The store reflects the clientele
Wow. I’d hate to see what they are like in poor neighborhoods!
I suggest they look at who they hire.
um... ALL STORES are better in rich areas than in poor ones.
I wont even buy the junk they call seafood at the grocery stores in the poorer areas of town. I honestly believe they take the spoiled food from the rich stores and ship it over to the poor stores to see if they can sell it there before throwing it out.
We deserve better stores as we do not plunder the stores in our neighborhoods.
I take it the answer is to trash the stores in the white neighborhoods so they can look and feel like the ones in other neighborhoods.
‘Course it has nothing at all to do with the differences in clientele...
Wow. This could turn into a new cottage industry for underemployed lawyers. Just compare gas stations, pharmacies, number of trees on the street, etc., etc. One is bound to find inequities somewhere.
Then sue all the parties involved.
That may be because they have less “shrink” and less vandalism.
I went into the Wal-Mart in Renton, WA a couple of times when I lived in the area. It was an absolute dump. The women’s clothing section looked like a teenaged girl’s bedroom. There were clothes strewn all over the floor and on racks.
And yeah, it was in a minority neighborhood. It felt like shopping in certain South Side Chicago neighborhoods.
And I don’t blame the store. I blame the clientele. I actually had an acquaintance that owned a bunch of off price grocery stores in Washington and Alaska. He opened one in the central District in Seattle. He had to close it because shrinkage was so bad (shoplifting).
The Wal-Mart where I now live, in a small Kentucky town, services the whole area. It is very nice and kept clean. The people are also very nice, but I think it is due to the local culture rather than Wal-Mart.
Best Walmarts I’ve seen are in smaller towns.
It’s a job in air conditioning and with reasonable pay so they can actually hire decent employees that appreciate the job.
While I don’t shop at WalMart all the time, when I do, I shop at one in the suburbs and one on the way to work in an “inner city” area. There is absolutely no difference in terms of what you can buy there. The inner city one is more crowded and there are longer lines. But I suspect that’s because the residents are so happy to have a Walmart there where they can get decent things at a reasonable price that they all flock there. The inner city Walmart is staffed predominantly with African Americans, but I can tell no difference in how they treat customers. This study is typical PC BS.
If you want to know about a neighborhood head to the nearest Walmart at 6 PM, IMO.
Threr was an article not long ago, can’t remember where, that talked about how “white privilege” is actually earned, because whites pay an “opportunity cost” when they do things like not shoplift (or, presumably, mess up store displays), and thus are “rewarded” by having businesses move to areas with high concentrations of whites, and by not having store employees follow white shoppers around to make sure they’re not pocketing things etc.
If the Walmarts in predominantly “colored” neighborhoods are not as nice, I’d bet a fair amount of the reason is less effort being put out by the store to keep the place nice because it’s not cost effective to do so. Probably the rest is the quality of the employees, who are presumably sourced from those same “colored” neighborhoods.
The only Wal-Mart store to close was in Tuskegee Alabama.
I don’t know if that is still accurate but the reason was, well I don’t know for sure but it was said to be from loss of merchandise.
“He says he analyzed 35,000 Yelp reviews across 28-hundred Walmart stores in the U.S.”
Well no sh*t Sherlock. I avoided a certain WalMart which closed this year on a black blvd here in L.A. If you read the Yelp reviews, the Yelpers let it rip with no pc nonsense. Yelp is run by libs but the users usually are spot on.
I’ve been in both and I can verify this. In the non-white majority neighborhood the employees are rude and avoid customers. I’ve had a cashier close her register and walk away with no explanation after I’d been waiting in line for a while. They never speak to you (sometimes even when you speak to them first). They just point at the total on the display.
OH MY SIDES! As if Yelp is an honest, unbiased indicator of ANYTHING!
I once went to a Mexican restaurant (a "high end" one at that ..) based on Yelp reviews. Worst dining experience I ever had. Horrible food, horrible service, horrible place. Yet, some 1,000+ Yelp reviews all said it was the "finest mexican cuisine" in the Chicagoland area.
Oh my sides!
I learned after that "dining experience" there is no such thing as "mexican cuisine."
Well, everything in white neighborhoods is better. Live with it.
Same with grocery stores. In retail every store is its own profit center. A store with high costs, such as damaged goods and shoplifting will have higher prices, as the cost to operate is distributed over the other goods. Nicer areas almost always have better prices for the same products.
Crap customers = crap store.