Whats the worst thing about walmart?

Customer courtesy. The employees are so overworked, underpaid, do not have good benefits-although they are the largest company in the world, and because of this they are NOT courteous or friendly to the customer.

the worst thing is that they don't have one closer to me house

#1- When my grandaughter was with a so called friend and they had a disagreement he just dumped her off at Wal-mart and she had no money so she went to the customer service desk and explained what happened and wanted to know if she could borrow .25 to call her mother or use their phone and they said NO!!!!!!! There are several other things wrong with that place but that was the worst.

I found the following from Yahoo! Search:

The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?

Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer. It's the world's largest company--bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale can be hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sold $244.5 billion worth of goods last year. It sells in three months what number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year. And in its own category of general merchandise and groceries, Wal-Mart no longer has any real rivals. It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined. "Clearly," says Edward Fox, head of Southern Methodist University's J.C. Penney Center for Retailing Excellence, "Wal-Mart is more powerful than any retailer has ever been."

It is, in fact, so big and so furtively powerful as to have become an entirely different o Wal-Mart wields its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached. The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that don't change, the price Wal-Mart will pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after year. But what almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and its 21,000 suppliers knows is the high cost of those low prices. Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors. To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bras to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees and close U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas.

"People ask, 'How can it be bad for things to come into the U.S. cheaply? How can it be bad to have a bargain at Wal-Mart?' Sure, it's held inflation down, and it's great to have bargains," says Dobbins. "But you can't buy anything if you're not employed. We are shopping ourselves out of jobs."

Wal-Mart has also lulled shoppers into ignoring the difference between the price of something and the cost. Its unending focus on price underscores something that Americans are only starting to realize about globalization: Ever-cheaper prices have consequences. Says Steve Dobbins, president of thread maker Carolina Mills: "We want clean air, clear water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world--yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions."

they have massive buying power because they are a huge company so they get the best prices and can sell practically anything cheaper than any other store. So the neighborhood markets and small shops suffer or close altogether.

The layaway line during the holiday season. I dont know how it is in other states but here in the Metro Detroit area the lines are wrapped around the store. The other worst thing about Wal Mart is on the very few occasions that you might need assistance, you can never find anyone to assist you.

The crowds. The isles. Man during the holidays it sucks. I love there prices though. They still ain't better than Target.

The employees will tail someone young and neatly dressed, but when that person turns around and needs help, they either act like they didn't know you were talking to them and walk off, or they are busy and don't know the answer anyway. Not always, of course. But generally.

The health benefits for the employees are so useful, they tend to go get a state medical card if they have to actually take care of themselves, like if they have cancer or epilepsy or something. The prices are outrageous, and that's probably what Walmart is banking on.

The people who make the clothes and stuff for them are employed, and probably in better conditions than we think, so I won't get into that.

You have to walk a long way because it's so big.

OK, I find this to be the worse thing. And they are not the only ones guilty of it. It is putting the things you need the most in the back of the store. When you are old, disabled or even a mom with a sick kid, the last thing you want to do is go all the way to the back of the store for a gallon of milk or juice. They do it so you are forced to see everything they have on sale on the way but I think most people know what they want before they go there. Besides, if they have something that is such a good sale then they have their flyers for that. I think the very least they can do is offer at least a cooler up front with certain items and they can list on it for parents with sick kids and Elders and Handicapped folk. And I know they are not the only ones guilty of this but with the size of their store they should consider their costumers a bit more.

the long check out lines

Tired screaming children after midnight on any given day of the week. Mama, take them babies home, they need some rest.

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