Walmart

Review strictly for the pharmacy, the slowest moving department in the whole store. Multiple times I’ve waited an hour or more for a refill on medications I order online for pick up. This time in particular, I came in at 10 am, waited over 30 minutes just to drop off the prescriptions. I was told 30 – 45 minute wait. Totally understandable, it’s Friday and a lot of people are getting ready to leave town for the weekend. I went home, ate lunch and came back 1 hour and 15 minutes later, not ready yet. I’ve been told more than 4 times «Just 5 more minutes…» absolutely ridiculous.
Another time, I had ordered 3 of my prescriptions online for pick up. I get to the store and hour after the scheduled time, just because I’ve been here before. I sort of know how long it takes. But, the pharmacy technician said she didn’t fill them because my address didn’t match the one on file. I do not understand how that happened, I haven’t changed my address in 10+ years. So another hour I waited. The same «about 5 more minutes» every time I came back 10 – 15 minutes later. At this point I have the aisles and sales flyers memorized.
Prices are nice and the majority of the staff just ignore you which can be nice if you know what you’re looking for

I forgot my purse in my car I had my items on the counter and told the cashier. I would be right back. She smiled and said okay. When I came back she had all my items bagged and in my cart. Thank you for being so understanding. I’ve checked my receipt for her name, but the only thing I have is the terminal number MX841355.

Even for a Walmart, this location is the worse. No check out lanes. There might be workers there it but they will point you to the self check out lane

Everybody knows the reputation of Walmart — they have low prices which are achieved by cutting corners everywhere they can: quality of merchandise, employee compensation, and anything else they can get away with. That’s pretty much all true, but this particular Walmart is a little worse than average.
For one thing, it’s ALWAYS packed which makes for an unpleasant shopping experience. I don’t mind long walks from my parking space, which is good because that is a guarantee whenever I come to this store. However, you can’t go anywhere in this store without having to squeeze by people because the aisles are too narrow.
The problem is there isn’t really a good alternative in the area, unless you’re willing to drive a few miles down the road to the Target in Melrose Park and pay higher prices. Every single time I go to this Walmart, I miss the K-​Mart in Franklin Park which was SO much better.
As for the employees, or «associates» as the company likes to call them… I’m inclined to cut them a little slack (but not much) because I worked at this location briefly, maybe 12 or 13 years ago. Things may have changed since then (though I doubt it), but when I was there associates were paid barely above minimum wage, forced to work long hours and almost never able to take their breaks when they needed them. They are told that the customer’s needs come first, but if they stop to help customers then they get in trouble for not getting their other work done. Who could stay motivated to work hard in an environment like that?
However, that doesn’t change the fact that employees are rarely around when you need them. If you need to know where to find something, you pretty much just have to guess. If you want to buy something that’s in a locked case, like video games, then prepare to spend 10 minutes trying to get someone’s attention. Or better yet, just go to the GameStop in the same parking lot and get better service and equal if not better prices.
Shop here if you have no alternative. That’s the only reason anybody does.

I would probably come to this Wal-​Mart more often than I do if my bp wouldn’t go up everytime I visit. Why is your staff so rude??? Do they not train them? Do they hire them straight from county jail? Rude, uncivilized, ghetto, and straight from the hood employees. I’ll stick with Target.

This Walmart is the worst one I’ve been to yet. I usually avoid Walmart like the plague, but yesterday, my mom insisted that we go because she had to pick up some items for a cat she was getting. We get our stuff and head to the register. The cashier was clearly either high or mentally challenged. While ringing up the cat carrier, he proceeded to read the directions on how to assemble it. I felt like asking him if he was planning to put it together while he was at it. Furthermore, he failed to bag some of our items and give them to us. Long story short, this wasn’t realized until I dropped my mother off and headed home. Needless to say, I didn’t appreciate having to drive from Woodridge all the way back to Northlake to handle this situation. Before anyone tells me that I should have made sure I had all our items before we left, what does he get paid for? That’s HIS job!

I won’t lie…
I come to this Walmart often for anything that I need because it’s at a convenient location for me. Sure the cashiers have a little attitude but I’m only there for my things.

If you want to be disrespected, and shop through a completely unorganized, messy store, this is your location. The employees treat all the customers like complete crap. You will receive minimum assistance, as well as a «don’t care» attitude. The employees roll their eyes at you, and speak completely unprofessionally. There also seems to be a lack of knowledge and training. When needing more information on the product you are looking for, don’t depend on the employees informing you of much. Also don’t expect much from management, you will receive the same exact attitude that you gain from employees. I understand that Walmart doesn’t stand much by customer service because of the big Walmart name, but this will definitely keep me away.

Twas the day before Christmas and all through the store, people are buying and buying some more. But not me so much. I can’t afford the I-​touch, so I’ll settle for a Squirt instead.

This Wal-​Mart is ridiculous. It is always a mess. They’ve recently decided to put pallets of random inventory out in the middle of the aisles, so you can’t pass other people. If you happen to be behind some ignorant customer who stops in the middle of the aisle with their shopping cart, you’ll have to wait.
The worst part about this Wal-​Mart is the staff. Excluding those in the pharmacy, photo department, and textiles, everyone else generally has poor performance. You’ll see them walking around when you don’t need them, and when you do need them they’re no where to be found. If you happen to find one, they can’t tell you where to find marshmallows for the life of them. They seem to have very little knowledge of the store at all, as if they only stock items based on color.
Then there’s the cashiers, or lack there of. They have about 20+ cash registers in this store, and at any given time there may only be 4 – 5 registers open. All this while there’s lines going down the crowded aisles, and other employees just standing around. It makes me think that this Wal-​Mart does not train it’s employees to handle money.
If that wasn’t bad enough, the self service check out line is poorly managed. They have about 6 stations, and recently, 3 of them would be broken. If you purchase something such as alcohol that requires approval, there wouldn’t be anyone stationed to approve it.
Overall, the store is overcrowded, understaffed with helpful employees, and the low savings isn’t worth waiting all day to check out. Go to Target and spend 30c more on products.

I go to the men’s shoe department once in a while and some sneakers which are a decent price they DON’T have my size. What kind of JERKS work at this place anyway? The supervisors at this store do a LOUSY JOB of supervising the stocking of shelves in this store.
How do you expect to make a sale when you have NO PRODUCT ON DISPLAY which a paying customer wants. DOES NOT LOOK GOOD ON YOUR SALES REPORT
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The preeminent poet Dante Alighieri envisioned hell as having 9 circles. What is amazing is that this visionary was able to see 700 years into the future and this Walmart was in fact the 9^th and final circle of treachery. Any time I end up here I wonder what horrific thing I have done in a past life to deserve walking among the inhuman beasts that inhabit this place.

I like this Walmart because it’s close. This store is usually under stocked and sloppy. The customer service at the registers is sometimes ok. The cart collection is good. The have lots of people with radios. Too bad they don’t use those radios to get help to reduce those long lines.

Wal-​Mart is Wal-​Mart right?
I would normally say yes, but really this is one of the worse Wal-Mart’s I’ve been to. Its the closet one to me so, sadly there are times I just have to suck it up and go.
Yes it’s cheaper .and yes Wal-​Mart puts mom and pop places out of business. But the real problem with this one is how dirty it is always! I really just feel like I need to wear gloves when I’m walking around picking up stuff. I also don’t like that I can never really get help.
If you do shop at Wal-​Mart only a few times a year, like me, then just make the trip to the one in Schaumburg.. TRUST ME it will be well worth it!

This walmart got some ghetto shoppers. Last time I was here some dude was telling his chick really loud.“we gotta communicate. .you wanna go back to therapy??!” That was funny.

The positive: They’ve hired more staff, (I know they are gearing-​up for Christmas). However, these «associates» were busy cleaning what the customers dropped on the floor, what customers mis-​laid, what customers allowed their children to play with throughout the store… You get the picture. These associates were about the business of being helpful, available and presentation. Even the guy with the zamboni machine was out sucking up those spills that — you guessed it — customers spilled.
Again, Walmart in Franklin Park you are indeed trying your best — still… Good job!
«Then why pray tell did you give us only three stars, Nina?»
Well my dears it’s your check-​out staff. Now the negative. I was buying spray primer for school. I know I’m not 18. I don’t look anything like an 18 year old, but your check-​out staff was simply rude when declaring loudly, that I was indeed not 18. Was I even trying to pass? Surely, not! But really, did he have to sound so rude. The entire experience of checking out is my take away. It should be your crowning glory, but it was not, because this particular check-​out person had such a tone.
Perhaps, I’ll get someone who is looking to send customers off to blissfulness — forgetting how much they just spent; only thinking about how nice that cashier lady was, or how helpful that young man was… Get Mr. Grinch back in stocking or automotive.

This is a lower than avarage Wal-​Mart that is usually pretty busy. I’ve had to waste more time than I would like to admit waiting on super slow checkout employees. I actually had one lady wonder off in the middle of my checkout to have a non-​work related conversation with another employee 4 isles down. Very frustrating.
Summary: This Wal-​Mart is staffed by people who couldn’t find their way out of a paper bag.

My sole purpose of going to Wal-​Mart is to buy yarn. I hate Wal-​Mart. I was on North Avenue so I decided to go to this one.
I’ve gotta say — I like this Wal-​Mart better than the one on Des Plaines and Roosevelt. It somehow seemed more put-​together.
It made me very happy when it had a far superior selection of yarn. I only intended on buying two skeins of black, but at $ 2 a pop for big, soft yarn, I loaded up on the rainbow of colors. I was so happy that I also bought some new knitting needles and some cooking sheers.
Other than that, the employees were their usual unhappy, unhelpful-​selves that you’d find at (I’m convinced) any Wal-​Mart. In fact, two employees blocked my way with empty carts while I was trying to navigate with my armfuls of yarn (they were falling on the floor). That was especially obnoxious.

What a trainwreck of a store this Walmart is. I made a horrible mistake of going there on a Saturday and when I saw the full parking lot, I should have just run… very far. I’d rather drive down Lawrence Ave. all the way to lake. That’s how bad this place is.
Why is it that the people of Walmart do not seem to know how to push their carts in a straight line? As in, not swerve right in front of an approaching patron?
And why do the people of Walmart think that it’s okay to walk slowly down the middle of the aisle, blocking you, only to suddenly change direction and crash into you? Then change their mind and, slowly, continue on?
And finally, why do the people of Walmart use 5 different methods of payment in a single transaction?
I figured out why Mark G saw skid marks all over the floor. It’s from all the damn broken wheels on all the crappy carts. The cart I was able to get looked like it was in a head on collision with a car.
Overall, my experience here can be summed up with «Eww».

What a Godforsaken suckfest this place is. A lot has to be wrong with a place for me to give it such a low rating, but this Wal-​Mart location prospers when it comes to retail store Hell.
Talk about the Jekyll & Hyde of Wal-​Marts. This place appears nice and harmless form the outside, but upon entering, mediocrity rears it’s ugly head. First off, what is up with all the skid marks all over the floor throughout the store? It appears as though Evel Knievel came back to life and was practicing stunts all over that bitch. The floors look worse than my thighty whities would after trying to wipe with my left hand. They sell plenty of mops and cleaning products, but apparently none of the employees know how to use them.
This place is always crowded, and with bad people usually. It doesn’t stop there. The employees? Also bad. The store even discriminates against people with big feet. I thought it would be a good idea to look for some shoes for work, but judging by the selection, nobody has bigger than a size 10 shoe. That’s just great. No really, it is. I’m glad I didn’t become tempted to give this place money for their crappy shoes!
I hate this store.