Walmart

I’ve seen two drug deals happen here. One in the store, one by the side of the building, where all the trucks park to drop off deliveries. None of the employees around seemed to care.
Family friendly, right? Pfft.

This review is about the employee that I encountered. Her name is Olshianna Doss. I went to Walmart in Valpo to grocery shop after having a horrendous day. I had a very large list of things that I had to get. I went to self check. The machine was acting up and every three items that needed to be scanned locked up the machine. So, I kept doing it and Olshianna came and put her code in. She asked me if I wanted to go to a different machine and offered to help in a few other ways that I don’t remember.
I said no, and finally after a few more times with the same error code I said to my son, «I’m about to leave all of this here.» She said «I can’t let you leave» and scanned all of my items and joked with me until I laughed. It was great. Walmart has an notorious, big box reputation filled with negativity. This girl is the exception. She should be promoted.

Time and time again, despite my best efforts at trying to believe that my bad experiences were simply isolated incidents, I’ve come to the realization that this Walmart store sincerely is not interested in serving its customers. To name all of the bad experiences that I’ve had at this store would bore the reader and/​or cause my thumbs to fall off from excessive typing on my smartphone. With that being said, f you must go to this store I suggest you prepare yourself for a plentiful supply of rude employees, slow employees, rude AND slow employees, lots of out of stock items, and an overall store that just looks disorganized and in constant disarray.
This store’s Customer Service Desk is by far the worst of any I’ve ever seen, in any store, in my ENTIRE life. Any time I’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of needing to visit it, I must wait in a line of at least 4 – 5 customers with one employee (MaryBeth) working very inefficiently. I am shocked that Walmart would continue to employ a person that is so rude to its «valued» customers. Both personally and as I have listened to conversations with other customers, MaryBeth has been rude, offensive, condescending, and critical to customers. One milder example I can think of involving MaryBeth was when I witnessed her going so far as to say that a customer was «wasting food» because they returned a can of corn to the store and Walmart was going to throw it away. In short, the Customer Service Desk here is a contradiction in terms of its definition.
Lastly, prepare for a long wait if you need the services of the Pharmacy or the Electronics Department at this store… There is ALWAYS a line of 5 or more customers every time I visit the Pharmacy, and EVERY SINGLE TIME that I need assistance in Electronics, an employee is nowhere to be found.
My recommendation, based on my own experiences: Go to Target, Kmart, or honestly anywhere else but this Walmart store.

Ugh! This is by far the worst Walmart in the area. We call it «the out of stock» store. No matter what I can be guaranteed to walk out without one or more things on my list because they were out of stock. Whoever stocks for this place needs fired. Empty shelves, sloppy aisles, poor options, and few lines open all add up to one star. If it weren’t for convenience I would quit making trips here. We are down to Walmart visits of once every 2 – 3 months. We have found much better elsewhere, anywhere…, as long as I don’t have to put up with their overpriced, understaffed, greedy insanity.

Really bad service at the photo center.
An older lady who wouldn’t release some pictures I ordered because she needed a written copyright release from the photographer who took my maternity pictures? They were taken from my own SLR camera and edited on my computer so of course the pictures looked totally fab!!!
The reason why I’m very upset is because I live in CA and sent an online order to the Valparaiso Walmart and called ahead of time to make sure they got the order before I sent someone to pick them up and the lady on the phone said they were ready for pick up, she also mentioned I needed a copy right release for the pictures, however I told her they were my own pictures and she said it was ok.
A couple days later when they tried picking up the pictures a lady gave us a hard time about the copy right release so I asked to speak to a manager… The manager on the phone didn’t know anything about what was going on, and every time I asked him a question, he had to ask the lady at the photo center for an answer to my questions so it was basically like I wasn’t even speaking to a manager because he couldn’t give me an answer for himself!
Unfortunately I couldn’t do much because I’m in California but seriously, get your employees informed this way there’s no miscommunication!!! That was embarrassing for me to send someone there to pick up the pictures and then they had to deal with uniformed employees who weren’t helpful or understanding.
I should have got the name of the person to whom I spoke to the first time that said it was ok to get the pictures printed.
The other weird part is that this Walmart in Valparaiso gave me such a hard time with these pictures, meanwhile at my local Walmart in CA never mentioned anything about a copy right release for the same exact pictures! I don’t get it! Aren’t all walmarts the same? I got all my pictures printed here without a hassle or questions.
I am very upset! Inform all your employees Walmart!
This doesn’t even deserve one star.
What a nightmare!!!