Walmart announced it’s revitalizing its business plan by focusing on three core customer types. We know we’ve been totally cracked out on polls lately but…
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You need a 4th option. I don’t shop at Walmart and hate them with every fiber of my being. Or at least just a I dont shop there button.
What about “Quality sensitive affluent?” I’d rather pay more for higher quality stuff in general, rather than hunt for deals on lower quality versions of the stuff I want.
(oh, I should have added that it would be under the “nuts to WalMart, I don’t shop there” category.)
Needs a “Only place open at 4am that sells anything close to real food.” option.
Yeah, I don’t see myself in any of those categories. I use complicated cost/lifetime ratios.
I agree with the need for a “I don’t shop there” option.
but I dont shop there unless there is no choice.
Nazi T-shirt fanatic?
Add me to the doesn’t shop there list.. Target all the way.
@muddgirl: Same here. Seems that I shop at Costco about 8.5 out of 10 times with a monthly avg of about $326. There I buy a mix of Kirkland to brands such as Cuisinart…
What does that make me?
In addition to all of the wonderful buttons asked for above, it also needs a ‘Last Resort’ button — have to go to Wal-Mart because you’ve travelled too far from civilization to have any other options.
What about, “would love to shop elsewhere but there’s nothing else within 80 miles”?
Yeah um where’s the “Enjoys seeing the pathetic humanity as a sick experiment-gone-wrong so I can feel better about myself” option.
What kerry and muddgirl said.
It hurts my feelings when I can’t vote!
I only visit Wal-Mart at 3am when I’m bored, and then only to sight-see. That’s when the “interesting” people shop.
I’m more of a ‘Has full set of original teeth and not currently addicted to Meth’ WalMart patron.
Is that an option?
I am that elusive fourth Walmart shopper type: The type that won’t set foot in a Walmart.
It really does need an only indesperation option. Only item I have purchased from them was a headlight in the middle of no where MO early in teh AM while driving to a funeral the next morning.
My relationship with Wal-Mart is love-hate. The main reasons I shop there are as follows:
1. It’s right on my way home from work.
2. It’s open 24 hours a day (I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wound up there at midnight to buy groceries).
3. It’s the only place in town. All the department stores are gone..haven’t seen any of them except Target since the early 90′s. I love Target, but their selection of hardware/automotive/tools is non-existant, nor does ours carry food.
4. I come for the food, but I usually get a show as well.
I hate Wal-Mart and all it stands for, but my Yankee cheapness overrides my disdain for the place every time.
I vote for the not-with-a-10-foot-pole option.
HA! None of the above. No wonder I can’t stand the place.
I’m on secret option number 4 myself. My best friend’s office has a corporate charge there, so I only go in when I’m with her and she needs to buy crap for work. And every time I go, I’m reminded why I hate going and always shop elsewhere. I also resent Wal-Mart’s demands that result in brand dilution. It doesn’t help consumers and it doesn’t help manufacturers. It only enriches Wal-Mart at everyone’s expense.
This feels like the US presidential election: you wish you could vote for something, but you don’t see any choice you like, so you don’t vote at all. I’m not voting on this one.
You can count my vote for a non-vote as well. I havent even skipped to the results.
I’m not going to vote on this either; there should be a ‘I have no other choice’ option – the last three places I lived in if you wanted something other than food and didn’t prefer the dollar general or driving an hour to an hour and a half, Walmart was/is your only choice. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, sometimes you’re just stuck with the f*ckers.
Where’s the category for “Yeah, I could pay for this stuff but I like shoplifting at WalMart.”?
Another non-voter, since there isn’t a “drive locally owned businesses out of business while cost-shifting health costs to local taxpayers” option. Damn!
There should be a “secret answer” #5:
“I’m so self-righteous and snobby, I have to comment on how Wal-Mart blows, even though I can’t imagine shopping anywhere else.”
It’s a store, not the downfall of society.
Matt is right. It’s only a store….
a DRAB store… but only a store nonetheless.
It’s the only thing within 110 miles that has >blank
I’m the “if I had other options, I wouldn’t” Walmart shopper.
Also “I don’t shop there” is not a type of Walmart shopper.
@TechnoDestructo: I think this is a large percentage of the population. I can buy a new wireless router, a battery, a drill, and some frozen curry dishes at 3am? count me in.
I’m with kerry on the “Quality sensitive affluent.” I guess part of the reason why I hate Walmart is because, as they seemingly admit, they’re not selling to me. I prefer quality over quantity, and all three of their groups are price obsessed (quantity) instead of quality obsessed.
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This is the only situation I can think of where I can call myself affluent. Sign me up!
@matt1978: It’s not that I’m self-righteous and snobby (well, ok, just a little), it’s that I’m a poll addict and I feel left out.
I’ll only shop at WalMart if I need something immediately, it’s 2am and the grocery store doesn’t carry it. That’s happened once in the last ten years.
I voted as Wal-Mart would categorize me, if I were to shop there: price sensitive affluent — although I agree with the other commenters who bemoaned the need for “quality sensitive affluent.”
I haven’t gone to a Wal-Mart in at least 5 years though. So, they aren’t really trying to market to me.
None of the above.
OK, I picked “price sensitive affluent” but I’m definitely in the “only place open at 4am” category.