It isn't exactly lazy -- it is generally an understaffing problem. Many times the items (hard goods) are sitting on a pallet in back. Between cutting full time positions and having trouble finding suitable part timers staffing has been thin. One day I was asked (at checkout) if I wanted to come back that night and stock. I said no, I can't and then the supervisor asked me a second time. Almost felt bad turning him down.
Good to know. I’m not anti-Walmart by any means. I’m in there several times a month. Just drives me nuts to see the store so empty.
Speaking as a member of the hourly management team at my own Walmart, I can definitely agree. Work hours are allotted to each store from above, and there's a correlation between sales and allotted hours. The individual store's scorecard also gets a big hit if you have too many WOSH (Work Over Scheduled Hours).
A lot of the stocking problems stem from performance in the backroom; if the backroom is in order, the front of the store has a much better chance of functioning. And as I've come to learn, it only takes a few screwing up the backroom processes to make everything come screeching to a halt in terms of inventory.
/and no matter how much you want to fix it
//there is never enough time to get to it
///NEVER
They offer jobs to customers in the checkout line?