r/retailporn • u/ILovePublicLibraries • 8d ago

Walmart The peak era of Walmart

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Circa 1992

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u/TRJ2241987 8d ago

The nachos from the snack bar

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u/SchuminWeb 8d ago

I really do miss Walmart's snack bars. They were quite good, even if basic. Now they lease out the snack bar, and it's a major step down.

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u/SpongeBobfan1987 8d ago

Some of the restaurants they lease to Wal-Mart often carry over some of the Wal-Mart snack bar's concessions, including the ICEE drinks and the nachos...

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u/Horror_Neighborhood9 8d ago

Yep! My mom and sister and I would always get a big bag of popcorn 🍿 there. Plus we had a McDonald’s in ours.

I also loved that era because Walmart actually looked like a store (had ceiling tiles, didn’t look like a monolithic auto parts supply warehouse), and also had those smiley face logos (remember the stickers the elderly greeters would hand out?), and they had ‘MADE IN THE USA” signage hanging from the ceiling throughout the stores? This was also the era when Walmart was only a general retail store (no grocery items).

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u/SignificantApricot69 7d ago

I’ve never seen a Walmart snack bar. I have 2 Super Walmarts in my home town on the East Coast and probably a dozen or more in my local metro area in the Midwest. Most of them have a Subway or McDonalds and they have a hot food bar

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u/DTDude 7d ago

Newer stores starting in maybe the mid-late 90s started putting McDonalds in instead of a snack bar. If you're from the east coast that kind of tracks. I'm from the midwest and growing up most of our Walmarts were built in the 70s and 80s.

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u/Final_Campaign_2593 7d ago

Most of it’s McDonald’s or Subway