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I used to accept the explanation that they were for times with unusually high traffic, but here it is, near the height of the holiday shopping season when they have cops directing traffic in the parking lot, lines out the door etc and still like 3 out of 12 registers are open. It's no longer adding up for me.
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redundancy in case of mechanical failure
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irish lald posted:redundancy in case of mechanical failure What are the chances that 9 cash registers go down at once? Still not buying it.
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its because the most expensive part of running retail businesses is the overhead of paying people to actually be there to help customers if businesses could just be open and not require cashiers, they would do it that way every company that has tried to go fully self-service has gotten burned enough by customers throwing a fit that they couldnt eliminate cashiers entirely, so they thread the finest line they can, justifying it based on sales from the previous year only giving the store management so many hours to work with to staff the place from open to close something something capitalism bad edit: as to why are so many empty registers open, its half redundancy and half building for the busiest day they can think of during construction. construction costs are more acceptable and one-time, and so they will build while thinking they need 15 lanes and a selfcheck area, and then only staff the store with the bare minimum hours
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Dec 7, 2025 19:55
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It's because you touch yourself at night OP.
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nutbutter78 posted:What are the chances that 9 cash registers go down at once? Still not buying it. why is that so hard to comprehend? Your mom goes down at least 9 times a night
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nutbutter78 posted:What are the chances that 9 cash registers go down at once? Still not buying it. Ever worked retail before? Those things go down all the time.
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Grey Cat posted:Ever worked retail before? Those things go down all the time. then why is it always the same 2 or 3 registers open?
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nutbutter78 posted:then why is it always the same 2 or 3 registers open? Think about it yourself OP and the conclusions you will reach will be much more satisfying.
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Mysterious Jim posted:why is that so hard to comprehend? Your mom goes down at least 9 times a night i have a learning disability
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nutbutter78 posted:then why is it always the same 2 or 3 registers open? Those are the ones that haven't gone down. How is this hard?
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Walmart is a shitshow no matter what. Target actively hates its customers. Most grocery stores try to get by on the minimum amount of employees possible and/or employees that would normally be on cashier are now tasked with shopping for online/curbside pickup.
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that's CRAPitalism!
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Walmart is a shitshow no matter what. Target actively hates its customers. Most grocery stores try to get by on the minimum amount of employees possible and/or employees that would normally be on cashier are now tasked with shopping for online/curbside pickup. I tried to buy a laptop there 2 weeks ago. Took 20 minutes to get someone to help me and he said if I don't see the box it's out of stock. Well they didn't have a single laptop box on the floor and like 30+ models so i was like you guys don't have a single laptop for sale? And he said no. Someone else came to help and came over and I asked her if they had the laptop and she said its out of stock with out even looking. So on the website I found it but listed for $700 more and in stock. I asked what that's about and she went back came over with the box and said the price on the website was the right one and the price on the floor was wrong. I went to the CS department and told them what was going on and we walked over to the laptop display and she took the price sticker and crumpled it up. Thx walmart.
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at this point i dont get why you would ever go to a big box store over amazon, obv when possible its good to support local stores but like when it comes down to bezos vs walton id rather just not leave the house
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i just went to buy cheesecake jello  the laptop they had priced was a 9955hx w/ 5070 and was on amazon for 2100, the 1299 they had it priced at was a crazy deal and i wanted it
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It's hard enough getting good produce in the US I'm not going to trust a delivery service for that
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You’re just going to the wrong store. There’s a grocery store five minutes from me, but I drive to the one of the same brand 20 minutes away. My town is considered a low income area, and the other is in a high income area. The difference is night and day. The store I go to is a much nicer store, adequately staffed, with brighter lighting and more variety. Prices are exactly the same, because the sales are usually brand specific. Rich folks don’t put up with the store being lovely, so somehow the company manages to find the funds to make it not lovely. Maybe that store is more profitable, so it’s justified? Either way, gently caress it, if you only shop once a week the extra half hour is worth it.
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those registers are being used by shadow people from the other realm. they probably look at our registers and wonder why they're never in use too.
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Fallows posted:I tried to buy a laptop there 2 weeks ago. Took 20 minutes to get someone to help me and he said if I don't see the box it's out of stock. Well they didn't have a single laptop box on the floor and like 30+ models so i was like you guys don't have a single laptop for sale? And he said no. Someone else came to help and came over and I asked her if they had the laptop and she said its out of stock with out even looking. So on the website I found it but listed for $700 more and in stock. I asked what that's about and she went back came over with the box and said the price on the website was the right one and the price on the floor was wrong. I went to the CS department and told them what was going on and we walked over to the laptop display and she took the price sticker and crumpled it up. Thx walmart. Lmao
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Domus posted:You’re just going to the wrong store. There’s a grocery store five minutes from me, but I drive to the one of the same brand 20 minutes away. My town is considered a low income area, and the other is in a high income area. The difference is night and day. The store I go to is a much nicer store, adequately staffed, with brighter lighting and more variety. Prices are exactly the same, because the sales are usually brand specific. Rich folks don’t put up with the store being lovely, so somehow the company manages to find the funds to make it not lovely. Maybe that store is more profitable, so it’s justified? Either way, gently caress it, if you only shop once a week the extra half hour is worth it. lol owned Usually Walmart/Target employees in my experience are chill as gently caress about selling you stuff at mega discounted prices, used to get a lot of $.03 video games that were marked for salvage at that price until finally Walmart corporate did something about their computer system that flashed red hot "STOP SELLING THESE THINGS YOU WILL BE FIRED." Missed out on A Hat in Time for Switch for $.03, pretty disappointing, but hard to complain with how many cheap games I've bought from Walmart in the past. Also I don't think they mark them at $.03 any more at all once they started flashing it red hot in the computer system. They still have some pretty great clearance offerings every so often though if you pay attention. Private Cumshoe fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Dec 7, 2025 |
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There will be a couple times per year when they actually need them all. Day before Thanksgiving or Christmas, etc. Fully staffed, all hands on deck scenario. Otherwise the other 99.9% of the year running 3 or 4 out of the total of 10 is completely adequate. As mentioned, its not the registers and lanes that have prohibitive costs, its the employee payroll to man them all. The rest of the year most of the checkouts can go unmanned with no additional cost. E: also the local Walmart use to have these $3 bins of DVDs; just tons of DVDs tossed in there. I would pick up one pretty much every time I went there. I collected about 200 DVDs over the years. You can tell me I can stream and all that, but when internet is mediocre where you live having a cache of movies/tv shows on DVDs to watch is wonderful. Internetjack fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Dec 7, 2025 |
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Fallows posted:I tried to buy a laptop there 2 weeks ago. Took 20 minutes to get someone to help me and he said if I don't see the box it's out of stock. Well they didn't have a single laptop box on the floor and like 30+ models so i was like you guys don't have a single laptop for sale? And he said no. Someone else came to help and came over and I asked her if they had the laptop and she said its out of stock with out even looking. So on the website I found it but listed for $700 more and in stock. I asked what that's about and she went back came over with the box and said the price on the website was the right one and the price on the floor was wrong. I went to the CS department and told them what was going on and we walked over to the laptop display and she took the price sticker and crumpled it up. Thx walmart. The Walmarts in my area all have digital 'smart' price tags on the shelves. Now they can just update prices with the push of a button. Minimizes this from happening but also they can now toy with dynamic pricing if they want. Oh it's a heat wave? Jack up the price of bottled water a bit. lovely winter weather coming? Ice melter gets a temporary price increase. What I really hate is how online pricing differs (usually cheaper) from instore but they don't match their online price. So now if I want to impulse buy something I have to check the app to see if it's cheaper. If that's the case I have two options: Don't buy it (usually what I do) or put in online order while I'm sitting in front of the loving item and come back to the store a couple hours later to pick it up. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Always steal from walmart.
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Fallows posted:I tried to buy a laptop there 2 weeks ago. Took 20 minutes to get someone to help me and he said if I don't see the box it's out of stock. Well they didn't have a single laptop box on the floor and like 30+ models so i was like you guys don't have a single laptop for sale? And he said no. Someone else came to help and came over and I asked her if they had the laptop and she said its out of stock with out even looking. So on the website I found it but listed for $700 more and in stock. I asked what that's about and she went back came over with the box and said the price on the website was the right one and the price on the floor was wrong. I went to the CS department and told them what was going on and we walked over to the laptop display and she took the price sticker and crumpled it up. Thx walmart. I enjoyed this story thank you for sharing
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nutbutter78 posted:I used to accept the explanation that they were for times with unusually high traffic, but here it is, near the height of the holiday shopping season when they have cops directing traffic in the parking lot, lines out the door etc and still like 3 out of 12 registers are open. It's no longer adding up for me. Because they were already there from the before times, when you had to interact with a human to check out. If the store is new then it's to comfort those of us over 40 who become confused and engaged if the store's different
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kntfkr posted:Always steal from walmart.
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The grocery store near me is pretty well staffed TBH.
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Every time I go to Walmart and the stuff I'm considering buying is locked up, I just buy it on Amazon. gently caress asking for someone to unlock a cabinet so I can buy a $10 trinket.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Every time I go to Walmart and the stuff I'm considering buying is locked up, I just buy it on Amazon. gently caress asking for someone to unlock a cabinet so I can buy a $10 trinket. having a panic attack thinking about asking someone to unlock the lovely razors, posting about it
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Our Target has adequate staffing and the Pizza Hut in the snack bar is much better than the actual Pizza Hut.
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The Walmart near me has a self checkout that they randomly close half of and I don't get why, 14 registers that they only ever open 3 of, and a secret self checkout that is sometimes open, sometimes not Every shopping experience there is this rich adventure full of surprises. Sunday afternoon it gets mobbed and they stock the shelves at the same time and everyone is ready to escalate any situation into violence at a second's notice. It's so much cheaper than anywhere else though! And they've got this fancy Walmart store brand now it rules
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:
Some of that Bettergoods stuff is genuinely pretty great
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It's store to store dependent in my experience. The Walmart 15 minutes from my house is a perfectly chill and fine place to shop. The Walmart 30 minutes away by the mall? It's like a mixture of the Hunger Games and The Purge in there.
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Walmart delivers, just do that. I basically only go into a grocery store to buy flowers, wheat grass for the cats and fruit.
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I'm gonna change my answer op, it's probably because you touch yourself and make noises like a baby crocodile during
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They still do it because it allows you to see into the store making it look more open, replacing them with more shelves makes it feel enclosed.
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it is a social crime tantamount to manspreading
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Three Olives posted:Walmart delivers, just do that. No.
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I was a front end manager/dept manager at Walmart for like 5 years. They had a computer generated and monitored front-end schedule that dictated how many registers and what kind of registers were supposed to be open, divided into 15 minute increments. The store assistant managers were supposed to ensure that the staffing met this schedule. They would also get paid bonuses for keeping payroll low. So the assistant managers would leave shifts empty and then expect the front end managers to log cashiers into multiple registers at a time to cheat the system into thinking the schedule was being followed. When in reality, we were severely short staffed! All so they could get their bonuses!
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