Posted on 12/30/2023 10:43:55 AM PST by jfd1776
My daughter manages a store and half the people who apply online for a job never show up for the interview. They must just be applying to keep their unemployment benefits going.
I refuse to play their receipt checking games. Title and ownership of the property transferred to me the moment I exchanged money for it it’s my property and they don’t have the right to make me prove that I own it.
A year or so ago I went into a Walgreen’s that is now closed. No one was in the parking lot and the clerk, about 55, was folding linens. She helped me find everything and showed me how to work the awful payment machine that is now the cashier. Terrific woman. I tried to hand her a five dollar tip, but she blanched like I was handing her poison. She told me they would fire her if she took it.
She also whispered that her car was the white chevy out back. I told her the five would be under the drivers’ side tire.
Fair point but given everything else cost more, not sure there is room to also increase wages. You see what pizza hut did when CA min wage increased just the other day - they terminated 2,000 jobs.
Can’t argue with that. I don’t see precisely how we get out of this mess, but I think government needs to adjust it’s tax policy for corporations and also for families. I really think wages need to increase, but if businesses layoff thousands of workers, or if families stop shopping at businesses where workers are paid really well, that obviously doesn’t really work out for anyone.
I guess in general I think the country ought to think back to, say, the 1950s when the man worked, the women stayed home with the kids, and life in suburbia was the American Dream. We have drifted a million miles away from that. Some thinking about how we might get back to that sort of life seems overdue.
And note — my feelings on this are not intended to sexist (”women should stay home”). My basic thought is: “I have a job. I earn money. I can survive and I see hope for my future”. I think that right now we are a million miles away from that.
There is absolutely no need to stand in a checkout line.
Just grab what you need and walk out the door.
Lots of people are doing it and nobody stops them.
The FM also locked up its liquor a few years ago and put all alcohol in a gated section with its own cashier.
Our Walmart only checks unbagged items.
I can see that...
That’s a typical liberal argument.
It’s also nonsense. Anyone in their 20s who can’t live comfortably on $3000/month has bigger issues.
I’ve experienced the money counting/making change issue a few times. One time, it was not a good day already so I told the cashier the answer & told him to be sure to tell his third-grade teacher how poorly he was educated. Like I said, not my best day.
Except after you pay for these items they are yours, do not want to be searched go out to the parking lot, no one will detain you unless you are a real shoplifter.
Good points.
In Italy for certain and other countries as seen on videos all cashiers are seated. No reason that can’t happen here.
Yes, desk jockies should not think retail clerks are treated well..Older lumber riders like myself used to do those jobs and remember just how crappy that experience was. It was a motivator, for most of us.
BUT...a lot of those folks don’t help themselves much with their “I don’t want to be here” attitude. We were never that way and most customers weren’t rude aholes either.
It does not matter what lane you used, self-checkout or not.
The Walmart near me typically has 2 employees in the checkout area, looking for stealing.
Retired spouse recently resigned from working the supermarket deli.
Got tired of doing all the work watching the younger help flirt, chat on their phones, take 20 minute smoke breaks, come in stoned, etc.
Final straw was the influx of a lot of rude, arrogant New Yorkers who moved here to get away from the other New Yorkers like themselves.
There’s a good reason for checking receipts. It’s called theft, shoplifting and sticker swapping.
I read about this. Thousands of pizza delivery drivers are losing their jobs in California.
Receipts are checked only for items not bagged, ie, cases of water under the cart which may have been forgotten, a big screen tv which someone is trying to steal, etc.
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