The Most Hated Supermarkets

🍌🍎Let's chat about the retail stores that have received the most criticism and why they're disliked.
Written by: Josh Strider & @ninjean9690
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& Josh Strider
Produced & commissioned by Josh Strider (Phantom Strider)

[MxMeme-jkxe]

As a former Walmart employee, the management basically treated me like a ping pong ball that could be easily replaced and kept switching my positions, and they never properly told me what I was doing wrong. Please don't work there.

[themissncfan]

I have a "fun" story about Target as an employee of a company that sells cleaning products to their distribution centers. Target is generally quite difficult to get a hold of when it comes time for them to pay their invoices, but this particular incident really takes the cake.

I got through to someone on the phone, and she told me to hold. She didn’t actually put me on hold, as such, but instead set the receiver down on their desk. I could hear the background noises of the office, and sat there for about five minutes, waiting for her to pick back up. When someone eventually picked the phone back up, it wasn’t the woman I’d gotten through to. It was a man, who sounded very confused about why the phone had been left off of the hook. Turns out the person working at the desk I’d gotten through to had went off-shift and just left the phone off the hook with me on the other end. Fun times.

[mercedestrenz]

As a former employee of Home Depot, I've seen worse. Rodents running around the store and eating up the Reese's, rude managers, and shoplifting being an issue since we had no security guards and weren't allowed to confront anyone.

[cazgamz]

It's cool this guy is starting to expand his content. From just shows to food to this. It's pretty neat to see a variety of content. While having a consistent theme

[FubukiTheIcyKing]

As someone who works maintenance in Walmart. Its a common of lazy workers, entitled and rude customers, bad managers, and people treat workers like servants and think its okay to steal.

I've had people smoke indoors (vaping as well) irritating people's lungs, steal a lot of items, leave food where it goes bad or take bites out of it without paying, and I've had people come in on mushrooms threatening someone or doing drugs in the restroom. And as maintenance I've had to clean up in PPE after drug users.

Edit: After having an issue with GameStop not allowing returns on opened game and only allowing trade ins at a severely low rate.

[Rosebud]

My mom used to work at Walmart in the pharmacy dept. She got so overworked and poorly treated, she refuses to set foot in the store again.

[MrKSardonicus]

I too worked at Walmart and I was treated like dirt by most of the staff no matter how respectful, kind, and hard working that I was. However I was fortunate enough to be noticed by customers and was praised by them. I literally was the kindest staff member to both the staff and the customers as well as the most helpful. Despite the praise from customers I just couldn't handle being the backbone of an entire store from a billion dollar company.

[Cinemace]

This guy single-handedly carried my childhood back in 2016 with his top 10 lists, and coming back now to see him still going strong just feels so proud. Keep going man, we love you!

[ItsJustTrevor]

... I just realized that I live close to one of these 'Food Deserts' 😮

[AmyJ_ThaFurryWitch]

Two of my friends used to work at our local Walmart.
The first one quit because the stress was physically taking a toll on him.
The second was fired for absolutely absurd reasons. His family live in a spot that has a history of heavy flooding when the snow melts. Last year, he called out of work saying that if the family had any hope of salvaging the house's basement then he needed to help them clean it out. Management essentially told him that if he didn't go in for that shift, then he better not go back in at all.

Needless to say, even if I lose my current job, I'm not applying there.

[korrianimationbodyguard]

I'm from Canada, and GameStop used to be called EB Games here too. They rebranded back to GameStop at my local mall in 2021

[kathleendavis]

The stickers at Dollar Tree are a great value. Although there is more candy than any good nutritional food. It’s always messy, but for projects it the store to hit up.

[PeterRuksenas]

My late grandmother used to work at a Walmart when I was little. Didn't last long. And she refused to step into a Walmart ever again (until a few years before her passing).

[acexkeikai]

As a retail worker, I am one of the lucky ones I do not work for any of the companies talked about in the video. But since the pandemic, I would say that although most people are decent, polite and a joy to help. There is a growing number of just horrible people who are never satisfied, whose day sucks and you WILL KNOW about it and they will make your day miserable because how dare you be smiling? It's a small group of people but sometimes when you get a few in a row, it affects you because you are a human being. When I am a customer, I do try to help people when I see they are being harassed by these kind of people (yes even at Walmart) when I feel the poor clerk is just trying to do his or her job. It's not his or her fault, they are either understaffed (a growing concern everywhere) You don't have to insult an employee just because you wanted an item and they are out of it. Most likely it's not that poorly paid employee's call to staff up the place. You have a gripe, take it to management after you've calmed down and explain what happened. Not just say: That Jamie was no help at all you should fire them. Unless the employee has been really rude, most time, they don't know what to say when even their superiors won't back them up.

I get frustrated too, I am human but since I have been on the receiving end, I try to take a deep breath and calmly observe my options. They don't have what I want, it sucks yes, but I can go to another store. I said to one of my friends: Everyone should work in customer service at least once in their lives, they would be nicer to the employees and have a little more empathy to another human being.

That being said most people are great and it's great to help them out. It's the small group of angry people what can make you feel bad so focus on the positive people and stop angry, just plain bad mannered people have any power over you.

[mindyhoeh]

I worked at Walmart and it is TERRIBLE!! I actually passed out and had a bunch of other medical problems I had, had a stroke before at 34 they knew I had medical problems. Yet when I thought I was having another stroke and found out I have MS and told them when I collapsed in the electronics department and the manager who could have cared less asked does HR (Human Resources) know? I seriously almost yelled at him using colorful language. They could care less if you dropped dead on the floor. My neurologist worked for them too told me to quit so I did and my next job I lasted six days before my new boss told me to get on disability before I kill myself and why did Walmart not see I was not faking it, attention seeking, a whole bunch of other things it was so bad I now have to see a counselor for a form of PTSD I got from them. Thinking I’m useless all the time.

[Ms_HyeSeungyeon]

As a former Walmart Employee who got paid 18$ per hour but constantly gave me hours I couldn’t do. I’m a college student so I can’t stay for late nights but constantly gotten those hours.

[corymorimacori]

“I expanded with libraries and mosques, while you chopped off the top of all the mom and pop shops!” Mansa Musa

[joelblake]

I would put Burlington on my list, but that's probably because I'm being biased.

The Burlington I work at has terrible management. Sometimes, they get the schedule wrong. They change your schedule without asking. They never tell us when they are making changes in the store. The list goes on.

When it comes to shopping, it's very unorganized. Like, stuff are put in the wrong places and it's always a mess.

Granted, these problems aren't for every Burlington, which is why I don't know if I would put it on my list, but it really isn't a good experience.

[christianparrish]

My mom actually works at Walmart at the deli for 9 years. And ironically, me and my mom are going to go there today.

[Dollface]

Hot topic is one of stores I dislike. They steal designs from small businesses and such and claim it to be their design when you could go support the real business. A small shop I follow had their logo purse design changed very slightly then sold on hot topic. If you do a part 2 please bring awareness to this issue. Thank you so much ❤