The front right corner of the store is largely home to the health and beauty department, with the front end of the right actionway being home to the newly-named "personal hygiene" department (home to things like soaps, shampoo, etc.). Despite what the wall sign says, cosmetics are actually a few aisles over to the left, in their own self-contained little space.
At the Wal-Mart I went to a couple of weeks ago, the health & beauty departments were in an area that had the fake wood flooring that was popular during the early Project Impact era. I thought it looked pretty good by Wal-Mart standards at least. Unfortunately, the messy organization of the shelves managed to ruin whatever positives existed in that area.
ReplyDeleteGiven that Target usually scores high marks with their health & beauty departments, which could get even stronger with the Ulta store-within-a-store concepts at Target, I wonder if Wal-Mart might be giving up trying to compete with Target on appearances and are pushing a very austere image to try to communicate to shoppers that they have a price advantage even if they don't have an appearances advantage. I don't know.
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Interesting! I think the Impact-built store in Port Angeles had that, but it doesn't seem to be very common. That fake wood flooring looked pretty nice (even in stores with concrete floors in the rest of the store), but -- like so much Walmart stuff -- it didn't age well at all.
DeleteYeah, it really is a big contrast with Target, especially in their newer remodels! The way that Walmart almost always makes their cosmetics departments separated, walled-off sections with their own checkouts doesn't help either. And those knock-off stores are always amusing!