I can't count the number of times I've simply left my full shopping cart at the WalMart cashier line because I refuse to stand there 45 minutes just to buy cheap toilet paper.""
Unless your shopping cart was full of JUST toiler paper, you cheated yourself, IMO.
You had spent the gas and time to go to Wal-Mart in the first place.
You spent the time to park, walk the aisles and find your choices of goods.
You got to the check-out line and then wanted instant service? OK, Paris Hilton, whatever.
But you still needed toilet paper and then went thru the same drill all over again at another store with more gas.
Don't tell me that you don't wait in the checkout line at the grocery store, because we all know that is not true.
My Dad would say you are exhibiting more money than brains.
You spent the time to park, walk the aisles and find your choices of goods.
You got to the check-out line and then wanted instant service? OK, Paris Hilton, whatever.
Puhleez, stop this working class hero stuff.
I don't know where you live, but WalMart is two minutes from my house (20-cents worth of gas), as is Kmart, Target, Sams, and a half dozen other discount places.
Target never has lines, although their aisles are as packed with people as Walmart.
Kmart likewise averages about five minute lines, as does BigBuy, or whatever their name is.
In case you need further proof, the Walmart CEO (or CFO), I forget exactly which one, was on CNBC about three weeks ago and, to my astonishment, admitted that the company specificially keeps a running tally of how many abandoned FULL shopping carts they find at each store each week.
He confessed that it was one of the company's growing problems, and that he was working diligently to aleviate the situation.
Like I said, I have no beef against Walmart other than they are too cheap to hire enough cashiers.