A few years ago, I met a retail store manager who was transferred out of the area and then back to a near by area. Mrs. and I stopped at the local Walmart yesterday and then stopped in the store where my acquaintance works. The subject of customers came up. Mrs. mentioned that she is afraid to go to our local Walmart unless accompanied. The store manager laughed. He has been manager of five stores around the mid atlantic for the same chain. He said the Walmart we spoke of indeed has big problems, but it is more customers in general in our area. When he ran the store near us, customers constantly ripped packages open, dropped clothes on the floor, let their kids ride the stores bicycles down the aisles, etc. Rudest most inconsiderate bunch he ever had to deal with. People would open packages of food and eat some, then return the rest to the shelf. Some would come in and change underwear in the fitting rooms and leave their soiled items in the fitting rooms. Some women would change their infant's malodorous diapers and leave them on the shelf in the store. He was then transferred to a store 100 miles further north and said the customers were unbelievably better in every way. The incidents of theft and damage to goods was less than 10% of what it was in the nearby town. He claims he found that the customers in each area were different. Some more demanding but also more courteous. He likes the town he is in now (20 miles from the area where the customers are so atrocious.) And he likes it, except that he is in a tourist area and is not accustomed to dealing with some big city folk tourists.