longtooth wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:42 am
03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:45 pm
longtooth wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:38 pm
I bet they spend big $$s every year keeping these out of the news.
I usta teach in class they were one of the most dangerous places the ladies can shop.
I can believe it. There are always seedy looking fellows in those places. Not to mention the scum that wait for easy victims headed through the parking lot.
I have not been able to understand it really but SAMS does not at all seen to have the same problem. Angelina County, Lufkin, SAMS is just bout 250yds entry door to entry door from WM. I have never seen a panhandler in SAMS parking lot. Cant remember ever a crime report of shoplifting. I have used the greater parking lot in that center to walk when I was loosing weight. (It is easy to get a 1 mile circle in that center.) Don't ever remember seeing Lufkin PD in there parking area or hearing them mentioned on nightly news or in the daily crime report in the paper. I am sure they have some but for sure NOTHING like WM. Maybe "Membership" really does make some character and integrity difference.
In Lewisville, the WM and Sam's Club are next door to each other. My head is on a swivel when I approach either one but the people who might take my focus from yellow to orange never appear in front of Sam's. There are plenty of orange "opportunities" both in the parking lot and in the building at WM. I rarely (not never) see that interesting apparel at the Sam's that is a constant at the WM. Just a few miles away is a WM in Highland Village. There, I have never seen anything that I needed to watch. I'm guessing that the surrounding community is a factor. Lewisville has a 2nd WM on Round Grove road. That one is sort of a mix. Mostly, it is like the Highland Village store but not always. I prefer to think of some who hang in the parking lots as "interesting characters". All that said, I've never personally been approached at any of them. I park out - where I get a clear view approaching my van on return and walk with a sense of purpose. I stare back at anyone who seems to be watching me.