I Love Walmart!

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You have to be a member at Costco so they can require you to show your receipt as part of the membership agreement.
You don’t like it then don’t become a member.
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Back before covid I rented a lot of cars on weekends for a couple years to go to the casinos because Michigan didn't have online gaming yet. With the Costco membership renting cars was extremely cheap, sometimes I could rent a car for 3 days for under $40. I think I went into Costco twice and it was on a Tuesday or Wednesday in the middle of the day and the place was absolutely jammed with people. Had to drive around looking for a parking space. And stuff isn't that much cheaper than any place else, in fact Walmart was cheaper on almost everything. Yet people were in there loading up on all kinds of crap. I walked around and could not find one single thing I wanted to buy. My brother is a member now because Costco gas is so much cheaper and he says the same thing about going in the store, it's a huge waste of time.
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Yes I feel the same way about those stores. They have their uses for some people, but I went to Costco and found no reason to go back. Back east I briefly had a membership at BJ's which is the same thing, no great deals to be found there. (Also: Aldi. No, ugh. If I want mystery brands I can get that even cheaper at Dollar Tree.)

I guess the fair comparison would be between Walmart and Sam's Club. Are the prices any better if you go to a Walmart that's called a Sam's Club?

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You have to be a member at Costco so they can require you to show your receipt as part of the membership agreement.
You don’t like it then don’t become a member.
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Back before covid I rented a lot of cars on weekends for a couple years to go to the casinos because Michigan didn't have online gaming yet. With the Costco membership renting cars was extremely cheap, sometimes I could rent a car for 3 days for under $40. I think I went into Costco twice and it was on a Tuesday or Wednesday in the middle of the day and the place was absolutely jammed with people. Had to drive around looking for a parking space. And stuff isn't that much cheaper than any place else, in fact Walmart was cheaper on almost everything. Yet people were in there loading up on all kinds of crap. I walked around and could not find one single thing I wanted to buy. My brother is a member now because Costco gas is so much cheaper and he says the same thing about going in the store, it's a huge waste of time.
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Yes I feel the same way about those stores. They have their uses for some people, but I went to Costco and found no reason to go back. Back east I briefly had a membership at BJ's which is the same thing, no great deals to be found there. (Also: Aldi. No, ugh. If I want mystery brands I can get that even cheaper at Dollar Tree.)

I guess the fair comparison would be between Walmart and Sam's Club. Are the prices any better if you go to a Walmart that's called a Sam's Club?
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I absolutely hate Aldi grocery store. The store itself is too small, the aisles are so narrow you can barely get two carts by each other, the selection is pitiful, check out is a nightmare, I don't see the point of it. Yeah they have cheaper prices on meat but their produce section is practically non-existent. I have to go to yet another store to get what I can't buy at Aldi, forget it.

Clear thinking at Walmart. Stacking these fans like this keeps the pile out of a condition where it could topple onto someone if it was bumped or became unstable due to shopping. They can only be unstacked easily evenly from the top.

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Clear thinking at Walmart. Stacking these fans like this keeps the pile out of a condition where it could topple onto someone if it was bumped or became unstable due to shopping. They can only be unstacked easily evenly from the top.


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That looks more like a distribution center and not a retail outlet. Probably not a lot of people in danger but it still looks sketchy.

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Clear thinking at Walmart. Stacking these fans like this keeps the pile out of a condition where it could topple onto someone if it was bumped or became unstable due to shopping. They can only be unstacked easily evenly from the top.


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That looks more like a distribution center and not a retail outlet. Probably not a lot of people in danger but it still looks sketchy.
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The image is rotated, and there are clear indications it is a retail site.

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Clear thinking at Walmart. Stacking these fans like this keeps the pile out of a condition where it could topple onto someone if it was bumped or became unstable due to shopping. They can only be unstacked easily evenly from the top.


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That looks more like a distribution center and not a retail outlet. Probably not a lot of people in danger but it still looks sketchy.
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That's just an ordinary Walmart in Las Vegas.

I mean what I said as a legit compliment; someone was thinking when they came up with that idea. If you stacked 4 piles or so that high jack-on-jack, they're going to be unstable and get worse when people start pulling on them. I pushed on it and no way, that structure is not moving en masse, and I'm reasonably but not extremely tall and I could reach the top layer and take one down if I wanted to. It would take a lot of force to pull one from lower down in the structure due to friction and even if you did, the fans above that point would still be supported by the other columns and it would not topple.