Walmart Supercenter

If I could give a zero I would! Horrible employees. They must ship all the rejects at this location! Exactly why I don’t shop at Walmart.

This Walmart is by far the best in town. No fruit flies on the fruit (yes they are all over at the other ones). This Walmart has a lot less traffic which makes for a much more pleasant shopping experience. Yes it has far less product, but I am ok with that. The employees are always smiling and I see managers interacting with product every time I come in. A manager named Glen even helped me bring in a wheelchair one day which was highly appreciated. Every time I go in I get asked multiple times if we need help finding anything. The ladies in the bakery always go out of their way to slice some bread for me and are very nice about it.

This Walmart surprised me. I walked in and every employee I came across genuinely smiled at me or asked how I was doing. If I look lost they are MORE than willing to help. EXTREMELY FRIENDLY! I’m not used to that at a Walmart! It’s smaller than most locations and doesn’t always have everything I need, but that doesn’t bother me because everyone there is so helpful and smiley. This is the only Walmart I go to now.

For the many years that this old Walmart site stood empty I have thought about many a «dream» retail anchor that I’d love to see in Ft. Collins that could come in and redevelop the site (e.g. Costco, Trader Joe’s, Fry’s Electronics, etc). Suffice it to say, I find it rather anti-​climactic that it has been re-​developed into (wait for it) … a Walmart Supercenter. Really? A town the size of Ft. Collins needs 4 Walmarts? Okay, two are technically on the outskirts of town, but with Sam’s Club in the mix too I find that to be an alarmingly high per capita ratio.
With that little rant out of the way, I do have to say that I did stop by this new Walmart when I was on a comparison shopping mission for a household item. As far as «Supercenter» goes, this is a smaller store with a more rational parking lot than the one on Mulberry. Selection for the item I was researching was minimal, lower quality, but cheap (as per their business model). I’m not sure if selection here is more limited because it is a smaller store, or if this is par for the Walmart course. Getting around in the store was a bit annoying, in that there is less square footage here but there still are all those displays of super special bargain deals in the middle of the main aisleways that you have to navigate around. The grocery section is pretty small, but I didn’t spend much time looking around.
So, you know, it’s a Walmart. I hope the fact that it is there helps the surrounding businesses.