What Walmart Doesn't Want You to Know

A couple of weeks before Wal-Mart released the news to the public that they would be closing their layaway departments, I received emails telling me this was going happen.  At first at I didn’t believe it.  I thought, “Surely Walmart isn’t stupid enough to close their layaway department.”  When I discovered that most Walmart’s would be shutting down the layaway department before Christmas I was even more skeptical.  This lead me to do some research about Walmart and what I found literally made me sick.

Now, I don’t use the layaway department more than once a year to purchase expensive electronics, but I know several people who use Walmart’s layaway department at the holidays.  So I set out on my journey to discover if the news I had received was true.  Now you have to realize that Walmart had not yet told the public that they were closing the layaway department, so it wasn’t on any of the news sites.  What I did find was a forum for retail store associates.  This website, called Retail Worker contains forums for several different retail stores, including Walmart.  Sure enough, I found the topic No More Layaway, where Walmart retail workers were discussing why and when the layaway department would be closing.  Several of the associates simply stated that they had been informed that the layaway department, at their Walmart, would indeed be closing.  But other posts, revealed what Walmart, more than likely, doesn’t want people to know.  There were several posts like this one:

“I over heard one of the mgr's at my store telling someone that Walmart doesn’t want to reach out to trailer trash anymore, that they are trying to be more like Target and bring in a higher class of people. That’s one reason why they are getting rid of layaway. Who knows?”