From somewhere on twitter:
So l am at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee that wants $15 an hour "monitors" and then this happened.
Her - why are you double bagging all of your groceries?
Me - excuse me?
Her - you are wasting our bags!
Me - if you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her - that's not my job!
Me - okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's all right with you.
Her - why are you using two bags?!
Me - because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag.
*10 seconds of me just staring at her.
Me - so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag.
Her - exactly.
Me - so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her - no because you wouldn't be double bagging.
*me pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching.
Me - okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I'm still using two bags for these two items.
Her- no because you are not double bagging them so it's not the same number of bags.
Yea, been there done that and have the T-shirt. Go home and pass up the aspirin and head directly to the Jameson IPA. If needed you can place a couple ice cube in with it and press the glass against your forehead.
ReplyDeleteAnd she not only votes, but also reproduces - many times!
ReplyDeleteAmerica is doomed. The movie Idiocracy was not meant to be a how-to manual.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet it is.
DeleteAnd that's when I shot her, Your Honor.
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Its not that easy.
DeleteWe had a bagger at Kroger on Sunday and I swear that guys mother never took him grocery shopping, or (more likely) he's mentally deficient. He bagged frozen items with dry goods. He bagged windex with fresh vegetables. It was all I could to not to tell him to bugger off and let me do it.
Oh, and we broke $400 for the first time... that was not a pleasant experience...
Don’t even start with what can happen with canned goods and eggs. I do not let people I wouldn’t hire for anything bag my groceries.
DeleteAside: canned goods and groceries is actually not a good time to double bag them together.
Anon at 5:27 I feel your pain. Where do they find these people, the short bus?
DeleteShe should be PAYING $15 an hour for having this 'job'.
ReplyDeleteI was in a Wally World a few months back. After going through the "Self-Checkout," under the constant observation of that person who's supposed to help if the thing doesn't work right, I headed for the exit, only to be accosted by that "other" person who's supposed to check the receipt. I had already put it in my wallet and wasn't going to pull it out again.
ReplyDeleteHer: "I need to see your receipt."
Me: "Why?"
Her: "I need to make sure you paid for everything."
Me: "Oh, I did. I made sure I paid for everything. I did the cashier's job just fine."
Her: "I STILL need to see your receipt."
Me: "No."
I started walking to the exit. Around that time, someone left the store through a fire exit, triggering that piercing alarm that sounds when such an exit is opened.
Another employee: "A lady just left the store with a full cart of groceries!"
Manager: "Just let her go."
This all actually, truly did happen!
Wally World. Where the criminal is the customer, and the customer is the criminal...
...You just can't fix stupid when it reaches this level...
Were you at Wally World? Or Sam's Club? Sam's Club follows Costco rules (show receipt to check against items in cart).
DeletePresident Elect B Woodman
Club stores like Costco and Sam's Club have it written in their contract that they can double check purchases at the exit. Retail stores do not have a membership contract, so can't.
DeleteThere was a big to-do with Fry's Electronics years ago because they checked receipts against purchases at the door. A customer said he didn't appreciate being accused of theft, and refused to comply. Cops were called, but there were no arrests. Customer sued Fry's. Don't remember the outcome except that Fry's still checked at the door, but did nothing if the customer didn't stop or acknowledge the request.
Some Walmarts are starting to do it too due to “shrinkage.” My go to is, “Costco is a much nicer place to shop than Walmart, if I wanted to stand in line to have my receipt checked, I’d shop there.”
DeleteFunny thing I've noticed about the WM door receipt checkers around where I live in Texas, they seem to focus on certain classes of people who have a reputation for stealing. They have never questioned my wife nor myself.
DeleteThis was at a Wal Mart. What got me was that the broad was making such a stink to see my receipt, while letting an obvious thief leave uncontested!
DeleteA few years earlier I was at a Grocery Outlet store and witnessed a member of a "certain class of people with a reputation for stealing" push TWO FULL CARTS of groceries out the door. The manager yelled at the person to stop, but she just kept on going, uncontested. That store was directly adjacent to two Section Eight apartment complexes that used to be, well, just apartment complexes. The Grocery Outlet store closed not long after I witnessed this taking of "reparations" due to "shrinkage."
For the record, as soon as those two apartment complexes started accepting Section Eight, the entire area around them experienced a cancerous descent into ghetto status...
Friday night our bedroom TV died. Saturday morning was a scheduled trip to Wally World topics up a prescription, so we did an internet recon for a new TV while we would already be there.
ReplyDeleteWe picked up the meds and headed back to Electronics. We are early risers and beating the crowds is a bonus. We found the TV we had seen on line. All of the displays had the same blue screen displayed. I asked salesman to flip on the TV feeds so we could see the picture quality.
No can do. Read the script on the tube. No pix or sound from 8 to 10 am so shoppers who suffer from senory overload can browse in peace.
So, I'm standing here ready to drop several hundred dollars and you wont flip on the TV in case some mentally ill simpleton MIGHt be in the store?
She stood there blinking at me. We walked out.
Way to go Walmart. That's a brilliant marketing strategy.
Did you hire the Bud Light advertising crew?
No.
DeleteThey hired the modern-day equivalent of "McNamara's 100,000".
The term is searchable. ;)
I’m familiar with Zero Defects McNamara.
DeleteHa...apparently the DOD is considering McNamara's plan.
DeleteThey've already adopted it, trouble this time is they started at the very top, and are working down, instead of trying it the other way around.
DeleteDo not try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, unlike the serfs working there, a Walmart store manager can pull in $400,000 per year. I wouldn’t want their job, but really? And this is the result?
DeleteMomma always said, stupid is as Walmart does.
ReplyDeleteBetter have that twitch looked at.....
ReplyDeleteFuck em. I double bag every thing on purpose every one should, fuck em
ReplyDeleteI really can't leave the replies I would have directed towards faux cashier as they would not be posted here!
ReplyDeleteYup.
ReplyDeletehttps://ncrenegade.com/eliminate-the-department-of-education/
At least you have bags. Here in CO no more bags except for very small stores. Last yr they cost a dime, now none.
ReplyDeleteDon't be too hard on the poor person, she just learned math from a woke idijt.
Had bag bans in CA and hated them. Moved to one of the only towns in Texas with a bag ban (Austin). So I ordered a bundle of high quality paper grocery bags, the kind with paper handles. Would bring them into the store where the employees commented often about my "really nice bags," asking "where did you get them?" Answer is Amazon. They were something like these https://www.amazon.com/Reli-Handles-Restaurant-Shopping-Retail/dp/B084T6T4HV/ref=sr_1_74?keywords=paper+shopping+bags&qid=1707265270&sr=8-74 The bundle lasted for years.
DeleteBTW, I despise plastic shopping bags!
Louisville Colorado charges 25 cents. I have not paid for one yet. My first grocery trip after a hip replacement I had forgotten my own shopping bag. Oops. Sorry, I REFUSE to pay for your plastic trash, so I stumbled back to the parking lot to get them. Some times when I go out for just a few little things I'll stuff my cargo pants.
DeleteAs I said, haven't paid for a bag yet.
They should offer a 2% discount for self checkout, and they should offer a 2% discount for paying cash.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/ifindkarma/status/1399065949198712833
ReplyDeletestay safe
Math is hard it is harder if you're stupid
ReplyDeleteIf you really want a show of confusion try finessing your payment like buy something for 16.37 and give her a $20 , a single, a quarter, nickel and two pennies. Total freak out for you wanting a 5 spot in change.
ReplyDelete2 nickels?
DeleteDon't want to drop a dime, but...
I’ve actually never been to a Walmart. The way people have been talking about them for years and years… why would i? Imagine that?
ReplyDeleteWalmart, that's where CNN watchers go shopping.
DeleteImagine a store where you can buy baby formula, motor oil, underwear and beer, all under 1 roof. That's the sole attraction of Walmart. That and people watching when you're bored, but you gotta be real bored.
DeleteYes, these morons are out there, in ever increasing numbers. And what's really scary is they breed, they drive and they are allowed to vote.
ReplyDeleteCompletely wrong attitude.
ReplyDeleteBe thankful that you have different stores to choose from and can easily go to another one if you so desire.
Be thankful that you are free to choose from a huge variety of products (e.g. name brand, generic, large, small, bulk, etc).
Be thankful that, for the moment, the prices are still reasonable. Read about hyperinflation in Venezuela if you disagree (e.g. $35 USD for 18 eggs)*
Be thankful that you don't have to queue up in line at 5am and wait 3+ hours just to get in the store. Again, read up about shopping in Venezuela.
Be thankful that there are fresh fruits and vegetables available of so many varieties almost year round.
Be thankful that you don't have a weekly/monthly ration for what you are *allowed* to buy.
Be thankful that there is soap to buy.
Be thankful that ATMs work.
Be thankful your bank account wasn't frozen to "fight terrorism"**.
Be thankful for clean drinking water that works 24/7/365 and sewer and garbage service.
Be thankful that you don't have to choose between feeding your children and your pets (or yourself).
Prices of food in 2020.
*ht tps://www.theorganicprepper.com/venezuela-cashless-jgmd/
**ht tps://www.theorganicprepper.com/personal-bank-accounts-venezuela-frozen/
The inflation we've seen is NOTHING compared to what's coming.
Quit complaining and start praying, praising, thanking, confessing, repenting, and forgiving.
For a brutal education about life with hyperinflation I suggest reading articles by Jose in Venezuela at the organic prepper website.
ht tps://www.theorganicprepper.com/category/prepping-survival/jose-from-venezuela/
Here are a few examples:
-Venezuelans barter soap for gasoline
ht tps://www.theorganicprepper.com/soap-shortages-solutions/
-Abject misery and despair have a distinct smell of ...
ht tps://www.theorganicprepper.com/dynamics-of-shtf/
-People who I've been chatting with says, one of the most impressive things is the silence, once power is gone. The absolute dark, and the silence, while the megaphones at the distance mercilessly keep repeating the warnings about not going outside.
ht tps://www.theorganicprepper.com/venezuela-worse/
The hyperinflation in Venezuela made wages a complete joke. We’re talking about the equivalent of $3 USD per month.
ht tps://www.theorganicprepper.com/venezuela-wages-hyperinflation/
-Outlier
The local Wal-Mart grocery store ( Corner Market, no hardware) is all self check. I had beer,requires the Helper to scan it. I asked him to get me outta there and he did the whole order. The Watcher Saw the whole thing. As I was leaving she stepped at me, wanting the receipt and a look through my stuff. I just blew her a raspberry and said No,,never slowed down. It's been working for me.
ReplyDeleteIt should be legal to sterilize such people on the spot, using garden tools, for the good of the human race.
ReplyDeleteIf they have already had children, aborting their spawn - up to the 400th trimester - would not be going too far.
A close second would be to whip out your phone, video the encounter, and make her virally famous worldwide at the speed of electrons.
It isn't just Walmart. Last weekend my son and i went in to the local McDonalds. Son orders a two hamburger meal. The menu has a two cheeseburger meal. So we order the two cheeseburger meal, with no cheese. Young girl argues that they cannot substitute and will need to charge us the full ala carte price for the meal, because the menu does not have a two hamburger meal. Wanted to argue the point. I just looked at her, my expression must have been a clue. After almost a minute i saw a faint flicker of light in the lightbulb floating over her head. she finished ringing up the order. Probably still thinking I was trying to get over on the company by ordering my cheeseburgers without cheese.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what her degree was in.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT'S an idea.
ReplyDeleteIf for some reason you are "forced" to use the self checkouts by these dumbass stores, while wearing a shit eating grin, make direct eye contact with the checkout babysitters and put one item in one bag, then proceed to put that bag into another bag...repeat 4 or 5 bags deep per item. Burn through thier bag inventory.
Tell them don't hate the player, hate the game.
Wally fixed the problem in Colorado (rather, the Communists in the state legislature fixed the problem): Plastic bags are now outlawed statewide. BYOB.
ReplyDeleteHey Anonymous
ReplyDeletewith the bill of $16.37 ….if you hand them a 20, a one, a quarter ( it needs to be a dime not a nickel) and two pennys …
The cashier would hand you $4.95 back …..not a Five