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i have learned that the best time to go to walmart is early in the morning, like before work. there is hardly anyone in there, no lines to wait for and certain kinds of people are not in there at that time of the morning. i go there because i can get stuff like tampons, shampoo, soap, etc for cheaper than it costs in a regular supermarket. if not for that, i would never go to wal-mart.
WalMart is not my favorite place to be. MOF, I'm not really crazy about shopping anywhere, unless it's a pastry shop.
But I admit to having patronized WalMart from time to time. Also, K-Mart, J.C. Penney, The Bon Ton. Also Wegman's, Price Chopper, and Aldi. I have seen, in all of these places, people who look like they know what they want and people who seem to have never before been in a store. I don't judge any of them. I only know what and who I am. But there are days when, as it is with most humans, I'm not feeling really good about myself. That's the day I go to WalMart so I can feel superior to all the people who insist they never shop there.
I don't understand your attitude, AZ. Your job is to DO YOUR JOB and stop whining about doing it. If you don't like it, get another job. Obviously people at Walmart use the self checkouts because there aren't enough cahiers in the first place and they don't want to wait in line for a long time. Customers have to checkout somehow. It seems like some stores have pickier self checkouts than others. Kroger's used to be nearly impossible to use, than they got a new system and and now they're pretty easy.
I do my job, pretty cheerfully actually, and I'm not whining. Just stating facts. If people would slow down and read the instructions on the screen they'd have a ton fewer problems. Simple.
At my store we can have three empty (of customers) registers but people won't walk that far to check. They stop at the first one they see people in line because they KNOW it's open. That's why you'll see employees in the aisle, redlining, to let people know there's an open register. People use self checkout because they think it'll be easier and faster but when they have a loaded basket there are going to be times that something needs to be checked. And there a lot of things that "needs to be checked".
It's good that customers have the options. And, like I said, I just wish they'd slow down, READ signs and screens. They did a new interface on our self checkout scanners almost a year ago and they'd have nothing but problems ever since. They get one thing straightened out and another goes wonky...hence some Cards Only scanners. It's a bummer and makes it harder for everyone but we make it harder on ourselves too, sometimes. A case of fixing something that wasn't broke!
Cool! I'll be sure and look for that voice button. She can get kind of loud! So yeah, we have 6 self check-outs on one side and 6 on the other ( or maybe eight) then we have a circle of check-outs on one side. If you're ever up here, give me a shout.. and I'll give you the grand tour. I was also in modular planning for a short time, so when Wal-mart makes changes, I almost know how they are going to re-arrange. As a side note: I'll still wear ear buds though, so it won't be like I am ignoring you. lol..
I know! I love that button. lol
Sounds like a plan...if I'm ever in your neck of the woods.
I think the self checkouts are great for people who have social disorders. I personally want to skip all the communication in a regular check-out. In most of our super-center stores, they are up to almost 20-22 self-checkouts. Pretty easy... touch the buttons and you're done. I do think they need a switch of low, medium and high on the computer voice of the self check out. Wearing one ear bud in my ear helps me and listening to music.
These don't work at our locations.
There is always people with 70 times attempting to check out at them....and subsequently needing assistance when something doesn't make sense to the machine. It takes you just as long to self check out the majority of the time as it does to wait for a employee to do it.
I would dispute your second paragraph as a general rule, even as I admit it is true in certain situations. Let's take clothing. I have purchased most of my socks and underwear at Walmart for the past 10 or more years and I cannot notice any lack of longevity. At higher end department stores, let's consider what you are actually paying for (in addition to the items themselves): higher priced real estate in better neighborhoods, advertising in more expensive publications, a higher sales clerk to customer ratio (great for convenience but doesn't add any quality to the merchandise), brand names with greater "cachet" (nice for feeling good about oneself, but questionable as an indicator of quality).
I have also purchased men's dress slacks at Kmart which seem to last forever.
Where do you draw the line on stores? 20, 30, 40 years ago (I am 70) I bought most of my clothing at Sears and JCPenny and it seemed to last forever. Could never understand the rational and objective reason for shopping at higher-end places. Could it be that there is a real difference between men's and women's clothing in this regard?
I don't shop at walmart because it has merchandise made in China and it promotes child labor and the quality is horrible.
Also I don;t shop at high end stores but when it comes to clothes I invest in few pieces from high end stores, for the rest I go to places like TJmax etc. even in TJ max I look at the label. I buy if it's not made in china.
Haven't been to Wal-Mart in 20 years but reluctantly went there recently because their check cashing is only $3. It was as awful as I remember it.... long lines, unfriendly staff, poor/creepy shoppers, messy unorganized shelves, etc.
Shopping at Wal Mart is probably because so many have bought into the lie, and the lie has made China Wealthy and Americans poor, the more and longer you pursue foreign made distributors and mass marketers the more likely you will find less and less jobs in America, and you will result to get poorer and poorer quality products which are purely disposable, where you have to keep buying the same things over and over every 6-8-10 months.
You are not getting a discount, you are insuring, that your city declines, your roads deteriorate, your city cut back on city services, and you community results to have a vast expanding pool of empty homes and a segments becoming nothing more than expanding ghettos surrounding smaller and smaller elite oasis's.
It's long past time for American's to wake up, get over that delusional World War II fiction of thinking we are the world leader. We can't even compete with anything of Industrial Infrastructure and commercial and public building projects that China creates and we are so far behind in ability to match anything that Dubia builds.
We can't even respect the American citizens enough to build our own appliances, or the millions of Cell Phones and computers, but they sell them to us, for the same price as if they had paid people $30 an hour to build and make it, when they paid the Chinese 60 cent to $1.50 and hour to make it.
So the delusions that its cheaper for us to have it made overseas, is nothing but the sham push on the American people, so the Industrialist can make 3,000+%profit above and after all incurred cost of productions, distribution and sales.
We fell for the hoodwinking pushed by anyone wearing a suit and tie and claiming a degree. Until the point we became too greased over to even open our eyes and pay attention and look at the truth, through the smoke and mirrors they used to delude us.
Sounds like a plan...if I'm ever in your neck of the woods.
Okay, I'll hold you to it! I am in Springdale and I want you to know, that I make sure everyone is doing their job at Wal-mart! You sound like a great employee.. if you ever want to see the place.. just shout! So anyway, I went to the Jane Missouri store today after work and those self check-outs were turned down already! ALL OF THEM! YAY! I think someone got the message
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So yeah, we have 6 self check-outs on one side and 6 on the other ( or maybe eight) then we have a circle of check-outs on one side. If you're ever up here, give me a shout.. and I'll give you the grand tour. I was also in modular planning for a short time, so when Wal-mart makes changes, I almost know how they are going to re-arrange. As a side note: I'll still wear ear buds though, so it won't be like I am ignoring you. lol..
You sound like a great employee.. if you ever want to see the place.. just shout! So anyway, I went to the Jane Missouri store today after work and those self check-outs were turned down already! ALL OF THEM! YAY! I think someone got the message 
