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LOL this was awesome...

It seems that the present management forgot the golden rule - the customer is the king/queen and the customer is always right.

Wally`s world is a trip - because one bad employee with bad attitude.

The majority of whom I talk to ~ feels underpaid and they have bad hours. And they can only be part-time.

It pays to be nice but it just plain ridilicous to be rude to a customer.

I do understand Wallyworld can squeeze an extra dollar out of a penny but dang come on now.

As for them self service check out - I only use cash for them and for a few items that I need in emergency. Because most wallyworld are open 24 hours. I dont know of any wallyworld close after 9 pm lol

Target is nice but it doesnt have that shop for everything under one roof concept.

Home Depot is so and so  - actually I like Lowes because the new stores that is in my area is very top of the line.

Best Buy - man these salespeople be sweating if you want the ESP as if it was the fountain of youth! I think they have a future in being a car salemen.

Wouldnt you believe that some cashier try to push a ESP on a freaking CD?

ESP stands for Extended Service Plan.

I was like whatcha say? He was calm and cool about it - I said man this isnt a cd player or a big ticket item. He said it best buy`s policy to sell the ESP on all items. And I said and it the law to accept merchandise that wasnt open in a certain time frame. And if it was defective i would have to get an exchange.

But I was like wow!

I do my food shopping at Publix - because the manager and staff who works there takes pride in their work and try to remember people name. Always greeting people with a smile and always helpful. Plus you can see your checkout in realtime to make sure there wasnt no price discrepancy.

But in short, Employees need to stop acting like they dont want to be their and be happy. Changes doesnt occur overnight but as hard they work, I do  feel they should make more money but attitude is only allow that to happen

I gotta check out traders joe they finally open one in GA - after haggling with the state over the wine. GA got some strange wine laws.

YvetteMarie,

Not only are you a talented photographer, your deliciously, wickedly funny rant is reminiscent of the likes of Irma Bombeck, Lewis Grizzard or Dave Barry. Y B normal indeed?

Thanks for starting this topic... I`ve had some good chuckles, and humor is my favorite health food.

If I may add my 2-cent rants...

Walmart does get a thumbs-up for allowing Chritmas back in the store this past season. I have a half-dozen items I routinely buy there about once a month, because all other things being equal, I can`t find another store with a competitive price on those items. Otherwise, I don`t support the Almighty W, because I`m still fuming about how they snookered us years ago with their "Made in the USA" campaign so we`d shop there as patriots. Once their marketing gurus convinced us it was the American thing to do, they slowly, and ever-so-covertly, began importing cheaper products from foreign countries. If you shop there, check the labels!

Best Buy gets a huge thumbs-down for not allowing the word Christmas to be uttered in their stores, even as they employed all the commercial trappings and decorations in their stores and advertising to capitalize on the busiest shopping season oif the year. How hypocritical. I was looking at digital cameras, and when the salesperson asked if it was going to be a Christmas gift, he actually said, "Oops. I`m sorry. I meant holiday gift." After having him explain why that was necessary, I voted against their policy by leaving the store empty-handed.

This is classic! You are truly a gifted writer and observer of the human condition. My WalMart is the exact same way and I rarely go there except when I absolutely have no choice. I prefer Target if I can get there. I do not let my teenage daughter go to our WalMart after 9pm unless she has a buddy, preferably a boy, with her. It just gets sketchier as the night goes on. Our WalMart is located in a very desirable, otherwise normal, upper-middle class suburb and it still attracts a very unusual crowd. One positive WalMart story: The check-out clerk who was helping me one day had cancer. As I was standing there waiting for her to finish, another employee came to relieve her. They were letting her have a break every 30 minutes so she could rest, and they were letting her work only when she felt like she could. The management at our WalMart has shown compassion towards their employees and I was deeply touched. 

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Sharon Murphy
Owner
Northwoods State of Mind, Inc.
NorthWoods

I hate Walmart.  In my experience, poor people take their kids there and let the kids run wild.

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James Lindon, Ph.D. Patent Attorney
Lindon & Lindon, LLC
Cleveland, Ohio
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I`ve never seen people bringing kids into Wal-mart. Yet I see wild kids running everywhere. I believe Wal-mart actuall *grows* free-range children somewhere in the back, and lets them run loose in the store. Then people pick up a couple of kids to take home with them.

That was a great rant! 

Around here (Michigan), it`s known as Wally-World or Wal-Mart`s

We do that to a lot of stores - Kmart`s, Meijer`s, Kroger`s ... must be a midwest thing?

I will never shop at Wal-Mart again, after seeing "The High Cost of a Low Price" and "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?"







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There are other sources of facts about Wal-Mart than only those claiming the company is a miserable example of slave-driving evil.

CreativeGal and YvetteMarie

 

 

 

YvetteMarie, I applaud the inexperienced people you described ….facing the challenge of something foreign to them…”the self check-out at Wal-Mart. The hardest I have laughed has been at myself...in some stupid blunder, but you did make me wonder who was observing me standing in front of that self-check register…..reading and verbally giving myself instructions; it was my lucky day when the machine stayed in place when I swiped my card….

 

Nevertheless, both of your stories are rib-cracking!

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SteppinUp
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