Wal-Mart Ending Its Layaway Program

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I know I'm responding a little late to this..but oh well. I actually work at walmart and in Layaway...I have been for 5-6 years..I have to say at our store in nh most of us are shocked. Plus I don't think I can count the times I've gotten the same response from customers: "it's the reason we don't shop at Target...they don't have Layaway, so that's why we do all our shopping here!!" In my many years of working there I don't quite understand where the company is coming from...yes 1/4 of all layaways are cancelled, but you still have 3/4 of them that aren't! Christmas and Back to school time are huge for us.....plus not everyone has a credit card, wants to get one, or even has the credit for it, yet this is what walmart is trying to push.

Now customers still have till Nov. 19th to put on layaways, and then till Dec 8th to pick them up by, before all stores shut their layaways down...still i wonder if they will change their minds in these next two months since only a few days after us getting the news of WM losing Layaway...another thing popped up that Target will be starting Layaways in November. I haven't seen anything yet to confirm that...but I would have to see that as a slap in the face for Walmart, since part of their excuse was "well no one else has layaway anymore, so why should we..." So if Target decides to open up Layaway again, they might want to rethink their decision. Because with that news going around, customers and even associates were saying "well if Target has layaway then I will go and shop there....because I just can't afford everything without layaway."

I guess we'll just have to wait and see this outcome. I find it interresting how some stores haven't done anything to let their customers know about this..unless they've of course heard it through the news...since today I went to my old store and mentioned it to their cashiers..and they had no clue about this, neither were there signs letting customers know about this either, unlike at my store...where I even had to rip all our new layaway signs down.

Hopefully things will work out for the best. Okay I'll stop with my babble..i felt I'd just say something. ^_^

- Jen