OT Walmart on 82nd Closing March 24th

Heard that local is a $hit show.

 

More & more people are shopping online and just using stores to return items they don’t want. It’s so easy. It’s becoming the more convenient way to shop.

 

I hate Walmart and I hate dealing/navigating the "Walmartians"...nowadays, I only go there at about 7 AM to avoid them. The Walmart we have is a 15 mile drive to Cordele and unless there is something I need that I can't get anywhere else, I don't go there at all.

The employees are no help and for the most part they simply play on their cell phones and seldom even acknowledge me. And the thing that ticks me off more than anything is when I het ready to check out they try to force you to use the empty 5 or so "self checkout" aisles but only 1 aisle with a cashier, usually with 4 or 5 customers backed up. For one, I shouldn't have to do the self service thingy if I don't want to and secondly, if I have some beer and/or wine I have to have a manager a.k.a. "manglers" paged to come over and verify my age.

We really don't have many options either, a very old and small Kroger and a Save-a-lot. If they could bring in a Kroger, Winn-Dixie, or the like, they'd put Walmart Cordele outta business.

 

My wife used Walmart during the lockdown for curbside shopping but I haven't been in one for years....we use Costco, Winco and Grocery Outlet for most things we need or order online for other stuff....Grocery Outlet is the closest food outlet to my property and I love it, keeps me from driving all the way to Eugene and back....they opened in our area just a couple years ago. My son lives near a Costco and Winco so my wife stops there after watching the grandkids during the day at his house.

 

My wife loves grocery outlet as well.

 

Wild! Good job keeping composure.

 

I remember going to the mall at Eastport as a kid. Nothing like a trip to Newberry's with grandma and then the arcade.

 

I don’t ever remember reading that thread. But that’s a wild story. Very trashy area so it doesn’t surprise me.

My dad was riding a bus in Portland years ago and had a similar story. Guy was beating up his wife. My dad intervened and got dude in headlock and then preceded getting slapped continually by the lady he was trying to help. My dad finally let go and told the guy to beat the dumb bitch, lol

 

Growing up in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s in SEP, Eastport was where my mom shopped for us (Penney’s) when she wasn’t thrift shopping. Even then my brothers and I hated it. The only redeeming factor was the Nordstrom’s (before they became an actual department store) shoe store at the south end of the mall. They had a big glass case at the store entrance where they kept several monkeys. My mom could leave us there for literal hours, knowing she find us still there, as we were too entertained to move from that spot. All these years later Nordstroms and a monkey cage seems like such an odd juxtaposition. But hey, it WAS Eastport Plaza, so it makes a twisted kind of sense…….

 

It actually predated Lloyd Center by a year or two.

 

Eastport was a mall all by itself (at its current location)....sorta, kinda the older bastard step child of Lloyd Center. It had a roof but wasn't entirely closed in, like the early Lloyd Center. The last time I was through Eastport it look like it had been chopped up and spread out. Definitely not the Eastport I grew up with.

 

Yes. I may be totally incorrect on the exact location, but the building where LA Fitness is, that was the mall area, attached to G.I. Joe's, which became Jo-Ann Fabrics and Ross. There was no Century 16 theater behind it yet. It was famous for having the hydrotubes in the 80s. The mall was already well into decline by the time I was going there, which was late 80's as a toddler until Newberry's left in the 90's, then the mall closed and was destroyed. Everyone was going to Clackamas already because that's where all of the big anchor stores from Eastport migrated to. I can't even remember any other shops that were there at the time I was going; I just have brain snapshots of specific moments. I guess Eastport in its original state was open air, much like Lloyd Center was. Then they added on more space and enclosed all of it. My grandma and I went to Mall 205 far more often, so that one is a little more special to my nostalgic heart.

 

It was similar to Mall 205. Just one story.
They had an arcade, GI Joe's, Newberries, Tower Records (inside), and even a water slide at one point.

EDIT: what ACE said