wal mart SCs

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

I've been with wal mart less than a year, so i don't have an overabundance of SC stories, but shortly after i was hired there was a guy that didn't want to show his receipt, and instead of politely saying no and not stopping, like people do from time to time, but this guy starts yelling at the people greeter so she yelled back, and i just happened to walk out behind him(complete coincidence, i'm not even lieing) as i am, as my name says, the cart guy, and this guy, whos in his 50s, and maybe 120-130 pounds starts trying to bully me around talking tough to someone whos got over 50 pounds on him, nothing materialized, but he sure had a big mouth til he realized he's an idiot.

i have hit cars on 2 occasions after they ran a stop sign and cut me off(OH MAH GAWD I WANT THEM TO STOP FOR THE STOP SIGN, aint i horrible?) , and one of them the woman got out, and inspected for damage(i didn't even have to look to know that that collision didn't cause any damage) and upon finding some dirt moved around she asked me to get something to wipe it down. I, of course laughed her off, and continued getting carts, and she knew it was a waste of time, so she didn't even talk to management

there's the ones that aren't even worth mentioning and i've stopped caring about, like people who can't figure out that the cart guy could actually be taking his carts, to put them with the other carts(what the heck would he do that for?), the people who park in the road, people who think i can instantly stop, so i have to turn the carts into a wall, which i probably shouldn't do, but injuries come out of our bonus checks, so i try not to create them, you know people just being idiots in general

the funniest one i can't tell you, because i don't want my real identity getting out

[AirHostess]

For some reason, the suckiest SC's in my town seem to go to Asda Walmart...

[Rubystars]

Hi, I work in a Wal-Mart neighborhood market and I've had my share of SCs. The latest one happened yesterday.

There was a woman at the self checkouts, and she was having a problem (the idiot light was going off) so I went over to help her, and while I was pressing buttons on the screen, and she was looking at me, I saw behind her that her very young daughter, was reaching way over from the front of the cart to try to grab a bag of chips or something, and she looked like she was going to fall out. I warned the woman, who looked over toward her daughter, who, just my luck, had sat up straight while her mom was turning her head.

The woman turned back around to me, with a furious expression and said "She is NOT going to fall out!" I just told her sorry but the girl had been leaning way over and looked like she was going to a second ago. The woman was obviously furious with me and very offended. I don't know why this is offensive.

A few seconds later, the idiot light went off again, and guess who it was? I had to help SC to take an item off her order that she decided she didn't want because it was too expensive, and I noticed her daughter had grabbed a couple of little packages of cookies. I said "Don't forget she has those over there." because I thought maybe the SC didn't realize what her daughter had grabbed (it's a fairly common thing at this store for kids to grab stuff their parents have no clue about). She was really furious now and grabbed the cookies out of her daughter's hands and said "I'm paying for them, SEE!" and scanned the cookies.

When she was leaving, she pulled aside an employee that was walking by, gestured angrily at me and waved the receipt around saying "Show her the receipt! She needs to see it!" I said "Ma'am, I don't need to see your receipt, I believe you." and she said "YES YOU DO! You're accusing me of stealing! If you work with customers you need to learn how to treat customers!" Then she stormed out the door.

All this for being concerned about her little girl. What a female dog of a customer.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

oh i forgot the most recent, she wasn't really sucky, but still stupid in a funny way

C:drives up "can you tell me where wal mart is"
me:trying my damnedest to be polite, i'm not sure if i did a good job or not, but she didn't talk to a manager so it's all good i point behind me at the building "right there"
C:"ok where do you go in?"
me:"over there" pointing at the door

i should have said "yea it's just down the road, keep going straight,, you can't miss it, if it looks like you're getting on back roads, just keep going, you're fine" or at least when she asked where you go in "if you wanna go to a sporting goods store and get a hockey uniform minus the skates I'd feel alot more comfortable with you being in my store"

and also, people always ask me "can i have this cart?" like they think i'm going to say "NO!!!!! IT"S MINE!!!!". anybody else get that?

[HawaiianShirts]

(snip) ...I saw behind her that her very young daughter, was reaching way over from the front of the cart to try to grab a bag of chips or something, and she looked like she was going to fall out. I warned the woman, who looked over toward her daughter, who, just my luck, had sat up straight while her mom was turning her head...

I had a kid the other day do something like that. This one had a much happier ending than Rubystars' did, though. I was talking to his parents about high-speed internet services. Dad had been watching him, but turned his attention away for just a few seconds. I don't know what the kid was reaching for, but the next thing we heard was a little yelp as he toppled over. Dad lunged to grab him, but he was too slow, and the kid ended up falling face first into the garbage can next to the counter.

I tried to restrain my laughter. The kid just fell on a bunch of old papers and empty soda bottles (nothing really nasty) and was in up to his waist. So for a few seconds we had a three-foot-tall garbage can with two little legs sticking up out of it. Dad rescued the kid, and as soon as he and Mom realized the boy was fine (not even crying, just a little stunned), they started laughing, so I joined in.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

most things aren't as nasty as they look. part of my job is to empty the trash in the parking lot, and the first couple times i ripped a bag i thought it was kind of gross, but then i realized, "hey this is just juice", or sometimes it's milk, but there really isn't much in the way of nasty things(worse than a diaper anyways, but we usually don't rip holes as big as a diaper) that end up in any trash cans, especially inside the store, i thought i was going to have to page a code white watching a kid climb into a cart tonight though, but he teetered back into the cart

[blas]

I feel for those who work at Wal-Mart. Although Wal-Mart has brainwashed billions of average joes and janes to shop there, it seems that most of the time, Wal-Mart attacts the trashiest of the trashiest people in the country. I'm talking the most uncivilized, dirty, foul, did I say dirty already?, mullet clanned, Tweety bird shirt wearing people with naked, shoeless children?

Yeegads and I still have to do my weekly Wal-Mart shopping today. Le sigh.

I should be a professional mullet hunter. I'd only have to drive 5 minutes to the local Wal-Mart. I can find men AND women with mullets, shoeless people, people wearing blaze orange all year long....children that only get a bath once a year....

[CancelMyService]

This may get me a Fratching warning, but why do you *have* to shop at Wal-Mart? Are there no other stores in your area left?

Half the reason Wal-Mart continues to survive in spite of treating its employees horribly and having less-than-ideal store cleanlieness is because Average Joe and Jane know all this and continue to shop there anyway instead of going an extra 5 or 10 minutes away to shop elsewhere.



I personally have only set foot in a Wal-Mart maybe 3-4 tmes max in my life, and I have no reason to ever go in one. I do all my shopping at the major shopping chain in the SW PA area that's been around for 70 something years. They have comparible prices and *GASP* are even unionized. Imagine that.

[blas]

Cancelmyservice,

The answer to that is NO, we don't have to. Depending on where you live, there is most likely also a KMarche and a Shopko or a Target as well. We have all of these here.

But here lies the problem where I live:

K-Mart. Severly understaffed at every store. Not sure if it has to do with the whole K-Mart/Sears thing, but they cannot afford a full staff. There is only one or two checkouts open at once and no self checkouts. You spend an hour in line for only a few items. The express lane is never open because there is no one there.

Shopko: ShopKo has just the same cheap crap as wal-mart and k-mart but tries to sell them at prices much higher than the other two. I only go to ShopKo because my eye doctor's store in inside of it. I refuse to buy something at a dollar or two higher when the same thing is cheaper at wal-mart or k-mart.

Target....I forgot about Target. I just really don't go there that often. I don't go to that side of town very often.....honestly I just remembered Target today...lol

Wal-Mart has a grocery section. Larger than K-Marts or Target's and much better than ShopKos. The Pick'n'Saves around here are more expensive than Wal-Mart. I refuse to buy food at Pick'n'Save when it's cheaper and the same damn thing at Wal-Mart.

With Wal-Mart, you can buy all your necessities and groceries all at once.

The local mom and pop grocery store only pays their employees minimum wage and breaks labor laws. I don't support that kind of thing. I refuse to shop there and see overworked kids who get treated like dirt. I won't add any more money to the funds of the asshole who thinks it's funny that he gets away with that shit.

[Gabrielle Proctor]

I feel for those who work at Wal-Mart. Although Wal-Mart has brainwashed billions of average joes and janes to shop there, it seems that most of the time, Wal-Mart attacts the trashiest of the trashiest people in the country. I'm talking the most uncivilized, dirty, foul, did I say dirty already?, mullet clanned, Tweety bird shirt wearing people with naked, shoeless children?

Yeegads and I still have to do my weekly Wal-Mart shopping today. Le sigh.

I should be a professional mullet hunter. I'd only have to drive 5 minutes to the local Wal-Mart. I can find men AND women with mullets, shoeless people, people wearing blaze orange all year long....children that only get a bath once a year....

Hell YEAH, Blas! I have noticed that too, why do mullets and tweety bird seem to go together so often? If it isn't tweety, the second most common is Wiley Coyote(sp)...have you ever noticed that? Need anyone else to join you as a professional mullet hunter? I'm all for it!

[CancelMyService]

The local mom and pop grocery store only pays their employees minimum wage and breaks labor laws. I don't support that kind of thing. I refuse to shop there and see overworked kids who get treated like dirt. I won't add any more money to the funds of the asshole who thinks it's funny that he gets away with that shit.

That's admirable you take a stand like that, but yet you add money to the funds of Wal-Mart, which pretty much does the same thing as that mom and pop on a nationwide level.

I don't mean to pick on you or anything, a lot of people do this, there's just this massive cognitive dissonance when it comes to Wal-Mart where people are aware on some level of how the company works but can still justify spending money there.

You can read off a phonebook-sized list of reasons why no one really should ever shop there but all you usually get is a sputtering "but.......but......I save 50 cents off a can of peas there!" or "but I can grocery shop, get eyeglasses, new tires, and possibly a lap dance there!".


Hell, Sam Walton is credited for inventing the concept of "the customer is always right" which should be enough reason for anyone who posts here to never want to set foot in one of his stores ever again!

[workerbee222]

Well, YMMV, but Walmarts in our area haven't paid minimum wage in a long time. Cashiers are now starting at around ten dollars an hour. Not princely, I know, but I worked there, and found the treatment no better nor worse than most of the other retail places I've worked.

I have a part-time job with another national chain, and I'm amazed that the people all work well together, and the number of personnel retained year to year is amazing. I'm told our locaion is unique, though, and it isn't like this in other stores in the same chain.

I spent about one hundred days at America's most reviled retailer, but I never saw a mullet.

[Rapscallion]

"but I can grocery shop, get eyeglasses, new tires, and possibly a family friendly and censored lap dance there!".

Edited for my amusement.

Rapscallion

[Andara Bledin]

The local mom and pop grocery store only pays their employees minimum wage and breaks labor laws. I don't support that kind of thing. I refuse to shop there and see overworked kids who get treated like dirt. I won't add any more money to the funds of the asshole who thinks it's funny that he gets away with that shit.

That's admirable you take a stand like that, but yet you add money to the funds of Wal-Mart, which pretty much does the same thing as that mom and pop on a nationwide level.

With WalMart, it seems to vary by region. Some of the regional managers are decent sorts, but that seems to be very much the exception.

I won't shop at WalMart for the simple reason that on a national level, as compared to any other big chain store such as Target or the like, when considering only hourly employees, WalMart pays notably less (something like over $1/hour less) on average, has much less in the way of benefits, and also has a notably lower percentage of their hourly workforce even eligible for benefits.

Well, that, and the practically yearly huge lawsuit/fine the corporation gets for labor violations, which have included the breaking of child labor laws, unpaid overtime, forced overtime (paid and unpaid, by locking people in the store), illegal workers, and hiring fewer full-time staff than is legally allowed.

^-.-^

[mscrybaby]

I have 2 Walmarts with in a 5 mile radius of my house along with a Target and other smaller stores. I go to Walmart, wearing my Tweety Bird shirt, and purchase everything I need at one time because it reminds me of being a kid and shopping at Fred Meyers. The Walmart here pays almost as much as the higher priced stores pay and in some cases WM pays more.

I work for Sears/Kmart and yes the low staffing is due to the guy who bought Kmart, made billions putting it through bankruptcy and then bought Sears with the money earned from filing bankruptcy has it set that in the stores there should only be part time employees so that customers will shop online more and they don't have to offer overtime pay or any other benefits.


BTW my mullet hair cut in the 80's and 90's was the most comfortable and easy to control hair cut I have ever had and have many times thought of getting one again.