Rafael M.
Yelp
This store is beyond terrible. I hardly ever shop at a Walmart. Even in those years a friend of mine was on the Board of Directors of WMT, I would not shop at a Walmart. Today, while driving through, I stopped at the Walmart on Cerrillos in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The first red flag was the manner in which I was being eyed by the first staff members who saw me. It was as if I was being labelled a criminal. Perhaps indeed there are a lot of felons who shop at this Walmart, I have no idea. I was not dressed badly. I had driven about ten hours with a few breaks, having set off at 5:30am and arriving here at 5pm So I had not taken a shower nor shaved in 12 hours, granted. But I was not a mess. I have no tattoos. I was not wearing a hoodie. There was no pocket on my person that could possibly have concealed anything larger than a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife. Second red flag, many of the rows have a series of completely white labels with NO LETTERING. There are supposed to be real words in English indicating what is in each row. I did not intend to spend more than fifteen minutes in the store, so I simply gave up looking for certain items that I am sure, at least in a generic sense, must be sold at Walmart. And, third red flag, one can't ask a Walmart employee to direct you, because either they are way, way too busy blabbing to another Walmart employee, or they just arrived from Guatemala and do not have a clue as to where anything is in the store. So, as I am searching where to check out, I heartily jumped into the first checkout #1 as there were no customers there. The checkout lady ended up I gather being underage, and she was not authorized to process a six pack. No biggie, right, there should be someone right nearby to handle it. But no. Fourth red flag. After several, several minutes, one slow-moving female Walmart employee ambled over with not a care in the world. But she also was not able to process the purchase. She was an adult. She seemed to have her own key card. PERO, MAS NADA. Maybe she is another sister of Xochitl. Finally a third woman agonizingly limped over and with no word of apology, and no sense of humor, after three attempts, finally processed the six-pack. Now, why in the world does Walmart employ a system that in effect required THREE employees to check out ONE customer VERY SLOWLY? Sam is turning over in his grave somewhere in Arkansas. Finally, let me point out this has got to be the dirtiest store I have ever walked into in my life. And I have been to La Habana, to Caracas, even to New Delhi (a destination I do NOT recommend if you are a clean freak), and the stores there definitively are cleaner than this Walmart. One gathers no one at WMT cares about this store. There is no supervision. There is no training of employees. There are no attitude adjustment efforts for the benefit of the employees (and hopefully the customers). Not a single employee demonstrated a helpful attitude. There is no effective health counseling, obviously, for the employees, as nearly all of them have BMIs well within if not beyond the OBESITY range. Really, WMT would be better off just shutting down this store. Hit the restart button. This is a PATHETICALLY BAD FAILURE.