Wal-Mart Crime
January 27th, 2007 by The Masked BloggerI don’t patronize the Wal-Mart near the Blog Cave. There’s a couple of reasons for that. The biggest reason is that it is ALWAYS crowded, unless you go in between the hours of 2am and 4am. In addition, the store itself is so overloaded with merchandise that it always looks cluttered, makes it almost mandatory that you walk down the aisles (what there are of them) in single-file and constantly amazes me that the Fire Marshall hasn’t cited them for hazardous conditions. Personally, I prefer Target stores for my discount shopping.
But if you are a shopper who frequents your area Wal-Mart, you might be interested in visiting Wal-Mart Crime Reports, which tracks the number of police calls to individual Wal-Mart stores and allows you to view those numbers of the stores closest to you when you submit your zip code. Amazingly, when I put in my zip code, the store closest to me has the lowest number of calls of all the stores in the greater metropolitan Orlando area. Still, that number, gathered since 2002, works out to one call per week for the past 4 years.
If you’re interested, check out your own local store and see how many police calls have been recorded.
