I went to Walmart on Sunday and only two checkout clerks, seven people called in and shelves unstocked, then found this article

I've noticed not many cashiers at stores this year. Longer lines then normal at any store i go too.

Hey, I went in there this weekend and they had nearly no shoes in the shoe section!

Evil is only allowed to prosper for a time.

Guess Walmarts time is over.

They are greedy bastards !I hope that other companies following their business practices fall flat on their faces too. You don't get much productivity or loyalty scheduling employees 19 hrs. a week.

Maybe they are finished. I sure hope so.

If China gets mad at the US, starts using their industry for war effort instead of junk products, or creates trade sanctions..then wouldn't Walmart be out of business the next day?

I also went to Wallyworld on Sunday morning.

Only 2 checkers as well, with many people standing in line to pay.

Meanwhile there was a whole wack of workers standing in a circle doing their Wallyworld cheer.

I walked up to the store manager, asked him to stop the creepy cult like behavior and put some f*cken clerks on the checkout.

He came back with "we are mandated to do the cheer"

I repeated "It's creepy and cult like, if you have to do it, do it somewhere where I as a shopper will not be subjected to it, now open some registers."

I could see the other workers smirking as the manager sent them off to open tills. Two of the workers approached me and thanked me, they also find the cheer creepy and cult like.

Sigh, I should know better than to shop there, but Costco was not yet open and I needed litter for the kitty's shitter.

I went to one and the check-out clerks had no shoes. Seven other people called-in because they had no clothes. Someone's been stealing their shit in the middle of the night.

Target?

Bastards.

I live in Northeast Texas and I was at my local Walmart Sunday also.
Found the same thing. Really strange! I was there late too. Normally they have the freight out and are restocking, but not that night.

I hate Walmart. The one near me just finished a huge expansion to include groceries. Now the front of the store has a bunch of checkout isles, but there are hardly any cashiers. The place is aggravating beyond belief.

They USED to have a night crew to restock shelves, but now they have eliminated them and try to make they day crew actually do some work, but since most of 'em are Puerto Rican females who only know how to gab all day, this is what happens...

The walmart here is mostly white females who gab all day. lol

The media is not allowed to report the fact that WALLyWORLD is losing big Money this year ...


People ARE boycotting obviously ... They have shown record profit loss this year so far .

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Bloomberg:

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had the worst sales start to a month in seven years as payroll-tax increases hit shoppers already battling a slow economy, according to internal e-mails obtained by Bloomberg News.

I don't like how they treat their employees but what concerns me is supply. Why? I don't believe they have pallets of supplies in the back due to lack of staffing. Why the low supplies?

I was there at 3PM on Saturday afternoon looking at bed sheets. The entire store was dead. There was not much of a bed sheet selection either.

Went to the local Walmart last Thursday around 9:30pm

The place was a cave. It was surreal.

Four manned checkouts with no one in line.

spooky.

I run a small retail business. I have to place some of my orders 6-8 months ahead of shipment. Each year the deadlines get earlier and earlier. They need to know months in advance because there are increasing labor shortages in China as the 20 somethings wake up and realize they want to live in the "western world" and refuse to work the factory jobs. Driving the cost of goods up.

The past two years I have seen a shift the other direction. This year especially. They are now extending their deadlines months past prior years. Begging for orders. I am very ambivalent about placing as many orders as I do usually this year. For them to be extending deadlines, and offering discounts on top of their normal ones lets me know that I am not the only one who is hesitant.

Also I have found that I am having to manufacture more and more of my product myself. I am very lucky to have the skills and ingenuity to do so.

Manufacturing needs to come back in the US. Stuff from china is not cheap anymore. I have found that my local grocery is just as cheap if sometimes not cheaper than Walmart. Heck I have even found cheaper items at WHOLE FOODS than Walmart recently.

It's not a boycott by choice, all retailers are hurting because people have no discretionary income to spend.

Why work at a factory when they are now paying the same wage as a worker from Mc'Ds, same pay for 5x the work. Ya, that seems fair, and we all know what happens next.

THIS!

My sales are down this year so far. Last year was our best year ever. I am very concerned. Even so much that I am only working 4 days a week and I run the place. I can afford to take a pay cut. My employees CANT. So I am sacrificing one day a week right now.

I was at the mall a few weeks ago and could not believe how empty the stores were. There should have been huge clearance racks of winter for the spring items coming in. There were no clearance racks anywhere. I have worked retail for 25 years. I have never seen this. There is always a clearance section. Especially during the season switch times.

I worked in a factory for 6 weeks ONCE. Minimum wage even though I was over-skilled for the position. After 6 weeks I had enough and just worked harder at the small business I helped my mom run at the time.

Heck, why work at all when you can get it free with your EBT.

Haha. So funny! I have been in the same predicament. Hate Walmart. Cats gotta shit though, otherwise they do it somewhere else.....

I used to work in a grocery store. The one I worked for cut down on employess and employee hours because - at least they said it was because - they couldn't afford to pay them. It was just awful how those of us who still maintained hours were overworked...and this happening while we were being told there'd be a hold on wage increases for apx. two years. After about a half of a year of it I put in my two weeks notice and moved on.

Given Walmart's wealth, though, I fail to see that this is their problem. A lack of humanity, perhaps, but not a lack of wherewithal to have some well paid employees. They are not struggling like the smaller store chains. The store I worked at had its finacial problems begin when Walmart opened their store in the small town. The store I worked for had been the only grocery store for at least a 45 min. drive.

BTW, youse guys--


ALL Walmart stores are a portal to Hell. You shouldn't go there without having sprayed some ClingOn BeGone Hairspray on your noggins.




Last Edited by cosmicgypsy on 03/26/2013 07:45 AM

Here in Michigan Walmart is doing just fine, never enough cashiers, but you know they REALLY want you to get in that self-checkout line.

Malls, however, are not doing so hot. They are practically empty. They are a thing of the past, though, and soon they will all be history.

Make you own litter. Sand and baking soda. Job done for cents rather than dollars.

Hmmm, maybe you're one of the Walmart Cheerleaders

The Walmart in my town in Delaware is always busy but not every register is filled with a cashier, they did install 8 self checkouts a few months ago and I love it!