Walmart

Great service on an oil change. In and out in less than 30 minutes which gave me an opportunity to pick p a few grocery items. They check your other fluids and perform a battery check which your standard shops don’t with a standard oil change. They use Pennzoil.

Some of the prices are good, and there is a lot of selection. End of positives.
The customer base is what gets me the most. I could walk into any other big box store, and the atmosphere and customers are MUCH more friendlier and welcoming. Oh, and a lot of the employees don’t care to help you at all. They’d rather stand around and text, or talk to the other employees.
It always seems like there’s never enough cashiers working. Once it’s your turn in the line, you’d better hurry and put everything on the belt without pausing for 2 seconds, otherwise everybody is going to give you dirty looks and possibly start yelling. Ask me how I know.
When you buy clothes from Walmart, also buy a sewing needle and matching thread, because there’s a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ chance that the clothes will fall apart. A lot of them are bad quality and poorly constructed.
One of the sections has been 97% empty for months. When I say months, I really mean months. There wasn’t a big sale or anything, it’s just that nothing was put out!

This is without doubt the best Walmart I’ve ever had the «pleasure» of walking into. Yeah, I know. It’s the American bully. But honestly, if it wasn’t for this Walmart, my univ-​student sister and her roommates would’ve had a hard time furnishing their new home-​away-​from-​home without it.
Not to say that *everything* was purchased there, but I would guestimate about 85% was bought from this Walmart. It wasn’t a conscious decision… seeing as we wound up going there every day for five straight days because there was «something else we forgot to pick up». We’d go through all the different locations in our heads of places to go to pick the stuff up, but we always ended up agreeing to go back to Walmart.
So now for the third year student, truly living on her own this year around (past two years were school dorm rooms), what Walmart sold us, well, amongst *everything else*, was a nicely sized computer/​homework desk for less than $ 100; and boy did we spend all day looking around for a better deal elsewhere: Zellers, Canadian Tire, Staples/​Business Depot, Sears, Value Village, just to name a few — and no one had a better option. And funnily enough, we found out that two of the roommates had purchased the exact same one.
That pretty much was the story for everyday; no one could give us a better option for her school stuffs.
What *really* was the kicker for me though, was that this store — complete with grocery/​produce items — had a gluten free section. I have a Walmart sitting across the street from where I live in Toronto — complete with grocery items, and it does not have a gluten free section.
All my favourite foods, and a few new ones to boot, are sitting on adjoining shelves in a Walmart in Windsor for an average thirty cents cheaper than what I can get at all the stores I frequent at home (Gluten free mock-​oreos! HELLO!).
Both I and my sis are gluten intolerant; so now she’s sitting smug at her newly furnished home with her one-​stop shop.