Eastport Plaza Shopping Center — Attraction in Portland

WalMart: The employees are the rudest I've seen ever. Consistently rude and even down right mean. I've heard the recycling room attendant cussing and clearly harassing the people using the facility. I was making a bottle deposit return last week with my two daughters teaching them how to use the machines and the responsibility of society to do our part to protect our planet from pollution, and that our family was really trying to limit our impact on the planet through renewable energy, sustainably and of course recycling, when an employee named Leo I learned later through a very helpful man I'm assuming was homeless. When Leo walked into the facility and yelled very loudly at this young man to get the F#$& out of there he wasn't allowed in anymore today because he'd already reached his daily limit of returns. My youngest daughter Emmy was visibly frightened of this employees yelling and foul language. I turned to the youngman that had been helpful and informative to us on the use and little tricks of bottle deposit returning, as the machines aren't in very good working order and half seemed were not operating at all. I was so upset by the trips events that I offered the young man the receipts I'd collected as a reward for his help and told him the employee was out of line and he should report him to his superior. He looked up at me with defeat in his eyes and said the entire staff was rude and demeaning to not only him but every person who returned deposits regularly as a daily income of sorts. He said the poor and homeless are treated like vermen by nearly everyone that was employed by Walmart. He said they knew that Walmart was breaking ethics laws and were down right guilty of harassment and profiling of these folks but that no one would believe them over the world's largest corporation. He told me to keep the cash from the deposit returns please and to treat the girls to an ice cream, because he wanted them to be rewarded for their had work and dedication to planet Earth. I agreed and thanked him again and we went on in the store to collect and promptly left. I will never return to this Walmart again. And I personally hope that the unethical practices and policies of Walmart are brought to the attention of our states officials. The actions ok saw personally and in front of my daughters ages 4 and 8 were on my opinion unlawful and should be address by state and local officially promptly. Shame on...

This place feels like an unpleasant necessity on this side of town. It blesses us with good Chinese food, a sushi conveyor belt place, a big craft store, and a low-income place to shop. There are, of course, other destinations which draws those with interests different from mine. The main challenge of this place is driving through it. 1. They leave large potholes in place for months at a time. This was particularly bad on one of the cross streets last year where several campers parked for months right next to a great big pothole that filled the street with water. When drivingying through here you had to drive past these camping vehicles through the narrowed space and hope you didn't end up hitting the swamped pothole. 2. The use of smaller parking lots off of the thoroughfares means tricky navigation as you try to park near your destination. This set up also mean that some driver's try to skip the westbound 82nd and Holgate intersection by cutting through those same thoroughfares. This means some people are speeding through an area where others are slowing down as they reach their destinations. If you park away from your destination crosswalks are not set up in the places where most people would want to walk, and one crosswalk is too close to Holgate, and the overly fast driver's swinging into the shopping center. Perhaps a speed bump there, in addition to the one that makes up the crosswalk,...

Would be five stars but I liked the layout better when it was all one building in the '80s. One of my first jobs was working the Orange Julius booth next to one of the first waterslides in the region. Back then you could get a loaded st Louis dog and large Julius with an egg blended in (pre salmonella days) for about 5 bucks. I like the variety of stores here now, pretty much find anything you need from art supplies to groceries to outdoor gear in one or more stores. Pretty decent theatre, just not a fan of higher prices when I can catch a flick st the old academy theatre over at 78th and stark next to flying pie pizza for 4$. That and as my bod has finally decided to start telling me I'm developing oldfartitis I wish the layout was a bit more compact. They truly overdid the parking by probably 30%, should have gone garage style like town center. Big thing to me is they really need a transit center like Clackamas has do you don't have to get off the bus on 82nd or the max and have to walk the equivalent of 3-4 blocks to get to the anchor stores and theatre. At least the phone stores dollar tree and several fast food places are up front along 82nd. Or the...