Why do people get so mean and aggressive in Wal-Mart?

Question

Have you noticed the personality change of customers?

Answer 1

Hi, my name is Ryan and I get mean and obnoxious in Wal-Mart. My wife doesn't like to take me shopping during the holidays because of this fact.

There, I said it. Now...why?

I am not a rude or obnoxious person...but I do have a Mr Hyde waiting to come out when I cross those automatic doors. Answer this...If you were driving down a 2 lane, or more appropriate comparison to walmart aisle would be a 1.5 lane road and someone parked their ford excursion in the middle of it while they got out to look at the leaves, grass, smell the flowers, and see what type of bugs were in the dirt...would you be annoyed? What if they started backing up in the middle of the road with traffic coming both ways? Then there are so many people riding around in the motorized carts that are nothing but lazy that think they have the right of way even when they are pulling out into your buggy. Now the inconsiderate jerk in the ford excursion could have pulled over to the side so that the line of traffic behind him could get by, but he doesn't - even though he knows they are all behind him. If I'm going to joy ride on sunday afternoon slowly cruising watching the birds and the sunshine, I'm not going to make everybody follow me - I'll pull over if they can't pass me. So all I expect is the same respect from the numb-skulls that lurk the Walmart (or where ever) ailses.

By they way, for all the snoots answering in here, I'm not lower class. My wife and I do well. I hate it when people stereotype.

Answer 2

It is not just Wal-Mart where people are rude and aggressive,it is pretty much everywhere now a days. It is all in how people are raising their children these days. Also people are working longer and more and I believe people are just plain tired. When you are tired you tend to be short with others. Plus Wal-Mart has the bargains and people want what Wal-Mart has,and they will run you over to get it. Sad situation.

Answer 3

Because Wal-Mart is actually a PORTAL TO HELL.

The place is designed to keep you wandering around in search of what you really need, yet coming across great deals on crap like a giant bag of stale cookies or a new carrot peeler.

In addition to that when you spot what you want the isles are so narrow you cannot turn around if there is another customer near you so you have to go around the block and come back to it all the while finding more fantastic deals on $5 T-shirts and scented candles when all you really went to the store to buy was a gallon of milk and a chew toy for your dog.

Answer 4

Most people in wall mart are with their children. would you be a little aggresive and angree that you have to take 3 kids to a store, and have them run in 3 different directions. I also think it could be the people that work there that set the mood. If I were working in a store like that at the age of 40 making $8.00 I would probably start tripping little kids who ran through the store lol. I would have to say it's just people like you and I who would realize things like that...everyone else is usually old, accompanied by 3 or more children, white trash, or work there and hate their lives. I'm never in that store for more than 10 minutes, it's always hot in there.

Answer 5

Because Wal-Mart draws lower class and less educated people as customers... it's the Jerry Springer type of people who go there.

Answer 6

people are frustrated and by the time they're done training for a marathon walking around the store just to see if we carry an item they're looking for they've either found it, or we don't carry it... as well, attitudes of customers also depend on how associates are treating them...

a lot of people think that Super-Walmarts are too big, with too much choice and that sparks the personality change too

Answer 7

ok...in all honesty (keep an open mind): We are told to believe that we are getting GREAT deals at WalMart; that we are practically neighbors with it's amiable and down to earth owner (You can even picture his smiling face in your mind, huh?); that WalMart cares about community, etc. Fully saturated with this PR, we venture into our neighborhood WalMart - we are greeted by the pudgy and cheery senior citizen employee who pushes a cart our way with one fat hand while holding a huge role of bright yellow "Happy Face" stickers in the other (Wow! What a great start!); we roll our cart hopefully into the vast sea of great deals...we check out some honestly good buys (located only 20 feet into the store and stacked a mile high) but within two minutes our children are fussy and wander away as if they are deaf. After we drag our kids back and compose ourselves (that was a small thing, so we recover nicely) - we find our items in a pile on the floor and no cart. Looking around we see 164 people aggresively pushing identical royal blue carts (is it a coincidence that they all appear tense and dull?). We are now holding our child at the wrist in such a way as to cut off all circulation to the hand and lugging our stuff with our free hand...ashamed, we look around while emptying ANOTHER shopper's cart and stealing it away. Moving through the crowded aisles we load the cart with crap, some of it selling at below average costs but most of it priced similarly at Long's and K-Mart...ALL of it is poorly made from synthetic fabrics, press board and/or plastic. As we stand in a check out line 15 people deep (one of 12 identical lines) our only goal is to get home and put the whole trip to WalMart in the past. Outside, the local cops are cuffing up some scruffy looking guy while his girlfriend stands by crying. Pushing into the parking lot, we refuse a donation to whatever organization is posted up at the exit. Once the grey/blue or white plastic bags are loaded into the car, we navigate our way to the exit signs - pissed; frustrated and disappointed.
Why do we feel that way? Because we expected so much and yet we really ended up with so very little. WalMart is in the business of making money - BIG MONEY!!! FAT MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PROFITS EACH YEAR!!! And that money comes from the Walmart employees, the companies who contract to sell to WalMart; the 3rd world workers who produce so much of the **** sold at WalMart and finally (no different then any other company) it comes right out of the wallets of WalMart shoppers who happily buy a dozen pair of crappy socks for only $2.99 but overall are subject to the wide difference between wholesale and retail that WalMart demands. And it is that gap between the expectations we develop as a result of WalMart's brilliant, billion dollar PR work and the reality of a WalMart shopping experiance that causes us to feel so pi$$ed (consciencely or not).
So, boys and girls...F*@K WalMart! That's right...It's all a lie, time to wake up, you're gonna be late for school sleepy head!!!

Answer 8

Because Wal-Mart is the root of all evil!! It's like the snake in the bible...it lures you in by making you think it's good and wants what's best for you and then WHAM, you've spent all of your money and you've lost your job to outsourcing for cheap labor so they can keep their prices down.

Answer 9

I don't get aggressive but I do try to get in and out. I am not a crowd person. Same thing at the malls. And to everyone that makes a comment about the class of people...get over yourselves...

Answer 10

I haven't seen people get mean and aggressive in Walmart. I have seen people get agitated - which usually happens when they've been waiting in line for a long time, not been helped, or are having trouble finding what they are looking for.