Covid Stupiity

@Kidsandliz Or they graduated from Trump U-same learning skills as first grade.

@Kidsandliz they should have learned math in first grade to count toilet paper rolls to determine the maximum roll count to be purchased by any customer at any given moment? Genius you is

@Kidsandliz

Not stupidity from employees; the employees are following received policy from corporate.

“Good Walmart stores” have signs up on the relevant display racks telling customers how many packages each customer can purchase of whatever, so that these checkout confrontations happen only to customers who don’t or won’t read.

Corporate policy is prob aligned to save time at checkout. “1 package limit” rule is simpler for both parties, than having to count rolls and risk checkout arguments over exactly how many rolls of this or that a customer is allowed.

In any case, that policy is from corporate. I confirmed this with a Wally store manager I know personally.

But some Walmart “pandemic policies” are either stupid or are disingenuous “cover” for potential Walmart policy changes.

For instance; the stores close at 8:30pm each night “to allow for store sanitizing and re-stocking”, according to endless Walmart recorded and broadcast announcements.

Yeah. Except that the employee parking area at each store is entirely empty until from about 9:39pm until about 3-4am each morning.
And: from 3am until half an hour before store opening, the employee parking area doesn’t have that many cars.

So, sanitizing and re-stocking combined only takes a few hours and not a ton of employees.

I suspect they may be experimenting with the idea of killing off all or most of the 24 hour Supercenters, and seeing how sharply reducing hours and possibly thereby reducing labor or other costs potentially correlates to reduced sales; and how simultaneous pushing customer home delivery or car pickup as options might assist sales; all while using the pandemic as a cover for possible permanent store hour policy changes.

My guess is that hardware, food, and some other “home bound life” departments have normal or increased sales; but other departments, such as clothing, toys, home decor goods, crafts (basically, all the departments where people want to browse, examine, and take their time) are way off usual matching-month sales levels.

@f00l @Kidsandliz I think they change hours for a store when they decide it’s needed regardless of covid. The local stores here, 2 cities with 4 Large supercenters, were once 24/7, haven’t been for years. When I say large, one of them was the first supercenter and largest walmart in the country when it opened. Since then they’ve all had expansions. They don’t need a cover for hours changes, If they see that there aren’t enough sales late to justify being open, they change the hours.
They are cleaning more, through the day you might see someone going around the store cleaning counters, glass cases, and electronics displays, didn’t happen before. What departments are sales up/down in? I’m seeing that toys seem to be a fast mover, as well as crafts. Really the back room of the store is kind of a shock, nearly empty, where last year all the shelves were filled. I haven’t seen anything on a real reason why, but the rumor is that there is a shortage of some sort on everything coming from China. But it might be demand side, people just keep coming in buying TVs, laptops, etc. Lately it seems a lot of people are buying paint, I guess they are repainting the insides of their houses while they are spending more time home.

@kevinrs @Kidsandliz

In some cities some of the Supercenters that has been 24 already weren’t 24 hours previous to the pandemic. But in DFW/Houston/San Antonio, they pretty much all were open 24 hour, or at least all the Supercenters I ever went near (a lot) were 24; and had a pretty decent customer presence at 3-4am.

Some stores that used to be open 24 changed that over time depending on demand; but I suspect they are experimenting with something bigger here; a nationwide restructuring of store hours, without regard to local demand and overnight sales volume by store.

I’ve no inside knowledge tho. And, if they are going that way, Corp won’t tell the local managers they’re thinking about doing that sort of thing until shortly before rollout anyway.
Corp is usually pretty close-mouthed about that sort of thing until a change goes official and is near to announce.

@eonfifty no limit sign posted any where corporate stooge.

@cranky1950
I don’t know Wally, but I know corporations, and I’d bet, and I’m not a gambler, there was a sign posted somewhere, and, if I were a gambler, I’d bet you saw the sign but pretended not to just to cause a ruckus.
/giphy cranky 19 50

@eonfifty And if I didn’t know better I’d say you were talking out your ass millennial.

@cranky1950
Lol. Nice try, boomer.
/giphy nice try boomer

@cranky1950 @eonfifty I was in the local wally world today. I walked down that row and no signs about paper towels anywhere. No signs about TP either. Plenty of both. So I’d believe no sign in a different wally world. Now bleach, wipes and face masks… that’s another story. And there is a sign up by bleach which is currently at price gouging prices. No wipes and face masks to be found, nor bottled water for that matter either as a bunch of this area had no water today and is currently brown and low pressure, at least where I live.

@eonfifty @Kidsandliz That’s why I got so po’d. I there was a sign I’d have just got the biggest bundle they had and be done with it.

I really don’t like to go to walmart more than once a month. There’s just too many people packed together in there.

@cranky1950 @Kidsandliz
Ok. Maybe there wasn’t a sign (but I’d bet there was one); however, signs are a communication to consumers precipitated by past experience and legal mandates meant to be an authority in the lack of a personal representative of the company. Your security guard was the component of your shopping experience a sign would like to put out of his job.

@cranky1950 @eonfifty @Kidsandliz i have started using curbside pick up. So much less stress. Pull up and they bring out your purchase and put it in your car. Easy peasy.

Also, I have dealt with that limit discussion when there was truly no visible signage. I walked the manager back and asked them to show me where the sign was located and I would gladly apologize. They could not find it, they apologized and I completed my purchase.

@cranky1950 @eonfifty lol true these people say they don’t see the sign. Then you go there and there’s a sign every 2ft apart on a 60 ft aisle. People are just stupid and ignorant. Unfortunately this person sounds like BOTH. Double trouble. He he he. TRUMP 2020

@cranky1950 @eonfifty @Kidsandliz well like they say. If Walmart doesn’t have it you don’t need it. Lol. Moron

@eonfifty @Kidsandliz Geez you’re so fulla shit.

@cranky1950 @eonfifty @Kidsandliz you should buy bottled water at Walmart. Always instock at Low Low prices “Guarenteed” lol

@bugger @cranky1950 @eonfifty @Kidsandliz it is ok, they also do not know how to spell!

@bugger @eonfifty @Kidsandliz I don’t need bottled water.

@cranky1950 @eonfifty @Kidsandliz lol

@cranky1950 You’re cranky.

@bugger @cranky1950 @eonfifty Well I need bottled water because the city turned the water off to work on water lines, now it is light brown. Even if I boil it who knows what else is in it. Also water pressure is still really know which means there are still leaks in the lines somewhere. Plan to run by at opening to see if they restocked, if not then some other stores that were also out.

@hems79 you gots dat right

@cranky1950 @Kidsandliz

Currently, Walmart’s are best shopped for items in short supply first thing in the am.

If they got it overnight, it will be out on the for customers at store opening. Unless it’s a sucky store.

If they get something during the day, and it’s a hot item, a “good store” will get it into the sale floor.
But the bulk of their shipments for things people use up daily come in overnight.

They’ve been out of Rotel tomatoes lately if I didn’t go in first thing. Both Rotel originals and the Wallyworld knockoff.

I’m annoyed. Dunno if can handle the stress.

@cranky1950 @eonfifty @Kidsandliz Locally here they’ve got pallets of bleach and masks, bottled water too. At one point they had like 10+ pallets of bottled water on the floor at once. Baby wipes they have, but clorox wipes and rubbing alcohol only are rare.

@cranky1950 @eonfifty @kevinrs @Kidsandliz
About the same locally. They had bottles of hand sanitizer ($2.97 for 8oz Suave brand that is from Unilever with 75% alcohol) in multiple locations in the store. No plain rubbing alcohol to be had though.

@whomeyesu you nailed it!!! These people are babies. Just live with it it will all be over soon. Damn morons. At least they still have money left of their EBT card for cheese puffs and ding dongs next week

@whomeyesu

when the antibiotic will be available

Uh … antibiotics work against bacterial infections.

They don’t have much effect on viral deseases.

@bugger Maybe if walmart paid a living wage then actually having an income below the poverty line so they qualify for food stamps wouldn’t be an issue. Also I know few people who spend their food stamps on that kind of junk. Or if the do they limit it to one or two items. If you spend your food stamp money on that then there is nothing left for the basics like meat, vegetables, fruit, milk…

@hammi99 How bout I just leave and say fuck it. Which is what I did.

@OnionSoup wears socks with sandals.

@katbyter Back when they had 1 per customer on milk, and signs up about it, they still had customers trying to check out with 6 gallons of milk

@kevinrs When I was a kid, we easily went through that much milk in our family. Gallon or more a day, usually. In my own house, it’s an insane amount of yogurt. We can easily go through 30+ of them in a week. And there’s only 5 of us. I got hoarding looks stocking up on yogurt even before all this.

@katbyter but when they are trying to buy the 6 gallons of milk and not much else, maybe only some paper products that were also being limited, it’s hording

@katbyter @kevinrs It’s not hoarding if they drink that much in a week. Why, in the middle of a pandemic, would one want to go to the grocery store more often than usual? Maybe when they did their grocery store run the store was out. There is no milk shortage here but if I go too late in the day they are out so then I have to come back. It’s just me and I go through about a gallon and a half a week.

@katbyter @Kidsandliz But don’t they use other stuff in that week? It’s not like they have bread, or cereal, or any other basic food staples in the cart with the milk. I also overhear some people talking about stocking up and freezing gallons of milk.

@ragestuff It was the self checkout girl that grabbed by paper towels.

@ragestuff I got flagged at SAMs self checkout for two boxes of Ramen. I didn’t see a sign. I had ordered two boxes at SAMs online though, no problem.

• @cranky1950

left $200.00 worth of stuff on the belt

It was the self checkout girl that grabbed by paper towels.

Not sure where you live but my little local Walmart (AKA ‘smallmart’) store doesn’t have belts at the self-checkout. That makes it a real PITA if you have a large amount of stuff as you have to try to get it from the cart to the tiny space where you bag it before you run out of room, or try to put filled bags into the cart before you finish scanning everything…

@chienfou @cranky1950 Even if the self checkout did have a belt, if you’re buying $200 worth of stuff from Walmart, odds are you’ve got a pretty full cart. Go to the regular checkout line and leave the self checkouts for those without so many items.

@katbyter No really I kinda don’t handle stupid well. I tend to upset the sheeple.

@katbyter great catch

@cranky1950 @katbyter Uh, there’s a limit of whining on this site. You have to take all that whining back please. Thank you

@bugger @cranky1950 @katbyter
Please file your enresolved complaint about exceeding whining post limits over on the
monthly goat thread

@OnionSoup is definitely to blame.

@cranky1950 Seems you handle stupid well, being stupid. You basically threw a temper tantrum like a toddler because you didn’t like the rules. The poor people working at Walmart who have to deal with cranky people like you deserve respect. If the sign wasn’t there, tough! Get over yourself. You are the asshole for giving the person doing their job a hard time then making them put away groceries because you couldn’t handle being told there were limits. Boo hoo. And then to brag about shitty behavior! Yep, you are the asshole.

@callow @cranky1950
They should have a blocked option. Cause this topic has nothing to do with MEH.

@callow @cranky1950 @worldcup1994 Many, many topics on this forum have nothing to do with meh… If you only want product forums go to morningsave or maybe casemates.

@hems79

Or maybe it just bothers me more than it should.

Nope, that’s the correct amount of bother…

@hems79 Thank you! Very well said

/giphy standing ovation

@hems79

@hems79 There is no stupidity here. It’s ‘stupiity’, and it’s contagious. Also, @cranky1950 can’t spell.

@cranky1950 is cranky.

@cranky1950 @hems79

And may he ever be so!

@hems79 I mean honestly was i ever in denial of that fact?

Just reread what I said. I can’t believe I used “it’s”, knowing it’s “its”
FUCK.

@hems79

aw toe co rekt

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@f00l Nah, just me bean dum.

@f00l @hems79 Hay you’ve been poo’d

@tinamarie1974 I wonder if that’s only your local store. I got a receipt at mine recently no problem.

@RiotDemon So this is only for pick up but it is quite possible. To be honest I was at the same store a couple of days ago for pick up and they printed a receipt. I wonder if it was just the person that waited on me

@tinamarie1974 there’s always someone being weird. I was doing Walmart grocery pickup where you just pop your trunk and they throw the shit in so you don’t contact anyone… Well, dude comes up to my window with his mask around his chin. Like, come on. This is what I’m trying to avoid.

@RiotDemon gotta love people!

@tinamarie1974 That’s why I carry my own pen.

@katbyter well I will be bringing one in the future, but the goal for me right now is to travel light. I try to not bring anything in that will track back to my house including my purse and phone.

@tinamarie1974 And in a study of medical clinics one of the items with the most germs on it were the pens people used to sign the paperwork.

@Kidsandliz not suprising. So Lowes actually sent me a survey today to discuss my experience. No idea if it will do any good, but I honestly shared my thoughts.

@kevinrs That would really suck since I shop for two households!

@callow @kevinrs Or even shop for a larger family.