Highway 27 Walmarts

Every year we go to the Walmart on Highway 27 in Clermont.  It is easy to get to: just go to the end of 192, then turn right. 

Walmart has the best prices - much better than Publix or any others. But this particular Walmart is a tourist Mecca. I call it the Babylon Zoo. When you visit this Walmart you will find people from every corner of the globe speaking every language you can imagine. It is a bit of a crazy mad house as tourists pile carts full and locals want to just get a few items quickly. The place is packed every time I go. Employees can't keep the shelves restocked fast enough. When you are ready to checkout? Pack your patients because there are never enough open registers and the lines back into the clothes section. 

We went to this Walmart on Tuesday to Grocery Shop and Wednesday to pick up some odds and ends that we were missing. On Thursday, we needed to go to Walmart to get my son a new bathing suit and we all said "No more Babylon zoo!"

We drove the extra 20 minutes south down highway 20 to Haines city. Haines city has an excellent Walmart that is nearly the same size. I call this Walmart the LoveMart. In one part of the store, we came across a couple that were feeling each other below the belt - awkward! In another part of the store, a young lady came up to a guy and started making out with him. He finally pushed her to the aside and said "That is enough". At that point the young lady slapped the guy really hard! The guy then turns to me and says "See the kind of abuse I have to put up with?" This Walmart is appropriately named: the LoveMart. 

Instead of going south on Highway 27, we could have went north on Highway 27. Babylon Zoo is in Clermont, but, that is really the outskirts of Clermont. Going 25 minutes north takes you into Clermont where another Walmart can be found. We visited that Walmart in 2016 and found it to be nice and free of tourists.

There are other Walmarts in Kissimmee, but I would fear those would be even more filled with tourists.