Oh, they're at Walmart.
Posted on 10/21/2018 12:47:45 AM PDT by vannrox
Bums know better than to steal Walmart shopping carts. Half of them don't roll straight and the other half have a wobbly wheel that vibrates annoyingly.
Oh, they're at Walmart.
Around here, quite a few I imagine. :-)
Most times I don’t maneuver a cart through the aisles given the obstacles. I park the cart in an out of the way location and pick up items then return as needed to place them in the cart. When I finish shopping I take the cart to checkout. My data would be minimal.
Not just Walmart, Military Commissary has to keep their employees busy, so the rearrange every 3-6 months, Holidays mean extra crap in the isles.
This new Click Shopping that some grocery stores and Walmart do track what you order. I’m old fashion, like to pick out my own produce, meats, and bargains. I’m a erratic shopper. Come winter I wear gloves, and since they conveniently put out hand wipes use those as a barrier. Heck Kroger’s knows my shopping pattern by what I buy on a weekly basis as standard items like bread, milk, and hubby’s jelly beans. All other items are subject to sale, coupons or need. Amazon keeps track of you purchasing too, again I’m as needed shopper, and don’t use a credit card, use gift cards. I’ve bought two way radio equipment for hubby, toys for new grand daughter, shoes is the biggie at the right price, only place to find size 5 women’s. Weirdest was a dental cleaning kit, I hate going to the dentist for cleanings and paying over $200. I can remove plaque as easy as their hygienist.
That won’t matter in a few weeks, getting lower dentures dam* meds I have to take ruined my teeth. Medicare/Tricare Life tracks Medical! I’m tired of hearing have you had your Flu shot yet. NO and I’m not going to, don’t ask again. Even the Ortho’s office asked.
Imagine what they are doing with their toilets.......
Well, there is that.
Of course, early diagnosis and ready access to a precision deli slicer can be a positive.
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“...VIP” card that you have to use to get the lower of the 2 prices. This allows these stores to track every purchase you make.
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They can use your credit card number for that, or face recognition, or any of a number of other ways to including merely matching a purchase up to your habitually similar previous purchases.
The real reason they do it is to gouge the people who don’t want to waste their time playing “comparison shopper” and using coupons, and to sucker poor, stupid people in to buying discount products made for animals by the Mexicans and Chinese. There are two classes of people, and this system allows them to take advantage of both.
One shopping cart innovation in the US would be a cart that had all swivel wheels. I seen those used in another country, but not in the US. It makes it easier to weave through crowded aisles.
Blame the mods on Bentonville. Everything comes out of Bentonville. If the computer in Bentonville goes down none of the portable scanners the associates use work.
Many stores already ID you by your cell phone.
I put mine in airplane mode when I go into stores and malls.
I used to be a night stocker at Walmart. I enjoyed the job. I got paid for exercising by moving tons of stock onto shelves. The carts were a downer. We used the carts to take the empty boxes back to the crusher. I almost always got a cart with one or more screwed up wheels. It was almost like winning a prize when I got a good cart.
Bfl
But we still can’t have voter ID at the polling places.
I'd wear gloves. Someone will make a fortune making some that thwart this invasion. My first thought was a metal pipe sheild that would attach to the handle or bring my own cart. Lots of new patents in the near future to stop Big Brother.
Just drag the cart from the front. Don’t even have to touch the handles.
That's interesting. I wonder of all these wrist band sensor manufacturers are violating HIPAA by uploading and keeping the data.
The release must be in the users agreement.
Just drag the cart from the front. Don’t even have to touch the handles.
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Age old question
Q-—Why are you dragging that chain?
A-—Ever tried to push one?
I have to chuckle at comments like yours.
All grocery stores rearrange their shelf aisles to work in new products, remove slower selling items or reduce that brand selection.
Every inch of a grocery shelf is bought and paid for by the manufacture for position and amount of space allotted.
Every item a grocery store carries is on some sort of calendar marketing agreement for amount of space, position, number of ads per qtr, number of sales per qtr.
If their employees aren't busy enough, it's much less expensive to reduce their hours or terminate them then to make busy work...
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