Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> "Fred" > news:vpZKg.501370$Mn5.251950@pd7tw3no:
>
>> Do you wonder where all those American jobs are going?
>>
>>
>> http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english...ent_395728.htm
>>
>> Note the sentence: "So far, more than 70 per cent of the commodities
>> sold in Wal-Mart are made in China. "
>
> FWIW I detest Walmart. I hate the crowds and the illiterate, ignorant
> people that Walmart employs. I don't want to offend anyone but that
> has been my experience with them. A week or so ago I ran to Walmart
> to get 2 bags of topsoil and 2 bags of hummus with manure to ready a
> bed for transplanting. The guy at the garden center told me this
> gate was no longer an entrance but for pick ups only. The stuff I
> wanted was like 2 feet from the "exit." I went all the way to the
> front entrance, walked through the crowds and screaming children to
> the garden area. Loaded a cart with the items I needed and went to
> the check stand. No checker. I waited a few minutes and asked the
> person stocking in the aisle next to me. Her response was "I don't
> work that register" and she went right on stocking. She didn't even
> bother to find the person that works the register. I left the cart
> right were it was and left. The entire ordeal was like 30 minutes and
> I "exited" with no purchase. I drove down the street to Lowes and
> had my transaction completed and loaded within 10 minutes. I'll
> never set foot in Walmart again.
>
> Michael

Wow! Talk about a bad experience. WalMart is just one of those places
where you don't go in expecting superior service, therefore you are never
disappointed. I did go there a couple of weeks ago to get some RoundUp to
kill the evil monkey grass growing in the planting beds on my patio. Since
I know nothing about gardening, let alone where to find things like RoundUp,
I found the staff to be very helpful even if they didn't know what monkey
grass is. A woman stopped what she was stocking in the gardening center and
walked me over to the aisle when it became apparent I was lost WalMart
is a step above K-Mart but two steps down from Target! I love Target! (aka
Mervyn's in some parts of the U.S.)

Jill