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Will Wal-Mart‘s New Ad Campaign Win Back Customers ’Who No Longer Trust’ the Company?

NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is hammering home its low-price message with a new ad campaign in a bid to bring back customers who no longer trust it to save them money.

The campaign, starting Monday, bears the slogan “Low Prices. Every Day. On Everything” and features five 30-second commercials, including ads featuring an Easter egg hunt and a customer asking for a price match.

“We have lost our customer confidence … in having the lowest price,” said Duncan MacNaughton, chief merchandising officer at Wal-Mart in an interview with The Associated Press.

The new commercials come as Wal-Mart tries to reverse a nearly two-year slide in an important revenue measure at its U.S. business.

Sales at those stores are hurting because of mistakes the retailer made on price and selection. Wal-Mart also faces increasing price competition from dollar chains and Amazon.com.

In fact, its slogan “Save Money. Live Better,” in use for several years, now appears in smaller type in the ads, underscoring Wal-Mart’s shift in strategy to hammer hard that it has everything shoppers need at rock-bottom prices.

Wal-Mart is restoring thousands of items it had stopped carrying in an overzealous bid to clean up its stores, from fishing supplies in Dallas to snowblowers in Minneapolis, and has returned to its “Everyday Low Prices” roots. It’s highlighting these items with new “It’s Back” flags on store shelves later this month.

To change perceptions, the company also said it is directing store employees to comb through competitors’ advertisements so price matches at the register are easier.

“Our company is determined to create the best one-stop shopping experience and low prices on the right products backed by a clear, consistent ad match policy,” MacNaughton said.

Last year, Wal-Mart had strayed from its “everyday low prices,” the bedrock philosophy of founder and namesake Sam Walton. Late last year it switched back to emphasizing low prices across the whole store, instead of heavily promoting selected items.

It could take a while to reverse the sales declines. The company predicted in February that revenue at stores open at least a year for its U.S. Walmart stores should be anywhere from down 2 percent to unchanged for the current quarter compared with the same quarter last year.

The campaign is an acknowledgement that Walmart traffic is still weak, Wall Street Strategies analyst Brian Sozzi said.

“I am concerned that Wal-Mart is taking to the airwaves at the same time it acknowledges it’s not where it needs to be with product restoration, therefore risking customer disappointment yet again,” he said.

Moreover, he said stores are looking disheveled because new merchandise is coming in faster than Wal-Mart can display and sell it.

“Has customer traffic been so soft in the first quarter that Wal-Mart is willing to go out on a limb and market aggressively despite the store appearance reflecting a sense of disarray?” Sozzi said.

Wal-Mart said it is adding 8,500 items to its inventory, 11 percent more in an average store. In some categories, the selection will be more than before the inventory slashing, McNaughton said.

In its ad campaign, the commercial featuring the Easter egg highlights Wal-Mart’s variety, from Glidden black and green paint to Starburst jelly beans.

The changes are bringing back local food favorites and national brands in household basics and general merchandise like consumer electronics. Some changes are tailored to local markets. In Phoenix, for example, shoppers will find pool supplies and lawn and garden items year-round.

Wal-Mart said it will take a few more months to finish bringing back the grocery items and will take the rest of the year for departments like clothing and electronics.

Late last year, Wal-Mart had said it aimed to have all the groceries restored by the end of 2010 and would add back the general merchandise items by spring.

Wal-Mart’s price-match policy has been around for several years, but in recent months, the company has been using it as a weapon to compete with rivals. One commercial, released Monday, focuses on its ad match guarantee.

The ad features a customer pointing to an ad flyer and informing the cashier that a product is 20 cents cheaper at a rival store. Everyone in the store, from the person who stocks the shelves to the manager, scrambles to help, yelling, “Match it!”

Wal-Mart said it has been training sales associates to better police prices of local competitors.

Another change is customers won‘t have to bring competitors’ advertisements to the cash register to get the match because the associates should have the information on hand. Customers will still have to ask for the price match.

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  • vegtech
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 5:08am

    Idea! Maybe if they spouted their adds during the GB Hour they could reach 2.2M viewers? Just an idea?

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  • vegtech
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 5:00am

    Their using the wrong marketing tools bring in customers! Where is Michelle, Barry & Sam? They should be on stage touting OBAMACARE discounts, organic fresh veggies, energy drinks which are healthy, 25% ethnol laced fuel, voters registration, ect.

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  • UncleBuck
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 4:23am

    WalMart used to be proud of selling Made in the USA, now 95 % of everything is made in China. They are arrogant as if they were Neiman Marcus. Never mind that they have 900 check out registers and 4 are open at any one time, making you stand in line for a half hour. It seems they make you beg them to take your money. I refuse to buy chinese made products at any price! Boycott WalMart, Boycott made in China. Search out “Made in the USA” and buy it to save our country! Do our country a favor and bankrupt WalMart!

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  • hogtrashhd
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 4:02am

    I use to go to WalMart fairly often.. but they don‘t have much of anything any longer that’s a deal.. and don’t get me started on Christmas.. very very very depressing.. this year I was in and out without buying anything.. they had nothing to buy that was a deal except I suppose the tv’s and electronics and that line was about 500 people.. all I heard were all these black people saying they were getting a bigscreen tv.. I don’t think they could have that many to sell.. I mean we’re talking hundreds trying to get a cheap tv…..I shop at target and best buy nowadays.. much more pleasant experience … nobody getting shot in the parking lot, or stampeded, or robbed.. nasty place that WalMart that brings a lot of nasty people in…

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:44am

    Commie slavemart just started putting in little telescreens with messages from Janet Napolitano telling people to watch out for terrorists. What they are really doing is setting up is a big brother tattle tale society where everybody is watching each other just like East Germany. Walmart sucks.

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    • Julie2010
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:39am

      Wal Mart has become nothing but a painful experience for me. No, I do not trust Wal Mart anymore.
      I can’t buy what I want because they “don’t carry that anymore”.

      I heard that creepy shift change chanting from the back employee area several months ago.
      It was disruptive for the entire store.

      How about teaching an employee to count change back? They apparently don’t teach that in school anymore.

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  • rightwinglefty
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:14am

    I hate Wal Mart stores. They are not that cheap, some of the stores I have seen are dirty and the checkout lines are way too long. They have maybe 20 or more registers and staff about 5 at a time. Cashiers are deathly slow.

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  • roughneck.seay
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:55am

    No one who has worked for Walmart since Sam Walton died has trusted Walmart… Some of there stuff is marked up like 200%! Not to mention they treat there employees like crap… They have ALOT of a$$ kissing to do before they get me back.

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  • Jesse
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:52am

    I have ALWAYS been disappointed by their Produce section! It always looks like hand me down produce from another store who couldn’t sell it when it was fresh. Also Milk is almost a dollar more per gallon than it is at SAM’s club! I mean really? You’re the same damn company! I love in Dubuque, IA across the boarder from Wisconsin where most milk comes from yet you’re gonna shaft me on the price?

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:44am

    I never had a problem with Walmart prices……………..try shopping at Bloomingdales….Macys…etc. Sticker shock on comparable products are ten times higher.

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  • End The Fed
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:43am

    F wal-mart! And F Red China!

    I know it’s not a very intelligent statement, but it’s exactly what I think. I spent all my wit at the DCCCBeck chalkboard.

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    • End The Fed
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:51am

      Oh yeah, and F the D[CCCP] too!!

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:12am

      ya i left them a great message too, and when they sent me an email thanking them, i sent them another one lol

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    • bobodu
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 5:41am

      I think you “wit” was spent some time ago and is currently running down your leg.

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    • BetsyRoss1
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:17am

      Yeah I sent them a mice message too to add to their chalkboard!

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  • orlandojon
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:39am

    It’s more than just having low prices. I stopped supporting Walmart when they ended the “made in America” slogan and began filling their shelves with Chinese made goods. Buying US made goods saves jobs here and that’s what I am focused on now. I will gladly pay a few more dollars for domestic products. You can’t complain about the Chinese and our trade deficit, if your going to continue to buy their imports.

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    • Cold War Vet
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:59am

      You have to be careful with this one. I see an INCREDIBLY LARGE number of good ole’ American companies that have moved their production offshore to China. It’s sickening. Look at the small kitchen countertop appliances, for example. Most of those American companies stiill have the USA address (offices, very few employess), but stamped on their actual products? You got it…Made in China. Damned near EVERYTHING in the store comes from China.

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    • Cold War Vet
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:06am

      Just a thought. Since they sold us out to the red Chinese, we are their biggest market. Without the United States, China doesn’t even HAVE a market. Yet their little communists pets like Obama, Soros and all of their stupid little disposable “useful idiots” want to bring us down to a broke, moneyless culture.

      When we REAL working Americans can no longer afford to buy this crap, who do they think is going to drive their economy? Are they THAT shortsighted, or do they have some other evil plot in mind?

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    • FreeMan5771
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:39am

      Yeah, really. I wouldn’t be surprised if those little “It’s Back” flags are Chinese flags.

      In Wal-Mart’s defense though, I tried to buy Christmas presents one year that were 100% made in the USA. I couldn’t do it. Every store I went to was stocked with at least 80% Chinese goods. Of course Wal-Mart may be 99.9% Chinese products, but still…

      The things I hate about Wal-Mart are as follows…
      1) Long checkout lines. During the Sam era, they would open another register if any line was longer than three people. Last time I shopped there I left a cart full of merchandise just sitting there at the back of a line that had at least 15 people. See, I had stopped to get some ice cream. It would‘ve melted before I would’ve got out of the store. I hope it didn’t melt before the stuck it back in the freezer.

      2) The Rollback! Sure, those items are really cheap, but everything else in the store has gone up 2 or 3 cents in the last few days. When a particular item stops moving–meaning its priced to high–then it goes on Rollback. This is one of those “faulty strategies” that make sure you pay the absolute highest price on just about every item in the store. See, the stupid sheeple figured it out no matter what the Elitists say.

      3) I didn’t care for the Glenn Beck boycott. Stay out of politics. Wal-Mart’s founder was a patriot. The company is now run by traitors.

      4) They have proudly signed on to “If You See Something, Say Something.” Another F.U. to their patriotic founder.

      5) Poor selection.

      Well that’s about it, but that is plenty. Overall they could be a good store again but in all honesty are probably just hoping that they can “fool the sheeple” by repeating their new tagline and not making real changes to the way they do business.

      Other retailers from direct competitors, to online venues, to even dollar stores, happily scooped up those products that refused to cheapen the quality just to meet Wal-Mart’s bullying wholesale price requirements to appear on Wal-Mart’s shelves. This tactic has left basically junk on the shelves of Wal-Mart. Any dollar store will have better quality items at better prices! Wal-Mart is not the only game in town.

      Of course, sucking up to Communist China, boycotting Glenn, and signing on to “if you see something, say something“ probably qualifies them for quite a few billion during the next round of ”too big too fail” bailouts. Screw Wal-Mart…

      …and screw our idiotic politicians. Give me liberty or give me death. We will stand up and fight, we don’t have chips in us yet. We have to fight before they complete the Matrix.

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  • DaveOregon
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:37am

    I miss Sam Walton.

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    • Julie2010
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:07am

      Can you imagine what he would have to say if he were alive today?

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:28am

    Wal-mart, crushing the American dream one town at a time.

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  • Amica
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:25am

    I have also stopped shopping at Wal-Mart. For years I have tolerated some sort of major inconvenience nearly every time I shopped there. But what did it for me was something else.

    A few months ago, late last year, several Wal Mart security employees caught a shoplifter in the act and escorted him to the office to wait for the police. In the office, that person pulled a gun, and the employees reacted and took the gun from him.

    Those employees were fired because it is Wal Marts policy to disengage when a shoplifter pulls a gun. A wise policy to be sure, but how is that possible when you’re in a small office with several people and the gunman has his back to the closed door?

    That did it for me, they lost my business.

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:24am

    Walmart, crushing the American dream one town at a time.

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  • Chett
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:20am

    Come on folks its not the prices, wal-mart is in bed with TSA. That plenty of reason not to shop there alone. Second thing is you need to shop local, support your community not sending money off to big corps.
    What are any right thinking patriots still doing shopping in wal-mart?

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:38am

    I don’t know about you guys, but in S.FL I cannot find an English speaking employee at a wallmart. I mean real English, not spanglish.

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:15am

      I’m on the southwest coast FL and suprisingly I have not had that problem … employees at my local store are friendly and many are older seniors who are supplimenting their income .. since they are NOT getting COLA”s under Obama and interest on their savings (if they have any left!) are so low it is laughable (if it weren’t so SAD!)

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    • bobodu
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 5:39am

      I was thinking the same thing when I read the above post by “marine249” .

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    • UncleBuck
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:08am

      Yes, maybe the DHS-ICE should shop at WalMart on Sundays. In just a few weeks they could easily round up 65-75% of all of the illegal aliens in the US.

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:37am

    Too big to flail….

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  • JustMeHere_01
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:35am

    Who cares what Wal Mart does. I quit shopping there a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t do this because they made the decision not to advertise but because of the list they chose to be on.

    Basically Wal Mart is one of many companies that has their name listed on a boycott list to take Glenn Beck off the air. I only asked them to request that their name be removed from a list that has sanctioned a boycott of their own.

    Here is the link to the list that calls for “Stop Beck”, and Wal Mart proudly allows their name to be included in this list.

    http://stopbeck.com/dropped-sponsors/

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    • I SPY
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:29am

      Thanks for sharing the site. Comments are crowded with a lot of delusional Liberal Weirdos who fantasize about smoking lead together and bashing Beck because the voices in their heads tell them he’s wrong. Lol.

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:18am

      So, now that Beck is going to be off TV (they think!) does this mean they will still be on a list to boycott him? Just curious.
      I am not crazy about Wal-Mart but they have several items from my regular list that are anywhere from $.50 – $1.50 cheaper. Gluten-Free products, Breyers, ice cream and many cheeses. Guess I need to find somewhere else to buy if they are boycotting Beck. How anit-American of WalMart. Sam Walton is rolling is his grave!

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    • UncleBuck
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:05am

      WalMart and Sam’s club is responsible for killing more American small businesses/manufacturers than any other retailer bar none. For that reason alone are they un-american in their business practices. BOYCOTT WalMart! hopefully they will be a small blip in the history of american business in a few years!

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  • marine249
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:25am

    there meat is very high and they are uping the price of vegies.
    the time I go there I sure will be checking it out.

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  • kindling
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:24am

    Anyone stupid enough to believe everything they read without shopping around deserves to get ripped off. Most of the people I see in our WALL*MART can’t read so I guess they just believe what they hear.

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  • duckwalker
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:21am

    I can do better on almost 100% of my grocery shopping at Winco Verses Walmart. Walmart is no bargain. If anyone is to blame for factories closing in the US and moving to China, it’s Walmart predatory wholesale buying. You want to sell to Walmart, they demand you move your production to a third world country to get $1/day wages.

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  • Corruptgovernment
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:21am

    I wonder if their food is from China and put into name brand boxes.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:12am

    ya um they are not the lowest price around, and they play funny games with their pricing system by changing unit prices from pounds to ounces, some are priced by unit, some are priced by package, and their food prices are all high except for their store brand stuff

    have you seen their prices on meat and produce??? they have like 4 different pricing schemes and you have to translate each one to find the better deal

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:33am

      I haven’t been to a Walmart in 5 years and plan on keeping it that way

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:18pm

      Many of their store brands are higher than brand names. At least in our Wal Marts.

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  • I SPY
    Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:12am

    All I want to know is do they have GAS for 1.50 a gallon?

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:22am

      I just wish they would bring back the LIGHT WEIGHT summer drawstring pants and capri’s by White Stag .. they stopped carrying them a few years ago .. I live in FL and wear they year round … sure could use some new ones >>>>> anyone from Wal-Mart reading this? I love Wal-Mart (I know that isn’t PC to say) .. I have one less than a mile from my home and they price match other stores ..saves me gas.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:18am

      Walmart is not all that great when their prices are higher than other people’s. I bought a Sony camera, and Walmart‘s price was way higher than BestBuy’s. Guess where I bought my camera! Guess who lowered the price of the camera the following week after I told them about it?

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:37am

      @SHOW
      As with all places you have to know your prices .. I just wish I could get some new pants LOL … but I only buy a few grocery items that are cheaper there .. because I have checked the prices .. for groceries I mostly shop my local fresh produce market . or Publix (they have a lot of bogo each week). I have found Wal-Mart good on pop .. which I don’t buy often and cereals .. which being on a gluten free diet they have Chex varieties that other stores don’t. I like Sweetbay for meats .. they have Smithfield pork and good beef. For many canned goods .. .I shop specials at Big Lots .. I have always been pretty “thrifty” .. okay .. cheap.

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    • jbl8199
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:53am

      Has anyone actually been to Wal-Mart recently? Their prices aren‘t exactly what I’d call low. In fact, they‘ve been steadily going up for the past year or so and they don’t look like they’re stopping. Not to mention the groceries have gotten insane. Milk just shouldn’t cost $4 a gallon. That’s definitely not low.

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:09am

      Yes, I Spy! Gas for $1.50 would be great. Maybe Flotus would subsidize it with her vacation allowance since whe wasnts Wally World to lower their prices!

      @CATB I too am on gluten-free diet and Wal- Mart in Ft. Wayne, IN is getting more and more gluten-free items in. But, the prices are not always the cheapest.

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:04am

      WalMart’s problems go way beyond anything a campaign will do to bring back customers. What they need to do is fix their core problems which are … poor selection, their narrowed product assortment in an attempt to save money and it back fired … replenishment, you can’t go to WalMart and get everything on your list. They will be out of several things. Any other advertising BS is a waste of time. They need to fix those core problems first. If Sam were alive that’s what he would do.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:12am

      CATB & SHOW, I hope that Walmart can continue to be non-union, along with their other features. About the only things I get there are pet supplies, toys and a few clothing items for the 3 yr old grandson – not much of a comparison shopper, I’m afraid. This being a high retirement area, Walmart is very important to alot of people, so I hope this works for them and the community. Hadn’t looked at the time you posted but figured it was early morning – hope the weather didn’t blow you away, SHOW, will look for you later.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:51am

      Interesting comments so far. My take?

      First of all, grocery costs are going up everywhere you need to compare Wal-mart’s prices to other local stores. In my area the general trend is Wal-mart is the lowest, Winn Dixie next then Publix is most expensive. However, Publix is also the best quality on produce and meats and also has the best deli stuff. Needless to say we usually shop at Wal-mart…

      Second, I have 4 Wal-marts in the general area, the Leesburg Fl Wal-mart is the closest and the one we usually shop at but we also go to Clermont, Eustis, and the Villages occasionally. They do differ on how they are run. Some are simply better managed than others…Big surprise…So to make a blanket statement such as, “Wal-mart needs to work on customer service/cleanliness/staffing/restocking/selection…” may not be accurate. It may be a local store problem as opposed to a policy issue.

      I do not love or hate Wal-mart. I see the down side to the chain, I regret that they have driven mom and pop out of business. I do not generally like buying cheap Chinese goods. If I am entertaining or making something special I will shop at upscale grocery stores as Wal-mart *generally* is not the best quality you can find…

      On the flip side, I am in my Wal-mart at least twice a week. I appreciate the all in one concept where I can get a pair of shorts, a car battery, flip flops, and a week’s worth of groceries all in one stop. For the most part I am a T-shirt/shorts/flip flops kind of guy who does not really care about name brands. I have never had any problems with my Wal-mart purchases, we have bought laptops, cameras,a treadmill, other sporting equipment, many many kid’s bikes, plants, and countless other sundry goods and have never had a quality issue.

      I am ambivalent about Wal-mart. Those people who choose to “boycott” them are only making their own lives more inconvenient. Around here EVERYONE shops at Wal-mart. You will run into every person you know in that store sooner or later. It is convenient, saves time and gas, and generally they have everything you need. Yes, I miss Mainstreet. I miss the mall. I miss the Sears and J.C. Pennys of the old days…But those days are gone and Wal-mart blows K-Mart and Target away. Such is life…Why fight it?

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    • ME
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:53am

      yes rush to support China, child labor, no worker rights every dollar spent at walmart is a vote for China to own us. but I saved a few dollars and the economy is bad – why because you idiots want to save a few cent and ware do the cheap products come from? Communist China. vote all you want and spend your money to support communism and then wonder why one is in the white house. IDIOTS ya you know who you are!!!

      Some day people will realize how you spend your dollar is far more important then how you vote!!!!

      ME  
    • J.C. McGlynn
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:13pm

      Gasoline at the pump going up. Any and all delivery costs going up. Prices will reflect, and I expect, it.

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    • ME
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:19pm

      @trolltrainer
      I know you are not a liberal but aplly that mind set to politics
      “But those days are gone and Wal-mart blows K-Mart and Target away. Such is life…Why fight it?”
      Yea so just vote the “communist organizer” (yes communist was on purpose) back in “Why fight it?” Even here I am lost as to how people do not see that how you spend your money says way more then a vote every two or four years could ever scream. Support local and politicians will follow that money support overseas and politicians will follow that money I could give examples but if you can understand the idea its lost anyway.
      By the way Blue light special quick run you might miss it

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:25pm

      ………
      “All I want to know is do they have GAS for 1.50 a gallon?”
      No, but they have beans for $.99 a can!!
      Seriously, that‘s what’s great about capitalism. If you don’t want to spend at Wal*Mart,
      go elsewhere.
      Unlike GM where my dollars are going to prop up GM unions, and I don’t want their product.

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    • 123gone
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:59pm

      Due to a lack of standard products, I started shopping at additional stores, but after being charged $5.50 for a gallon of milk I gave up on Wal-Mart.

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    • OkiePatriot
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:11pm

      The wal-mart her in OKC has the cheapest 100% gas, not that E10 crap the govt is pushing on us.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:17pm

      Wal Mart will self destruct. It has gotten too big. It has gotten complacent. First the manager myth. Managers only control their personnel and have very little to say about whatis stocked and on which shelf. That is all done at the district level. The manager is restricted to the number of shel items they are allowed. so they have some choice there. District issues a stokable list and the manager has to go by it. Wal mMat will only stock items that return a high profit adn that they can keep the stock levels high. If an item starts selling faster than they can stock they simply delete it. If the producer demands a higher price they just drop it. They use this to scare other companies to hold their profits low so WalMart makes more.
      As to WalMarts clothes. They are all seconds. That right seconds. They would be rejected at Target and Sears, Even K Mart has better quality clothing than Wal Mart. I f you like buying Chinese chaep merchandise then by alll means shop Wal mart. I just got tired of every thing breaking as soon as you tried to use it. At the cheap price they pay they can afford a 30 to 40% failure rate and still make a hefty profit.
      In my area most of walMarts produce are seconds. A stalk of Romain lettuce yeild 1/3 less than the same priced Romain from Krogers. Wal Mart citrus fruit is never ripe. It just tastes acidy. You people can put up with this if you want but for me I will shop other places. Save-A-Lot and Aldi for canned goods and Krogers for meat and Food City for their specials.
      Wal Mart does not stock a single seafood item that is not imported. Absolutely none. Most is farm raised in poluted waters in China.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 4:28pm

      What I don’t trust about Walmart anymore, is for them not to try and sell me tons of cheap, Chinese crap.

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    • happyboy
      Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:46pm

      Their return policy stinks too. Its been over a year since I have shopped at a W-Mart.

      Why do customers have to play CHECKOUT BINGO all the time? The price at the check out register is often not the price on the shelf. The clerk is taught to argue with customers and the Manager is always out to lunch.

      WalMart stinks. It use to be good but I will not waste my time with them anymore.

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