My adventure at Wally's Marketplace!

[Kilroy]

Better known as "Wal-Mart". Now, I'm going to say this first:

The Wal-Mart near my neighborhood has 30 checkout lines, and 8 self-checkouts. Out of the 30 checkout lines, only 3 were open. At 7 PM. There's a intercourse ing problem there.

Secondly:

Out of the 8 self-checkouts? Only 3 were operational. One was on one end of the store, two were near the other. My father, my little brother, and I were standing on line at the end with 2 working self-checkouts. However, when we got in line, we noticed a man waiting buy the receipt-giving slot, holding a bottle of Coke that you'd pull out of the fridge near the checkout. After waiting for about 5 minutes (the line wasn't moving), I asked the man why he wasn't moving. He told me that he was waiting for a manager to come out and fix the self-checkout.

Now, at Wal-Mart, there are cashiers that "man" the self-checkouts. They're supposed to be there in case one of the machines break. The problem is, the cashiers that are there don't have any sort of training when it comes to the computers, so if there's a problem, only a manager can fix it. But, even if the person did know how to fix a mechanical problem (say, something is jammed), it wouldn't matter, because the cashier that mans the self-checkout isn't given a key to open the machine!

So, after about a half-hour of waiting for a manager to finally come by, she does, and I watched the following in complete amazement of how pathetic it was:

She took out a key from her pocket.

She opened the half of the machine that deposits your money, change, and receipt.

She pulled the paper a little farther out of the receipt hole.

Ripped it off for the man that's been waiting for about 45 minutes.

Closed the machine.

We continued going.

We waited 45 minutes for a manager to intercourse ing unjam a piece of paper?

I didn't say anything, but it was absolutely intercourse ing pathetic how it took the manager 45 minutes to come down and do that. Any employee there could have done that for Christ's sake.

Luckily, no one really raged while waiting, the man that was waiting for his receipt was extremely polite and patient, and the people in line seemed to be, too.


So, you ever have a fun experience at Wal-Mart?

[whatwewishfor]

Some guy wouldn't let me buy Gears cuz he said theres chainsaws in it and he tried to convince my mom and dad not to get it because it's apparently too violent for me he says.  We got it anyways, my parents dont care what I play

[Fish]

Yes. I have experienced bad things at Wal-Mart. Same thing goes on here. Very few line are open most of the time.

Also if for some reason you are in Panama City don't go to Wal-Mart. EVER. The lines could wrap around the perimeter of the store. No joke.

[Gwen Khan]

So, you ever have a fun experience at Wal-Mart?

If my computer didn't crash last summer I'd have a 5+ page story about my 4 week employment there and about how bad it was

back when I still shopped there, there was never any one in electronics (where I would mostly go) and about 2 of the 10 register open