Many things have changed at my local WalMart, this year. The store has largely remained extremely well stocked, and cleverly overstocked with some products. This is a college town, so summertime will have a natural shortage of workers. Aisles are filled with pallets, there likely being 10 pickers for curbside pickup for each shelf stocker.
The biggest change is the makeup of the customers. My guess is that this city is about 85% white, a majority being over-educated middle to upper middle class people. Previously, I would have guessed that 2 out of 3 shoppers were those types of people. This year, perhaps 20% of shoppers appear to be white and middle class. Another 20% look like whites out of the movie Deliverance. The other 60% are minorities, about half who look like they are native born, and the other half like they just arrived. The good thing is that everyone is basically orderly and polite.
I'm wondering if many of these new shoppers are from the big city about 20 miles away. That city has become minorities as a majority, with a WalMart that is a filthy unorganized mess. There are 5 WalMart stores in the area, and this local one is the smoothest running, with almost no shortages. Therefore, the people in the surrounding area might be coming here.