Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer (Post 873434)

:crap2:Just by chance I visited both of our Villages WalMart stores in the same day. Has anyone else noticed a huge difference in the service and quality of the two stores. The WalMart on 441 appears to have poor management problems. Recently,at the 441 store, I have noticed more and more empty shelves and the lack of any employees anywhere except at the registers. The 466 WalMart store appears totally different, with employees throughout the store and neat well stocked shelves. At times the 441 store looks more like a thrift shop. Here is a sample of what I found yesterday at the 441 store; rotting produce, no paper yard waste bags, no stainlss steel polish, no small paper plates, and the craft paints turned over and paint spilled all over the shelf. This is the norm at this store. Before you jump my case and say, well don't shop at that store, I plan do exactly that....

Originally Posted by TheVillageChicken (Post 873522)

Yes, but where's the reciprocity? Mississippians deserve cheap taters.

Originally Posted by villager (Post 873552)

I have a friend who took her iPad and grocery list to both Wal-Marts - the one of 466 and the 441 Summerfield Wal-Mart. She noted the prices for the same items on a spreadsheet. The 441 Summerfield Wal-Mart had lower prices but less of a selection. Yes, I thought that was very interesting, too.

Originally Posted by Indydealmaker (Post 873505)

Could you expand on this observation?

Are there specific categories where prices are substantially lower?

This kind of regional pricing has always been fascinating to me.

Originally Posted by njbchbum (Post 873441)

guess i can say that the store on 441 is not a villages walmart. And i can say that you failed to indicate whether the 441 walmart store you went to was in summerfield or in leesburg.

Originally Posted by njbchbum (Post 873441)

guess i can say that the store on 441 is not a villages walmart. And i can say that you failed to indicate whether the 441 walmart store you went to was in summerfield or in leesburg.

Originally Posted by smcgirl (Post 873530)

i also would like to know, is there a price difference between the two walmarts?? Would there be a difference in price in the lowes in the villages and the lowes in leesburg?

Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer (Post 873604)

i would assume that calling the two wal marts as being villages stores would tell you that i was rfeferring to the summerfield store and the oxford store. Surely you ralize that if the villages did not exist the summerfield wal mart site would be a pasture.

Originally Posted by John_W (Post 873455)

I have the complete opposite impression. The Wal-Mart on 466 is usually very dark with half the lights turned off, no joke just look up. Combine that with the dark colored stained concrete floor at the 466 store against the bright terrazzo floors at both Summerfield and Leesburg stores. We usually go the 466 store because it's closer, but tomorrow were going to Summerfield since we'll be in that area.

Merchandise wise I usually find better stock in Summerfield, especially on health & beauty items, which we normally buy at Wal-Mart because of the price. In fact, just about everything else is in better stock at Summerfield, they appear to be a much busier store which might explain why they are out of certain items at times.

About a month ago I was in the 466 store and while I was there the lights all of a sudden came up and it was totally like a different store. I even walked up to a manager and told them, now I can finally see in here since you turned the lights up, now just do something with the floor.

Originally Posted by BarryRX (Post 873619)

I'm an ex Walmart Pharmacist. Many Walmart stores have light sensors that turn the lights down when ambient light is bright enough. I have a hunch that this is what you were experiencing. It is part of walmarts very noble goal to be more energy efficient and less wasteful.

Originally Posted by The Buckeyes (Post 873644)

Most huge corporations that tout energy efficiency and less wasteful green energy concerns do so because it is in vogue to do so. When you pull back the curtains the real reason is cost.