I cannot believe the amount of product our local Walmart goes through.
Setting up my wife for her demos, I have a VENDOR badge that gets me into the back room to get her cart. The skids and skids and skids that go through there is unbelievable. Truckload after truckload and it all moves through their system amazingly fast and efficient.
Regardless of your opinion of Walmart, they have some employees that are extraordinary. They work from the time they arrive till they leave, and constantly. I'm not saying all of them, but those I see are really hard working and keep a steady pace getting the product in, and then out on the floor ASAP.
And then they have a night shift that comes in and works equally as hard, if not more so. We have done some late demos and I have seen them work.
If their personnel were not fast and efficient, they could not do the volume they do. Reportedly, they are considered a "Million Dollar Store." Wow, that much a year, no, that much a week, on an average.
Walmart has the second largest computer operation, second only to the Pentagon. If you buy a pack of gum at Walmart, it shows on your register, and also in their headquarters, and that data goes into their inventory program. I can't imagine how many people it takes just to run their computer department, or the size of the installation.
You might not like all of their products, you may have something negative to say about the store, you may have a story to tell about an employee, it might be too big for you, maybe you can't find anything or one of many reasons, but if you are not shopping at Walmart, you are losing money. I firmly believe that.
We occasionally go to Meijers or Krogers, when it is added up, we feel we spent about 1/3 too much.
