"I want the cheapest prices possible, and I want outstanding customer service too!"

vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Pick one. You can't have both.

Employees cost money. Duh. So you folks wanting to save 50-cents on a bag of Doritos at Walmart are just gonna have to check your own damn selves out.

People are so unreasonable and entitled, I swear.

What brought this on:

WalMart is almost exclusively self-checkout now. The last time I was there the lady checking receipts at the exit Stopping everyone
I didn't choose to participate in that nonsense, so I just skipped the exit line and left. I heard her saying "Ma'am... Ma'am!!!!" as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store.
Look. You can either trust me to do self-checkout or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be. I'm not interested in proving that I did your job for you anymore.
Signed,
All of us
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And then there are the comments:

I’m getting so I hate Walmart!! Employees are clueless.
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Well, duh, shop at a real store, how about that?

I love self-checkout. I'm way more efficient than most cashiers, and I'm an anal-retentive bagger as well. (Hmmm.....that didn't come out right......) Anyway, stuff goes together in the bags according to what it is and where it goes in my house. No salad dressing in with the shampoo. There are almost never any lines at the self-checkout, unlike the hordes waiting for the cashier and the lady writing a check and the people who decided they don't really want all the crap in their cart and the people whose credit card got declined. Just scan, pay, go.

But people want what they want, and that's fine, I just want to throat punch them when they expect to pay rock bottom at Walmart AND get their ass kissed as well.

So the gripeface above signs her (and it's almost always a her) missive "All of Us" - yeah, speak for yourself, Toots. Unless by "all of us" you mean you and your fellow irritants who want to be all la-de-dah at the freaking Walmart.

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Kyle

Kyle

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The lack of common sense in bagging also makes me pass on the checkouts with cashiers.

Can’t tell you how many times I watched one of them start to put a can of tomatoes or beans on top of a carton of eggs, or one instance, a jar of spaghetti sauce with the bread. Dumbasses.
 
glhs837

glhs837

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I dont mind showing my reciept, but dammed if I'll stand in line to do so. They flag me down while I'm passing the line of people who just lined up, fine, I'll stop, but not lining up.
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

Just sneakin' around....
Most of the time the checker is busy with someone else, so I blow past them. If they start calling after me, I just glare back and keep on truckin'.

They're standing right there at the end self-checkout line. They see me scanning and paying. They see me leave the register after retrieving my receipt. They do not need to see my receipt to validate what their eyes just saw me do.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Sneakers said:
Most of the time the checker is busy with someone else, so I blow past them. If they start calling after me, I just glare back and keep on truckin'.

They're standing right there at the end self-checkout line. They see me scanning and paying. They see me leave the register after retrieving my receipt. They do not need to see my receipt to validate what their eyes just saw me do.
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But intellectually you understand that they're just following Walmart protocol and don't make the rules, right?
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

Just sneakin' around....
vraiblonde said:
But intellectually you understand that they're just following Walmart protocol and don't make the rules, right?
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Yup. But a touch of common sense on their part would go a long way while complying with guidelines.

But that's asking too much, ain't it? :ohwell:
 
Kyle

Kyle

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Sneakers said:
Most of the time the checker is busy with someone else, so I blow past them. If they start calling after me, I just glare back and keep on truckin'.

They're standing right there at the end self-checkout line. They see me scanning and paying. They see me leave the register after retrieving my receipt. They do not need to see my receipt to validate what their eyes just saw me do.
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Plus there’s like six cameras aimed at every damn check out post. If they’re really that concerned they should put somebody there.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Sneakers said:
Yup. But a touch of common sense on their part would go a long way while complying with guidelines.

But that's asking too much, ain't it? :ohwell:
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When you work for a major international corporation you don't get to have common sense. You do what the book tells you to do.
 
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Ken King

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I use the self-checkout at the local Walmart and have never, ever had anyone make me line up or stop me to check my receipt. Hell, one time I forgot about two six-packs of sodas I had stuck over the cart railing and walked out with them, when I checked my receipt at home I noticed I hadn't rung them up. Went back the next morning, explained it to Customer Service and paid for them then.
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

Just sneakin' around....
Ken King said:
I use the self-checkout at the local Walmart and have never, ever had anyone make me line up or stop me to check my receipt. Hell, one time I forgot about two six-packs of sodas I had stuck over the cart railing and walked out with them, when I checked my receipt at home I noticed I hadn't rung them up. Went back the next morning, explained it to Customer Service and paid for them then.
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This is SoMD where there is at least one police incident of theft daily that we're aware of. Makes the local news all of the time. We are not to be trusted here.
 
PJay

PJay

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I love Walmart Neighborhood Market. It's just groceries and a pharmacy, even has window service. Clean, nice people, fast in and out and no receipt checking.
 
22AcaciaAve

22AcaciaAve

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WalMart is almost exclusively self-checkout now. The last time I was there the lady checking receipts at the exit Stopping everyone
I didn't choose to participate in that nonsense, so I just skipped the exit line and left. I heard her saying "Ma'am... Ma'am!!!!" as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store.
Look. You can either trust me to do self-checkout or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be. I'm not interested in proving that I did your job for you anymore.
Signed,
All of us
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I agree with the premise of not wanting to wait for someone to check my receipt at the door. I use self-checkout whenever I can. I use it because I can scan my items faster, I can bag them grouped the way I want, and I don't like waiting in lines for a cashier. But Sam's club and Walmart put a person at the door (usually just one person) to look at your receipt and match the items in your cart with the receipt. Hello, that defeats the purpose of trying to check out as quickly as possible. I am not interested in using the self scanning and self checkout features only to have to wait behind 4 people to get out of the building. Sam's club used to do it even before they had self checkout. I see no need to have to checkout twice!

And it could very well be location based. I have been to certain Walmarts that do not even have a self checkout and I suspect it is because of a high theft risk. RFid technology reduces this risk. Of course I'm not sure why they are that worried about it. These are the same big box retailers that are now telling you to keep an item and still refunding your money if you decide to return it.
 
black dog

black dog

Free America
I shopped at Walmart last night for the monthly grocery needs.
I tend to buy case quantities with can needs, with self check you have to scan each can individually.
They had three regular cashiers open no waiting, they can scan one and press quantity of 12.
 
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