Mom vs. Kmart--flawless victory!

[marty]

They're actually quite nice.

You're hired.

[Becks]

Rock on!!!

[chainedbarista]

*three cheers for marty's mom*

that is definitely worth a call to corporate, plus a complaint on the 'bribe' of a gift card in exchange for not complaining.

wow, i'm betting she's the boss from hell. just another reason to avoid k-mart, walmart or anything else with 'mart' in the name.

[marasbaras]

I would've waited for the manager to leave (and if she didn't, I would've said "You can leave now" in my very best managerial voice) and asked the cashier for the corporate complaint number. I would've made it quite clear to the cashier that she was not in trouble.

I'd still keep and use the gift card ... $10 is $10.

Then again, I don't ever shop at K-Mart because shopping experiences there tend to go this way. It's a bad store run by amateurs that needs to just file bankruptcy and leave us alone.

In the last K-Mart I went into ... the general staff all looked like they'd had their souls sucked out of them and were just walking husks. The one manager I saw looked like some kind of freak. A hyper Rosanne Rosanadana without all the fashion sense and charm.

[Kyree]

I would've waited for the manager to leave (and if she didn't, I would've said "You can leave now" in my very best managerial voice) and asked the cashier for the corporate complaint number. I would've made it quite clear to the cashier that she was not in trouble.

I'd still keep and use the gift card ... $10 is $10.

Then again, I don't ever shop at K-Mart because shopping experiences there tend to go this way. It's a bad store run by amateurs that needs to just file bankruptcy and leave us alone.

In the last K-Mart I went into ... the general staff all looked like they'd had their souls sucked out of them and were just walking husks. The one manager I saw looked like some kind of freak. A hyper Rosanne Rosanadana without all the fashion sense and charm.

The K-mart around my place is just as bad. It's dirty. It's messy. You can't ever find anyone to help. When you manage to track one down, they're rude. (Not saying the people here who work for them are! Just this location near my house.)

It's right across the street from my work, so I went there one day to grab some new work clothes. Mistake. I waited 15 minutes for someone to come unlock the changing rooms for me. After that 15, and three or four rings of the bell, I went up to the customer service desk because that was the only employee I could find, and promptly got snapped at for coming up and asking if there was someone working back there today. It wasn't her job to know, and if I wanted to try things on, I'd have to go back ring the bell and wait. I left my stuff at her counter and walked out. Never went back.

[Apathy]

Difdi, I've been drinking out of the tap here for two years and I haven't died yet, she's just paranoid.

I was raised on tap water. It was well water, not city, but now I drink city water and I'm fine.

just another reason to avoid k-mart, walmart or anything else with 'mart' in the name.

As if you needed one. They all suck.

[Javarod]

Actually Wal*Mart can be pretty decent, depends on where you live. K-Mart is a joke, the head of the combined company a few years ago said something to the effect that they won't waste money on under performing stores. Ummm, if you want them to perform, you have to keep updating them, and give them a budget to staff the stores. Plus, what is K-Mart's niche? Wal*Mart's is low prices, Target's is value, but what about the others?

As to Wal*Mart, it depends on where you live, out here, when the houses start popping up in pristine desert land, Wal*Mart is soon to follow, usually on the leading edge when the retail building starts. Because of this, there's a constant demand for labor out here, seems like just about every store and restaurant has help wanted signs out there. Because of this, Wal*Mart is a lot better out here about taking care of its employees and living up to its word. After all, its hard enough to find the minimum number of employees you need, bad press is the last thing you need out here. But, in areas where expansion is stagnate, and there's a decent sized labor pool, it has a bad habit of being a bad employer, since it can afford to be.

[Geek King]

I was raised on tap water. It was well water, not city, but now I drink city water and I'm fine.

Meh. It depends on where you are. My current apartment's water is fine, but the place I moved from had water so hard it would leave rings in the ice tray. I started filtering out of concern for the my (and the cat's) kidneys. It was lime there, but I've heard of other things.