the shuangjing carrefour always has scads of shopping carts.

not that that's a good thing though, as they've constructed the aisles to be about exactly 2.00001 shopping carts wide, and the place is crowded to the max with people pushing shopping carts filled with exactly one pair of ankle socks in them.

Attempting to navigate through the store with a cart is like crossing chang'an blvd at rush hour on the back of an elephant.

After my experience today at Carrefour I would definitely say that Walmart is better because it has better service.

I went to Carrefour today and purchased RMB 300 worth of goods, but the staff probably don't really care about increasing sales and RMB 300 sales per customer is probably nothing to them.

I used to think that Jingkelong service is lousy as lousy can be, aka 'China', sorry to say. But now they have really upped their service and changed quite many staff, at least at the newly renovated branch at Tianshuiyuan near Chao Yang Park South Gate. Now it seems that Carrefour is not that far off, and for an international company it certainly is comparatively lousy.

First off, I asked the girl (whom I would not call her a lady cause her attitude aint one of a lady) about the name of the tea she was selling, she mentioned some chinese name, then I asked which is QuHuaCha (Chrysanthemun tea), and she responded with a bad attitude. Given that, of course I'm not gonna buy any tea from her.

Next is the price checker, I couldnt find one and no one could direct me to one, while one staff told me to go to the cashier to check which I did. Guess what, the cashier said she is unable to check, so I asked her if the item is for free then.

Next is the service counter. Cause I could not check the price for an item and later found out it was too high price so I decided to exchange it for a smaller size item.

I went to the exchange service counter, the girl there told me that since I was paying with Accor card therefore I needed to fill out a form and go to Accor office to get the funds credited back. I asked if Carrefour could write me an acknowledgment slip or any thing at all that will alow me to come back in a few days time to exchange the item with some thing of similar value. She said I could come back in a few days time to exchange, but she will not be there and she will tell the person who will work that day.

I asked her what's the name of the girl who will be at the exchange counter to attend to my case in 4 days' time. But she refused to give out the name and also refused to give out her own name. I find it all very stupid, and very troublesome and time-wasting for me to have to explain my case all over again to the next person who may or may not want to hear me out.

So, over such a small issue as asking the name of the staff who attended to me, Carrefour has gained itself an angry customer who demanded to speak to the manager.

The manager came, I explained to her the purpose of my asking for a name to make it easy for me when I come back in 4 days' time to explain my case, and also easy for the staff to settle my case. The manager, as expected, did not want to give me her name either. She did not attend to me rudely, but she did not solve the issue either.

I asked for the company's main Beijing office phone number, the manager said there is none and she doesn't know any phone number of the company )

I asked here if it's true that an international company such as Carrefour does not have its phone number registered, and she said that's right it doesn't. I then took a picture of her and left.

Perhaps a representative of Carrefour would be interested in knowing that their company does not have a registered phone number and that its service counter manager does not know Carrefour's phone number.

wal-mart's market cap is 212.12 billion USD at %53.69 per share, [of course, which fluctuates all the time, just a picture]

carrefour's market cap is 18.89139 billion Euro at 26.8 Euro per share.

euro vs. usd is roughly $1.3419, 18 billion x 1.34 = 24.12 billion. appx

hence, wal-mart is roughly 10fold than carrefour in terms of market value. And factoring in wal-mart stocks one year return stands at 18.559%, outperforms carrefour's -44.131% 1 yr return with 62.69%.

and there has to be a reason and/or reasons why wal-mart bests carrefour, given plausible or not.

end of the story.

fyi, there is usually a positive ratio of market cap against annual sales [or vice mo-fu versa, couldn't remember and dunt give a shyte about it], which usually stands at 1.2 to 1.5 for a consumer goods company, suo yi... u du da math, homie

fmi, i enjoy writing semi-trolling posts that make yes-sense.

ROFL! When GM and Chrysler merge they are #1 too before they go to hell.

Both Carrefour and Wal-Mart are cheaply made, low-priced, meant to have a high turnover with absolutely no perceived value beyond the price. Most products at both stores are produced here in China with no beneficial quality attached to them. It's not in their interest in forging relationships with customers only because there are so many of them and people plan on shopping there anyways.

I've never stepped foot into a Wal-Mart here or elsewhere and I never will. Carrefour is a horrendous mad house almost at anytime of day without anyone giving a S*@t to your concerns. That's why I never I go back. It's like the roads throughout this city.

So you're asking yourself without caring, where do I shop then?
I shop at Wan Hui, JingKeLong, ShingGuan, Bonjour, and Lion Mart.

there's a metro here in Beijing?

There sure is, in Haidian, close to Beida