bigdogger wrote:
Supercharged wrote:
mgirardo wrote:
We've stayed at several Wal-Marts along the I-95 corridor. If there are other RVs or trucks parked, we don't bother asking. If there isn't anyone else, we usually try to track down security. If we don't see security, we'll go in and ask. We've called ahead a few times. Our last trip to NJ we called the Wal-Mart in Ownings Mills, MD to check if we could stay and the manager said the lot was too small (never saw a small parking lot at a Wal-Mart before). So we called the Wal-Mart in White Marsh and the manager said no problem, just park in the back.
We usually try not to bother the manager unless the Customer Service Associate doesn't know. The manager definitely has better things to do than be bothered with whether or not an RVer can park in the lot. Sometimes we shop in the Wal-Mart, other times we don't.
-Michael
The manager is the one who piles the corn and water melons the highest. He trys to make coke cartons go to the sky but they are taking that away now and putting him over candy on the floor isle the month. Next comes Easter Cards and lots of colored eggs to worry about.
Mocking the managers at Walmart is a great idea. I am sure when they have their regional and national meetings they will let the other managers know that if you don't allow RVs, the RVers will take to the internet to make fun of you. That will surely make the others fearful of taking similar action. Maybe a letter writing campaign to Corporate in Arkansas (it really is a company of simpletons, proof is they headquarter in Arkansas) telling them how the RV community knows how stupid their store managers are will force them to open up more parking lots to camping.
I was on the road in the 60's when a manager was a manager who ran the store, not one who gets his orders the night before, and puts out the red can of beans in isle number 11 5 ft. high, and than runs to isle 4 to put up the potato's , then pass out the checks on Friday night, nothing wrong with hard working (70 hr. or so to make a living. He may have to move his family 1200 miles in a monent. For these gaints. He should be called a salve not manager, All this so you can save 7 cents on a loaf of bread. And sleep in there front yard. hello.
