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by gloverkcn 3385 days ago
Coming back from India and going to Walmart.

so much space with nobody in it. Everything you need to live under one giant roof. There's 4 people at 4 registers and no line for any of them.

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> There's 4 people at 4 registers and no line for any of them.

We are definitely not going to the same Walmart.

EDIT: To clarify, I know this is one of Walmart's strengths, but it doesn't improve my experience.

At my nearest Walmart, the 12-items-or-less "fast" lane is also the exclusive tobacco products lane which totally defeats the purpose. Buying cigarettes is also a recursive game of 20 Questions about brand, size, filter, we-don't-have-that-do-you-want-this-instead? Okay, brand, size, filter...

(And I see you'll be paying in pennies.)

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I enjoy visiting India (I'm an anglo American) but I always know I'm back in the US when I arrive into Houston and there's a fifteen-foot-tall banner advertising donut ice cream in the food court inside the airport.
I dunno... India is no slouch when it comes to absurdly sweet desserts. I used to get fresh custard apple covered in condensed milk as a "snack" in Mumbai.