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By TSSTheSecondShooter

I work at Wal-Mart.

I have worked there for almost 6 years now. I work in management in the
hard lines area that includes garden center,hardware, TLE, sporting goods, and toys. About
5 years ago when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the looters hit the local Wal-Mart. The
looting was all caught on tape by the local news.




This was just 1 day after the storm. The city was flooding & people where dying by the thousands, and these people went shopping. Around 85% of the city was evacuated before the storm. Can you imagine what that video would have looked like if they had not. Anything of any value for survival was gone in a matter of hours.

So now lets say you come across an abandoned Wal-Mart six months later. I hope you have a small Army with you, because this place is full of holes. Lets start with the obvious ones.

There will be two large mall-type entrances. One on either side towards the front of the store and a third one at the Garden C
enter.

Front doors

TLE will likewise have a large glass door entrance along with about 6 to 8 big bay roll up doors.
The Receiving Area will have another 6 to 8 roll up doors and at least one more for vendors but there could
be two.

.Bay doors

Now back to the garden center:

Most Wal-Marts have 2 patio areas in garden center and they are fenced in with large gates. The larger patio will have large steel racks along the fence that
can go as high as 25 feet.
front patioBack patio

Inside both of these
fences are 15 to 20 roll up doors that are made of cloth and held together on the sides with Velcro.

cloth roll up door

Now for the biggest problem, fire doors. There are 45 fire doors on my building and if you doubt me next time you're close to a Wal-Mart drive around it and count. You can't go more than 20 feet in most places on the outside wall and not see a fire door.

fire doormore fire doors

These doors are not made for security and have no locks. They are held closed with a single 3/8 steel bar that slides in a hole and a very small bump from the inside will open it. The doors are made of light steel... light steel that is nothing close to bullet proof.

fire door lockfire door lock release

There is a single roof access in the back room of the store.

roof access 1roof access 2

In my store there are over 200 sky lights. Also the roof is thin gauge metal that would not support much more weight than a few people for any amount of time

sky lights 1sky lights 2
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There is no Generator.

No back up power.

No water tanks.

Just a very large building with 500 entrances for Raiders and Zombies to get to you. Let's not forget that there is also a huge parking lot with surrounding buildings that would make excellent cover for Snipers to pick you off one at a time if you did stay out on the roof. You could build a secure building from scratch easier than securing a Wal-Mart.











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talenkarr Bad Ideas or How To Get Yourself Killed Quick 11 Apr 9 2013, 12:23 PM EDT by LWJ2009
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This is one of the pages I am putting in my survival manual tell me what you think and if you ca add something even bett!!


Well the worst of the worst happened. Zombies have over run the world. Or some naeteral diaster ( flood hurricain tornado ect, )has happened. There are a few things you need to do to survive and more importantly NOT do If you want to live great! If'fn you don't think of this as how to commit sucide by stupidity


Wallmart a.ka. Sucide by Stupidity

Okay the z- apocolipse hits and you want to stock up fast. You say to your self "Who has most of what I want?" The top answer is Walmart, target, Costco or any large dept store. Problem is your not the only person who thought this. Every body and their unprepared brother did to. So now your not only fighting the undead horde, but your fellow man is in a panic And he or she is more than willing to cap your ass for a roll of towlet paper. I can't stress how much having a stockpile of food and supplise is important.
First off it is way cheaper when people are not trying to clear the shelves in under two minutes. But you get what you want in the brand you want. If you think this is a silly thing to consider this. Remember that towlet paper you were about ready to kill for? Do you want cases of quilted soft two-ply that gets the job done. Or do you want the single ply John Wayne"? You know the kind that doesn't take "poop" from any body.

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Genesis50000 smart man 0 May 7 2012, 4:00 AM EDT by Genesis50000
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He's right large department stores and Malls are death traps to many flimsy doors to secure plus large glass entrance doors all over. if you can avoid it try and find small mom and pop shops for supplies and to fortify.
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Hega-boy Cooking schools catering shops 0 Jul 14 2011, 4:50 PM EDT by Hega-boy
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Hello another thread by me . If I am annoying anyone just ask me to stop?

People say they will raid wallmart to get supplies, there are others who simply cannot afford and finally the people who will look strange to there parents with 200 cans of beans under there bed.

My solution would be cooking shops/schools , I got a summer job in one recently and I noticed how useful it would be if any disaster took place pref zombies.

This school has around 100 students go through it a day and a fully stock store beneath it along with a warehouse around I kilometre away, I'm not saying everyone is like this .

This specific shop has over 12 camping 2 ring camping stoves along with a large supply of butane for them. Also as I stated there's over 100 a day going through there's very large amounts cannend food. Along with food and butane there's large amount of chafing fuel and large I mean large.

Along with that there is professional cooking knives in there hundreds and many other useful tools that can be used like a frying pan to the face of a zed.

Pots large pots that are used for cooking to 30 or so will be over looked in the panic and can be used for trade later on in the apoc when people realise they can't boil enough vegetables in their nee tins for their group of thirty .

Just a taught:)
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