2007-05-08 14:30:43 · 7 answers · asked by kewldude471 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Other - United States
As mentioned, WalMart is travel friendly and likes to help people out; it is also good business ... most people who stay overnight in the parking lots do indeed buy whatever provisions are needed while there.
Unfortunately, many municipalities are making such parking unlawful, and banning it, and WalMart has no say when a city decides to do this.
Also, a person doesn't have to be short on funds to decide to stay a night in a parking lot or rest area. Often, when on the road and heading to a particular destination, you just want to stay long enough for a good nights sleep and get back on the road, and who wants to pay $30+ for that and all the trouble of hooking things up? Of course, it does also help the money stretch further, and contrary to what many people believe, people who have RV's aren't neccessarily well off. Many (like us) live fulltime in their RV, and live on disability and/or retirement income.
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2007-05-08 16:22:02 · answer #1 · answered by Pichi 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The campers are winding down for the night. The think that some coke and a snack would be good. Where they going to go to get it? Walmart.
They wake up in the morning and decide that some ham and eggs with toast and bacon sounds good. Short on groceries and low on funds (if they weren't being a little tight, they wouldn't be camping in a Walmart parking lot) so what to do? Go to Walmart.
The RV was making a strange noise on this last leg of the trip. Might be nothing, but let's check it out. Oh look, the fan belt is frayed. Better get a new one. But where am I going to get a new fan belt while I am camping? Oh, I'm camping in a Walmart parking lot.
2007-05-08 21:39:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am a truck driver and most of us know that Wal Mart has always been travel friendly. Their policy of helping people goes beyond the store to just plain being nice to us weary drivers. There's even one a couple hours west of here that they put in an extra parking lot just for the semis (thank GOD!)
2007-05-08 23:03:03 · answer #3 · answered by highlanders30 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because those same people wake up in the morning and buy breakfast and a clean pair of underwear right before showering in their bathroom sinks.
2007-05-08 21:38:22 · answer #4 · answered by SheSpawn 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It keeps the white-trash ambiance alive and well twenty four hours a day
2007-05-08 21:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
LOL, I thought that only happened in Wis?
2007-05-08 21:48:42 · answer #6 · answered by Daughtry-luver 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just good business, public relations
2007-05-08 21:38:13 · answer #7 · answered by xjoizey 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋