Personally I am not happy with the Wal Mart thing to come here in S.A because the the local companies that supply these stores that are going to be taken by Wal Mart are going to strungle that they will have to compete with these people and it will bring our S.A companies down and people will loose their jobs.

I am writing to you as a highly disaapointed customer of Builder warehouse Centurion South Africa.

1) I went into the store to purchase paint as i am re-painting my whole house bought a 20l bucket of paint that was a certain colour telling them i will need more and asking if this would be a problem they said not at all, only to go back a week later and be told they don’t have the colour.

When i asked what they could do i was told if they don’t have the colour what should they do and when speaking to a manager of the branch was given the exact same answer.

let me tell you what could be done the could call Plascon their supplier and see just how quick they could supply the needed colours OR try contacting another branch to see if I couldn’t get the colour elsewhere but no this is far too much effort.

I left and the had the colour I needed matched as close as possible this was never what I wanted I love the first colour i got and now all I wanted for my home has been taken away buy a company you now connect with Walmart
2) I sent a friend to go get ceiling board on Saturday as I only have a car I would need the board to be cut in half all this need was a Stanley knife something any shop the size of builders should have at their disposal.
Once again they said they could not cut the board so I went back with my own Stanley knife (and I’m a woman) only to find there was no one around to help so I once again had to go elsewhere .
How do you explain this service ????????????
I am horrified not even in our 3rd world country is this acceptable.

Tracy Gibson

I dont mind Walmart coming to South Africa only if you bring us first grade and quality goods. South African stores need to step up their game and stop complaining when they see competition. Healthy competition is great! If you provide great service and quality goods; I dont mind paying. Walmart; welcome to South Africa and I cant wait to see what you have to offer!!!

Walmart anytime, the service we get from South African stores are realy poor. Not even speaking about the cost.

I am a mother of a child who has Phenylketnuria and am interested in finding out if Walmart will be stocking any of the low protein foods and formula replacements that they stock in the USA. Up until now we have not been able to access any of these replacement for our daughter as they are too expensive to import. As PKU is very rare in South Africa we have no hope of ever getting any form of food that does not contain protein here.

Hi Anthea

I guess you’d have to find out once they are actually in the country, and as they are mass stockists my guess is that the chance of them getting these foods is very low.

Have you maybe tried contacting a place such as Wellness Warehouse? I realise the prices on bringing small amounts of these foods in can be very high, but maybe you could explain to them the situation you are in, and as they do import a variety of products from overseas, they could perhaps put orders in and have them shipped on the same containers that their shipments are coming in on.

Let me know if you need any more details, I have the contact details for a buyer at Wellness Warehouse.

Kind regards

Sean

Hi Sean,
Thank you so much for your response to my post on Walmart. I am really interested in having the information on Wellness Warehouse as it seems like a worthwhile option for me at the moment. I also believe that people with renal disease require a very low protein diet so maybe I could raise some support in this sector.
Regards
Anthea

welcome to south africa open a store in every town

I was in Arizona and Washington State, a week ago and went to Walmart stores, i love Walmart and i would love to see their services in the country, they are very reasonable, and have everything you can ask for, i came back to SA and compared the prices and converted them to $ compared to SA prices and i found SA prices way crazy.

from vika Mashinini

Honestly i truely believe the walmart thing will leave the south africans with an advantage and a disadvantage why? our local store will definatly surfer from this due to the fact tht they wont be abl to produce as much wre as on the other side more people could get job oppurtunities…

Vika this ones for you if you havent noticed most of south african retailers or wholesalers has some international investment look at absa, barcleys took over no improvement the reason why the international companoes invest here is because we south africans just pay do you really think walmart is going to drop the prices HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! barcleys didnt more return on investment its that simple.We are a so called third world country we aint use to anything now we see walmart now we run with excitement untill we realise walmarts opening costed our brother sister uncle mother father there job but then again thats my opinion just think about it

nothing is totaly good or totaly bad, so i believe that walmart also has its goods and bads. people willoose their jobs, ja we know but as for the competition, that will be good so that these South African stores will also take us seriously and offer us good service at all times

Is true dat we will be given job apportunity becouse dat would be nice becouse we are not working.

Whenever I visit my mom in Canada, the first place I like to visit is Walmart, I could spend hours walking around their stores!! The selection of goods is unreal ans pricing (especially Xmas time) is unreal!
I really hope when they open, that they bring in goods that we can’t find here, if not then its like any other super store in SA!!
Hopefully Ikea will come tooo!

i initially nourished the taking over of Massmrt by Walmart but after learning that it utilises the cost leadershio strategy, i withdraw my appreciation because it is going to gain more competitive advantage over companies like pick’n pay hence affecting their market share; this is going to put the existance of other local companies at stake

I received an email from Walmart telling me that they are giving me a $1000 gift certificate. The links on that email are for some coupon stuff and discounts; thats not cool guys…