My trip today to Walmart....

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......I know, I know....I have nobody to blame but myself for going to Walmart but I HAD to buy some Barbie Doll clothes for the 4-year-old's birthday and where else but Walmart?

I was finished with my shopping and ready to leave. I was in the toy department and wandered over by the bicycles. A young woman was pulling a bike out from the rack and started to wheel it to the front of the store. I fell in behind her until we reached the front of the store. I started to turn left to go to the check-outs but she just went straight through the entrance gates, setting off the alarm, walked out into the entry area, pulled the tags off the bike, got on and sailed out through the door.

I turned to an associate who was working there and said, "Hey, that woman just stole a bike!" His reply: "Well, someone will catch her at the door." "No, there isn't anyone at the door and she just went out." "Well, nothing I can do about it."

I turned to another associate and told her the same thing. She said just about the same thing. I asked, "So if I walk out with my purchases without paying, nobody will stop me?" She shrugged and turned away.

Because I don't do that, I proceeded to the self-check out. Almost all of them were closed and there were lines down the main aisle of people waiting to get to the few that were open. I was really fuming by then, but I NEEDED those Barbie Doll clothes, y'know?

So, WalMart.....you lay off the cashiers, expect us to check ourselves out BUT WE CAN'T! To add insult to injury, I got charged the wrong amount for two of the Barbie Doll outfits and had to flag down an associate to straighten it out. Bah, humbug.

Once again, I have nobody but myself to blame, so I'm not expecting sympathy. I just wanted to vent.
 

jujube said:
......I know, I know....I have nobody to blame but myself for going to Walmart but I HAD to buy some Barbie Doll clothes for the 4-year-old's birthday and where else but Walmart?

I was finished with my shopping and ready to leave. I was in the toy department and wandered over by the bicycles. A young woman was pulling a bike out from the rack and started to wheel it to the front of the store. I fell in behind her until we reached the front of the store. I started to turn left to go to the check-outs but she just went straight through the entrance gates, setting off the alarm, walked out into the entry area, pulled the tags off the bike, got on and sailed out through the door.

I turned to an associate who was working there and said, "Hey, that woman just stole a bike!" His reply: "Well, someone will catch her at the door." "No, there isn't anyone at the door and she just went out." "Well, nothing I can do about it."

I turned to another associate and told her the same thing. She said just about the same thing. I asked, "So if I walk out with my purchases without paying, nobody will stop me?" She shrugged and turned away.

Because I don't do that, I proceeded to the self-check out. Almost all of them were closed and there were lines down the main aisle of people waiting to get to the few that were open. I was really fuming by then, but I NEEDED those Barbie Doll clothes, y'know?

So, WalMart.....you lay off the cashiers, expect us to check ourselves out BUT WE CAN'T! To add insult to injury, I got charged the wrong amount for two of the Barbie Doll outfits and had to flag down an associate to straighten it out. Bah, humbug.

Once again, I have nobody but myself to blame, so I'm not expecting sympathy. I just wanted to vent.
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Precisely the same thing happens here at our Supermarkets...
 
Walmart is a mixed bag. I like the prices, but hate the crowds and the congested parking lot. Some people I've seen shopping at Walmart I wouldn't want to meet in a darkened alley. Other shoppers are rather bizarre in appearance.

The store also seems to practice intermittent security. Occasionally but not often they have personnel checking receipts at the exits. I imagine that retail theft is a serious problem there. A security company patrols the parking lot of my Walmart in a marked vehicle.

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Don't apologize for going to Walmart. I go there because prices are cheaper.

I'm sorry you experienced this. It's absolutely egregious. It becomes a tax write off for Walmart I guess but we all pay in the end.

Yeah, stupid us, paying for purchases. I've read almost every, if not every, Walgreens closed in San Francisco due to armfuls of theft.
 
I seldom go to Walmart, maybe once or twice a year. The clientele is dicey, always see the police arresting some clown in the parking lot, the shoppers in general are self absorbed and thoughtless. The Walmart employees are indifferent, some a bit snarky if you call on them for assistance.
Actually, the best part of shopping at Walmart is the self checkout, quick, easy, efficient.
 
Down in Florida, I saw a lot of theft at Walmart. I saw people just pretending to scan items and then just throw their stuff into their bag, I watched a lady back in the towel department put linen or cloth napkins into her pocketbook, which was probably empty. I saw two people not scan 2 cases of water under their cart. Should I keep going? No one cared. I never said anything because I knew they weren’t going to chase them down. In Florida, they have a new law now. You don’t have to have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, so that alone changes the landscape and what I will or won’t do about things like this. I know crooks don’t get permits, but when some people carry a gun, it gives them a sense of power. You have to pick your battles.
 
I hate Walmart. I may buy something online from them, but I won't shop in them. They shamelessly overcharge customers as a normal way of doing business. As Nathan said, "The Walmart employees are indifferent, some a bit snarky if you call on them for assistance.". And as jujube noted that someone just walked out of the store with a stolen bike. And yet, some turkey is going to stand there with my receipt, and go through the stuff I bought to see if I'm stealing something????? NO ******* way! I refuse to step foot in the dump.
 
Honestly, I have nothing bad to say about our Walmart. The staff are pleasant enough. Many have been there for years and love their jobs. It may not have the dedicated service of some stores or the higher end products, but it doesn’t have their prices either.

Not just Walmart, no store employee here will stop a crook walking out with an armful of goods. They can’t ‘touch’ them. I believe it was a LuluLemon that fired two employees for stopping a thief. The firing was challenged in court and the store won.

I’ve read that many Walmarts are checking receipts now. I guess if they catch someone not paying, they can embarrass them.

Often stores have video proof of thefts. If they can’t stop them when they leave, I wish they’d refuse to let them enter when they return the next time.
 
The Walmart I go to isn't bad either. All the associates I ask for help are very helpful.
The parking situation isn't the best, but sometimes I get lucky and am able to park close to the door.

There is always a police car parked out front too. So, it kind of wards off trouble, although I've never seen any.
The self check outs are not crowded and I can get in and out in a breeze.
 
Walmart prices are just too cheap to ignore, and their generic brand is as good as any. Aldis is even cheaper overall, but their inventory is more limited. I live in rural Virginia and people are pretty much the same all around here. I keep hearing Walmart customers are the bottom of the bucket, so I'm always watching people when I go to Walmart trying to identify the scum, but they look like the people shopping at the other chains to me. I don't don't dress to go shopping for groceries, and often go after hiking in the woods with my dirty jeans and torn work shirt. So maybe it's just me, and my idea of regular people is ignorant and badly skewed.

My Walmart is not one of the giant ones. It's in a very small town that services a large rural surrounding. The staff there is very friendly and helpful. I will say when I hit the next nearest Walmart 40 miles away, it's a lot more impersonal, crowded, and with long lines at checkout.
 
Fyrefox said:
Walmart is a mixed bag. I like the prices, but hate the crowds and the congested parking lot. Some people I've seen shopping at Walmart I wouldn't want to meet in a darkened alley. Other shoppers are rather bizarre in appearance.

The store also seems to practice intermittent security. Occasionally but not often they have personnel checking receipts at the exits. I imagine that retail theft is a serious problem there. A security company patrols the parking lot of my Walmart in a marked vehicle.

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that's one thing that doesn't happen at our supermarkets.. well not the ones around here... is the bizarre appearances...I think Walmart in the USA is Unique in that aspect...
 
I have to tell you. I have only ever heard the stories.. and seen the endless pictures of ..lets face it weird dressers... that I'd really like to visit a Walmart just once to witness it all for myself... :LOL:
 
jujube said:
......I know, I know....I have nobody to blame but myself for going to Walmart
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LOL! For many years I managed to avoid going, but when we moved to Utah Walmart was the closest and most convenient store, so I gave in. I can see the roof from my house.

My local Walmart is not so bad, and while I had a bit of trouble adjusting to the self checkout thing the system Walmart has works better than most. So far no real problems at my Walmart... however.
JustDave said:
Walmart prices are just too cheap to ignore
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In my experience not on everything. For example I can almost always find Fresca at lower prices, and some meats too. Other things I am sure. Perhaps they are lower on average, but not on everything.
hollydolly said:
I have to tell you. I have only ever heard the stories.. and seen the endless pictures of ..lets face it weird dressers... that I'd really like to visit a Walmart just once to witness it all for myself... :LOL:
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I'd like to see it too, at least once just for the experience. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, nothing like that has ever appeared at my Walmart... but I will keep looking.
 
Alligatorob said:
In my experience not on everything. For example I can almost always find Fresca at lower prices, and some meats too. Other things I am sure. Perhaps they are lower on average, but not on everything.
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Obviously, on the average. I expect that to be understood, just as Aldis is only cheaper on average than Walmart. And to continue in this vein, the most expensive chain here sells their generic Fresca and other generic sodas at a price Walmart or Aldis can't even come close to. I go there to buy soda in large quantities and nothing else, but only when I happen to be near one and I'm all out.
 
JustDave said:
That is quite amazing. I can't imagine the motivation behind that.
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I believe in the beginning it was action against Walmart being anti-union. We have all the other stores, I can't imagine they are any better toward employees. At this point it doesn't make much sense to me.
 
Devi said:
I should point out that, regardless of the pictures you may have seen of "the people of Walmart", the general Walmart shopping public does not look like that.
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I am aware of this also. I've seen a couple of those videos, and they could have been made in any store. But people like to take aim at Walmart, as if they are the only corporate villain out there. Obviously, I haven't shopped at every Walmart on the planet, but the ones I've been in don't seem to be as bad as they are sometimes portrayed. Walmart seems to have somehow developed a kind of anti-Walmart cult following.
 
Walmart is the only store in my neck of the woods where you can buy anything you need.

I miss the days when going to town meant , going to a dress store or shoe store,, than one of the grocery stores.
Looking for a magazine stop by the 'news stand'.

Didn't like the meat at grocery store ,, go to the butcher shop.

As the song says ,,"those were the days".:cry:
 
Up in northeastern PA, there is a Walmart in the country and is served by a small PD. I was called to the store because the 2-man PD was investigating an accident, so the 911 operator called the PSP, which is not the protocol, but we took it anyway to help out the other Blue department.

The manager told me he didn’t stop the man, but he was seen by an employee of pocketing shavers from the mens’ section in drugs. I spoke with the witness and she confirmed what she saw. The manager then handed me a piece of paper with the suspect’s license plate number. I ran the tag and saw that he lived about 8 miles away. I went out to his home and saw the pickup that matched the description of the one he drove to Walmart, so I contacted our barrack’s operator and requested they start a backup. That means no rush, no lights or siren. The man had no priors.

I wanted someone there to support me in case my meeting with him went south. When approaching a house with a suspect in it, if he sees me walking up the walkway, he knows why I’m there and you never know what kind of reaction you’re going to get, we come around to the door from the side the door opens.

The suspect answered the door. We talked and he was nice and accepted responsibility by admitting that he did take 4 razors. He told me a very sad story and I did buy some of what he said, so I made a deal with him. He gives me back the shavers to return and he writes a letter of apology to the store and I see it and mail it. He agreed. I warned him of the consequences and his face turned red and said if he was arrested, his mom would be very disappointed in him. I also told him, we don’t want to come back here because next time, it may not be so nice. He agreed and thanked me.

I’m not going to make a guy that has next to nothing and drives an old pickup pay a $500 fine and possibly spend 15 days or more in jail, even though he would have been eligible for work release. My barrack’s Sgt. agreed with the way I handled it. The shavers were returned. To me, we call that “small potatoes.” About a week later, he returned to the barracks and dropped off his letter. When I came into the barracks, the letter was in my slot. I read it and sent it. Sorry for the long post.
 
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