I've been a boondocker at War-Marts in multiple states. There's another advantage to their liberal "camping" policies: their restroom stalls have those paper toilet seat covers that so many of us know are so hard to find when we're traveling.

Both my boyfriend and I crap and pee before we leave the parking lot each morning. Those are always the cleanest toilets we're going to be using for the rest of the day. Interstate rest areas and truck stops just don't compare.

Dakota....All of the Wal-Marts in my area are open 24/7 so there is no need to use the bushes. Most Wal-Mart parking lots are well lit and are safe places to park for the night. I don't do any RVing but if I did I would certainly take advantage of a free spot for the night as often as possible. I am retired from a Sam's Club that was situated next door to a Wal-Mart store. I have actually seen the store manager take freshly brewed coffee out to the RVs in the morning, most of the campers are older retired folks who understand the value of a dollar.

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Another Walmart policy is to let trucks park in their lots as long as they are attended and not taking space from customers. There a lot of truckers who appreciate a place to sleep that is free of a lot of the noise and aggravation of a truck stop. That and they also stock up for their next trip at the store. You can say a lot of bad stuff about Walmart, but there is also a lot of good.

Personally, I like to go up to the old people's RV's in the middle of the night, start rocking them violently while screaming "TORNADO". It's sorta like cow tipping.

I respectfully dissagree PD. I have parked at several Walmarts for the night in a tractor trailer and heve been told to leave. Most stores don't even let the trucks stay who made geliveries to that store._______
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Dildo....I worked for the Wal-Mart corporation for a number of years and what PD says is true, if you were not allowed to stay you can file a complaint with the home office in Bentonville, Arkansas. If you were not depriving a customer of a parking spot and were parked as far away from the building as you could get you should have been allowed to stay. Also, most stores treat drivers better who are making deliveries rather than geliveries. I very seldom entered our store parking lot in the morning without seeing several RVs and semis.

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Well, come to think about it, both times I got tossed I was occupying about 10 cripple parking spots and ran over several cart corrals._My bad.______
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Going to try my hand at linking.
My feelings about Wal-Mart are best described here

Dildo, I think that maybe the Walmart greeter ratted you out. I guess there are some store managers out there who are just pricks and will toss out someone who is no where near in someones way. There is a certain carrier out there who is based in the same area of Arkansas as Walmart (and who are married into the Waltons) who have carte blanche, but I know that most stores allow parking up to a point.

Oh yeah, they also don't take kindly to driving a semi up onto the sidewalk and terrorizing all the blue hairs. Not that I would have any first hand knowledge about that.

About the only real complaint I had against Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart, was their health insurance was not the greatest. My salary as a meat cutter was actually higher than was offered at other retail establishments in the local area, by several dollars per hour.

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Prairie, you are truly evil for the tornado prank. Truly evil! And I'd do the same thing.

As for the parking lot being a toilet, at some Wal-Marts it is, but I've never seen an elderly RVer squatting behind a bush. Most of the time it's drunks from the neighborhood who just unzip and piss.

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I don't dislike Wal-mart. It is the size of the place that is a deterent for me. The walk wears me out from the chronic pelvic and left lower extremity pain. No. I don't want a cripple parking card. Disabled. Whatever. It would be admitting I'm disabled if I got the parking pass. Sam's too. Too big.
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sittingpretty.....Do what I do when shopping in any store that has cart railings outside. I have tophi caused by gout on several joints on the right side of my body and walking unassisted is not always pleasant so I grab a cart before I enter the store and use it for a walker.

I also do not want a handicap tag to allow closer parking because I think in many cases the tags are abused and I really need the exercise of the walk into the store anyway. Thanks to modern medicine the tophi are being absorbed back into my body and should do no permanent damage. Life is still good!

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I used to be an avid, dedicated WalMart shopper, but of late I've seen how they can decimate a small town by putting local businesses under. Also, on the rare time I do shop there, I found the biggest change is the greeters. They used to be sweet little old ladies or kindly old codgers. Now, the greeters I've seen look like they would rather spit on than welcome you. I live a couple of miles from the Steubenville, OH WallyWorld, and one time I went there the greeter was a 400 pound African-American that smelled like she was doused in that new French perfume called eau-de-shit._As a sidelight, for a couple of years I drove for JB Hunt, and trust me, they are even bigger corporate cocksuckers then the Waltons.______
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Anytime you encounter a surly door greeter or receive less than satisfactory service at either Wall-Mart or Sam's Club you can call
1-800-Wallmart and file a complaint. They are trying to improve their corporate image and will take your complaint seriously. I guess from what everyone else says I am just lucky, I shop at a Sam's and three Wal-Marts in the Nashville area and encounter friendly door greeters at all of them. I am forced into shopping at the store that carries foreign goods at a reasonable price because unions in America have priced many commodities out of reach for me with their high salaries. An interesting note, as a meat cutter at Sam's I made more than a manager at Kroger which was represented by a union.

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