On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 5:01:38 AM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
> > More pictures of empty Walmart shelves. It gets worse every time
> > I'm there, and I gave up taking pictures after the first half of the
> > store.
> >
> > It's very bad business in the retail world to have empty shelves,
> > especially in a grocery store where much of your profits come from
> > slotting fees charged to the manufacturers. Walmart is getting paid
> > by the manufacturers for these premium spots in the freezers, yet
> > they're not even stocking the products that are supposed to be in
> > those slots. They have some severe ordering, distribution, and
> > merchandising issues. I bet half that missing stuff is sitting in
> > their walk-in's, they just don't want to pay anybody to put them on
> > the shelves.
> >
> > https://imgur.com/a/w3bU6e1
> >
> > Severe lack of all but the basic produce, empty endcaps, ice cream
> > that's more ice on th ouside of the container than ice cream inside,
> > and that dolly thing has been in that same aisle for *4 days* now
> > and hasn't moved. (And yes, some gratuitous reflections of Sqwertz
> > in his baggy gang-banger Patriot-wear - suck it).
> >
> > -sw
>
> My food center has been like that too. I am to the point that when I go
> there I am mainly just looking for bargains. They keep switching what they
> sell. One day the entire section where the frozen potato products should be
> was totally empty. A recent trip had about half of the frozen stuff empty.
> This is why I had to go back to shopping online with them and thankfully
> they have dropped their prices.
>
> My microwave recently broke. I went to the regular Walmart to get one.
> Although they did have the one I wanted, it was on a pallet and buried under
> other stuff. There was one on the aisle where they should be but the box was
> so badly damaged, I didn't want to chance it. They had oodles of the
> Mainstay brand which got horrible online reviews and not much on the shelf
> beyond the display models. Nothing seemed to be in the right place and there
> were no identifiable numbers on the SEMs so you couldn't tell which price
> went with which microwave as most of them appeared not to be in the right
> places. Thankfully I had looked online before I went there because I forgot
> my phone so had no way of looking anything up.
>
> The other thing I noticed is that they had no fresh produce whatever. No
> bagged salad. No bananas. No potatoes. Nothing. Maybe people don't go here
> for those things. I don't know.


Good Lord Julie...you do exaggerate. I suppose there is a general alert as soon as you enter the store.
Then they empty out the produce section and hide anything remotely fresh and then mix up the sale tags.
No bagged salads??? Who needs them!!! Make your own salads...fresher and have the things you want.
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