Ok this is just too funny.  We needed to pick up a few thing at Hannaford, well I did that chore while my wife went over to Salamacks.  We had her car so I'm standing in front of Hannaford waiting for Chris to pick me up.  Some guy is approaching Hannaford riding in one of those handicapped carts, not that I paid very much attention, he jusr sort of crossed in front of me.  Didn't give it another thought when he rode it into that enclosed entranceway.  What caught my attention was someone telling him that the cart was not one of Hannaford's,  I think the guy sitting on the bench telling him, said it was a Walmart cart because they have blue ones (Hannaford has blue ones).  The guy who rode the handicapped cart in there was responding with something like a "no, really?"  Then the guy sitting down I think said that the cart has the word Walmart on it.  So the guy who rode the cart kind of looked over at the cart in that enclosed entranceway and turned his back to the door just shrugging it off.  He started walking in the parking lot toward Walmart.  Now, what is the punch line to this?  The guy who rode the Walmart labeled cart into Hannaford, to leave it there as he didn't believe it was a Walmart cart, well, punch line is, get this, it was a Walmart employee!  He had the tag hanging over his neck and his name was Issac.  Wow, Walmart employee doesn't even know Walmart carts from others even with the Walmart name on them.

MC, that is too funny. And what will be even funnier is that Issac will probably be awarded the employee of the month at Wal-Mart, too.

Joanne and other posters.  My source was there today.  Here is a better photo of Walmart's furniture on display prominently for tomorrow's grand reopening



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Man is this a screwed up week.  I got up this morning thinking about that re-opening today thinking today is Saturday.  But then I remembered something I watched on TV last night and realized today is only Friday.  And yes, this so called grand re-opening (of a store that never closed) is being held on a Friday?  Why would a store that remodels, trying to make itself attractive to a better class of people, choose to do their "grand" reopening while the vast majority of people are working and kids are in school?  Perhaps it was the lack of intelligence of the store managment and the corporate people that made that choice

Maybe they don't think the majority of their shoppers would be going to work??

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Maybe they don't think the majority of their shoppers would be going to work??

Precisely.

And those are the shoppers who are duped by Walmart into believing that by shopping at Walmart they are getting the same product at low prices.  Walmart doesn’t tell them it’s not the same.  A leather wallet at a Walmart hypothetically could be 10% leather and 90% vinyl maybe?  And wouldn’t it be true to say that some kitchen appliance, maybe a crockpot, if it was a GE brand 3 qt crockpot sold at Marcellas and if there is a GE brand 3 qt crockpot sold at Walmart, they might look the same, same color, same size, same shape, but different model numbers which invariably means the model sold at Walmart is a cheap version, less quality of apparently the same product, yes?

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That's not ratatouille: Utah woman finds rodent head in her can of green beans
By Brianna Lange
The Salt Lake Tribune, 10/02/2007  

If Marianne Watson follows Wal-Mart's advice, she might be keeping what could be a rodent head frozen in her freezer for the next two years.

The Lehi resident found the remnant Sunday in a can of green beans that she purchased from a Wal-Mart in American Fork.

Watson, 49, was preparing lunch for her family, when she noticed something unusual in the pan.

"I'm queasy just talking about it," she said Monday. "Thank goodness it ended up on the top and not the bottom, so I didn't serve it to them."

When Watson called the Wal-Mart store Sunday, she said a manager told her to put the item in a bag in her freezer but that it might take up to two years for the matter to be resolved.

And I thought the super fresh, slaughtered in front of you, still warm and squirming when you put in the oven, chicken in Schenectady was gross!!!!!  What about the guy who opened his candy bar and watched the maggots crawling around on it and in it?  I'm pretty much speechless on this issue

Definitely a stupid suggestion made by the Walmart employee.  However I don't always rush to put the blame on Walmart or other stores, it depends.  Take the Topps recall.  I think those people in Waterford or Watervliet are not only suing Topps, but also Walmart.  How could Walmart, or Price Chopper or Hannaford Or Greulichs or Sals (if those small stores sold it too) know that the meat was bad.  Unless I'm missing someting.  I mean do the supermarket's send inspectors from their companies to Topps to inspect?  Or do stores rely on the government approvals?

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Definitely a stupid suggestion made by the Walmart employee.  However I don't always rush to put the blame on Walmart or other stores, it depends.  Take the Topps recall.  I think those people in Waterford or Watervliet are not only suing Topps, but also Walmart.  How could Walmart, or Price Chopper or Hannaford Or Greulichs or Sals (if those small stores sold it too) know that the meat was bad.  Unless I'm missing someting. I mean do the supermarket's send inspectors from their companies to Topps to inspect?  Or do stores rely on the government approvals?

No, and neither does the government stand watch 24/7, sample and taste that meat we call safe to eat......

I agree with you mc1. I don't think the retailer is actually at fault if they purchase a product from another company. The wholesaler should be held responsible. although, I do think that Walmart could have responded to this incident  sooner than 2 years. That is just not good PR for any company. But then again, Walmart does not have any customer service or good public relations with ANYTHING!

OK, tell me I did not see what I thought I saw.  We walked from Stapes over to the Taco bell today.  As we walked past the area in between Walmart and staples, I looked over from what someone said the fence was taken down.  It looks like they have a chicken wire fence up now, i.e, a fence that the residents of Patton drive now have to look at an ugly building, Walmart delivery trucks, trash dumpsters, piles of cardboard.  Did I see correctly (at a distance)

I saw the same thing and questioned my vision!! I am just hoping that this is a pre-empt of a new fence that is on it's way. But your are correct-o....it is indeed chicken wire!

Maybe it is the wire for the brick and poured concrete for the nice landscaped retaining wall????

Once again, a buddy comes through.  Let's see if I can remember how to do this.   Walmart must not be allowed to force it's ugliness on the residents of this town

OK everyone, it's time to be squeaky wheels.

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