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[todd]

^Mailman.

[Nparker]

Postal worker is much better. Who says someone "went mail"?

[LJ]

The postman always rings twice.

[Matt R.]

Staffed elevators would be a neat innovation. Could solve a lot of problems.

“Why don’t you just hire more staff?” — Customers, 2022

[Tom Braybrook]

^Mailman.

Delivery Agent is the current terminology...

[todd]

Package technician

[Barrrister]

How are the grocery selections?

[Mike K.]

Saanich News reporting that the Hillside Walmart deal is just a rumour.
https://www.saanichn...t-and-hillside/
Matt.

The good ol’ days, eh.

[Nparker]

A review of the new Hillside Walmart. https://www.reddit.c...tm_source=share

[Victoria Watcher]

A review of the new Hillside Walmart. https://www.reddit.c...tm_source=share

 

 

TL:DR: 1/4 the size of the Uptown Walmart, almost all self checkout, maybe has 1/3 the items and brands Uptown Walmart stocks, pharmacy on 2nd level, very clean inside, and friendly staff. Bring a loonie for the shopping cart. Parts of the Walmart sign outside already burnt out. They do not have the baby carrots and beans frozen veg mix from Good Value.

[aastra]

 

Delivery Agent is the current terminology...

 

When in doubt, it can be helpful to refer back to early seasons of "The Simpsons".

Edited by aastra, 18 June 2022 - 10:47 AM.

[UDeMan]

https://retail-insid...re-in-victoria/

 

New features and offerings at the Victoria Hillside Supercentre include:

• An expansive international section including Asian, Southeast Asian, British, German, Latin and Italian foods.
• Walmart Express Pickup service with online grocery orders ready in two hours or less.
• Walmart Grocery Delivery service with local on-demand delivery.
• A Walmart Pharmacy slated to open in the coming weeks with a pharmacy team that is eager to offer new and longtime customers expert advice, compassionate help on health-care issues and assistance with products and prescriptions.
• A 4,000 sq. ft. Jack Nathan Health medical centre with paramedical services such as chiropractic, physiotherapy and a medical spa, expected to open in the summer of 2022.
• Sustainable features including a transcritical CO2 refrigeration system with rejected energy being reclaimed for building heating systems, a building automation system for lighting and HVAC controls, LED lighting and low flow fixtures.

[Mike K.]

Was this covered by the local press?

[Victoria Watcher]

Bullet points 4 and 5 were. 1 and 6 are new to me. Not sure about others.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 19 June 2022 - 06:39 AM.

[Mike K.]

Yeah, those are new. I had not heard of five, either.

[Redd42]

Uptown has at least 2 long aisles of "international" foods. One of the main reasons to go there. Haven't been to the Hillside one yet but from what folks have said about the size, I imagine its international section won't be as big. Haven't been to the Langford one for a while - what kind of international section does it have?

[MysticalWarrior]

Uptown has at least 2 long aisles of "international" foods. One of the main reasons to go there. Haven't been to the Hillside one yet but from what folks have said about the size, I imagine its international section won't be as big. Haven't been to the Langford one for a while - what kind of international section does it have?

Just went there today and its definitely a smaller selection.. quite frankly speaking, this new Walmart overall feels like a scaled down version of the Uptown one, especially since the first floor layout is almost identical to Uptown's which made things a little easier to find lol.

[Nparker]

...From day one I was hoping against hope that they might go the extra mile and carve out a few actual windows here and there on that old Sears facade. Even some narrow vertical-sliver windows would have been nice.

Windows don't increase the bottom line. Walmart was never going to do this.

[aastra]

But I might have spent a dollar in there by now if there were some windows to actually draw me inside.

[Mike K.]

I went in there for the first time ever on Monday.

With Canadian Tire and Wal Mart, the mall felt more alive than I recall it being since I was a kid. It struggled* for a long time, it felt like.

*not Tillicum struggled. Tillicum is in a different league.