Yesterday, I showed up at 6:30 am outside our new local Kalispell Wal-Mart Supercenter. The store was to open at 8:00 and I was curious if there was anyone there - sure enough, there were these three guys who'd camped out all night to make the first purchase at the new store! There weren't a whole lot of people there, but if you want some more pictures I have them on my Flickr account. It was, interesting. There weren't any giveaways that I got (I guess some people got free spaghetti and stuff but I didn't). There were some product samples. No sales, grand opening specials, etc. The announced opening ribbon-cutting ceremony was not public, it was employees only, though we did get a glimpse of it through the (locked) doors. The most interesting thing, to me, was that the regional manager for Tracfone Wireless was there. Tracfone provides Wal-Mart's Straight Talk product. All I will say is that I think everyone will be incredibly impressed by what they have coming this year. We spent about 45 mins chatting, great guy.
I went back later with my cousins. There were more samples. And cake. And a remote controlled toothpaste robot. Yeah. Um, no huge prizes. No special bargains. Not much of a grand opening for a huge company that'll radically change our town (by shifting traffic from Evergreen to north Kalispell). Still, a whole lot nicer than the old Wal-Mart! Me, personally, I'll still be doing a lot of shopping on Amazon.com. But I love the grocery prices at the new Wal-Mart!
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