Walmart

ugh! Had literally the worst experience of my life here on my trip to Canada. The worker (I think her name was Carolann??) was disgustingly rude to me and had me in tears. I just wanted to get a minion shirt for one of my best friends (who absolutely ADORES them!) and she was completely cold and unavailable. I was annoyed, but whatever. I may or may not have made a backhanded comment (as us Southerners do too often) and she heard. Then it only got worse when she started following me around the childrens section and wouldn’t leave me alone. Being followed made me so anxious and uncomfortable that I ended up in tears. I am already a nervous person, but I have been so uncomfortable at any store since the incident. Guess that’s what I should expect from walmart of all places. I’ll be sticking to establishments that actually give two shits about their customers from now on. (aka: target, because at least they treat me like a human and not an ATM) :)

Walking distance from the Burlington Go station. A rather small parking lot, as Walmarts go but never seen it horribly busy.

It’s a Walmart, it has a decent selection of everything like most Walmarts except a lot of the time many of the shelves seem less stocked than they should be due to lazy staff members who seemingly don’t like working period. The grocery section isn’t great in terms of selection but it offers great deals throughout the year on various products which allows people to save money.
This is not one of the Walmarts responsible for taking a whole towns jobs because it’s rather small in terms of selection and doesn’t appeal as much to customers due to employees not doing their jobs. The cashiers are great though and there is an attached pharmacy, doctors office and McDonalds for people looking for more.

I didn’t really pay attention to the staff around the store but I can say that the young man working the register where I cashed out was quite friendly and attentive.
I wound up at this Walmart on my way home from work because after searching for a used bicycle at a reasonable price just to ride around town this summer on for almost a month, I gave up and decided to pick up an $ 88.00 mountain bike from the big guy.
That’s why Walmart works for me. Sure the big guy has his flaws, but I know he’ll be there when I need him and he ain’t gonna sugarcoat a thing.
This particular location shocked me a little because is was neater and cleaner then possibly any I’ve seen before and I didn’t see any of the shoppers walking around in pajamas or herding a group of offspring around. Bonus star!

Just your basic Walmart with groceries, auto, photo etc… What I found really odd about this store is that over ½ the employees I encountered were texting on their cell phones pretty much ignoring customers. I’ve never seen it so blatant in a store. I used the photo department this visit for a passport photo. It was quick enough, cheap at 10 bucks… but you get what you pay for. 4 tries to get a useable shot and the «keeper» was only marginally useable (very dark, so much so the passport office commented and said «I think this photo should be ok, pretty dark»). The photo set up was pretty mickey mouse too, a stool up against the self serve photo machines and a clunky handheld digital camera. Over all an OK store, but they could probably use a tougher store manager to get their staff off their cell phones and at least semi interested in customer service.