@Shorty2U wrote:
I feel bad when anyone loses their job. But I have no pity for the people who run Walmart. I refuse to shop there because they treat their employees terrible.
Here is a link to the lawsuit where as they made employees work off the clock and employees sued. Employees won this case in PA. I happen to know an employee who went to court for this (and if you google more about Walmart more will show up). http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/morning_roundup/2014/12/pa-supreme-court-affirms-151-ruling-...
Also I don't shop there because we live in the country but the one closest to us is near the city and it is a dump. Target is like a mile (if that) away from Walmart and Target has an entirely different store as in clean, and the employees at Target here (and I guess everywhere?) have to clear background checks and it seems they have better employees. IMO shopping at Target as a whole is a much better experience than Walmart.
I don't judge where anyone else shops, but its my choice not to go to Walmart.
@Shorty2U I agree with a lot of what you said (don't know about each stores respective employees I think that has to do more with training than background checks).....And I think there are LOTS of companies that don't treat employees right, and that includes the corporate world too not just retail.
BUT I do think the quality of the store merchandise at Target is a bit better. (There are exceptions---clothing wise I think they are about equal, as are the national brands-- although Walmart has items made by national manufacturers exclusively for them sometimes --- like my Eureka vacuum clearner this model is only at Walmart and was cheaper than other models)...And as I said I DO like Walmart's Better Home & Garden brand. However, the Target stores seemed to better organized and atmosphere more eye pleasing as far as the way the merchandise is displayed and type of merchandise seems a bit more upscale....The Walmarts and Targets near my area have always been clean and tidy.
One thing I have noticed and here's where I think training kicks in..... I have ALWAYS found the Target employees to be polite and ask if they can help, without you even asking, and the cashiers friendly....but have not always encountered the same at Wal Mart.....I remember one time in particular, my sister and I were looking at boxed battery operated cat toys in the pet department and the one my sister was interested in was at the bottom of the stack so we undid the stack of boxes to retrieve the one my sis wanted....we were in the process of returning the remaining boxes in a neat stack and up marches a gruff WalMart employee ....and she shouts, "you better put those boxes like you found them, I just spent a long time straghitening up that area"!!!! I replied "Maam when you interrupted us that was exactly what we were in the process of doing!!!"......And as we left the area, I shouted to my sister, "that employee was so rude, her name was ........" I didn't report her, but said that just to scare her (but I probably should've reported her, even if she thought that, she should've kept her thoughts to herself and never spoken to customers that way)....
Another time, a Wal Mart cashier was having a tiff with another WalMart employee and was grouching and complaining all about the other person all the while he was ringing up my merchandise.
BOTH Wal Mart employees were not very professional!!!..... These are just some of the reasons I prefer Target over WalMart....and I think SOME of their prices are now about equal on some things and Target will now match prices on certain items too...
https://corporate.target.com/article/2015/09/price-match
The stores I find extremely messy are the Ross chain---they look like a disaster area and are dirty and very messy.......I find Marshalls, TJ's, Home Goods always neat and tidy too and like to shop there too--- great variety and always see something new---QVC could learn a thing or two from them! ....
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