Walmart’s normal pricing which was already more expensive? What dumb looks I got.
Then, I pointed out that it was worth a little more to go to Country Mart anyway, because they always made sure to load your groceries into the cart for you, rather than stand around complaining, or turning to the next customer while the customer who just paid has to fend for themselves.
They didn’t have an answer for that either.