Everybody knows the pictures of people of Walmart... And the song about those pictures, too. Fact, that Walmart seems to be a portal to another America that is hidden from most of us. This retail giant offers great prices on everything. It's a one stop shop. And it attracts all kind of people from middle class to the less fortunate.
Well, the quality of certain items they carry can be questioned. Especially on the food isle. It mostly offers cheap processed foods. You do the math, but you cannot expect anything good from powdered, frozen, sugared, salted etc. food (by)products.
A couple of weeks ago I ordered some picture frames online to be shipped to their Mountain View store. The price was better than anybody else's, but it was not available in store. Walmart ships to store for free. At first I waited at the wrong place, customer service... And that's how I've seen things I couldn't imagine before. People apparently return shower gels, detergents, cosmetic products etc. The reason for return was most of the time that they've spent more they could allow that month, so they need to return these items. And they did. I bet those products make it back onto the shelves.
From one side it is very sad that there're people living from day to day and they have to re-think their everyday purchases and need to return even a couple of dollars worth of goods to get back that $5-$10 they need to survive. On the other hand I'm not sure I want to use shower gel that might be used by someone else before. I definitely reconsider the next time I want to buy something a dollar less in that store.
