I decided to swing by and pickup a few things while I was out today. That place looked horrible. Trash on the floor, shelves looked awful and well, it was just bad. I give my wife a hard time about using pickup order but I was rudely reminded of why she does it. Also a damn fool almost ran over me while I was walking across the crosswalk area. If I hadn’t have noticed the car not slowing down, it would’ve been bad. I stopped in plain view of the driver and they kept coming at the same speed. I raised my hands to say WTH, I was within an inch of the car. The car passes on by and I continue to make my way to the truck. The car pulls into a lane and stops almost to see what I was goin to do. I get in my truck and leave because I don’t have time for any chit right now. Really made me think about carrying out in public. That car was up to no good and I even had a feeling of heightened awareness. I’m always aware when I or all of us are in public but that’s the first time something really caught my attention. I think I’ll just pay the extra cost for Publix where shopping is a pleasure from now on. Keep your eyes open out there and keep a cool head.

That is the same Walmart that I swung into to pick up some potting soil for my mother. When I got into the garden shop area I smelled really strong weed. Around one of the aisles at the back were two employees burning a big one. I just walked right between them and grabbed a couple sacks of dirt and got the heck out of there.

Yes, the weed is strong in monkey town.

I avoid Walmart at all costs. Every one I've been in anywhere in the last 5 years or so is a chithole

I never felt scared or the need to carry until the last year. I work in pike rd so I drive through Montgomery twice a day. I’m not worried but I carry now because I trust less.

been in that one a couple time , never been back .

Nothing more dangerous than a group of young black dudes.

I have never understood this scenario. Store or theater in one area gets run down and/or unkempt and instead of thinking, "Oh, we should clean this place up and/or update it." Folks will just go destroy a newer location. I am guilty of shopping at the places that look to be the best maintained, but there is a segment of society who seems to be let out in public with zero home training and it is just a matter of time before the new place is a wreck as well.

We stopped at the Chevron on Eastern Blvd on the way back from Hurtsboro Saturday mid-morning and the weed smell was strong in the parking lot. Of course, it seems like I'm smelling it almost everywhere now.

jarred, sadly we all need to realize the media and dems have made us white males enemy one of a certain demographic.

one old man with nothing to lose !!!!

That’s because it is everywhere. So strong that you can smell it doing 90 down the interstate.

Yes, that Walmart quickly went down hill ... surprisingly I've had bad experiences at both Publix stores off Taylor Rd ... I'll stick to my small town and try to avoid Montgomery except for working on base.

That is why I think its a good idea to be moving out of Pike Road right now while the homes still have decent value. I grew up in Montgomery and the things that make Montgomery bad have spread rapidly and seem to be spreading faster than they ever have.
I went in that Chantilly Walmart not long after it opened and it was not bad. One year later it was getting rough, then a year later was the weed thing and daily crime reports about car break-ins, random stabbings and shootings. It only took a couple years for it to go to crap. I predict that Walmart will be sold down soon to become something like a mega Thrift store or just another empty big box store in Montgomery to go with the rest of them.

Its like its the accepted business model for Montgomery.
Go to the east side, build something nice, make as much money as possible as fast as possible before you start losing money to crime.
Sell the nice business building cheap so you can run away fast.
The new building then becomes some kind of business that caters to something decent people do not like.
...and then more of Montgomery comes in around it.

Can't go much further east!

That is the big problem. Macon County aint exactly the best county to do any kind of upscale business in.

No way in hell to fix montgomery.

Name any city with Montgomerys demographics that isn't a complete shithole