Walmart — Local services in Bristol

It's just what you expect from Wal-Mart. Value. Noticeably lower prices than your local CVS. My Loreal hair color is 8 something at Wal-Mart and 11 something or 2 for 21 at CVS, which is still about 4 dollars more with quantity purchase. Savings like that add up fast. On the other hand it's easy to fall prey to the cheap mentality and buy stuff because it's a deal. Usually stuff I could go without. And since Wal-Mart brands are on the average of lower quality, I end up with more junk when I could have bought a quality item and forgone the feel good fluff. So when I'm more disciplined, I save good money and don't buy deals unless I need it. I noticed an uptick in women's active wear. The danskin products are decent enough some actually equal to or better than pricier brands at mall specialty retailers. The danskin sport bras are one example. Generally I can't find better quality and price for basics, like cotton tees for 4.98 or cotton 60 poly 40 for 2.99. I only buy natural fibers, so this is a great deal savings for summer casual wear that generally lasts only a season or two no matter wear you buy it. I continue to be unimpressed by the pet care products, like dog treats, raw hide etc., which is as much as products from pet store retailers and more if you shop sales at the pet stores. Grocery and junk food are acceptable, and downright cheap at times, but generally Wal-Mart carries inferior food brands and name brands run about the same as anywhere else especially when you buy them on sale at other places I may actually pay less. Wal-Mart never has sale priced sparkling water, a staple of mine. So I can get that cheaper almost anywhere else. If i go to pick up home goods like curtains, window dressings, bathroom accessories, towels, shower curtains etc, I rarely find anything I really like, and if I do it's not the same quality as at my preferred retailers where I can get better quality and price if I'm shopping sales. All this said, I can forgo the slightly to substantially preferred product if it's not that important to me, because the convenience of of one stop shopping is sometimes preferred and Wal-Mart offers a wide variety of products from paint, tools, clothes, yard and garden etc, in one place. Time savings is often more important to me than just noticeable differences between products I have to strategize around, like shopping several stores or waiting for deals. Convenience pays. It's all a trade off and unless it's something special or specific I'm seeking I'll choose to save time and money more...

I went early morning–Around 8am-ish Store wasn't over crowded (Not sure if it was due to the time, but have visited other Walmart locations even earlier when they just open the doors & within 15 minutes certain isles will already be congested?!) So I was able to get in & get out REALLY FAST! I also had called in advance looking for a particular phone that was out of stock at almost every other Walmart locations! Yet the other Walmart locations that listed this item as "Available," in fact DID NOT have it in stock as advertised! So after visiting 2 locations that said the item was "IN STOCK" with no success... I started calling the next handful of locations in order of distance whether or not the phone was posted as "in stock" or "sold out," Thus leading me to Bristol's Walmart location in which she double checked & confirmed that she had found just 1 left and reassured me out was indeed the correct model & make of Android device! Where as prior to calling Bristol... I attempted to call the Hartford location seeing as it was listed as in stock online... Just to be met by rude customer service that redirected my call twice just to put me on hold f hot 15 while they "checked" until I finally hung up and called back to have it own out almost exactly as the first call with the exception of instead being placed on hold by what sounded like it was the same associate before, so she would "Go check" (With a "long exhale" as if I asked her to walk 100 miles or some other excruciatingly laborious task of some sort?!) But instead of being placed on hold for another 15 minutes, she "puffed" and then {click} just hung up on me like nothing! Ntm... She sounded young and agile... Where as Bristol I meet The same woman who helped me on the phone and she was a bit older yet confirmed that item was in stock lickety split I was probably on hold for 20 seconds! An extremely pleasant! Yeah the Hartford associate sounded much younger and was completely disrespectful and acted like I was torturing her just simply "requesting" that she check?! And she didn't even do it! Sorry for this long post, but "Hey I'm trying out my new phone" thanks to Bristol's competent & speedy...

Wal-mart was GREAT when it was in the South, then it showed up in Connecticut. I loved it, great prices , lots of staff on the floor to help customers, they had cashier's instead of making customers ring there own purchases, or wait in long lines to be rung out by a human. All so Walmart can save the cost of paying people & put the money in there pocket...this is another copy-cat program that helps the corporate retail giants keep the profits in there bottom line & that helps them stay on target with there projected sales statement and THAT is what keeps there stock investors happy...EVERYTHING is more and more about there stock market performance and the customers get forgotten while the quality of the store employee's dwindles, the stores are messy , there is no more (IN THE STORES I SHOP IN CONNECTICUT) friendly & super helpful sales floor employee's with a good attitude and smile on there face. Every acts like it is all they can do to be pleasant . Retail sucks, for the customer and eployees..CEO's Regional , district and store management needs to fix it now and fix it right , before online shopping shuts down there brick and mortar stores and leaves them jobless. You can take these basics and apply yjem to all box stores in the Northeast in my opiniop.The latest problem is all the parking spaces that there "pick-up" program uses. The people that are sitting in there car and having there items brought to them as they sit in there car, should park out away from the store and let people that are walking into the store park closer ..or the elderly...typical corporate retail management not stepping back and really LOOKING at how there ideas and copy-cat decisions work for everyone..not just the possibility of there superiors buying them...