‘A line forming at each of the open registers is not a reason to open another line. It’s a reason for one of them to turn of the light and go on break.’
Was in a Walmart when that happened to me. She was checking out the guy in front of me and turned off her light. She then told me she was on break and I said you are checking him out, so why not me? No, break time, she said. I said you are the cashier, right? She said, yes. I said now you are the stock girl too. I left my cart load on her table and walked out.
I left went to Sam’s Club coughed up a hundred bucks for the top of the line membership and now do my shopping there and the meds I have to have cost half what they did at Walmart. I know it is part of Walmart but the service and prices and quality is just better. I drive 30 miles total vs 3 miles for Walmart, but I will not go back.
We have done the same with local stores that have closing times of 8 or 9, but you get there at 7:59, and they hang up the sign and lock the door. If I were manager, they’d be fired. A closing time is a guide for a business wanting to do business. If there is a customer, then my store would not be closed until there were no more customers. The employees would, of course, be paid for that extra time.
We stopped going to a local ice cream establishment with a drive up window. How hard is it at a drive through to fill another cone or 2?
you know sams club is owned by walmart, right?
I live in Maine.
At my local WalMart here, if your groceries are unloaded on the checkout table or conveyor belt, and the checker is ready to go on break, they’ll say “You’re OK” as they turn off the light above the register and then proceed to ring up your order after they’re down with the person in front of you. After your order is rung up and loaded into the cart, that’s when they will go on their break.
Your cashier was rude.
I’ve never had them turn off the light with my merchandise on the conveyer. I’ve seen cashiers “Tag team” in or out when someone has to go on break so another takes over the register. On rare occasions I’ve heard them tell customers getting in line that they couldn’t take any more.
I’ve never seen them turn away a customer after the customer already emptied the cart.
Years ago...I used to utilize the Ramstein BX (at the base in Germany). We had one particular clerk that would pull roughly 25 hours a week at one of the check-out lanes. The best you could say about “Freddy”....was it took him three times as long as any clerk....to swipe items across the scanner....bag the items....and get your pay situation done. Just walking up with a tube of toothpaste and a bar of soap....which ought to take sixty seconds max to scan, bag and pay (in cash)....turned into a three minute episode. Got twenty items? You can figure roughly twelve minutes to get your purchase done. The BX management? They didn’t care.
At some point, I went to a on-post hotel within Germany and one night had to deal with the front-desk clerk. The guy had to be on medication, and was totally inept at typing. The sign-in process took twenty-two minutes....for fifteen bits of information for the hotel computer system. I even offered to pay in cash....to avoid another five minutes of this dimwit.
The problem is that we’ve turned so many jobs in America in dimwit jobs. TSA, 7-11, bus drivers, hotel clerks, McDonalds, etc. These positions are filled to the top of the line with dysfunctional people....some on drugs....some just naturally dimwitted. You can’t avoid them now. Traveling by air, rail, or bus? You have a fifty-fifty shot of having to deal with one. Buying a Big-Gulp? Same chance with the store clerk. Checking into a cheaper-run hotel? Same chance.
So, we come to my last comparison....we got to the point of even accepting mediocre men for President....believing a marginally qualified guy with no real resume but great speaking talents could do the job. We (enough voters anyway) even accepted that idea. It makes me wonder if the nuke plants are going the same way, and recruiting the bottom tier of workers.