I've been to hell and back and it's name is WalMart
I have a love-hate relationship with WaldeMart.
On the one hand... how cool it is that you can walk into ONE store and buy a kaboodle, a chain saw, milk, floaties (the swimmy type--not the kind you might find in, say... the milk), The Complete Works of Shakespear, along with a glow-in-the-dark BugsBunny Santa & "THE MORMON PIONEER COOKBOOK"...all while having your tires rotated and your oil changed???
On the otherhand... how is it that everytime I enter the premises of said store.. I find the associates that imply that by trying to exchange a $20 item for something else without my receipt, I am trying to "GET OVER", even though over the past year, I could easily say I've spent well over several THOUSAND dollars in the same said store!???? (And probably have all the receipts in my purse to Prove it!!) And why do they act like it's their personal money that I could be 'stealing' from them!?
And to add insult to injury...this is a regular WalMold. Not even SUPER!
*gasp*
Not a single piece of produce in the place.
WHO DOES THAT THESE DAYS!?
I swore of WaldeMart for several months...but I inevitably have had to go there for specific things that I CANNOT. do without and only the store-who-must-not-be-named carries it.
We don't have a Tar'jay--- (think phonetically)... nor do we have a ShopKo, Fred Myers, or Old Navy nearby....except aprox 45 miles away. We do have a PATHETIC KrudMart...but everytime I go there, it looks like the old Pic-n-Save on the bad side of Tucson.
So.. Occasionally I am weak.
Like today.
And I always remember exactly WHY I hate shopping there...
and why I love it, too.
*sigh*
"There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do."
~~Richard Bach, Author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
On the one hand... how cool it is that you can walk into ONE store and buy a kaboodle, a chain saw, milk, floaties (the swimmy type--not the kind you might find in, say... the milk), The Complete Works of Shakespear, along with a glow-in-the-dark BugsBunny Santa & "THE MORMON PIONEER COOKBOOK"...all while having your tires rotated and your oil changed???
On the otherhand... how is it that everytime I enter the premises of said store.. I find the associates that imply that by trying to exchange a $20 item for something else without my receipt, I am trying to "GET OVER", even though over the past year, I could easily say I've spent well over several THOUSAND dollars in the same said store!???? (And probably have all the receipts in my purse to Prove it!!) And why do they act like it's their personal money that I could be 'stealing' from them!?
And to add insult to injury...this is a regular WalMold. Not even SUPER!
*gasp*
Not a single piece of produce in the place.
WHO DOES THAT THESE DAYS!?
I swore of WaldeMart for several months...but I inevitably have had to go there for specific things that I CANNOT. do without and only the store-who-must-not-be-named carries it.
We don't have a Tar'jay--- (think phonetically)... nor do we have a ShopKo, Fred Myers, or Old Navy nearby....except aprox 45 miles away. We do have a PATHETIC KrudMart...but everytime I go there, it looks like the old Pic-n-Save on the bad side of Tucson.
So.. Occasionally I am weak.
Like today.
And I always remember exactly WHY I hate shopping there...
and why I love it, too.
*sigh*
"There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do."
~~Richard Bach, Author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
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