I agree, Jeff. I can't stand Wal-Mart from a political point of view, but I can't stand them even more because it's just a terrible, terrible store. Like you say, the aisles are always clogged with pallets of random junk, the aisles are too small, the layout makes virtually no sense, you can never find anything, and their products change so often you can seldom get the same thing twice. That said, at least their stores are dirty and the employees surly (I'd be surly if I was locked in the store all night at slave-labor wages, too, though).
I'm totally willing to spend a few bucks more to go to the Target, where I can find things quickly, where the employees are reasonably friendly (and, hate to say it, are more than one step removed from pond scum), and the store clean and maneuverable.
The only thing that Wal-Mart had going for it was that it was open 24x7. But now that that's gone, I no longer have any reason to go.
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Bitt Faulk