12-18-2006, 12:55 PM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Walmart Open 24hrs
For all you last minute Christmas Shoppers. All Calgary
Walmart"s are now open 24hrs starting today til Christmas eve.
6 more shopping days left
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12-18-2006, 01:24 PM
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hockeygal_17
For all you last minute Christmas Shoppers. All Calgary
Walmart"s are now open 24hrs starting today til Christmas eve.
6 more shopping days left
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Pffft. You ain't seen a Wal-mart unless you've been to Texas. All open 24 hours and bigger than an NFL football stadium. Finding contact solution was a bitch.
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12-18-2006, 01:26 PM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Montreal
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That's crazy. How many people go xmas shopping at 3am?
On the opposite end of the specturm Wal-mart here (Montreal) is open from 12-5 on weekends -- as are most stores.
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12-18-2006, 01:32 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hockeygal_17
For all you last minute Christmas Shoppers. All Calgary
Walmart"s are now open 24hrs starting today til Christmas eve.
6 more shopping days left
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Actually there are only 2 Wal-Mart in Calgary open 24 hours till Christmas Eve.
The two are, Shawnessey SW and 36th Street NE.
At least that's what the news and Wal-mart had annouced...
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12-18-2006, 01:34 PM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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I am an insomniac. I love going to Walmart at 3 am. It is really surreal. The lights are on, the music is playing, the building is the size of the Saddledome (I am in Texas), and the place is totally deserted. I usually don’t buy anything because Walmart is evil, but it is good exercise running up and down the isles screaming.
Those fat people scooters are fun to ride too. You can joust with the pool noodles if you like.
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12-18-2006, 01:58 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Jose, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flashpoint
I am an insomniac. I love going to Walmart at 3 am. It is really surreal. The lights are on, the music is playing, the building is the size of the Saddledome (I am in Texas), and the place is totally deserted. I usually don’t buy anything because Walmart is evil, but it is good exercise running up and down the isles screaming.
Those fat people scooters are fun to ride too. You can joust with the pool noodles if you like.
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Same with the ones in California...it's fun, but annoying. All I was looking for was some Windex and they gave me a MAP to the place...took me forever to find the aisle! I almost wish they were smaller. However, the fact that they're open 24 hours is awesome when it's super late and you want to buy a random DVD to watch and eat some popcorn. Hehe we did that at like 1 am the other day.
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12-18-2006, 02:00 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: 30 minutes from the Red Mile
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I wish all the malls are open 24/7 so I can avoid all the xmas rush when doing my shopping 
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12-18-2006, 02:06 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London, Ontario
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London was chosen as one of the first places in Canada to get one of those mega-Wal Marts. I haven't been because I despise Wal Mart, but friends of ours have and they say its ridiculously huge. I can wait.
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12-18-2006, 02:10 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Chiefs Kingdom, Yankees Universe, C of Red.
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Its about time Calgary caught up to the rest of civilized world.
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12-18-2006, 02:22 PM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Regulator75
Actually there are only 2 Wal-Mart in Calgary open 24 hours till Christmas Eve.
The two are, Shawnessey SW and 36th Street NE.
At least that's what the news and Wal-mart had annouced...
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That is what was orginally planned since then plans have changed they decided that every store in the city will be open 24hrs
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12-18-2006, 02:25 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Where are they going to get the people to run the stores? They don;t even have enough people right now.
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12-18-2006, 02:28 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hockeygal_17
That is what was orginally planned since then plans have changed they decided that every store in the city will be open 24hrs
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Well, I stand corrected... 
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12-18-2006, 02:32 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
Where are they going to get the people to run the stores? They don;t even have enough people right now.
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Hmm maybe everything will be free.
Not really a crook, but how can they check if you scan everything at those self checkouts?? hehe.
too bad i'm too old to be a young offender.
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12-18-2006, 02:33 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Originally Posted by Incinerator
I wish all the malls are open 24/7 so I can avoid all the xmas rush when doing my shopping |
Me too! I'm up till all hours of the morning anyways.
I'd also like at least one electronics store open 24 hrs, and a multitude of restaurants.
I know it wont happen...
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12-18-2006, 03:41 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackEleven
That's crazy. How many people go xmas shopping at 3am?
On the opposite end of the specturm Wal-mart here (Montreal) is open from 12-5 on weekends -- as are most stores.
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Yeah but you can get a bagel anytime of the day.
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12-18-2006, 03:47 PM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
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As a former employee of the company. It makes no sense to me cause when i work there and we were open 7 am -11pm No one came in from 10-11. Like people have pointed out before in this topic there is no staff we barely had enough staff to run the store in the regular hours.
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12-18-2006, 03:56 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Hockeygal_17
As a former employee of the company. It makes no sense to me cause when i work there and we were open 7 am -11pm No one came in from 10-11. Like people have pointed out before in this topic there is no staff we barely had enough staff to run the store in the regular hours.
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I think it does make sense only because these companies usually have stock people there at night. So might aswell have a skeleton crew there to sell some **** if people are going to be there to begin with.
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12-18-2006, 04:11 PM
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
I think it does make sense only because these companies usually have stock people there at night. So might aswell have a skeleton crew there to sell some **** if people are going to be there to begin with.
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The company I work for isnt open on Sundays in most stores. They tried a project a couple years ago to open on Sundays and discovered that what they sold on Sundays matched what they lost in sales Monday to Saturday. Revenues remained constant but staff costs went up. Bad buisness.
Walmart likely would find the same thing under normal circumstances. The gains they make by opening 24 hours would be eaten up by the fact that those same customers would have shopped their during regular hours anway. Xmas rush is a different animal altogether, however.
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12-18-2006, 04:11 PM
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Appealing my suspension
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Just outside Enemy Lines
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Well it does make life easier for the odd shift worker who's heading home at midnight but is still somewhat awake. I do imagine that the lack of staff makes it a great time to walk into the grocery isle and collect the goods to make myself a sandwich and a jug of chocolate milk and than fade off into the pet section. Heck grab a frozen dinner, and head to the sporting goods section and fire up a habachi.
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12-18-2006, 04:17 PM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Well it does make life easier for the odd shift worker who's heading home at midnight but is still somewhat awake. I do imagine that the lack of staff makes it a great time to walk into the grocery isle and collect the goods to make myself a sandwich and a jug of chocolate milk and than fade off into the pet section. Heck grab a frozen dinner, and head to the sporting goods section and fire up a habachi.
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