Got some groceries this afternoon at Walmart.
Lines were long, everybody getting ready for the deep freeze.
I had JUST ENOUGH items not to go through the "20 items or less" line.
Woman in front of me had FULL cart, plus 4 small children.
I should have known better!
As she’s putting stuff on the counter, kids are screaming, and she keeps telling the ringer-upper “this is on sale 2 for a dollar” “this is on sale for 33 cents” “this is on sale for 99 cents a pound”, etc….
She’s in slow motion, and the ringer-upper is a young lady who’s being VERY patient, but I could tell she was getting anxious….
The tally rang up, finally, to $336 and change.
THEN the woman started digging through her purse for COUPONS!!!!
No order, whatsoever, she just kept digging through the stack of coupons for ones she thought might apply, and not all of them did!
After a season of that, the NEW total was $311 and change.
NOW she can’t find her WIC card!
She digs through her purse, all her pockets, her purse again, then asks the ringer-upper “if I find it later, can I get refunded on the WIC items?”
The ringer-upper assures her she can, but she’ll need to do that at the service desk.
The woman agrees, but NOW she cannot find her CREDIT card.
She digs through her purse, FINALLY finds the credit card and pays, and AFTER it “swipes”, she says, “Oh, here’s my WIC card!”
And she insists that the ringer-upper re-ring her WIC items, and retotal the balance.
This requires a CSM (Customer Service Manager?) and it takes a few minutes for one to arrive.
CSM finally arrives, and says “we need to re-scan all the WIC items”, and starts doing so.
The ringer-upper looks at me with a “I’m so sorry” look, and I ask her politely if it’s possible to open the next line over (right behind me) and ring up my stuff.
The CSM overhears, and agrees, and I start handing my things over (they were already on the belt by that time).
Again, the ringer-upper apologizes sincerely for the delay, but I tell her, “hey, it’s not your fault that a customer was totally unprepared to shop”, at which the woman turns to me and yells “F you!”
Sheeeeeesh.
My tax dollars at work!
As I was headed to the exit, the woman was still having things re-scanned, and arguing with the CSM.
Lines were long, everybody getting ready for the deep freeze.
I had JUST ENOUGH items not to go through the "20 items or less" line.
Woman in front of me had FULL cart, plus 4 small children.
I should have known better!
As she’s putting stuff on the counter, kids are screaming, and she keeps telling the ringer-upper “this is on sale 2 for a dollar” “this is on sale for 33 cents” “this is on sale for 99 cents a pound”, etc….
She’s in slow motion, and the ringer-upper is a young lady who’s being VERY patient, but I could tell she was getting anxious….
The tally rang up, finally, to $336 and change.
THEN the woman started digging through her purse for COUPONS!!!!
No order, whatsoever, she just kept digging through the stack of coupons for ones she thought might apply, and not all of them did!
After a season of that, the NEW total was $311 and change.
NOW she can’t find her WIC card!
She digs through her purse, all her pockets, her purse again, then asks the ringer-upper “if I find it later, can I get refunded on the WIC items?”
The ringer-upper assures her she can, but she’ll need to do that at the service desk.
The woman agrees, but NOW she cannot find her CREDIT card.
She digs through her purse, FINALLY finds the credit card and pays, and AFTER it “swipes”, she says, “Oh, here’s my WIC card!”
And she insists that the ringer-upper re-ring her WIC items, and retotal the balance.
This requires a CSM (Customer Service Manager?) and it takes a few minutes for one to arrive.
CSM finally arrives, and says “we need to re-scan all the WIC items”, and starts doing so.
The ringer-upper looks at me with a “I’m so sorry” look, and I ask her politely if it’s possible to open the next line over (right behind me) and ring up my stuff.
The CSM overhears, and agrees, and I start handing my things over (they were already on the belt by that time).
Again, the ringer-upper apologizes sincerely for the delay, but I tell her, “hey, it’s not your fault that a customer was totally unprepared to shop”, at which the woman turns to me and yells “F you!”
Sheeeeeesh.
My tax dollars at work!
As I was headed to the exit, the woman was still having things re-scanned, and arguing with the CSM.
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