Wal-Mart

Watch for the sign on I-80 to find the Dixon location

Woodland Location	Dixon Location
Wal-Mart Store #2190 1720 East Main Street Woodland, CA 95776 (inside Yolo Polo Plaza)	Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #5139 235 East Dorset Drive Dixon, CA 95620
Hours	Hours
7am-11pm, Sun 7am-10pm	24 hour
Phone	Phone
530-668-1060	707-693-6505
West Sac Location
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #3652 755 Riverpoint Court West Sacramento, CA 95605 (next door to IKEA)
Hours
24 hours
Phone
916-373-2200
Web site
http://www.walmart.com

Note: Controversy text has been moved to Wal-Mart/Controversy

Wal-Mart (often called Wally World) is that other big box store that isn't considered as "nice" as Target and is slightly cheaper for non-comestibles. The Dixon Wal-Mart was recently upgraded to a Wal-Mart Supercenter and now features a grocery section comparable in size to that of most grocery chains, and seemingly cheaper than those in Davis. Its freezer section is particularly large and diverse. However, its location may make it unfavored for regular grocery runs.

The West Sac Walmart contains a QuickHealth doctor's office.

Northern California stores can receive anything ordered via their website at no charge. Since certain very heavy or large items can be extremely expensive to ship, Wal-mart may be a good place to acquire furniture or grills cheaper than many local stores.

On April Fool's Day, 2006, somebody placed a "Super Wal-Mart Coming Soon" sign at farm property on the corner of Pole Line and Covell.

These facts are irrelevant to Davis in particular, however they are interesting and may affect your buying decision.

Across the nation, Wal-Mart sells half a million dollars of products every single minute of every single day.
Wal-Mart made the largest corporate donation to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in absolute terms. Largest contributions as percentage of earnings are unknown.

Wal-mart Supercenters, such as found in Dixon, common in the Midwest since their inception several years ago, are now popping up all over California. New locations in the Greater Sacramento Area locations include Citrus Heights, Roseville (across Highway 65 from the Target Greatlands), and Yuba City (adjacent to Highway 20). Wal-Mart reached a major milestone in March 2006 with its 2,000th Supercenter opening in Beaumont, CA.

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2006-11-25 23:45:26   The WalMart in Woodland is getting bad...seems to be in a constant state of disarray, poorly organized, difficulty to move through, grungy, nearly non-existant customer service, slow-moving checkout. Choose the Dixon WalMart or Woodland Target over this place. —DukeMcAdow

• Just returned from the Dixon store...sure, it's cleaner and larger than the Woodland store, but the last three or four times I've been there, the lines were long and agonizingly slow. It seems they like they only have one or two human cashiers working in order to force you to use their problematic do-it-yourself checkout lanes (if I wanted to work for WalMart, I would've applied for a job!). The wait can be just as long in those lines, as people struggle to figure out the machines. WalMart's just not worth the trip anymore. —DukeMcAdow
  

2007-01-01 20:20:32   Walmart is not a Pictionary selling institution. —MattFrantz

2007-03-10 17:55:02   Their lines aren't nearly as bad as they were a few months ago, it's unfair to them to say that's a problem. Also, walmart isn't the only store who has self checkout, sometimes it's faster and easier. Albertsons, home depot, what about ATM machines (AT=Automated Teller). However this is problem with the store in Dixon... on more than one occassion I have left a bag behind full of merchandise after the cashier has assured me that I've got all my stuff. It's annoying and potentially expensive. I learned my lesson the hard way and although the savings are still well worth it, make sure you have all your stuff because it's easy to leave behind a bag or two on the little round about things they use. Now I literally go through my receipt the moment it's printed. Asking the cashier, "is that everything?" isn't enough. —TonyOrozco

2007-05-24 22:59:18   I LOVE WALMART —wesleywang

2007-11-06 22:38:22   I love Walmart. I go to the Dixon WalMart once a week. They carry Amy's organic entrees for lunch. My husband likes the Zataran's frozen entrees. All the items I buy for my family I can get at much lower prices than Safeway or Nugget: cheddar cheese sticks for my kids, whole wheat pasta including lasagna noodles (which I can't find anywhere else at this price). mini-bagels, basmati rice & school supplies. My kids like their clothes & electronics section. I just bought my boys new bikes they picked out (Mongoose dual-suspension mountain bike for $100 & Huffy black beach cruiser bike for $80). Walmart does a service to those folks who cannot afford or have the brains not to overpay at Co-Op or Nugget. And if you don't like the lines, use the self-checkout. I let my kids do all the checking out and bagging. They have fun & it saves me time. The only other store in Davis with self-checkout is the SaveMart (formerlly Albertsons). To avoid lines I go shopping at WalMart either Sunday morning, when people are asleep or at church ,or during the dinner hour (6-7pm0 on weekdays. And stop at Pedrick Produce on the way to get fresh produce. Recently I started going to the West Sacramento WalMart Super Center which is even bigger and the grocery shelves are full.—musicamyl

2007-11-07 10:05:37   Some people choose to shop at the Davis Food Co-op and Nugget because they prefer to pay something close to the true cost of food and household goods, in actual cash, right away. Instead of mortgaging part of the cost in the form of pollution, unsustainable transportation, trade-deficit labor and unethical marketing. When you think, "affordable," think long-term. —MattJurach

2007-11-08 17:59:19   Can anyone tell me whether or not the prices on groceries there are comparable to grocery outlet or winco? —AnnaF

2007-11-08 20:38:41   Some people choose to shop at wal-mart because we don't have the money to spend to buy more expensive food and some of us choose to pollute the world with useless t-shirts blaming wal-mart, heckling those who shop there, fighting for the removal of wal-marts, and telling poor people they should not work at Wal-mart because it is bad while at the same time offering little to help the person without any extra income. In the end until we can make food without harming the environment as much I choose this than telling a family to foreclose on a house, be a product of malnutrition, and not having a computer to post on the wiki(oh wait they don't shop there they go to nugget and the co-op). —Dean

2007-11-08 21:13:51   There is a Wal-Mart Controversy page already. I am not sure why there is a page about Wal-Mart on a Davis Wiki in the first place, since there is no Wal-Mart in Davis. But if you want to debate Wal-Mart, here is the place: http://daviswiki.org/Wal-Mart/Controversy

—DonShor

2007-11-09 08:25:43   I don't know if this should go on the other page or not but theres a big fight against Wal mart in Suisun http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=34749 —MyaBrn

2007-12-17 10:51:11   The WalMart in Vacaville and Dixon haven't been carrying fenders lately for bikes. What a bummer. I guess Dixon's Wal-Mart isn't so "super", now is it? —ChristineLim

2008-03-28 17:27:35   You get what you expect to pay at Walmart: long lines and lost customer service representatives. Honestly when it comes to Walmart employees they can't help you find anything because they simply can't understand you or they don't know where anything is themselves. Case in point: Most recently I asked someone to show me where the Tofu was...He said, "Tofu? What's that?" I proceeded to ask another employee where an on sale in-ad item was. They couldn't find it! One employee asked another, then proceeded to ask another. I had an entire team of Walmart employees looking for an item and they just couldn't do it.

Final words: Go to Walmart and you're on your own. —senioritis