Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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July 1, 2019 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Corinth, texas
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Walmart shopping dilemma!
Walmart may finally be forcing me to stop shopping at Walmart. After being sick with summer colds for a week, my wife and I thought we would make a quick trip to Walmart for a few necessities. We had avoided public shopping to protect other people from our miserable colds.
Walmart has gone all out for "online shopping". I felt I was pushing my shopping basket down a major interstate highway loaded with semi trucks and trailers. They have employees pushing and pulling giant, multilayered shopping carts down the isles filling online orders. Some carts were so large, a normal shopping basket couldn't pass them. Since I like to "shop" for my groceries instead of order my groceries; I may need to look around for shopper friendly grocery stores. Has anyone else noticed the trend. |
July 1, 2019 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
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No I haven't been to the place in a coons age.
But I see some more social issues with this pattern of ordering on line instead of going out to meet the public in person. |
July 1, 2019 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: connecticut,usa
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They let me buy plants with the EBT card,one of the few that do.
Price-wise there are cheaper places to buy plants. Most at this stage of the season are or should be 1/2 price. |
July 1, 2019 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Southeastern PA
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Yes, that trend is happening at all stores but they may not be as crowded as Wal-Mart.
Giant does the same thing and they even recently reserved 6 parking spaces for people to use when they arrive to pick up their online orders. They just call a number and a Giant employee brings out their order. My brother orders food online from Whole Foods and they are delivered to his house. I myself prefer to pick out my own foods at the grocery store. |
July 1, 2019 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: wales uk
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As a person from a land where Walmart does not exist, it may be interesting to compare notes.
In the UK the same thing is happening but it is now viewed as becoming increasingly inefficient because CUSTOMERS KEEP GETTING IN THE WAY lol. So the solution ? "Dark Stores" Giant warehouses set up to do the job. And guess what, ROBOTS all over the place in these hell holes. The staff that are there are called "pickers" and in typical UK supermarket style they are highly likely to be low paid, young because there is an age tiered minimum wage system here, and many likely to have short contracts so there is no legal requirement to give they holidays or sick pay and any rights. Then they get rid of them and get new victims to repeat the process ( I have been through it 3 times myself ) America will follow I expect, we likely picked it up from Eastern Europe or Germany. |
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July 1, 2019 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brownville, Ne
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We pick and choose the visitation times to our local Wal-Mart; morning first part of the week. Weekends are not the time to shop and afternoons and evenings are difficult. With several smaller dept. stores shutting their doors recently there are fewer choices. At least our local seems to have added check-out people so there are not the very long lines to the two open registers like it used to be.
The beggars at the entrance get yelled at by my wife whenever we go to Wal-Mart: "Wal-Mart is hiring...go get a job." Lots of jobs available if they really want to work. (this portion available for editing if necessary)
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July 1, 2019 | #8 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Williamsburg VA Zone 7b
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I have not seen any of the super-carts in the Walmarts in Virginia. I'll be in northern Virginia in a couple weeks - wouldn't be surprised if there is more home delivery there.
In the 1980s I pastored a church in Morehead KY. It was HUGE when Walmart came to town (locally known as "Walmarts.") It was a social gathering place. The few times my wife and I have been back we usually go to Walmart and end up seeing more people that we know than any other place in town! |
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July 1, 2019 | #10 |
Tomatovillian™
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Location: south carolina
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Our local Walmart offers online shopping as well, Don, but we have never had problems shopping there while online orders are being filled. Our problems are usually asking people not to take pictures or videos of our kids. Human trafficking is getting to be a major concern here. We don't go shopping without a man anymore. If those people who think they have the right to take pictures or videos of the kids had common sense they would realize the women telling them to stop could be hazardous to their health.
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July 1, 2019 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Detroit
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Unfortunately, this has been SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) here in the U.S. for the warehouse/logistics sector (Amazon, Walmart, etc.; but also the third-party contract warehouse/logistics companies like XPO Logistics, Expeditors, etc.) for almost two decades. |
July 1, 2019 | #12 | |
Tomatovillian™
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Location: Corinth, texas
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I agree about the problem with human trafficking. It is really bad in Texas due to our proximity to the southern border. Our local sheriffs office and police department denied the problem even existed in local communities. They refused training on how to recognize and prevent it. Some federal raids arrested about fifty traffickers in communities where the problem didn't exist. Walmart used to stock the shelves at night and shoppers shopped in the daytime. Today, they were stocking shelves at the same time the pickers were filling orders. The entire store was a giant traffic jam. Dedicated warehouses for online order fulfillment are the only solution I can see working. |
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July 2, 2019 | #13 |
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Things are changing there that you all don't know about. I don't expect Walmart to be in business in 5 years.
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July 2, 2019 | #14 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Saylorsburg, PA
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I have used Walmart.com for the first time this summer to order some garden products not in stock at the local store. Prices are the best I could find on the internet or comparable. Once I get notice the product is at the store I go pick it up at a special kiosk. You punch in your pick up number and the package comes down in a small elevator and you are on your way. There is usually an attendant nearby to help if there are any glitches.
I have not done online ordering of any in-stock items not have I found the store crowded due to “pickers” but I don’t go often because the problem at this store is difficulty finding a parking place within reasonable distance of entrance and very long checkout lines. |
July 2, 2019 | #15 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Joplin MO
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My wife has worked for WalMart for 40 years (started a week after we got married) and I spent a 15 year sentence working for them. I have seen them treat employees very badly over the years. I no longer work there and refuse to enter their stores, let alone give them money. My wife still works there 2 days a week, but she has had about all she can stand. I encourage her to quit on a near weekly basis after listening to her complain about how they treat her when I pick her up.
What was once a good American company is now evil IMO. For years I supported WalMart in online discussions, but no longer. |
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