On Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 5:25:01 PM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 2/8/2015 3:53 PM, dsi1 wrote:
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> >> Our closest Walmart is an hour's drive. Horrible store...poorly trained staff, sloppy merchandising, messy, dirty shelving, poorly stocked shelves, lots of missing merchandise with empty hooks in pegboards. Looks like supervision totally lacking with no co-ordination between sections (each clerk seems to have his/her own domain), no knowledge of where other goods are located.
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> > This just goes to show you that low, low, prices trumps everything else - including all that fancy extras like training for the employees. :-)
> >
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> Not typical from my experience. I do know of one that is mediocre at
> best and so are most of the clientele. Others I've been to have always
> been at least "acceptable" in neatness and cleanliness.

The one in Honolulu is pretty well run but a factor is how much money per sq ft the place generates. My guess is that it's an awesome amount. A lot of the business is tourists. All that cash is going to keep the joint from being mediocre.