Supermercado de Wal-Mart Coming to Texas and Arizona

by CitizenSugar 132

Bienvenido a Wal-Mart!

Retail giant Wal-Mart will soon open Hispanic-focused grocery stores in Texas and Arizona. The staff will be bilingual and the stores will feature tortilla bakeries, a larger selection of Spanish-language music and DVDs, and a wide assortment of Hispanic food.

Companies can't help but pounce on the potential in the Hispanic market. In addition to Wal-Mart's supermercado plans, Home Depot and Best Buy have launched Spanish-language websites.

Are you happy a huge retailer can adapt to a specific market, or would you rather see local stores appeal to the local tastes?

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132 Comments

I see people with collage degrees flipping burgers you mean to tell me they went to collage to flip burgers now that's funny. You see a Latino flipping burgers and it's OK right,at the hand car wash who washes you car? Your lawns who cuts the grass a Latino right,your roof,who do you think picks the fruit you eat or vegetables,Latinos do all the things your to lazy to do that's why you pay us to fix this or do that and you call us LAZY cause we don't take the time to learn English please we look in the mirror and like what we see cause for us we make a difference it not our fault we take someones job Hey you should of been better at what you do we spend our money here in the U.S just the same as you do, we pay taxes just like you do, we get food stamps just like you do, when all you people that have something against people that don't speak English go do all the things you pay us for then come talk to me and look in the mirror and ask yourself if you make a difference
First off i would like to say that it is a privilege to be able two speak language in this day in age it helps to be able to communicate with different cultures. If you feel that we should speak only English then why don't you learn to speak Spanish your in this country were its easy to do what you want then why don't you learn. When people come to this country is to better themselves its not their fault or mine that we work HARD for what we want its not just given to us
I've been in boycott of Wal-Mart for the last few months first. Living in Los Angeles I would drive 30 minutes at least once a week to do all my shopping exclusively at Wal-Mart (It's either that or suffer the outrageously over priced, pathetic selection at our unionized grocery stores here in LA.) It was well worth the drive, what would cost $6 at our unionized stores would be $3 at Wal-Mart and with a much greater selection. Unfortunately, one week I went up there I noticed all the Wal-Mart brand products (Great Value) having Spanish on them. They were redesigned and looked extremely tackey with the Spanish being as prominent as the English (I don't buy anything with Spanish on it period to begin with). Then a few weeks later I noticed they changed all the signs in the grocery department to be in Spanish and English AND 35% of the DVD/Music section was now in Spanish. I wrote and complained but nothing happened. Then Wal-Mart began airing ads on the radio here in LA in support of Obama's plan to socialize healthcare and it turns out Wal-Mart has actually been attending private meetings with Obama and big unions. Since then I've been in boycott of Wal-Mart and I'm actually saving money. You may think shopping at Wal-Mart saves you money but it doesn't. Shopping at a real grocery store (Which is overpriced thanks to left-wing unions) you buy less and in time the less you buy actually yields more savings then buying more for less at Wal-Mart. Also, Trader Joes. I've been against Whole Foods and Trader Joes but after going into boycott of Wal-Mart I don't really want to support our unions either so I've been shopping at Trader Joes. Trader Joes has a good selection in both size and quality and they are cheaper than any unionized grocery store for better quality. Whole Foods I would shop at just for their CEO being against socialized medicine but they DO overprice and I find the brands at Trader Joes to be much better. So I no longer shop at Wal-Mart. Instead I do Target and Trader Joes. I also shop at Vons/Pavillions but only for their soda (I'm in boycott of Pepsi and Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper). The Safeway brand sodas are the best and for only $1.99 a 12 pack you can't beat it, and they are good too. I find their Dr. Skipper and Mountain Thunder to be much better than the name-brand. Don't think you can't shop at Wal-Mart. It's the same backwards mentality of people thinking cigarettes are soooo addictive. Yeah, if you want to shop at Wal-Mart as their selection and convenience is more important than what you believe to be right: Of course it's going to be hard if not impossible to shop there. But if you really want to make a stand you can do it. No excuses and don't believe the lie of it being impossible.
Just got the ad for the new spainish walmart in AZ...this is ridicules...
Can we just start World War 3 and eradicate all the Hispanics?
I'm taking spanish because I need a requirement for grad schools. Even if I spoke spanish, I wouldn't cater to the illegals. They need to man up and learn to speak English. It's not about expanding culture, it's about 10% of the population being too lazy and uneducated. When is the Chinese Walmart coming up? or Indian? or African? Way to segregate American Walmart!!! Didn't Bush spend 8 years ripping our country apart???
Seriously, why can't hispanics learn English? Are they too lazy and stupid, I wouldn't doubt that!!! Because everyone immigrated from another country except for the Native Americans and we all learned the language. People who come from 3rd world countries take the effort to learn English. And the aliens just reap the benefits without paying taxes?? No wonder, we give them min wage, they don't even deserve to be paid. You're not a citizen, stay where you belong or legally try to become a citizen. I don't step into Walmart anyways because its congested with Hispanics to begin with. I'd rather go to Target or any other place and pay more even with the recession.
I am a proud Anglo - Saxon, and my native language, as well as primary, is English. I only know a few words in Spanish. However, I work at Supermercado here in Arizona. I LOVE it! It's not just about breaking a language barrier, or competing with neighboring competitors, it's about expanding culture.
It's all business, period. Let's face it, with Obama ushering in another (Entitlement) program called Universal Healthcare the Latino population will EXPLODE. Everyone else will get to PAY for their lazy Corona infested ways that more often than not lead to uncontrolled and massive child producing losers. For Walmart it is a SMART MOVE. SHOP...SHOP...SHOP...CORONA...WELFARE... PREGNANCY...REPEAT!
Why is it that only mexicans don't want to learn English and become legal citizens? What is so wrong with learning English and becoming a legal citizen of The USA? If you don't want to learn the nation's national language, and if you don't want to become legal citizens, just stay in mexico. Don't come here! Go Home! Take your dirty diapers and cockroaches with you! Bye Bye!
Do any of you speak any of the Native Americans' languages such as the Apache, Sioux, Cherokee, etc. Your ancestors came to this country and I'm pretty sure that they imposed their language onto the original habitants of this land. You either adapt or you're left behind. The only thing that these Walmart stores are doing is offering products that are popular to hispanics and that the staff will be BILINGUAL! If your native language is english then you don't understand how hard it is to go to a store and try to explain to someone what you need when there are no words in English to explain it. Stop complaining!! Hispanics are a majority and its not our fault, its your fault for letting us in to the country in the first place!!! The US is a country made up of many nationalities and cultures, you either accept that or you're going to be left behind. We all have to adapt to changes!
tazmaniahouston tazmaniahouston
let me tell u something symphonee all walmart stores are different i been working for walmart 10 yrs all ready and if ur a lazy associate u never gonna like to work for walmart i been a csm for 9 yrs and working on 3 different stores and let me tell u that wlamart is a very good company to work for but it depends on ur performance and ur managers team that ur work can be easy i dont know how long u work for walmart but i been working some day by myself cause the other associates call in or something happen and i dont care cause i love my job, and specially cause i dont like to work with lazy people i prefer to work by myself, other thing yes we are on America, not on the us if u see a map and if u know the history of the united states u know that california was part of mexico and that theres many people on the us that they grandparents or somebody on theres families where inmigrant even some of the expresidents has family memmbers that are inmigrants
tazmaniahouston tazmaniahouston
thats dumm and stupid thats not true, i dont know why everybody is making a big deal with this why the people dont say anything about HEB they have the hispanic store to at Pasadena named MI* TIENDA why everybody just make comments about walmart the first company that do this was HEB and nothing that all this people said about the new Supermercado its true u have to work there so you know whats going on the good thing is when that store open all the people that talk sh** about walmart its gonna go there and shop like we the hispanic people said "cae mas pronto un hablador que un cojo" and remember that before u start talking about hispanic and inmigrant people that people are the ones that put ur food on your table cause u never gonna see any black or gringo on the farm or doing hard work all that people are use to live with the goverment money u never saw a hispanic on the freeway asking for money theres no hispanic people on the streets as a homeless its only white or black people and let me tell u something even the US presint Obama speaks spanish so why u cant learn, thats true we live on the us but the people that is bilingual get better pay on any job here than the people that just speak one language
danixk danixk
excuse me. this is bullshit. yep. I'm one of those "learn-the language" people. It makes me fume when I see that we have spent tons and tons of money on translating things to Spanish. I feel as though these people are lazy in that they do not learn English...and I feel as though we're STUPID for catering to their behavior. I don't know. This topic just makes me heated. Wal Mart is the evil empire. They KNOW they can get away with whatever they choose to do. I never shop there. They will not allow employees to work 40+ hours, so that THEY do not have to provide healthcare.
joe alves joe alves
i urge everyone to write walmart and let them know how you feel. i have done so as well as several of my friends and its obvious that they are taking heat on this issue by their generic email. this site deletes my comments if i leave links to my sites, but if you can find my sites, i have all the info you need to contact walmart and you can use my message if you dont want to write your own.
Symphonee Symphonee
I lived in Ft. Huachuca outside of Sierra Vista, Arizona for a year. I went to a wal mart to buy a few things and I asked for help. No one spoke English on the shift. No one could help me. I have no problem with a company catering to a particular group but this a a little too far.
Symphonee Symphonee
Starangel I left the same day I got my check. I hated working at Wal Mart. I had a homeless guy pee on a pillar in my babies department and it took forever to get cleaned up. I never took a break and sometimes they would schedules just me and a completely deaf girl to work the entire softlines department for an 8 hour shift. I barely shop there now because of this.
luvitorleaveit luvitorleaveit
TO THE PERSON THAT MADE THE FOLLOWING COMMENT: "all those people who say america is english speaking and shouldn't cater to those who don't speak it, i hope you never live in a non english speaking country and have people get mad at you for not speaking their language. As a person who has studied and speaks 6 languages, english is hard, probably the hardest to learn, so think about that. Anyway I love love Wal-Mart, I'm a student so I choose what suits my bank balance and wal-mart wins, plus it's open 24 hours." UM, HELLO, IF ANY OF US WERE TO MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT WAS NON ENGLISH SPEAKING, WE'D LEARN THEIR LANGUAGE! THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE! I LIVE IN AMERICA AND I LEARNED SPANISH JUST SO I COULD COMMUNICATE WITH THE HISPANICS THAT WONT LEARN ENGLISH! I WOULDN'T HAVE THE NERVE TO MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY AND EXPECT IT'S CITIZENS TO CATER TO ME!
quikgamer quikgamer
This is ridiculous. This is America, learn to speak English. My ancestors came to this country, worked hard and learned to speak English. We should not be bending over backwards for hispanics who don't want to learn English. Most of the things in Wal-Mart are already translated to Spanish anyway and it's annoying. This will only encourage hispanics legal or otherwise to not learn English. I lived in a foreign country for 5 years and I had to learn how to communicate in their language, I didn't expect them to speak English to me.
T S T S
I have big problems. Apparently when I say it's always tough to be in the minority, it means I assume the person I'm talking to is white...
Carrie Sue Carrie Sue
Alright, I think it's time to bring the debate back to the topic :) I've rethought my position (a few times to tell the truth) and while nyaradzom made a good point earlier, I disagree with the way we're starting to cater toward other languages. Yes, other countries do that, but they do it for TOURISTS, not citizens.
T S T S
How is that hostile? I said it sucks to be in the minority...it does! It's always easier not to be. I didn't say she was white, black or purple, I was just pointing out that it always sucks to feel like you're on unfamiliar territory.
chatondeneige chatondeneige
Stephley, considering you're claiming all sorts of crazy things that have never been said over on other threads, it's kind of amusing to see you criticizing someone for reading into what someone would say! ;)
stephley stephley
True, some people prefer interpretative reading to critical thinking. :oy:
chatondeneige chatondeneige
I'm sorry, residents of that town did have another option. We could drive 55 miles of mountain road to the nearest town, and go to their (pathetically small) JC Penny for socks, and I reckon we could have purchased trash cans at the Home Depot in that town, and I imagine that the grocery stores there could develop film. ;)
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