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 Mar 22 2006, 09:34 PM
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I found this article about a new type of wal-mart they are testing in plano. It is going to have sushi and a coffee bar among other stuff.
any of you in dfw area been to this store? QUOTE By MARIA HALKIAS and JAKE BATSELL / The Dallas Morning News PLANO – From now on, Plano shoppers will have a lot to say about what Wal-Mart sells in its stores. The world's largest retailer today opens a first-of-its-kind "laboratory" store in this city, with the purpose of studying how to entice shoppers to consider Wal-Mart for more than everyday essentials. A more upscale Wal-Mart with a specialty-store attitude, it carries premium products and services not found at a typical Supercenter. John Menzer, vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores USA, said the chain has put its best ideas inside this Supercenter, which is at the southeast corner of West Park Boulevard and Dallas Parkway. "Now we'll see what the customer thinks," he said Tuesday during a store tour. The 203,091-square-foot store has the chain's only sushi shop, more than 500 organic products and a wine department with more than 1,000 varieties ranging up to $500 a bottle. It features a Wi-Fi-ready Kicks Coffee Café at the front of the store and a kiosk in the meat department that prints recipes and shopping lists. Even the employees' aprons and vests have been replaced by a more polished navy polo and khaki uniform. Customer service will be available during peak hours from specialists in electronics and cosmetics. Bikes are assembled out in the open so that staffers can answer questions at the same time. About 1,500 premium items not sold in other Wal-Mart stores are being tested here, said Ryan Lincks, project manager and senior analyst for U.S. strategy for the retailer. The store doesn't sell fabric or guns and carries less fishing gear than a typical Wal-Mart. Instead, that space is now devoted to fitness equipment, kids' crafts, sporting goods, patio furniture and hot tubs. Automotive supply aisles are also smaller. "This customer doesn't work on the family's cars," Mr. Lincks said. Arkansas-based Wal-Mart has a history of trying new concepts in Dallas-Fort Worth. More recently, these have included 24-hour pharmacies and an environmentally friendly store in McKinney. The new Plano store has been shaped to fit the lifestyle of area residents, many of whom strongly opposed its construction. Heres the link but you will need Bugmenot if you dont want to register http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/bus/storie...n2.913b9b8.html |
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Mar 22 2006, 09:36 PM
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I was raised on the dairy, BITCH! Group: Members Posts: 3,080 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Cedar Park Member No.: 49 |
wi fi ready walmart?
-------------------- "Ah, y'know it's funny, these people they go to sleep, they think everything's fine, everything's good. They wake up the next day and they're on fire."
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Mar 22 2006, 09:38 PM
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 monogamous gays & stem cells Group: Members Posts: 3,789 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 8 |
it'll still be a shithole and attract the kind of people that west plano doesn't want. plano tried to prevent that store for a couple of years.
and the traffic at park and the tollway is already atrocious, so it's going to increase tenfold. |
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Mar 22 2006, 09:40 PM
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CHEE CHEE Group: Members Posts: 5,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: trapped in the hoezone layer Member No.: 39 |
man they do this already with regular suburban grocery stores but the difference will come when wal mart stops hiring mentally retarded trash. then the yuppies will flock
yeah i said it! -------------------- Little monkeys making money
Naked monkey looking funny Mighty males are strong and free Female monkey, not so lucky Rocking monkeys, funky monkeys Monkeys sticking other monkeys Monkeys wrong or monkeys right Mostly flexing monkey might |
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Mar 22 2006, 09:54 PM
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QUOTE (Testm0nkey @ Mar 22 2006, 09:40 PM) man they do this already with regular suburban grocery stores but the difference will come when wal mart stops hiring mentally retarded trash. then the yuppies will flock yeah i said it! They said they would have specialists in the consumer electronics areas and some others, kinda like best buy or circuit city do. They're trying to build this thing around the concept that Best Buy does, fitting the store to the customer, not the other way around. They're gonna have all kinds of attractions for all the rich snobby people in plano -------------------- LANCE IS PRO-CENSORSHIP! HE IS CENSORING MY LOVE FOR THE LORD!
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Mar 22 2006, 09:56 PM
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CHEE CHEE Group: Members Posts: 5,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: trapped in the hoezone layer Member No.: 39 |
they should also change the building architecture and colors for their new style. break away from the old concept of la wal marte
-------------------- Little monkeys making money
Naked monkey looking funny Mighty males are strong and free Female monkey, not so lucky Rocking monkeys, funky monkeys Monkeys sticking other monkeys Monkeys wrong or monkeys right Mostly flexing monkey might |
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Mar 22 2006, 09:57 PM
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just wait till all the messicans run the joint over thinking that they're high class now, the rich plano milfs will stick to the willow bend mall or eventually white flight up to mckinney
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Mar 22 2006, 10:10 PM
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monogamous gays & stem cells Group: Members Posts: 3,789 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 8 |
QUOTE (Testm0nkey @ Mar 22 2006, 09:56 PM) they should also change the building architecture and colors for their new style. break away from the old concept of la wal marte this store looks different. doesn't look like a typical walmart. |
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Mar 22 2006, 10:19 PM
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CHEE CHEE Group: Members Posts: 5,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: trapped in the hoezone layer Member No.: 39 |
i am a genius
-------------------- Little monkeys making money
Naked monkey looking funny Mighty males are strong and free Female monkey, not so lucky Rocking monkeys, funky monkeys Monkeys sticking other monkeys Monkeys wrong or monkeys right Mostly flexing monkey might |
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Mar 22 2006, 10:22 PM
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monogamous gays & stem cells Group: Members Posts: 3,789 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 8 |
QUOTE (Testm0nkey @ Mar 22 2006, 10:19 PM) i am an evil genius well don't get me wrong, it's still a hugeass "warehouse" type building, but it just looks like a different place. i think they're doing the same thing with the new walmart that's being built here. and didn't they change the one on west 4th, too? |
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Mar 22 2006, 10:28 PM
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Group: Moderators Posts: 885 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Lubbock, Texas Member No.: 12 |
QUOTE (lamont's lament @ Mar 22 2006, 10:22 PM) well don't get me wrong, it's still a hugeass "warehouse" type building, but it just looks like a different place. i think they're doing the same thing with the new walmart that's being built here. and didn't they change the one on west 4th, too? ya they just redid the 4th one. It actually looks alot better but they rearranged some stuff so its hard to find. But they still have lots of people who bring their kids who run around and get in my way and stupid workers. |
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Mar 22 2006, 10:29 PM
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 DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
Coming to a town near you! Six Flags over Wal-Mart!
God seriously why do they have to be hell-bent on world domination? -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Mar 22 2006, 11:47 PM
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 The Comeback Kid Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 22-March 06 From: Great Falls, MT Member No.: 125 |
QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Mar 22 2006, 10:29 PM) Coming to a town near you! Six Flags over Wal-Mart! God seriously why do they have to be hell-bent on world domination? because they are capatalists like most americans -------------------- I'm sorry. I thought this was America.
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Mar 23 2006, 12:20 AM
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at least they chose the right city
stuck up rich people from Plano willing to buy anything expensive good job --------------------  |
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Mar 23 2006, 12:40 AM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 2,499 Joined: 23-February 06 From: El Paso Texas Member No.: 32 |
QUOTE (Lancifer @ Mar 22 2006, 08:57 PM) just wait till all the messicans run the joint over thinking that they're high class now, the rich plano milfs will stick to the willow bend mall or eventually white flight up to mckinney it won't take long for the beans to invade that place -------------------- |
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