Thanx stu.
Walmart hasn't any kind of selection for film cameras that Iv'e seen. Yeh, the SLR canon your seeing, its all lens. Sure it's a cannon, but walmarts not got anything else to compare it to. Good lens, decent brand, if that's what you want right now. It's doable, but I'd look around more if I wanted an SLR.
As far as the employees, it's Walmart. We're lucky to have a well informed staff in my department. Walmart tries to have informed people in all departments, it's just not feasable. Unfortunately alot of people do get wrong information from poorly informed employees.
The biggest problem is turnover. The somewhat informed tend to get the information turned around and wrong, it's not neccessarily thier fault, they just didn't get the proper training. And then of course some just don't care.
Walmart's not Lowes or Home Depot. You ask some body in their department at one of these stores, if you blink your lost. Walmart on the other hand sits a new employee down in front of a computer and gives the trainee a crash course on the basics of the department and then throws the lamb to the wolves. This isn't done on purpose either, but because of the high turnover the new guy was badly needed a week ago anyway. The new guys supposed to have a mentor(I forget what they call it) and is not supposed to be left alone for two weeks. Add in the fact he or she might be eighteen point two years old and has the maturity of a rabbit.
I think I should just stop here now.
I could go on, but ....