Shopping at Walmart in 2005

[@bledidemirazi6895]

When Wal-Mart had 32 registers open at the same time.

[@CameronJP]

I went to one in Clermont, FL the other day and they had probably had around 7-10 of them open and I thought that was impressive.

[@Rymac91]

Throughout my entire life I've rarely seen so many Walmart checkouts open at the same time. I suspect the reason the video has so many open is because of it being Thanksgiving week. The last 2 months of the year were typically when Walmart tried to keep as many checkouts open as possible. The rest of the time my local stores only had 2 checkouts open during the day with a max of 6 open in the evening.

[@nerdgang4561]

Yeah now there's like 2

[@JaneFoster-si6gq]

@@Rymac91 once at a black friday morning sale, I needed that price so badly because I was poor while in line I pooped my self. I had no choice, and the teenage girl behind me threw up at the smell and then covered her nose. But niether of us would leave the line because we had tickets to get highly discounted PlayStation 2s when they were very hard to fine. Also after she headed across the the street to get adult toys on sale to pleasure her wonderful 15 year old body.. it sent shivers down my spine!

[@truthseek3017]

Industrial capitalism is collapsing.

[@TheRazzyDazzle]

2005 was the last full year I got to spend with my mother, I was 10. There may be only four or five things in the whole world, that I wouldn't give to go back to then. If you're reading this fellow viewer, please cherish the time you have, whether it be friends, family, or just the experiences. You'll never know for sure what you had, until it's gone. What a time to be alive then.

[@Hat65]

👍💯❤️👊

[@hansolo989]

This is so heartfelt of you to say. I can see the date on the cash registers and the date shown is my own mother’s birthday. Sending you much love my friend.

[@LittleJerryFan92]

Sending all my love ❤

[@MunaFarrell]

True. I lost my grandad in 2005

[@Jonesy_Ripley]

❤✌🏽

[@skol_RL]

Even 2005 is so distant now....this is so depressing, the amount of time that flew by

[@gdeech]

We're closer to 2040 than 2005... insane

[@shadowbanned3716]

I feel ya there. It seems like yesterday

[@Goldrefinedthrufire]

I feel the same way. I had my son when I was 19. Now he's 19. Oh my gosh

[@Canuckchick32]

Boy! How time flies! Thanks for uploading these time capsules! 😊

[@yumallah]

@@GoldrefinedthrufireYeah man, I was born in 2005 and now I’m an adult in college and with a job, time fucking flies

[@GG-lv3xd]

At least we have a video to PROVE we used to be able to fill our grocery carts to the top - and AFFORD it!

[@PraveenSrJ01]

Inflation got out of control since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic 😷

[@toxicmoldmedia]

look at the SIZE of those cereal boxes. They don't make them anymore.

[@craigc1879]

Watch who you vote for

[@alexander2685]

Yeah don't vote for a cry baby playing a victim.

[@ArtsyAllAround]

I was 12 in 2005. This really brings me back when I would go to Walmart with my parents back then. Thanks!!

[@Edboy-kz3kq]

I was 10 that year. It does feel pleasant seeing Walmart like that.

[@irishuwould5185]

I was 23, I feel old

[@mwp.2]

I was 9!

[@therealworld7351]

I was 11

[@aaronjensen5524]

I was 12 in 2005 also, YXMedia!

[@SigmaNuHE481]

People actually working the checkout lines

[@DJNurseAnnabella]

see we in da future now,we dont need people anymore for that.*crazy right

[@LINJ638]

@@DJNurseAnnabella They are all disposable.

[@trippyracks6837]

Honestly I prefer to do it myself. I’m faster. Glad we have the choice for people that aren’t as fast and can get a lane with a cashier to do it for them.

[@6ANUR34DT81S]

Damn, never thought I'd say I miss 2005

[@sticks_studiosHQ]

Early 2000’s really got that 90’s vibe

[@psychedelicfright85]

I've missed it for a long time. Notice how much less weird and detached people seem?

[@christiangonzales7429]

the year I started 7th grade. By then, the 90s vibe was long gone for me.

[@chadwellington2524]

@@sticks_studiosHQ no they have a early 2000s vibe.. i dont know why everyone tries to make early 2000s the 90s

[@Toyeboy89]

I don’t high school sucked.

[@chellastation]

Look how calm everyone is shopping. No one is yelling, starting fights and making stupid prank videos. Just getting their shopping done. 🛍🛒

[@Toyeboy89]

Yet I’ve never actually seen what you’re saying in person..

[@Religious_man]

Did customers lick ice cream off the shelf then?

[@kris78787]

​@@Religious_man no

[@Religious_man]

Well at least "not as often."

[@josephsheranda]

@@Toyeboy89 Then you live under a rock.

[@Enfrentar]

Wish we could go back to the old days back in 2000

[@hekkie6082]

20.000?

[@marshmower]

You'll not have a skeleton.

[@FligonUser598]

Oh yeay even I. If fact I was born in 2000, and my family would go here for all the supplies. Everything was far better before 2010.

[@CaseyLouis]

Me too.

[@Enfrentar]

So nostalgic I remember I would get the Walmart smiley face stickers and go to the fish section 🥲

[@vampirerobot]

People sometimes talk about the lobster tanks at Walmart. I don't honestly remember them...but I can just imagine.

[@philipkeds328]

@@vampirerobot There was at my Walmart!!

[@vampirerobot]

@@philipkeds328 Oh my!

[@TheMJCorner]

I loved it when my father would take me "to see the fishies" at Walmart. Haha. Fun.😊

[@Br1tt_B]

@@TheMJCorner I use to say that to my kid all the time. She’s 11 now and sadly, no more fishes at WM😩

[@shawnab8484]

Oh look people that look friendly and nice ringing folks up. I was 21 in 2005. Seems like yesterday. Thanks for sharing😎

[@hedga001]

I was 19 and 20 then. And I worked there too

[@Lighthouse6104]

Hey I’m Turing 21 in 4 months 😃

[@justindurnen3828]

Yeah, customer service has gone down the toilet in the last decade.

[@masond7573]

​@@justindurnen3828wages haven't been rising at the same rate as cost of living since around the time of the this video, I honestly just think people are fed up and don't feel the need to be fake nice for a bad wage.

[@laurenlongfellow9714]

Yeah that’s what happens when you make enough to actually pay rent. The income disparity wasn’t quite as bad back then as it is now.

[@LosingSparkles]

I love watching these videos but at the same time it just makes me sad. Oh, how I miss everything from the late 90’s and early 00’s.

[@vampirerobot]

We all do. They think it's an age issue. lol

[@kyliCatherine1]

@@vampirerobot Yeah, definitely not an age issue. These videos make me feel nostalgic for time periods when I wasn’t even born yet. I love these videos ❤️

[@Coincollector81]

The 90's and 00's were awesome. 1998 till 2006 is one of my favorite times to be alive. Back when best buy was actually worth shopping at. The 2010's began the shit show.

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

@@Coincollector81 those were the best years

[@paratext]

​@@Coincollector811998 - 2006 feels like the most beautiful dream that I keep reliving in my mind over and over again.

[@4ever9zxyme]

I remember I was in middle school in 2005. Kids used to make fun of you for wearing any clothes or shoes from Walmart . Now a days it’s actually popular ! Which is a good thing .

[@flurpoid]

It helps that Wal Mart sells some actually decent looking clothes nowadays. Their George brand chino pants are especially good for the money.

[@xpensfanatic2009]

Places like Walmart and Target have definitely upped the quality of their clothes in the last 15 years compared to what they were selling in the early and mid 2000s.

[@royalgarden18]

I was in middle school around 2014 and they did the same. Now nobody can afford the good stuff and Walmart is the norm lol

[@CameronJP]

Yeah, it's cool that do spin offs with name brands plus some of their store brand stuff is actually very nice.

[@katlincleary1988]

Yeah I remember Walmart clothes weren't that great back then. I actually shop a lot for clothes at Walmart and see a lot of nice stuff.

[@crow2580]

This Wal-Mart looks very modern for 2005. It already has flatscreen TV monitors, the modern black signage you still tend to see in Wal-Marts nowadays, no more blue bags, etc... Actually looks a lot like most Wal-Marts today minus the "WAL-MART" signage on the outside as well as the red number signs at the checkout lanes, both being older remnants that were probably already there before the remodel. My Wal-Mart in 2005 still had late 90s/early 2000s signage + overall aesthetic, CRT TV monitors, and blue bags but with no rollback smiley on them at that point.

[@xpensfanatic2009]

While there were still a fair share of tube TVs for sale in 2005, it was pretty clear by then that flat screens were taking over, especially for the TV people choose for their main living room set.

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

2005 is when I noticed Walmart moved away from their classic look to a 1.0 version of what they have now

[@jerrysanders9101]

You didn’t see thugs stealing chit unchallenged or beating people up for being whypeepo.

[@XxKristinaaXx]

​@oldradios09 it's ugly now they thought they did something

[@Shaunks86]

​@jerrysanders9101 that's crap. It all depends on what city you were in. Not much has changed since 2005 except cell phone technology.

[@Ordinarygirl1127]

I was 15 that year. Sometimes it feels like yesterday. I tend to feel depressed when thinking of what I miss of my younger years. This makes me want to jump inside :(

[@Br1tt_B]

You and me both. What I wouldn’t give to go back to this time.

[@manikyum]

Time is not real.

[@sidneywedge2477]

Same age, same feelings

[@karriekimbrough8540]

@@manikyum I’m open to this concept but then what is “time” and why can’t we go back if it isn’t real.

[@thoedessay89]

Same I was 16

[@trr5291]

I was a junior in high school in 2005. This is like a whole different world. A lot has changed.

[@ScatPackHulk888]

Me too lol class of 06

[@trr5291]

​@ScatPackHulk888 2006 seems like forever ago at this point. I'm only a few years away from 40.

[@dazanii]

Same, but WalMart in 2005 is roughly the same as now, besides the addition of self-checkout and inflation, and removal of McD’s. But the Walmart of the 90’s felt wildly different somehow? It felt more old-school, less credit cards and more checks, more specialized departments kinda feeling like a department store. 2005 was a transition period.

[@klc7275]

2:55 This just reminded me. I used to see people with overflowing carts like this all the time in the 90s and early 2000s. I never see them anymore. I miss that era where we could actually afford things.

[@adammiller9179]

That's because we get it delivered now...

[@klc7275]

@@adammiller9179 Okay. I miss the era where people went outside and interacted with other people.

[@TheRetartidMunkee]

Towards the start of the month I see big groups pushing overflowing carts like this and all I can think is 'foodstamps musta hit' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@blackandproud83]

Crazy how now Wal-Mart is being operated by self-checkout lanes that doesn’t recognize when you put your items in the bag

[@Yeen125]

Funny enough, one of my Walmarts growing up had one or two self checkout machines back then.

[@marshmower]

2004 I believe they did trial runs on the self checkout. I remember helping a college student move and we stopped at Wally's. He got me a 20oz drink. He pointed out some of the quirks of the checkout.

[@truthseek3017]

Technology took away all of the jobs.

[@Goldrefinedthrufire]

Huh? At the Walmart I go to it notices everything. The weight scale is so accurate I can't leave my hand on it

[@Toyeboy89]

So I remember during a short period of time in possibly 2010 give or take, they didn’t have self-checkouts at my local Walmart. Their lines were so bad. I do not mind the self-checkouts at all because they get me out of the store faster.

[@jenniferburchill3658]

Wow. The store looks neat and organized. The last time I was in a Walmart(which was a few months ago), the shelves were piled with merchandise in a messy, cluttered dump.

[@IssanCaliRefugee]

I'd give anything for Walmart to go away, and Kmart to come back.

[@NickyD]

all depends on the area

[@NickyD]

that place was even worse @@IssanCaliRefugee

[@jenniferburchill3658]

@@IssanCaliRefugee K-Mart had character back in the day, from the housewares department to the cafeteria.

[@chrisvaughn5960]

​@@IssanCaliRefugeekmart had better quality anyways!

[@Lichenroc]

Early 2000s still looked like the 90s things really started to change from 2012 onward.

[@Sethdaknowledgeseeker]

2011 was the last good year for humanity.

[@VegasUnicorn]

These people from 2005, had no clue that in just 15 years, they would be using self-checkout.

[@TheTTMproduction]

Bro, this is genius recording along with your other videos! These are cool to watch and relive the past. True Americana!

[@jerrysanders9101]

I agree.🎉

[@MarkMeadows90]

I know it's not too long ago, but I do miss this era of Walmart. This brings back memories as a teenager shopping in the Walmart Supercenters with my parents. Good ol days.

[@vampirerobot]

Indeed! Very good days.

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

Same. Do you remember when Walmarts had a HUGE overhaul in 2005 moving away from their classic look?

[@bruhmongus4548]

The days when everything seemed just right, nothing major needed to be thought about, when going into a circuit city, k mart, walmart, eb games gave a sense of relief and hope for the future. But now, now is.. im not sure.

[@oldeightyprintco.1179]

I worked for Walmart in 2005, so I was there a lot. It really does seem so long ago after watching this. I like the lack of smartphones.

[@jerrysanders9101]

Same. Smart phones ruined society quite literally.

[@T0NY_S0PRAN0_86]

They we’re smartphones around back in 2005…. I bought my first blackberry in 06

[@TSJ99]

@t0nys0pran06 he said ‘lack’ of smartphones. Not that there weren’t any.

[@chadwellington2524]

@@T0NY_S0PRAN0_86 as a teenager in 05 nobody had or knew about smartphones..

[@purplelove010]

If you hate smartphones so much, I hope you are practicing what you preaching and don't have a smartphone now.

[@Jrm0724]

What compelled you to document such random footage? Your videos are like the closest thing to time traveling!

[@atlantic_love]

Except this footage isn't that old.

[@bobsmithinson2050]

Any videos like this with the constant time stamp in the corner is B-roll footage for local news stations. They record random moments to add it to a story, only bits are actually used, but this gives the editor plenty.

[@SenorWoods2722]

@@bobsmithinson2050 Where are they obtained though? I don’t think this guy worked for many local news stations around the country.

[@bobsmithinson2050]

@@SenorWoods2722 that’s a good question. It’s safe to assume all of the original tapes must’ve been saved all these years, and maybe were re-discovered in storage or something, then that person had it digitally converted.

[@TomWatson-vu6fj]

@@SenorWoods2722The B-Roll footage was freely available to download from the media section of the walmart corporate website

[@philipkeds328]

So many memories at Walmart in the early 2000s. Born in 1995, and I can vividly see the Walmart we went too. Classic Blue, Red, Gray, building. Walk in, customer service to your left, a little more forward McDonalds...turn right...the checklanes...make a left past greeting cards on the way to Electronics and the Jewelry section across from that. Keep walking and then the shoe department that's touching the back wall, where I would get those TechDeck sneakers with the free figure. I have a map in my head and WISH I could go back to those times. Awesome video!!! Never stop posting stuff like this.

[@vampirerobot]

Donate your brain to some University Phillip.

[@philipkeds328]

@@vampirerobot Haha not yet! If you have anymore late 90s early 2000s Walmart, Kmart, Toys R Us, that haven't been posted yet, would love to see them on the channel!

[@caprissocialnetwork1261]

Personally, I would say that between both 2004 along w. 2005 would be more so the middle or mid half of the '00s decade. #IJS

[@MackLee23]

​@@philipkeds328I was also born in 1995. I long for my childhood often and have clear recollections of Walmart similar to yourself. The shoe section seemed endless as a kid. I spent hours there with my grandad while my grandma got the groceries. He was so patient while I tried on almost every shoe in my size 😅 Those were such simple times that I'll always cherish.

[@mauricioramirez9744]

Man I'm in my 40's, this feels like last week to me. Weird people calling 2005 "nostalgic".

[@caprissocialnetwork1261]

W. that being said, I also find it weird that when some people usually refer to years of the past, such as 2005, they may usually say, "Back in 2005" instead of "right around 2005". #IJS

[@marshmower]

Last weekend is so vintage..... 😅

[@shawnwomack3446]

I was thinking the same as you. I was kid in the 80's and a teenager in the 90's. Those two decades feels more of a nostalgia to me than the mid 2000's.

[@jpete3027666]

I am with you. I think with younger generations and the instant gratification of things, 2018 seems vintage to them.

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

@@shawnwomack3446 Well some of us were only teens (or younger) then and it was almost 20 years ago...

[@southplainssnowmaking9268]

The sound of actual people working and many full carts!

[@kazamastylebatsurealmofbea6269]

2005 was around the time things were slowly going down hill. I was 11 just starting middle school i remember that year

[@jerrysanders9101]

Going down hill how? I’m curious to your perspective.

[@kazamastylebatsurealmofbea6269]

@@jerrysanders9101 I'm just saying life as a whole started to feel different in the mid late 2000s. I guess it's more of a personal thing though and of course I wont share my personal business here. 2000s overall was still a great time though and I wish I could go back

[@chadwellington2524]

lol you were 11 you dont even know what was going on... 07 is when things started changing

[@TheMasterofDisaster48]

@@kazamastylebatsurealmofbea6269No things did not change when your doggy died or whatever. Also you were 11 what would you know?

[@TheMasterofDisaster48]

@@chadwellington2524Decline started in 08 not 07. Finished in 2011.

[@irishuwould5185]

Is it me or does 2005 seem like 5 years ago

[@bunnyboops8875]

Came here to say this

[@Arkiasis]

Honestly this footage doesn't look like it was from long ago either. It could easily be 2015.

[@WE-WUZZING-KANGS-N-SHEEOYT]

@@Arkiasis not at all ur tripping

[@GamePlayer547]

My dad warned me, the older you get the faster time will go by. Truer words, I'm having a tough time finding.

[@dandono1836]

Ahh the time when I wanted to buy every “Now! That’s What I Call Music” CD’s. I was 12 in 2005.

[@Jer-k6o]

These videos are great, keep them coming! Especially the videos from the 80's. I keep watching these, hoping to see the Fruit of the Loom logo that I remember...

[@Br1tt_B]

What a time to be alive.

[@HelloooThere]

Fart

[@RealTechNerd]

This is making me cry because I miss these days being able to go out to Walmart and enjoy quality family time.

[@MrSonicfan100001]

Was 9 years old that year. Can vividly remember going to the electronics section every opportunity I could when we go shopping and would get a new game when my family had the money. It was a simple time with simple pleasures. Although we can't get those moments back, the memories with be there forever.

[@9852323]

Ahh the good old days...when walmart didn't suck and they actually had cashiers available and when greeters were greeters and didn't check receipts or hassle you at the entrance.

[@elisethecoolest]

It's their job. If you don't like it, just don't go.

[@algomaone121]

People complained the same way about Wal Mart then.

[@BruceThePugDog]

My Walmart had McDonald's inside.

[@Etaoinshrdlu69]

They still do in Canada

[@zari2662]

They still do in Southern California

[@DerekMcDouglas]

Saraland still has a Walmart with McDonald's inside.

[@sa3270]

The ones near me did too. There was an oddball Walmart near where I worked once that had a Burger King.

[@lucylucy2171]

They did in Kentucky and also subway

[@bobwreck3775]

Taking notice to the difference between then and now I am scared what 2030 will look like compared to now.

[@sa3270]

We'll be lucky if we're still allowed to buy groceries in person.

[@ville666sora]

@@sa3270 We'll be lucky if any stores even exist still. We'll be expected to buy everything online.

[@adammiller9179]

@@ville666sora You know you don't have to buy anything online. Stores still exist.

[@richardsequeirateixeira]

@@ville666sorathere will still be a need for stores. Not everything is online.

[@vikkbiff6029]

2005 in Walmart such a magical time, you truly could find it all and there were far more brands and variety and the quality truly far exceeded the price. Back when they had probably almost as much as Amazon and they still had lots of services like same day photo development of 35mm film and the like. and who will ever forget the blessing and nostalgia of 24 hours shopping. Although this doesn't appear to be a supercenter. I'm 33 now

[@True.crimeestoriess]

2005 I was starting middle school. I was so excited to get a locker. 2006-2008 was a time for me. Even though we had cellphones and the internet word of mouth was pretty much my life.

[@Destroyer-Grizzly-BIH]

Back when I actually enjoy going for a Walmart trip. I can’t stand going now!

[@richardsequeirateixeira]

Yes! I tend to only go to Walmart only because of the hours of Target. If I can’t find it at Target, then I will head on to Walmart.

[@yellowstreetlight]

I worked for an inventory company around this time. They had the Walmart contract so I'd spend everyday in a different yet mostly identical Walmart. I'd count a store, go on the road for hours, sleep at a hotel, then wake up and count the seemingly same store. That stint had a dreamy quality.

[@Goldrefinedthrufire]

What do you mean by count a store? Sounds like a nice job

[@yellowstreetlight]

@@Goldrefinedthrufire Yeah it's a fun job. They give you a handheld computer and you go count things. Perfect for the post secondary "what does it all mean" slump of a person's life. Not so great as a grownup since it's minimum wage and you're always on the road, but you will shape strong relationships with your coworkers if you go down that path.

[@Goldrefinedthrufire]

@yellowstreetlight minimum wage and you'd have to travel? Ugh

[@yellowstreetlight]

@@Goldrefinedthrufire They would pick me up in an 8 person van along with coworkers and drive us to the jobs, which added to the dreamy disconnected quality of that time. Also they paid an hourly rate for travel so I'd be happy if we were counting somewhere far away.

[@amandastrickland57]

Regis was the company right?

[@scottbirmingham7367]

You can't beat good ole' Wal-Mart eh!

[@user-xn2rn4xy3v]

Back when people at least somewhat cared about good customer service.

[@Irena-Irena]

That’s why I prefer self checkout. Too many attitudes with cashiers , even in the south where politeness is long gone with this new generation!

[@Mollikar]

I know I'm getting old when people act like this was a long time ago and I get nostalgic over 80s Mall shopping vids lol.

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

A lot of us were teenagers and younger then and now we're over 30. it happens.

[@TinyGuy97]

This is how I feel when the younger gen z seems to think 2016 is "nostalgic". I'm an older gen z so I think the early 2000s and late 2000s are nostalgic.

[@k_roc200-32]

Back when Walmart actually had cashiers

[@vampirerobot]

No kidding. It's so depressing. And of course they put the worst of the bunch at the register.

[@vampirerobot]

@@porcelinaofvastoceans I agree. But at the same time that's your job.

[@themoley91]

@@vampirerobot I worry about what's going to happen to the next generation getting jobs with all those retail jobs you'd do in high school and university replaced by self-checkout... my generation had a hard enough time getting jobs that expected 5 years experience for an entry-level position, wtf are kids now going to do when they'll have no work experience because the opportunities have all been replaced by tech

[@EarthsGeomancer]

They still do. Yours is 100% self check out? Self check out is way better anyway.

[@thingserik7269]

If you're a mom with a carriage full, ok. Self checkout is faster. So is tapping your card which they do not support.

[@swelch9825]

I was born a year after in 2006 and I wish I lived in this time! My favorite part of this video is when that guy bought that huge Batman Begins tumbler! I have something like that in my room! Love this video!❤

[@KrugerIndustrial]

damn that shit was huge.

[@TheMasterofDisaster48]

Even toys were peak in the 2000's! Is there anything that decade didn't excel at when it came to entertainment and culture?

[@doylescordy]

1:36 I REMEMBER that blue shirt with the striped scarf hanging up in the background! I didn't have it myself, but it sparked a long-lost memory of me seeing them hanging up in Walmart back then. It's so random how I remember that. Haha. (And I had my 21st birthday in 2005)

[@richardsequeirateixeira]

Same! Omg!

[@Anointed-q5e]

Wow I was 19 years old fresh and young😂❤

[@marcetsy7792]

Ahhhh the memories. No self check out and cashiers were available 😉👍🏽

[@livingdeadgirl6442]

I was 16 in 05 ...fuckin crazy how time moves

[@dollofahuman]

i was -2.

[@BlackBruceLeeTheGreatDekuTree]

@@dollofahuman🧑🏾‍🍼😭

[@dollofahuman]

bruhhhhh @@BlackBruceLeeTheGreatDekuTree

[@justintaylor3569]

'89 squad wassup!

[@dollofahuman]

yurrr@@justintaylor3569

[@magnus1001]

The good old days when people weren't casually pushing carts full of unpaid merchandise out the door and attacking the clerks who would try to stop them.

[@grimlee]

Back when Walmart had cashiers and not this stupid self checkout BS

[@mauricioramirez9744]

Place your items in the bagging area! Help is on the way!

[@caprissocialnetwork1261]

​@@mauricioramirez9744 😅

[@WE-WUZZING-KANGS-N-SHEEOYT]

Lol boomer

[@grimlee]

@@WE-WUZZING-KANGS-N-SHEEOYT far from it 1993

[@XxKristinaaXx]

​@@WE-WUZZING-KANGS-N-SHEEOYTlol Gen z

[@Djevan41598]

Take is back to when most WalMarts were open 24 hours

[@richardsequeirateixeira]

Yes it was a place where you could do a late night shopping if you needed to stock up the kitchen or the room. A major inconvenience when they reduced the hours for folks who work during the day.

[@Djevan41598]

@@richardsequeirateixeira and that major inconvenience was Covid and the corrupt government organizations

[@chrisdrake7689]

The Baggy look was definitely in back then 😆😂

[@scottbirmingham7367]

yuuup!!😂

[@hayespipes]

I was born in 2001 and I remember getting that Batmobile at 5:25 for what had to have been Christmas 2005 because I believe I was 4 at the time. So cool!

[@marklopez7775]

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[@MM-fe9mz]

17 years later and they still don't have screens where you can see what the cashier is doing.

[@night-streakmedia3319]

This brings memories to me going to Walmart with my mom and dad after they dropped of my sister and brother at school I’m 22 now and I was 4 back then

[@jaythenihilist4689]

I was 21 then. Older people would talk about "the good old days" and "how things used to be". Seems like not that long ago for me, in 2005. But one day, people will look back on today, yes today, and say " those were the good old days." Life is a funny thing. Im almost 40, and old enough to realize that now. It's in our nature to remember the good times, and not so much the bad times. I think thats a good thing. Our brains are designed to forget anything that isn't necessary to remember. I suspect, that's why we remember the good times. I've had relationships that as soon as they ended I had so much animosity for that woman, yet when look back now, even with them, I only remember the good times that we had together. In 2004, I drove a 96 Ford Escort with a top speed of around 90mph (the speedometer didn't work, so you were just guessing) on a 900 mile trip to Orlando Florida. No cruise control, using paper maps, no gps, with my then girlfriend and a group of friends. We had two cars, and communicated with walkie talkies. We stopped at a Wal-Mart in Kissimmee, in the middle of the night, to stalk up on food for our rented condo and week long adventure. While their, we had the misfortune of being stuck in the middle of hurricane Charlie. But even a hurricane couldn't stop our fun. Is there a point to this rambling? Yes, there is. What I'm saying is this. Times are always going to be hard for people, regardless of what year it is. But the best thing a person can do, is to make some good memories along the way. When you get older, you'll forget about all of the bad times, and only remember the good ones. The important thing is that you have some good memories to reflect upon. I see so many young people today glued to their phones, not socializing, hell not even dating. Worried about insignificant things. Acting like they're living in the worst time in history. Afraid to do something adventurous. And not making any memories for their future. Once you get old enough, then your memories will be one of the most valuable and precious things that you have. So make make some good ones.

[@American_Gunpla]

Well said!

[@djackson1812]

👏🏾...spoken like a true 80s baby...lol. I am approaching 40 also and agree completely with what you said. We got to cherish the good times.

[@facingthewind]

10/10 comment. Minus the dating part, lol. That’s where i disagree

[@thatjpwing]

Many Walmart stores still have the same IBM 4693/94 registers in use, albeit with upgraded parts as necessary and upgrades to the software.

[@sa3270]

Not the ones where I live.

[@jenniferburchill3658]

That's assuming they still even have cashiers...

[@thatjpwing]

Our area stores have removed so many staffed registers they probably have warehouses with decades worth of spare parts now

[@JamesDalton-c7q]

Those aren't 4694s they where replaced with ibm surepos 700s which look like 4694s but use the same printers and display a keyboard s

[@aaronjensen5524]

By looking at the cash registers, the date read 11/21/05. So this footage was from Monday, November 21, 2005.

[@Enfrentar]

Times were much simpler

[@EarthsGeomancer]

They are complex now?

[@Trance88]

Eeeeh. I wouldn't say they were simpler. They just had some DIFFERENT problems. We didn't have twitter or social media like we do now, so for a lot of people, world issues weren't constantly on their mind, but People still referenced 9/11 on an almost daily basis. George W. Bush and his bullcrap. War in Iraq, etc.

[@chattingesque372]

Black people were more well behaved

[@paratext]

@Trance88 They were absolutely simpler for most of the world outside of the Middle East. The War in Iraq feels like a roller coaster ride from a Western perspective compared to the issues of today.

[@ville666sora]

@@EarthsGeomancer Um, yes? Where have you been?

[@almostwestern]

back when if you stole something you'd go to jail

[@maplemusic8851]

No woke agenda yet, but still pretty bad with Bush in power and the liberal agenda in full swing. Not as bad but still pretty bad.

[@MetalThrashingMad]

I was 20 in 2005 i have to say i miss this time too. My son was only a few months old during this time he is 18 now

[@PraveenSrJ01]

I was doing a summer internship in Washington DC during the summer of 05

[@mikeyjohnson9596]

I was born and raised in Arkansas and we got the new Walmart layouts first. I remember our town getting the Supercenter with a McDonald's and for a while they had cup holders on the shopping carts. It was hilarious because there was a real McDonald's right next door.

[@IssanCaliRefugee]

Those IBM cash registers were about 10 years old at the time. They're still in use at World Market as of today.

[@mel816]

Indeed, those IBM cash registers are classic and some of the new ones today still have the same look, just updated with more modern tech and now made by Toshiba.

[@JamesDalton-c7q]

These IBM cash register where not that old around 2005 2006 they replaced them with IBM surepos 700s which look similar to the old 4694's from 1994 they looked all most the same the display and printer are the same from 1994

[@CaseyLouis]

2005 back when I still had a full head of hair. The customers dressed nice and behaving themselves.

[@zjbell700]

Just before the smartphone era?

[@vampirerobot]

Just before

[@bobwreck3775]

@@vampirerobot And then everything went to hell and funny walmart shopper videos started to pop up

[@roboticsandwich8139]

Yeah that was 2007

[@xboxxguy_9360]

Yup the smartphone era began 07-08ish

[@planetX15]

​@@xboxxguy_9360 Not to be that guy, but I think you meant era not area

[@martianmanhunter33]

I graduated highschool in 2005 I don't recall that year being so retro.🤔

[@TheMasterofDisaster48]

Retro age ended in 1995. This was the following phase called "digital age" which is from 1995 to 2008. And from 2008 til now we have the "HD age".

[@ursaamajorr]

I was 19, in school at the San Francisco Art Institute. Everyone was obsessed with the Emancipation of Mimi lol. For some reason we all wore jeans with dresses 😂 Myspace was poppin. So many good memories 🥺❤

[@shadowbanned3716]

Look at the prices. At my job in 2005 i made $5.65 per hour. 50 cents above minimum wage. Takehome after taxes was right at $5 an hour. My company didnt want to make me full time and give me healthcare so i was scheduled to work 39 hours a week. $195 take home per week! A 1 bedroom apartment was $400 a month!

[@jpete3027666]

2005, the year my first kid was born. I had a plan for life back then and 18 years later none of it has gone to that plan, in my case it's been a good thing. 2005 was before smartphones were really mainstream but I remember my bosses having company blackberries back then and I remember being annoyed at how they were on them during meetings using that scroll key on the side of the phone. Now people are like zombies with smartphones.

[@morzik12345]

The days when more then one checkout lane was open

[@ville666sora]

Yep. Last time I went to Walmart the only checkout lane open closed early and everyone had to use the self checkouts while the employees stood there and watched. If the employees would have just been the ones checking people out, it wouldn't have taken so long for all the customers to do it themselves and leave the store, and the employees looked annoyed the whole time too.

[@2002dialupconnection_]

I remember when Walmart had signs everywhere “Made in the USA”, never see that anymore.

[@JohnPotts-kq7kk]

Use to also have sign "Always low Prices" & would match anyone's advertised price...

[@Apexinsurancegroupllc]

Watching people over flow their carts is surprisingly nostalgic, not sure how I feel about that.

[@zachg9065]

wow people actually working the checkout aisles

[@earlthomas5021]

I would just like to at least go back there and live. Looking back now 2005 was not all that bad and life was still normal. We had the right balance of everything then. We had flip phones and we were still humble and the crazy people were still in kindergarten and not adults yet.

[@thegamingchef3304]

I graduated in 2005 and remember it was the same year our Super Walmart opened. We went there after our graduation and bought boxes of those fireworks things they use to carry and smoke things lol.

[@Tennesseestorm76]

My grandmother passed away 3 months before this. It feels like it was yesterday. Is it just me, or has hairstyles and clothing not changed much in the last 19 years?

[@norapeterson6331]

Back when they had more than 1 employee per store

[@dgdfyhd]

Walmart was the only place I could play the PS3 when it came out. My neck still hasn’t fully recovered😂

[@maturitycomeswithexperienc3388]

I cannot remember the last time I had the cashier experience at Walmart. It was nice.

[@NeoWeaponog]

man, i remember stores back in the day use to be more packed with people at the check out lines. look at @5:04. Amazon really changed everything by enabling people to buy stuff from home.

[@DrManhattan8472]

I will never be convinced that "twenty years ago" doesn't refer to the '80s

[@roguedoge2479]

So true 😢

[@Christopher070]

You know what's sad? This video could easily be mistaken for today because styles have really not changed much at all in the last 20 years. In the last century it seemed like each decade had it's own distinct style with clothes and hair and you could call out which decade it was just by looking at the people in the video. This could be any year from 2005 to today because I see people in Walmart with the same clothes and hair as in this video from almost 20 years ago!

[@paratext]

Mid '00's had very different style trends than today. Pullover sweaters, polo shirts, fitted hats, straightened hair, tight jeans, studded belts, chained wallets, durags, etc. Things didn't become so homogenized until it got closer to 2010.

[@Christopher070]

@@paratext All the things you mentioned were just things rehashed from previous decades. I'm talking about new styles that define a decade like in the 50's you had the poodle skirts, the 60's had mini skirts, the 70's had bell bottoms, the 80's had neon, the 90's had the grunge look. That's what I mean. If you look at people from 2000 and forward, they're all wearing things from those previous 5 decades. It's just a mishmash of old styles and there's nothing new and it's been that way for 20+ years now. The one thing I will give that was new were those unattractive, hideous, emasculating skinny jeans worn on men. When I see them I have the urge to hurl lol. It's as if they tucked their junk up into their insides just to get into them and look like a woman. Yuck.

[@terranceaddison4599]

I kinda beg to defer, but 05 resembled more like 90s as far as I remembered...

[@sa3270]

Technology is the giveaway though. Today it is all self check-out and the store is much more focused on surveillance and tracking than it used to be.

[@grand_vacation]

Wow, the register says 11/21/05 which was 7 days before my 12th bday:) Gosh I remember 2005 Walmart.

[@TheMustangDog]

I was 7 in 2005 wow this looks just like i remember it as a kid.

[@gregbocadella02]

This footage is great. I miss this era of Wal-Mart. Is there any way I could go about potentially licensing some of the footage?

[@retrogamingpub3186]

I'm still trying to process that 2005 was almost 20 years ago

[@PraveenSrJ01]

My coworker who was born on august 3, 2005 just turned 18 last week!!

[@christiangonzales7429]

3:52 That is a really cool shot of the registers!!

[@kingtryton]

Love seeing a row of open registers and cashiers!! Its a shoppers dream... Also a DVD player going for $29 in 2005 is a steal by then they were ubiquitous everyone had one at home 7:45

[@richardsequeirateixeira]

Yes I saw that part! 29 bucks for a DVD! This definitely was the DVD era.

[@cyberpunkmodels692]

I was born in 1995.. my whole childhood feels like a dram now.🥺

[@NoName-ms8jb]

Pretty soon, we will be showing this to our grandchildren and they'll be shocked to see that people used to actually do things in person.

[@NiquidFox]

My childhood has no right looking this old 😭 I remember going to Walmart in the early 00’s and begging my parents to buy me a GameCube game every time we went shopping

[@marklopez7775]

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[@DJNurseAnnabella]

2005 looked like the 90s still lol.

[@planetX15]

Alot of people have said that the 90s finished when 9/11 started, but personally I believe it finished in 2003, 2004 and 5 did have some 90's elements to it, I found it completely stopped being the 90's in 2006

[@marshmower]

No

[@novelaego2404]

@ planetX15 no dude

[@divineboi97]

Look at people acting with common courtesy and decency in public and oh look no self checkout and little to no theft oh and they even have lanes open instead of employees all just standing around

[@andrescientos]

I enjoy this video. The first wal-mart we had turned into a flea market. It looked just like this one. It was also right by the U.S. and Mexico border. Nearby, there was a Circuit City, which is now a party events center, and a Toys R Us, which is now just an abandoned building, and a mall which the community college bought and shared with the Mexico Consulate in Brownsville.

[@FlyingHiigh]

When Walmart had the fish tanks lol

[@Mayrita1111]

I was in middle school in 05 it was different at Walmart compared to now!