"RJ" wrote in message
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A store with most of the mundane things you need day to day to run
your
household. One stop to buy a wide variety of things. Open late, as
much as 24/7. How is that not a concept?

Any decent supermarket chain carries all those things.

They have plumbing supplies, tools, and clothing like WM?

I'd venture a guess that most folks don't buy hardware on every shopping
trip, unless they're in the middle of a project. And, it seems we have
different definitions of "the mundane things". To me, that meant "things I
buy every single week". Yeah...if you're fixing your sink, hardware is
mundane, compared to a Rolex watch.


They'll charge you a
bit more for Rubbermaid storage containers, but in return, they'll have
produce that wasn't driven over by the truck.

You have a real hard-on for Walmart.

Uh oh. This sounds like a discussion of politics. Man sees something ugly,
reports it, other man figures it was a false report because first man had an
attitude. So: I walk into WM and find I can't buy lettuce because everything
they have looks like lettuce you'd left in your own refrigerator for too
long. I go to a grocery store and find 4 kinds of lettuce, 95% of it in
really nice condition. I'm hallucinating???

Handle winter squash roughly and it'll survive. Do the same with tender
vegetables and the product is worthless except as compost. Based on what I
see, WM doesn't train its people to handle produce correctly. In a perfect
world, only gardeners would be hired to work with produce. Until then,
stores have to train their people.

Finally, I notice in two WM stores here that about 1/3 of the groceries
don't have unit pricing stickers on the shelves. That's another reason
customers think they're getting a low price. Unless you walk around with a
calculator, it's tricky to compare two jars of salsa, on of which contains
17.38 oz and the other 32.50 oz. Real grocery stores here have unit pricing
on everything, and it's NOT required by law in this county.