Walmart Supercenter

Ugh, where to start? Where to start? I think the tornado tried to tell them something but they didn’t listen. I have never seen a Walmart like this one and if I see another one, I hope not.
Driving into this monstrosity you view the remains of former stores and businesses and the concrete junk left behind. It’s like a war zone. Fail.
Let’s start from the beginning:
Greeters. Either they look away or just don’t know how to say hi. Either way, it’s a waste of money. I asked one why the entrance and exit on one side of the store was opposite to how people normally walk and drive, that is left is right and right is left. No answer that was understandable. Fail.
Pharmacy. Nasty. It is close to the entrance but not really planned very well. The workers there aren’t very well planned either. So, pass on this Walmart pharmacy. I got RXs there for my mother once and it’s not worth the hassle. Fail.
The aisles near the pharmacy are too close together. It’s hard for two carts to pass one another, assuming both are sticking to the rules of the road of the rest of the country and traveling on the right. Fail.
Employees have a special sort of dumbness that other stores find hard to match. I was looking for a certain type of sealer and asked an employee about it. Told him what I wanted it for and what I was looking for. Didn’t have it he swore on the grave of his mother. Five minutes later I looked him up with the item in hand that he swore that they didn’t stock, carry or have. Fail. And he was old enough that he could read! I guess they probably had to have another funeral as I bet his mother sat up in her grave after that whopper.
Looking for a DVD set. I asked the little dude working in that department if they had this set. No, no, no. A couple of minutes later the lady I was with found it. I had to explain to him, like the other one, here it is. I didn’t utter the usual accompanying words that go with such a talk. Fail. To be fair, I don’t think he could read.
Fresh produce. Or I think they claim it’s fresh. More like mystery fruit. Fresh means anything from tan to brown but not black, right? They’re trying to be like whole foods on this one. I recommend that you bring a flashlight with you. Yes, it’s that dark in that area. I’m surprised that there hasn’t been several muggings here since it’s so dark. This is the department where they separate the men from the boys – with a crowbar. Fail.
Side of the wall. It isn’t rocket science. You are at spot X looking down the wall for what you’re shopping for, but can’t because the wall jogs out in a stupid triangle and you can only see 10 feet or so. Then have to walk another ten feet or so and then a few more and a few more and finally walk out the store. Thanks Walmart for making people walk more, get their cardio and walk out without what they were looking for because they gave up. They were probably looking for something fattening anyway. Fail.
Say thank you or you’re welcome. Guess they don’t know those words up there. Buy something, get the receipt, say thank you and get a blank stare like a cow looking into a headlamp of a car. Only difference is that the cow will get out of the road if you honk your horn. And a cow can give milk. A Walmart employee can only give you a blank stare. Fail.
The parking lot is an adventure in race car driving, to say the least. Designed well below the average below average Walmart parking lot, drive with extra caution when entering or leaving the premises. It doesn’t help that it seems like there’s a liquor store on every corner. Just saying. Well, hey, it’s true.
Prices. They think that they’re the only game in town and it shows. If they had a prize for worst Walmart in the U.S., they’d get my vote and many others. Incidentally, there are other food stores in town besides this place with better prices.
Going back to the tornado. I asked an employee (I refuse to call them ASSociates) did they build a shelter since so many people died there. I was told their bathrooms are their shelters. Well, that certainly worked out well in the last storm. Fail. Kudos to Home depot just down the road who actually built a reinforced shelter with a steel door for such an unlikely event in the future, unlike this place.
Looks like money is the bottom line, customer service a sport to see who can be the worst, and this is worth visiting only if you’re a sadist. I don’t understand how they can get away with such bad service when the other Walmart in town is decent and the one just to the north in Webb City is by far better the better one in the whole area.
I find no reason to shop at this location due to the staff not knowing what they’re doing, the parking lot being a hazard zone, the prices a bit above average and the general demeanor of the whole place just being there with an attitude of if you don’t like it… tough. Fail. Fail.

Fresh food for the games today. Staff was friendly and helpful. Less than five minute wait in the line to check out.
It really sucks about the tornado a couple years ago and God Bless all those lost when it happened.
The people of Joplin and especially of that Walmart have really pulled together and made something unthinkable into a model for what should be held as the top standard in their prospective business.

The store had a very clean feeling and had a variety of different sauces that we were looking for and the checkout was fairly easy to do.

Terrible customer service. Be careful of the wine prices are mis-​marked and the night mgr has no clue of the difference between a «brand» and a «variety». The customer service lady is mean and sour.