I think Wal Mart is heading toward downsizing what's in it's stores overall. You can order just about anything on their web site and have it delivered to a store near you.

As for work out gear - I love capris. I'm not fashion conscious at all, so I go for comfort and cover all the way .

The WalMart near here has a very good selection for plus size (there are a lot of heavy people around here). I am pleased to say, however, I graduated down into normal size clothing last year. Unfortunately, the clothes they have for normals are butt ugly and made of polyester for the most part. YUCK.

God Bless,
mik

Yeah, I hate the quality of clothing from Wal Mart.

I normally go there first to look at the prices of Shampoos and Dvd's to see if they are onsale, then I go to Target to buy the stuff. LoL. I'm a Target shopper. Maybe beacuse my previous job was working at Target overnight stocking the stuff for 3 years. Maybe because my job was stocking the products and putting up the signs for the products on ad, I've found that their prices are a bit better than Wal Marts. But when it does come to clothing, I get my clothes from Target. Their stuff is cuter and of way better quality in my opinion.

I too have noticed that Wal Marts clothing has become cheaper in quality and somewhat thrift shop looking.

Oh, as for Wal Mart downsizing. Haha.. I dont think that's going to happen. I think that it's crazy. There is this one area in Arizona by where there are 3 Walmarts... within 1 mile from one another! Now that's crazy. Plus, I read somewhere that Wal Mart is thinking about putting Medical Clinics inside of some of them. I guess it will be between Customer Sevice, The Eye Doctors, Nail / Hair salon, and Food corts that are inside of them. Haha... Plus, there have been a couple of them over here in AZ that have been turing into Wal Mart Supercenters w/ the grocery store inside.

The concept of making some items available only through online ordering in order to make room for other things that sell well regionally is not crazy - it's smart business. It cuts down on shipping and reduces overhead.

The Walmart here - some stuff you just can't get any longer. They have all of 5 - yep, count em' - 5 work out videos. But they offer well over 100 on line.

Now if you go to Pittsburgh, they have TONS of workout videos, or in any of the larger Walmarts in Ohio - same deal. Plus they have alot of things we just don't have here - furniture items, toys, some clothing items, household items.

They are stocking the stores according to what has historically sold the most in each region rather than stocking the stores with everything available to Wal Mart as a national chain, forcing people to shop online if they want certain things, or to go elsewhere in town - which isn't such a bad thing, IMO.

God Bless,
mik

I work at walmart (fashion processor) and we have stuff that sits.. and sits.. and sits.. until it's clearanced down to $1.00. They see this and just get rid of the item altogether and bring in something new.

As for getting plus workout gear, check the regular athletic clothes, we just group all the sizes together.

This actually made me lol for some reason. :lol:

I can't say I share your pain with finding exercise that remain affordable. Walmart doesn't irritate me, which is a good thing because I have 3 in my town, because I mostly use it for emergency stuff at 1am. Have you tried Kohls? My girlfriend has a love affair with that place. In some ways I'm jealous. I wish she looked at me like a sale price on a pretty blouse sometimes. The words tiger, hunt, and defenseless come to mind.

Kohl's Activewear