KK's Korner

I still shop at Wal-Mart quite often, mostly because it is close and it has the best prices. I go there despite the fact that I had the single most frustrating retail customer service experience of my life at a Wal-Mart. I mean the kind of thing the makes one want to drive home, get the Walther P-38 that you've been keeping hidden away, carefully inspect all the mechanisms, run a swab through the barrel, polish it up just to make it look nice, return to the customer service desk and go to town.

 

I'd love to go over the particulars, but I honestly can't remember the details. The event made me so angry I think I've just tried to erase it from my memory. It involved a 4-drawer chest that my wife, then simply my girlfriend, wanted to buy after seeing an ad for it in a Wal-Mart flyer. We called ahead to make sure they had one in stock and were told yes. We got there and there was none in stock. From there it went downhill. There was something about employees in the furniture department claiming that they never spoke to us, a manager who didn't care, etc.

 

The only thing I remember clearly is that I wanted all of them to die...by my hands.

 

Yet I still shop Wal-Mart, but I've never been back to that particular location.

My advice on how to handle shopping at Wal-Mart is this:

 

Go before 9:00 a.m. on Saturday mornings. It's great. Tons of checkout lines open and the shelves are still fully stocked. But the best part is that it's too early in the morning for all the trash and other scum customers to be out of bed and at the store, letting their children wander the ailses unsupervised.

 

Yet I still shop Wal-Mart, but I've never been back to that particular location.

 

Which one was that? When the Middletown Wal-Mart opened, right before I was moving out of there, you would have thought the city was going to throw a parade in Mr. Walton's honor.

Yet I still shop Wal-Mart, but I've never been back to that particular location.

 

Which one was that? When the Middletown Wal-Mart opened, right before I was moving out of there, you would have thought the city was going to throw a parade in Mr. Walton's honor.

 

Believe it or not, they are adding another Wal-Mart just blocks from that same one you mentioned.

Where? In the same complex where Applebees is (or was)?

Around the mall, from what I was told. Which is essentially across the street. Where I actually live, they literally built a new "SUPER-DUPER ULTRA MEGA" Wal-Mart Center, next to an slightly older Wal-Mart.

 

 

Well of course, that aged structure is almost four-years old. I wonder which grocery store will go under first -- my guess is that crappy Dillman's another mile or so toward Middletown.

Well of course, that aged structure is almost four-years old. I wonder which grocery store will go under first -- my guess is that crappy Dillman's another mile or so toward Middletown.

 

Probably, KMART. The place is completely empty and that whole strip mall is basically KMART, a bar that constantly changes names, a semi-decent chinese buffet, mini dollar store, renovated Arby's. I figure they would just tear that whole section down and slap another Target there or something...even if there already is a Target by the currently standing Wal-Mart.

 

I forgot about that KMart -- I remember going in there for something shortly after the company declared bankruptcy and some lady screaming at the customer service/returns lady and saying, "No wonder you people are going out of business."

 

I remember that buffet restaurant -- there's also a take-out/delivery place near that buffet I have to bitch about sometime down the road.