Wal-Mart

by Tommy M.

I use to buy some sporting goods here when they have a clearance or something. They don't have sales just mark downs. You can usually find a deal on something. The quality of some stuff is poor (made in china).

by tim b.

Screaming children, screaming parents, and weird smells; this place sucks! But everything is soooo cheap!I have been here a few times, and I will not return. I would rather pay more money than try to figure out what that mystery smell is while cruising through the aisles (I think it is peanut butter).Please do not go here.

by Olivia T.

"Save more. Live better. Walmart."That's a fail.How could you save more when prices for cans, frozen, and boxed goods are the same as Fred Meyer?How could you live better when after you went to Walmart you have a pounding headaches from too many people, screaming kids, and almost got hit by shopping carts three times?It's like a nightmare in the loop.

by Rebecca H.

My favorite 82nd Ave Wal-Mart experience:After wandering the store, not finding what we need, finally tracking down an employee, having her take us to the "drawer liner" section with a slight detour to lawnmowers as she is helping somebody else and us at the same time, we finally had enough of the screaming children and parents who don't discipline their kids and weird smells, so we skip the liners, and go to purchase our flip flops.  We are standing at the checkout and the young man, helping the person in front of us, says to nobody in particular, "I am so going on break, they can't keep me here, a boy gots to be freeeeeee!"  He then proceeds to give the youngish girl, who is slowly unloading her cart, the stink eye, probably to make her move faster.  She gets nervous and drops her pickles.  A glass jar of pickles.  One of those MONSTER jars of pickles.  It crashes to the floor, pickle juice, pickles, and glass spray everybody, and she is mortified.  Cashier guy says, "Oh no, they don't pay me enough for this shit," and walks away.How can one not love Wal-Mart?  I don't love it, especially as they don't pay their employees enough, give them benefits, and the store generally doesn't have great stuff.  I'd rather go to Target, which can be a zoo too, but I can find the drawer liners, and I've never been sprayed with liquids there.

by Walter S.

I treat Wal Mart like any tool in my toolbox.  It has a specific function.  Ammunition, cheap tools, and plastic crap.  One thing to consider before you go here for ammo, this particular Wal Mart has the worst selection of firearm related accessories compared to pretty much every other Wal Mart I've ever been to.  Two big plusses,  they have the cheap 00 12 gauge buckshot in the value packs and they do have the .223 100 round Federal value packs for $40 as well.It's Wal Mart... Horrible customer service, screaming babies, people getting arrested for shoplifting, 500lb people in motorized scooters buying Diet Coke and kitty litter, etc...Also, some very very good people watching if you're into that sort of thing.

by Holly D.

This was a winning experience from the very beginning. When I saw the man standing on the other side of the open door, I was surprised that they have a greeter. WRONG. He is standing there to yell at you when you accidentally try to enter through the poorly marked exit. Once inside I couldn't see the carts hidden around the corner, and as I approached another man standing inside of the entrance to ask where to find a cart, he repeatedly shook his head at me. He thought I was trying to exit through the entrance, gasp! These people take their jobs a bit too seriously.Rather than trying to weave around the other carts, island displays and wandering, shrieking children, I parked my cart in an unobtrusive location to gather some goods in the area. I returned, arms full, to find that someone had stolen my cart! And no, it wasn't an employee trying to clean up, for there were several other abandoned carts in the vicinity that remained untouched. Grrrr, back to the grumpy old men to get another cart and replenish my loot. Finally at the checkout counter, I was caught staring at a grubby man who was either gathering the garbage or scavenging for cans to be recycled. Meanwhile, the cashier was tossing each purchased item into its own individual bag; a one-month supply of poop bags from a single shopping trip.I was all too happy to be exiting, yes through the correct door, and to never return. I would not have been shopping here in the first place, but my employer had given everyone a $200 walmart gift card "bonus". Next time I'm demanding cash.

by Mike N.

The best thing about this particular WalMart location is that you can meet so many guests of the Jerry Springer show.  It's not just the customers, I think many Springer guests actually work at this location.  If seeing real, live Springer guests isn't important to you, then you should avoid this location all together.  You can't argue with WalMart prices in general.  They have huge buying power and that is reflected in the prices.  However, you can get those same great prices at any of the WalMarts, so shop one of the others.  There are two others on 82nd Ave within a few miles.  This Eastport Plaza location is dirty, disorganized, crowded, loud, has long lines at the registers, and is poorly stocked.  There are always empty spaces throughout the store that are waiting for restocking.  And this location has the highest concentration of scooter riders running over displays and aisles and feet than you'll see anywhere in the free world!  You won't get great customer service at any WalMart location, but this store has worked hard to establish itself as the poorest of the poorest.  As of March 11, 2009, the 4 Walton siblings were worth a combined 70.4 BILLION dollars...yet they don't have the money to staff their stores with enough associates to assist customers, keep the store clean and organized, and limit wait times at the checkouts.  It must be tough to be a Walton.

by Adam E.

Wal-Mart is America.  Folks here in Portland like to think of themselves as separatist-a sort of Indian Reservation for scruffy, vegan indie-rockers, except instead of having pow-wows, we all sit around a hookah and listen to The Decemberists.  And it's great, don't get me wrong, but sometimes we all need to get off our high horses and realize that WE created Wal-Mart.  It's our little bastard child, and we have to love it.I for one like my crappy $15 dollar vacuum cleaner assembled by starving children in Ethiopia.  If it weren't for that vacuum cleaner, I'd be living in squalor, and nobody should have to live in unfit conditions.  I adore strolling around the megastore, listening to gravel-voiced matriarchs with completely unironic mullets scream at their noisy children to put that Hannah Montana fashion doll back on the shelf.  Most of all, I love being greeted by chronically depressed senior citizens in blue vests.  Wal-Mart is like Disneyland on crystal meth, full of stringy-haired teens with cold sores and obese cat ladies riding around on motorized shopping carts.  It's the cliche that other countries envision America as, except it's completely real.  It's fabulous, and I love it.  And come to think of it, I need a Wal-mart fix RIGHT NOW.See you later, I'm off to hell.

by Krista T.

Home of the $6.00 boob job.http://www.walmart.com...

by Joe M.

I wish this rating system would give me negative stars.  Where to begin.... first off, yep, this place makes people work off the clock.  I know since my mom used to work there and did work off the clock, my neighbors used to be managers and worked off the clock or lose the jobs too.  Eventually they won one of the many lawsuits that is currently plaguing the company.  When this Wal-Mart first opened in late 1997, it signaled the slow and decaying painful death that currently resides Eastport Plaza.  It truly laid out the landmark of ghetto for SE Portland.  The clientel is horrible, it's always crowded, the workers are miserable and don't know what they are doing half of the time.  It's so bad people need a number just for return/exchanges.  The other Wal-Mart location on Johnson Creek is better than this dump, same street, just a few blocks more, yet is somewhat more organized.  So Sad!!!!