I have a Wal Mart very close to me, but I was in Indio and I had a list, so I stopped in. Got everything on my list, not much, but I DID get a bottle of alcohol. There was only ONE register open with a real human running it. All the other were Scan and Go. I got in the "real" line. There were 7 carts with real people behind them, going to a "real" check out After a few minutes I walked over to the line and saw it was a register without a belt! Dammit! Its hard enough to set your items on the shelf, pay, and bag (because we brought bags from home in.)
I was pissed and asked hubby if he wanted to do a Scan and Go.
Now, this pisses me off because for every Scan and Go, there is someone who needs a job that has disappeared, POOF! GONE!
So I was buying a bottle of alcohol.
My intention was to pay for the bottle separate from the food. I stuck my credit card in the machine and it said that a CSM would help me shortly. She comes over and says I have to go to a register with a REAL person at it! I said NO! I was in that line, got out, and that line is now down the center aisle. She said we couldn't pay for the alcohol at the Scan and Go. Now why the fuck can't this blood and flesh person not check me out??? Nope, gotta be a real person, so she said follow me. I get out of line and she's talking to me, and I kept saying I CAN'T HEAR YOU. I'M DEAF AND YOUR FACING AWAY FROM ME! Longer story short, I got my booze. I didn't want to leave it, because at Sam's it's always out.
I went back to hubby who is holding up the line because he asked a CSM scan for him. There were like 20 Scan and Go open.
Call me a bitch, I don't care. Like I said before, and I'll say it again.....
FOR EVERY AUTOMATED REGISTER THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE WHO NEEDS A JOB!
WAL MART profits from this. The Wal Mart family benefits by reducing the number of associates they don't issue a paycheck to.
This is so tRumpian of them. MoneyMoneyMONEY!
Lets stop this bullshit.
When I worked at Wal Mart (for 6 years) we were ALL cross trained to use a register and we would be called off the floor to knock down those lines of shopping carts with REAL people behind them.
My other complaint is the amount of STUFF in the aisles, ie: merchandise, people putting stock up, people dragging the curb pick up trains, associates on their cell phones, or carts full of go-backs. Come on people. Be aware that you have customers zigzagging around you or dodging you whilst in an electric cart.
To Wal Mart management, get with the program. There are a LOT of people who would never shop in your stores. I can see why.
REMEMBER, JC Penny, Kmart, and Penny's used to be retail giants. Look what happened to them. Bye bye, so sad. It could be Wally's next. read more