Walmart selling fish! (awful)

Walmart's main objective is selling money, and sadly that shows in the way they care for fish. I was reading a reddit AMA of a Walmart pet supplies & fish area that once worked at an actual pet store had good knowledge of fish.

Here are some of the more disturbing things he said...

-There was a shipment of fish, he was not working at the time. They brought the fish in, just let them sit in a cart in their bags for 8 hours. All the fish died.

-The water reeks of ammonia and fish are often kept at the wrong temps.

-The managers told him not feed the betta (!!)

I was very upset by this and I think Walmart and other non-pet stores selling pets just does not make sense. They need people trained about fish care (and other pet care). Have you experienced stores/companies selling fish that are not pet stores? What was your experience?

We had a similar thread a while ago about Walmart selling fish or any other pets for that matter.
http://petskeepersguide.com/forums/Threa...-sell-pets


Walmart is not a specialized pet store. They do not have the expertise to take care of the fish nor they are willing to take good care of their fish. They treat their fish like any other merchandise on their shelves. Most of fish tanks at walmart are quite dirty with plenty of dead fish at the bottom. It is quite a normal scene at any walmart that sells fish. One of the stories I heard was that walmart employees are not allowed to stay in front of their fish tanks for more than a certain period of time each day. Not sure if it was true, but it was a quote from an employee who used to be in charge of the fish there. The time limit put on him did not allow him to properly take care of the fish.

Several years ago there was the rumor that Walmart would be stop selling fish, but I guess it was false.

I don't even know if my local Walmarts carry fish anymore. I never go back into that area to look. I don't think of Walmart as being a good, reputable pet store. I think it would cost them more to maintain the fish tanks and supplies than what they actually sell. They probably lose a ton of money and fish if they still have this section in any store. Do people even go there for fish? How sad! Poor little fishies! That is not fair.

I remember seeing fish at Walmart, but that was a long time ago;and I think that none of the Walmart stores here sell live fish anymore.
They have all kinds of fish supplies, and maybe even the tanks for fish, but no actual fish. I think this is something that is trending away from non-pet stores, and probably that is because of the extreme loss of fish, and the lack of care for them.
It used to be that a lot of the stores sold goldfish, at least; even if they didn't have any other kind of tropical fish. Since the goldfish were always cheap (I remember buying them for about 29 cents apiece), it was not a big loss when the store had some of them die due to lack of care. Once they started carrying the more expensive tropical fish; then every dead or sick fish was a bigger financial loss, and I think that is why many of them are no longer selling fish.

I used to work at walmart near the pets department and sometimes I would have to help customers get fish. I really hated having to help people because the fish the store here sold were sickly and their takes always smelled rancid.

The tanks are hardly ever properly taken care of from what I have seen. It really is a shame that walmart gets to keep their fish the way they do, it makes me sick.

Try explaining to little children why there was dead fish in the tank. Not Fun.