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| - While, as an American living in Calgary which I have totally fallen in love with due to the meeting some of the nicest people anywhere, I normally loath Wal-mart. Somehow, though, Wal-mart's in western Canada are different than their US counterparts. The stores appear cleaner and the staff much more helpful without being overbearing.
This particular Wal-mart is located next to Deerfoot Mall, off of Exit 263, Alberta 2/Deerfoot Trail southwest of the Calgary International Airport (YYC).
As stated previously, the staff are much friendlier here. This is a full service location or "supercenter" as it's normally called complete with a photo shop, an electronics and smartphone department, customer service desk, pharmacy, full grocery store, and a McDonald's for those so inclined. It also has a Western Union service centre as well.
The store is open daily from 07:00am to 11:00pm. I wish the store was open to 01:00am instead but apparently, all the stores of this type close at 11:00pm such as Safeway and the Real Canadian Superstore.
The store has a nice layout and is usually well stocked. If it is not, normally, you can find an associate whom can tell you when it was last in stock and when the next stock should arrive.
The cashiers at this location are pretty friendly and fast which for any other Wal-mart or other store for that matter is almost an seemingly impossibility. I almost never had a problem with the cashier or the cashier station. Usually clean and the card machines work flawlessly.
There is ample parking and is next to Deerfoot Mall which also has a Winners, Smart Deals @ Stupid Prices, and a LW (Liquidator's Warehouse) (a part of Big Lots company). So, if Wal-mart does not have it, you do not have to go far to find it. Heck, you can even walk.
I'd like to give 3.5 stars but I do not have that option. I would not say I am a fan because of so many bad experiences at Wal-marts in the US and in China but this location, I can tolerate with relative ease.
Note, depending on your location in the store and the strength of your device's antenna and as a Shaw Cable customer, there is Shaw EXO Wifi in the mall so be sure to login to your Shaw account and register the MAC address of your smartphone, tablet, phablet devices to use it!
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