This was the Package my Sylvania Metalarc came in....as you can see a Chineese Brinks Mercurv Vapor Lamp was supposed to be in the Packing....but someone Swapped the Lamps.....and at the Walmart Supercenter that i got it from....they used Short Poles with 175 Watt MH Fixtures (as Apposed to Tall Poles with 1000 Watt Fixtures)
this picture was taken shortly after i got it...from a Supercenter is Vestiva Hills,Alabama.
A reminder to open the box and check, as I recall some one had a pic titled "Dont Get Snookered" Are there any mercs in the parking lot that are supposed to be MH?
It may not be the Walmart property...but the contractors.....whoever owns the lot...depends on where Walmart was......if Walmart was found at a shopping center...then its the Shopping center's property...but sometimes Walmart has their own property...without any other store property...
Are you sure? Wal-Mart usually doesn't buy the lot. Most if not all Wal-Marts are leased. Unless this is a really old Wal-Mart. The W-Marts here use 1KW MH Gallerias so I hope the contractor doesn't put in 175w MV lamps.
The ones here lease the parking lot and building. That way it's easier to move locations. I believe they own the lights though as they're on a separete switch from the other lights in the mall.
Very often Walmart builds their OWN building....Walmart is VERY RICH...don't forget that.......But there are very few cases when Walmart shares other properties with other smaller stores...but often....I find Walmarts pop up in a very quiet once to be a happy small city...until the DREADED day Walmart decided to choose the SPOT to take over...and make it a noisy place!
One of the 10 reasons Target is better than Walmart...
I like Target too, but Wal-Mart is really killing Taget up here. There are soooo many W-Marts here and onlt a few Targets. I agree about the atmosphere. I mean chaeck out peopleofwalmart.com You will never see that at a Target. My aunt works in the food department at Wal-Mart and she says "They cut my hours down to the bone and pay me next to nothing", "If you make one mistake, it'll be your last paycheck". She said she may end up going to work at Target because she's tired of seeing half drinken bottles of milk in the fridge isle.
There hasn't been any Targets opening or closeing here. They're still doing good business here, Wal-Mart is keeping them from being able to open new stores though. One thing i find about Target that I like is they spend some of theire profits on fixing up the store rather than worring about opening a new store. The Wal-Mart stores here arn't dumpy, they just don't have that nice "atmosphere" like Target does. The general clientele is just lousy.
I hope they at least keep at least one Zellers store in my area...don't really want to see them all converted to Targets.
There's a Walmart near me with drop ceilings and troffers instead of the standard striplights and open ceiling. It does look a bit nicer than the others.
Mine dosen't anymore. They did sell them around ten years ago though, I have a couple of Regent 175w blasters with Walmart inventory labels from around that time.
They don't sell Regent fixtures anymore. They sell the MH and HPD Brinks ones. The newer medium base HPS and MH lamps are Brinks too, but the old mercury lamps with 10 years of dust are Regent. The store is becoming a Super Center, so those lamps may be going. And i may swipe them off the self with a few incandescnets.
Here they only sell medium base incandescents. They sell up to 4ft tubes at my local walmart. The Great Value CFLs are everywhere too. Do i choose Great Value of LOA CFLs? They both suck. At least they sell GE lamps too.
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@rlshieldjr i never saw the lot at night,so i dont know for sure.
but seeing how the parking lot fixtures are 175 Watts its Clear that the walmart took the lazy way out.
even though the lamp wasn't the one that was supposed to be in the package i didn't get mad at all cause it was cool to find the metal arc in the box.
One of the 10 reasons Target is better than Walmart...
Ten reasons why Target is Better than Walmart
Enjoy it, and I totally agree with all those...its actually facts...but with humor added to it!
There's a Walmart near me with drop ceilings and troffers instead of the standard striplights and open ceiling. It does look a bit nicer than the others.