06-16-2017, 11:22 PM
(06-15-2017, 04:44 PM)Wyche Wrote: Some of it has to do with exactly what wildcats refers to in his post. Also, we took steaks to Bristol one year from Walmart, and a 3 hour trip back home turned into 6....we couldn't pass a bathroom. Imodium would not stop it, we even stopped up the road and got cheese pizza with extra cheese to try and plug it....nothing. The four of us got sick, the rest of the campsite we met at the track did not get steaks from Walmart, and did not shit their guts out.
Without getting too much into PnR, they encourage their mgmt team to persuade employees to use government funded healthcare, childcare, and other assistance. They cut hours to avoid full time bennies....they broker ridiculous tax breaks and subsidies to move into your town and run the mom and pops out of business. I figure if they're gonna use my tax money to actively subsidize their employees and their cost of doing business, I'm not going to voluntarily give them more money.
Yeah I get all that, But I've shopped at both stores and both are fine to me. For me it all depends on what I need/want and where I'm at. When I was married and lived in Lynn IN, Lynn is a very small rural town with no grocery. The closest grocery was Walmart in Winchester to our north, so we shopped there if we were off work. We both worked in Richmond to the south of Lynn and there was a Meijer on the way home and we'd hit that a lot because it was on the way home. After I got divorced I moved to Richmond within walking distance to Meijer, so I pretty much only shopped there. Then I moved back to the Nati and there's a Kroger right here so I usually go there for grocery runs but I still go to both Meijer and Walmart depending on what I'm looking for. I will say this though I've shopped at many a Walmart (as well as Meijer and Kroger), and bought dry goods as well as fresh meat and produce and don't recall ever having gotten sick from it. Oh well to each their own.
However I can understand Wildcats refusal to not shop there, given his experience described above.
