Wal-Mart will see even less of me now

 Not that I shop at Wal-Mart all that often, but one thing that did
inspire me to venture in ,especially before work when I needed 1 or 2
items early in the morning, was the "self-checkout".  So this morning
I go there to buy a case of 8 oz. Pepsi's; there's one check out open
and none of the "self-checkouts" are "on".  I commented to the cashier
that "not that I want your job to go away...but I come here
specifically because of the self-checkouts".  Her answer was that they
were going away due to too many losses from people not checking "all"
the items and walking out the door.  Now is that just stupid or what?
"Why can't they do like Sam's Club or Costco", I asked her.  She said
the customers who shop there have cussed out the person who asks for a
receipt and to check the bag.  Of course the ones that would do that
have something to hide, right?  Additionally they could limit it to 10
items or less and have those cameras over the register.  I'd say it's
a BS answer she gave...since thieves will steal anyway, checkout or
not.

  My wife had a similar experience at Wal Mart recently. When my wife
told her that "my husband hates to shop here because you keep only on
counter open", the checkout lady told my wife that they have hard time
finding employees. Apparently, they don't get enough applicants and
then most of them fail due to various reasons, among them (1) drug
tests and (2) background checks. And, many people apparently decline
the job.

I am not sure how much of all that is true, but, I would imagine Wal
Mart should know that they have to pay well to get and keep good
workers.

Same case with Home Depot. First of all, most workers avoid eye
contact fearing I might ask them a question. When I do find and stop
someone to ask where they keep an item, answer comes very quickly "oh,
we don't carry that." I just have to browse for half an hour by myself
and I'll find the item or something equivalent.

 skarkada@gmail.com wrote:

   I have a friend who worked at Home Depot. One reason that they may
not be informed is because they keep moving people from department to
department. Apparently they are afraid that workers might get friendly
with each other and perhaps compare gripes and talk about unions.
   They also had mandatory store wide meetings early Sunday mornings. He
said there was nothing there that could not have been handled via one
page memos. He stopped going and nothing happened. He did notice that
those who faithfully attended were the ones who got calls on their days
off telling them to come in or where asked to change their vacation
dates at the last moment. It seems they knew the regular attendees were
the most malleable  and the most fearful of losing their jobs.

 George Grapman wrote:

  I've been in more than my share of Home Depots, I live in Atlanta
where they are HQ'd.  Whatever they do with their employees, they are at
heart an unhappy lot. They complain of being overworked but appear to be
much less helpful than their brethren at Lowes. You can often find Lowes
employees who are ex Home Depot people, they are much much happier at Lowes.

   Jeff

One reason that they may not

 skarkada@gmail.com wrote:

How long were you away from the planet? Those big box places are well
known for low pay and demanding working conditions. Is it any surprise
that they can't keep good workers?