Portmouth, Ohio's New Super Wal-Mart Brings Much-Needed Jobs to Area
Store Provides More Jobs and Shopping Opportunities
There's a new, Super Wal-Mart in town.
Finally, after years of waiting, the new Super Wal-Mart for the Portsmouth, Ohio, area is open and functioning. It is located at 4490 Gallia St., just east of town on State Route 52, between the New Boston and Sciotoville areas. It is the only
Super Walmart
Neigborhood: New Boston
Portsmouth, OH 45662
United States of America
Walmart in all of Scioto County. According to the Wal-Mart site, www.walmart.com, there are a planned 275 jobs for this store, which is always good for the local economy, which is, to say the least, struggling.
Now while this Super Wal-Mart is very similar to many other Super Wal-Marts that I have been in, the most special thing about this is that it is here in Scioto County. Before it opened you had to drive to Jackson, or West Union or Maysville, Kentucky for a Super Wal-Mart and that was about an hour drive each way to any of them. So the convenience and cost-saving of Wal-Mart are now nearby.
It has a complete grocery store, with a deli section, freezer section; especially special is their huge sub sandwiches and take & bake pizzas. There is also a pharmacy, a hair salon, a tire & lube express center, garden center, hardware, paint, clothing, jewelry and beauty sections.
They have a bank that is open seven days a week, Woodforest Bank which is an almost practically no-fee bank; the only bad feature that I have found is that their ATM card is only no-fee at their bank's ATM machines; which are only located in Super Wal-Marts. Which means that there are no other ATMs in Scioto County that you can use without paying a fee. There is also an eye care center, a portrait studio and one-hour photo lab.
Also for many, Wal-Mart is a social center. Teens go to hang out and meet each other. I know people that have met their future spouse at Wal-Mart; now doesn't that sound like a Jeff Foxworthy comedy bit?
So for rural, small-town, borderline Appalachia towns, the Super Wal-Mart serves some of the same functions as a mall would be in the big city. It is a one-stop shopping center with social center overtones.
I mean, where else can you go and get an alligator steak [I honestly, I saw this at this Super Wal-Mart), a pair of diamond earrings, hemmorhoid ointment, Alpo, get your portrait done, and grab a bag of Smokin' Hot Doritos, all while getting your car serviced? God Bless America
a patriotic tune being hummed in the background, while little freckled-faced children, eat crisp, fresh apples .... wow, sounds like a Wal-Mart commercial, doesn't it?).
Anyway, Wal-Mart has many products that help anyone make their ends come closer to meeting.
The staff is helpful and will go out there way to help you find where anything is. It is irritating that things are arranged differently than the regular Wal-Mart that they just closed; but it won't be long until it is as familiar to us as the old Wal-Mart layout was.
My biggest pet peeve with the new Super Wal-Mart is their craft section; they have it in the middle of the store and have divided it up by putting the stationary area between the paper type crafts like scrapbooking and wedding crafts and the sewing type of crafts section. There is an extremely limited variety of craft products. This would be an excellent area for them to expand; as no other store in the county sells scrapbooking items.
One of the best things about Wal-Mart is the ease of returning items, it is trult a simple painless process at Wal-Mart.