I am a full time resident of Cape Coral, FL since July 2008. I have been a patron at the Walmart Super Center located at 1619 Del Prado Blvd S., Cape Coral, FL 33990 since that time.
Over the last six (6) months to 1 year there has been a noticeable change in staffing personal out on the floor that must interact with customers irregardless of their "job description" as customers commonly ask for location of goods they are shopping for.
When hiring personal that is unable to understand, verbalize, read and write in ENGLISH that presents a huge issue with your customer base. Over the last 6-12 months I have found on several occasions personal was unable to communicate with me whether at the cash register ( I refuse to use self serve check out because it's not my job and I'm not receiving any form of discount on my goods for doing it myself so I will stand in line) or on the floor when looking for a product I want to purchase. I was left holding the bag in looking for a product the store said was in stock. I am sick and tired of personal looking like a dear in the headlights. On one occasion your non-english speaking employee left me to go help a Spanish speaking person, I just left the merchandise I had in the cart and left the store. I made my purchase at your competitors here.
The majority of your personal in my local store are unable to properly service your customers because they are totally unable to communicate in English, but I do notice they can count American dollars and cents right down to the penny. I refuse to learn Spanish as this is America and we speak English just to shop in your store.
Even your pharmacy service was inferior as I always had to wait for re-stock of drugs other pharmacies carry, so my use of the pharmacy has stopped.
Today was the last draw for me. Both my husband I came shopping together for groceries. All was good in the store and I knew better than to ask anyone where a particular product is. If can't find in at your store, I'll buy it in Publix or Winn Dixie. But the cash register was a whole another issue. We loaded our groceries on the conveyor belt while the cashier scanned them. I looked her directly in the face and said and I expressly said " I have two methods of payment, I want to split the total in half for each credit card. She looked at me like a deer int he headlights. I then asked if she understood and repeated the request, she responded "Okay". But what does she do? She runs the entire total on one credit card and says thank you in broken English. I tell her to void the transaction and she can't, won't or doesn't know how. Then she tells me in broken English that I never told her to split the transaction. What the hell! Even my husband who was standing right next her placing our bags in the cart, tell her he heard me tell her twice and the lady behind us in line heard me. She again said no I didn't. She then went to customer service and I was ready to leave the cart full of bag groceries right there and call my bank and claim fraudulent charge. But I didn't.
We were taken to customer service where the transaction was credited and every thing in my cart had to be re-rung. There was a discrepancy from the credit of $237.07 to the ring receipt of $230.03. That customer service rep didn't realize the difference. I told her there was a difference that something was missed but there was no way in hell I was going to stay for third try at checking me out. What a damn nightmare.
This is unacceptable situation. I find the hiring practice of Walmart to be offensive, disrespectful and highly prejudicial to American ENGLISH speaking customers. Why are you hiring people that speak a foreign language that can't communicate with AMERICANS and SPEAK ENGLISH! This is total crap in this store and as I understand it the store on Pine Island Road in Cape Coral is just as bad.
As of today, I will no longer patronize your store until Walmart starts hiring AMERICANS! I can go to BJs, Farmer Joes and Sprouts, Publix, Winn Dixie where all communication are in English. I don't buy any clothing or electronics at your stores because it's all inferior stuff, and there are plenty of other houseware stores to frequent.
I will not tolerate being called a liar to my pace by some sub standard employee of Walmart.
You are supposed to be American Business and your should be catering to We The People, not illegals/immigrants who have no command of the English language!
It's our AMERICAN dollars that make your shareholders fat! Maybe if you raised your rate of pay to a decent wage where one can support themselves you'd have more AMERICAN WORKERS WHO SPEAK ENGLISH or are you just to cheap and prefer to take financial advantage of the Spanish speakers because you know they would shovel human feces for low wages.
Attached are the register receipts for the initial purchase, the credit and the re-rung items. Walmart should reimburse us the cost of the bill for the trea read more