When you spend money on printing colourful flyers for your new restaurant, yiu might want to make sure the spelling is in check.
I’m not sure I know where Walmark is, but at least we know it’s on Kings George Road. Lol!
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Target Still Coming to Brantford?
Rumour across facebook is that Target will not be coming to Brantford after all –at least not in the location on West and Fairview. Employees were told that Target will be selling the lease back to the owners at a date to be determined later.
Which begs the question, are they coming? Will they build a new location? Brantford deserves more than just a crappy Walmart. Fact.
Brantford Walmart: Fumbling the Ball on Customer Service
I am absolutely livid at the crappy customer service I got today at the place ironically named “Customer Service” at Walmart in Brantford today.
Here’s the back story. My boss, who is a woman, asked me to exchange two pairs of pants for her, as they were not the right size. Simple enough, right? An exchange is easy enough, it doesn’t cost Walmart anything, and I won’t have to feel like I’m one of those creeps that routinely try to get refunds all the time on everything (Anyone who has worked in department store retail knows who I’m talking about there).
So I come in and wait in line. Line isn’t long. Great! I should be in and out in no time. It gets to my turn. I come up, bag in hand, with receipt. I mention casually that these pants aren’t in the size she would like and that I’d like to exchange for a different size. The lady at customer service starts processing a refund.
I try to stop her. “No, I just want an exchange in a different size!” I said. “Well, you can go get them and they’ll ring you through.” She said. “But I don’t know what style they are or anything!” I tried to reason with her. “There’s a couple girls in fashion I think that might be able to help you.” No budging. She processes the refund. this woman had at least 10 years of service (I’m sure that’s what her badge said) and knew I wasn’t interested in looking for pants. Doesn’t matter.
Now this is where I’m livid. While I’m a dude that has no problem picking up stuff for women; I’m really irritated by this. This wasn’t some great thing I was asking of her. I wanted someone to get the correct size of pants! I don’t want to be looking around aimlessly in the women’s section of fashion looking for pants that I didn’t get more than a 10 second glimpse at in hopes of “finding some” in the right size. Not to mention, how the hell are these girls going to help me find “some black pants” in another size if I don’t know what they are? I’m not going to look like an idiot trying to find girl pants in the store.
Let’s add the fact that they are under construction, and nothing is in it’s correct place. So even if I knew what type of pants they were, how the hell am I going to logically go and look for them? The right answer is to say “I’ll have someone bring those up in the size you want. It’ll be two minutes.”
Now I have left absolutely raving mad (you can tell I’ve calmed down some now) and have lost what little respect I was gaining for Brantford Walmart. As it is – if I want something from a Walmart I go out of Brantford because the store is either out of stock or the service is poor. Now another reason why this Walmart blows.
Get your fucking act together Brantford Walmart, or your store isn’t going to do any better post-reno once Target comes in. Just saying. Feel free to add your Walmart Brantford hell stories in the comment section.
William Todd: Criminal Legend of Fail
Police say William Todd of Kentucky went on a crime spree lasting 9 hours and 10 felonies before finally being arrested at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.
William Todd wreaked havoc on Nashville, where he started his day of terror by breaking into a haunted house tourist attraction and stealing a taser, revolver and shotgun. Todd went on a shooting spree inside and eventually lit the building on fire.
Todd then tased, pistol-whipped and stole cash and credit cards from four patrons at a local bar all while holding them at gunpoint. About five minutes later, Todd hijacked a taxi and drove to Walmart, where he spent over $200.
Todd then broke into a local lawyers office, ransacked the business then defecated on a desk, smearing feces on some of the framed law degrees.
He then impersonated a female housekeeper and knocked on several hotel room doors.
In one case, police said Todd stole $600 from a Canadian couple while at gunpoint and shaved his head to rid of a long red ponytail that could lead to police finding his identity.
At 9am, police said Todd crashed the stolen cab into a parking garage.
Two hours later he hailed a new one and held the cab driver at knife point.
Police, on the search for Todd, found him submerged in a water-cooling vat in Opryland where he was hiding.
We’ll discuss this on the show tonight at 9pm on Generation Zel! Radio!
Walmart Opening Delayed by minor Fire
The opening of the Wal-Mart store on King George Road in Brantford was delayed due to a minor fire that broke out around midnight Thursday. The fire occurred in an area where renovations were underway and was due to sparks from welding that was being done in the area. The damage was estimated at $10,000 and no one was injured. The store reopened before Noon on Thursday.
Zellers Christmas Commericals Are Hilarious!
Walmart Steaks “Pissy” in Ohio
Who buys meat at Walmart anyways?
CANTON, Ohio — A Canton man remains in jail after being arrested for urinating on a meat counter at a Wal-Mart store.
According to Lt. Linda Brown of the Canton Police Department, Robert T. Jenkins, 21, of Canton, was arrested at 1:30 a.m. Friday morning and charges with felony vandalism and disorderly conduct.
Police say Jenkins was arrested after they responded to a call from an employee at the Wal-Mart store on Atlantic Blvd. NE, claiming a man walked up to the meat counter and began urinating on the steaks, destroying more than $600 dollars in meat.
According to Lt. Brown, it is not yet known if alcohol or drugs played a role in Brown’s actions.
He is currently being held in the Stark County jail in lieu of $25,000 bond.
A Heterosexual Moment, Please…
WalMart Employee Trampled; Shoppers Don’t Even Care
Shoppers Upset they Can’t get bargains as they kill employee; Injure more
Wow, what the fuck is going on in the US these days. I know the economy is down but… shortly after 5 a.m., a throng of shoppers “physically broke down the doors, knocking (the worker) to the ground…” at the Valley Stream Wal-Mart on Long Island, New York.
Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries. The store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.
Police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the Wal-Mart doors before its 5 a.m. opening at a mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. The impatient crowd knocked the employee, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour, to the ground as he opened the doors, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion.
“This crowd was out of control,” Fleming said. He described the scene as “utter chaos,” and said the store didn’t have enough security.
Dozens of store employees trying to fight their way out to help Damour were also getting trampled by the crowd, Fleming said. Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store.
Damour, 34, of Queens, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 6 a.m., police said.
A 28-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a hospital, where she and the baby were reported to be OK, said police Sgt. Anthony Repalone.
Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like “savages.”
“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’” she said. “They kept shopping.”
WalMart Doesn’t care Either, apparently
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., called the incident a “tragic situation” and said the employee came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store.
What a sick sad tale on American society. Luckily it didn’t happen in Canada, but it’s coming.
HBC Says Goodbye to Zucker, Hello Lord & Taylor
Hudson’s Bay Co. has been sold to a new American owner, NRDC Equity Partners, the parent of upscale U.S. chain Lord & Taylor.
HBC’s first American owner was South Carolina businessman Jerry Zucker, who bought the venerable retailer in January 2006 for $1.1 billion. Zucker died of cancer in April.
Under the terms of the deal, NRDC — which has 47 Lord & Taylor’s stores in the United States — would launch 10 to 15 of the stores in Canada. They will be located in existing Bay stores or in other HBC real estate.
The companies said they see a gap in the Canadian retail landscape between the Bay and Holt Renfrew, where they believe Lord & Taylor will fit.
NRDC already owned about 20 per cent of HBC, and NRDC’s chief executive officer, Richard Baker, is on the board of the 338-year-old company. Baker will become the 38th governor of HBC.
NRDC, which is based in Purchase, N.Y., also owns Fortunoff, a U.S. jewelry and home furnishings chain of stores, and clothing design firm Creative Design Studios.
“By acquiring Hudson’s Bay Co. along with previous acquisitions Lord & Taylor and Fortunoff, we will have an unprecedented opportunity to recreate the retail landscape in North America,” said Baker.
Hudson’s Bay Co. owns the Bay, Zellers Home Outfitters and the Fields chains of retail outlets.
NRDC will invest $500 million US in new equity in the combined company.
Zellers will receive a greater focus on branded apparel, improved customer service and the rollout of new 125,000-square-foot prototype stores.
