Walmart - Page 2

NinjaPoodle · #16 06-20-2002, 02:36 AM

0iginally posted by KSig RC [/i]
The other employee was equally friendly, perhaps even more so, a younger woman in her mid-30s. She too was very cool, and having a good time - she was also in a wheelchair, with only partial use of her arms. So, of course, she was assigned to stamping the items you were bringing in for return, with some sort of gun-type device.

What sort of lunatic would give the job requiring manual dexterity to the person who, unfortunately, doesn't have use of her arms/hands? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Watching her struggle with the gun, and the ensuing line (not to mention people getting pissed off, like it was her fault), well I didn't know whether to cry, help her out, or laugh my ass off at how ridiculous the whole thing became. [/QUOTE]

Kevin · #17 06-20-2002, 02:54 AM

The key to a fast checkout at Wal Mart is to ALWAYS get checked out at either the electronics or sporting goods counter. They won't care what you bring up -- especially if you build a good rapport with them.

I'm sure it might be a different issue if you had groceries and such but they have never questioned me. I don't believe in waiting in lines at Wal Mart.

ROWDYsister · #18 06-20-2002, 07:19 AM

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Originally posted by ktsnake
The key to a fast checkout at Wal Mart is to ALWAYS get checked out at either the electronics or sporting goods counter. They won't care what you bring up -- especially if you build a good rapport with them.

I'm sure it might be a different issue if you had groceries and such but they have never questioned me. I don't believe in waiting in lines at Wal Mart.

Yeah, I'm one of those people who sucks up to the photo department employees so that they'll ring me up there. Hey, most of their business from a single person probably comes from me, anyway...I take sooo many pictures.

ps: the "I hate Walmart" anecdotes so far are hilarious!
pps: Target is better, but for different things

Peaches-n-Cream · #19 06-20-2002, 07:32 AM

I've never been to Wal Mart. They don't have them here. I have been to K-Mart. My family saw Martha Stewart shopping there.

AOX81 · #20 06-20-2002, 08:12 AM

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Originally posted by lifesaver
Yeah, I was hating my life the other day. I needed to get some big tupperware storage containers for some winter stuff I was putting away and The Container Store was across town, (through construction..I might add) so I thought about Wal-Mart....on a saturday...in the afternoon.... I did it anyway, and hated myself for it. Standing there in the households section.... screaming brats and Lionel Ritchie BLARING on the speakers "oh what a feeling...were dancing on the celing" Yeah, I almost went back to the sports section and put a rifle in my mouth.

The first time that I went to Walmart this week I was buying storage containers also. I needed FOUR of the really big ones and they are stacked really high. I pulled the entire stack off the shelf and then I found out that that particular stack was holding the shelf up above it. I damn near emptied the contents of the shelf into the aisle...I should have!! To make matters worse, I dropped the stack of containers on my foot (I was wearing sandals) and it hurt like hell.

At least 5 employees walked by me and they never said one word to me!

Kevin · #21 06-20-2002, 08:16 AM

They just closed all the K-Marts in Oklahoma... So if I want one of those category killer type stores Wal Mart is the only answer. They've also been raising their prices since their competition's demise.

aephi alum · #22 06-20-2002, 08:53 AM

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Originally posted by NinjaPoodle

Can I stop laughing now???

Nope... you have to keep laughing until Walmart restocks the clue department.

lifesaver · #23 06-20-2002, 01:41 PM

God it keeps getting worse.

My design firm just got a client - one of those Banks in walmart. Guess who has to deal withthem? Yeppers. Me. So I am schlepping through the parking lot in 100 degree heat dodging shopping carts and spilled icee's like its the freaking Batan Death March cause the parking lot is bigger than my hometown.

More importantly, WHY is there a bank in the wal-mart? WHO WOULD BANK THERE??? Seriously... THe point of banking for me is service and convience. WHAT IS CONVIENIENT ABOUT WALMART? Yeah, everythign is there, but its a pain in the ass to get there and inside and the fool asss employees, white trash families and kids EVERYWHERE at midnight! I never saw midnight as a kid till I was 17! THe old people in the "Grill" waiting for death like its some sort of retail retirement facility and the smocks OH MY GOD THE SMOCKS. No you cant help me.....I HATE WALMART.......

#24 06-20-2002, 03:27 PM

The walmart we had in our college town wasn't too bad, but then again, it couldn't be... it was the only store of it's ilk for about 20 miles. And it was mostly college students, so you didn't have (much of) the WT.

Now that I live in Milwaukee, however, it is a whole new ballgame. Target is the only "mega-store" I can go into without wanting to attack everyone with a knitting needle. Walmart is slow, slow, slow and messy... and don't even get me started on K-Mart. This is really disgusting, but... the place always smells like urine. I've ventured in there twice, only out of extreme necessity... and both times I've had to leave within moments because I just couldn't take it. The smell... the bratty kids who run over your feet with a shopping cart (hope I don't see you in the parking lot, kiddo...) and the screaming, oh lord, the screaming.

In comparison with all that, Target is a nice, happy quiet place, with nice, happy bright colours...aah....

KSig RC · #25 06-20-2002, 03:40 PM

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Originally posted by lifesaver
More importantly, WHY is there a bank in the wal-mart? WHO WOULD BANK THERE???

Or how about the McDonalds-in-WalMart concept? How's that for proof of the "Aldus Huxley was prescient" theory?

I got it - let's roll two of the biggest commercial titans (and coincidently, signs of the COMING APOCALYPSE) together - then, oh yes, we can have our white trash families utilize the McDonald's like a f-ing babysitter, allowing them to watch TV and stuff their collective face full of greasy garbage while Mommy buys the largest box of Ho-Ho's the Earth can sustain. Nothing like raising your kids in a GOD DAMNED McDonald's, then piling them into the rusty white Chevy cargo van and heading back to the trailer park. It's almost unreal to see it, it's just bizarre.

Hell, might as well be able to pay the (minimum payment on the) credit card bills while you're there, too, I guess. I got it - let's put showers, cots, and maybe a social services desk in there, too - then some of my distant relatives wouldn't ever have to leave the freaking Wal-Mart.

Society is swirling around the porcelain, for sure.

CrimsonTide4 · #26 06-20-2002, 03:53 PM

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Originally posted by KSig RC

Or how about the McDonalds-in-WalMart concept? How's that for proof of the "Aldus Huxley was prescient" theory?

I got it - let's roll two of the biggest commercial titans (and coincidently, signs of the COMING APOCALYPSE) together - then, oh yes, we can have our white trash families utilize the McDonald's like a f-ing babysitter, allowing them to watch TV and stuff their collective face full of greasy garbage while Mommy buys the largest box of Ho-Ho's the Earth can sustain. Nothing like raising your kids in a GOD DAMNED McDonald's, then piling them into the rusty white Chevy cargo van and heading back to the trailer park. It's almost unreal to see it, it's just bizarre.

Hell, might as well be able to pay the (minimum payment on the) credit card bills while you're there, too, I guess. I got it - let's put showers, cots, and maybe a social services desk in there, too - then some of my distant relatives wouldn't ever have to leave the freaking Wal-Mart.

Society is swirling around the porcelain, for sure.

Dammit your ass is CRAZY. I just finished reading you and lifesaver's first posts and had composed myself only to get to your next set and damn near wet myself from laughing.

When I get to Charlotte, I will have to check out their Wal Marts but I pray none of this thread's posts come back to haunt me.

rswall · #27 06-20-2002, 04:16 PM

At the Wally World near where I live, you see all kinds- people- i.e. women will come dressed in their robes (the night gown type), slippers and curlers. One guy even came in wearing only a pair of boxers a t-shirt and shoes. When he was asked to leave, he said "The sign on the door says, "no shirt, no shoes, no service." It doesn't say anything about underwear. OMG! WTF? I think all of the idiots of the community go there to congregate. It's the only place they feel of "normal intellect."

ROWDYsister · #28 06-20-2002, 04:22 PM

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Originally posted by rswall
At the Wally World near where I live, you see all kinds- people- i.e. women will come dressed in their robes (the night gown type), slippers and curlers. One guy even came in wearing only a pair of boxers a t-shirt and shoes. When he was asked to leave, he said "The sign on the door says, "no shirt, no shoes, no service." It doesn't say anything about underwear. OMG! WTF? I think all of the idiots of the community go there to congregate. It's the only place they feel of "normal intellect."

Why DO women go out in public with rollers in their hair? I have yet to understand this. Isn't the point of rollers to curl your hair so you look nice? Then why would they go out looking like crap in public? They're trying to look nice...so the first step is take out the rollers! Unless they need to leave them in b/c they're getting married that day or have an event later on that day and it's an emergency...but highly unlikely.

rswall · #29 06-20-2002, 04:35 PM

They leave the curlers in their hair because they are lazy slobs! Besides, it's the "I'm only going to Wal-Mart" mentality.

NinjaPoodle · #30 06-22-2002, 06:54 PM

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Originally posted by lifesaver
God it keeps getting worse.

My design firm just got a client - one of those Banks in walmart. Guess who has to deal withthem? Yeppers. Me. So I am schlepping through the parking lot in 100 degree heat dodging shopping carts and spilled icee's like its the freaking Batan Death March cause the parking lot is bigger than my hometown.

More importantly, WHY is there a bank in the wal-mart? WHO WOULD BANK THERE??? Seriously... THe point of banking for me is service and convience. WHAT IS CONVIENIENT ABOUT WALMART? Yeah, everythign is there, but its a pain in the ass to get there and inside and the fool asss employees, white trash families and kids EVERYWHERE at midnight! I never saw midnight as a kid till I was 17! THe old people in the "Grill" waiting for death like its some sort of retail retirement facility and the smocks OH MY GOD THE SMOCKS. No you cant help me.....I HATE WALMART.......

Ok Lifesaver, RELAX, RELATE, RELEASE......BREATH!