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Walmart customers “unruly” after store closes, police called

Time is money and Walmart is exactly what it is, a haven for the ignorant masses. If I ever go to a discount store it has been Target, but when I shop I demand assistance when I need it to locate an item. Ever ask for help from a discount store employee?

Usually I don't need help with purchasing a new toaster, or my groceries.

Even at some specialties stores, at least the big box specialty stores, I don't find their employees to be particularly knowledgeable. I can't tell you how many times I've been at Best Buy and was reading the side of a box, when an employee asked me if he could help me. I then ask him the question, and he takes the box out of my hand and starts reading the side - turns how he don't know no more than I do about the thing.
 
Time is money and Walmart is exactly what it is, a haven for the ignorant masses. If I ever go to a discount store it has been Target, but when I shop I demand assistance when I need it to locate an item. Ever ask for help from a discount store employee?

You "demand" assistance, huh? :roll:
 
You "demand" assistance, huh? :roll:

Makes you wonder who is the ignorant one, the one who "demands assistance" while shopping, or the masses who are able to locate items on their own.
 
Usually I don't need help with purchasing a new toaster, or my groceries.

Even at some specialties stores, at least the big box specialty stores, I don't find their employees to be particularly knowledgeable. I can't tell you how many times I've been at Best Buy and was reading the side of a box, when an employee asked me if he could help me. I then ask him the question, and he takes the box out of my hand and starts reading the side - turns how he don't know no more than I do about the thing.
Even at Lowe's and Homer I try not to make eye contact with an associate, lest they try to "help" me. :mrgreen:
 
Makes you wonder who is the ignorant one, the one who "demands assistance" while shopping, or the masses who are able to locate items on their own.

Walmart tends to place things in rather odd places, sometimes even "seasonally" adjusting them. WTF is the sense of placing some tries and some spark plugs in separate locations (automotive vs.lawn/garden)? Some Walmart stores put the pet food on the grocery side of the store while others put it on the garden center side of the store.

Lowe's has a great app that allows you to view what is actually present (including how many) in a given store and where (aisle and bin) you will find it in that store. The Lowe's website, on the other hand, often lists many items that must be special ordered.
 
Why shouldn't the customer get assistance if he wants it? That's a rather basic part of the retail business.

Because reasonable people "ask" for assistance, they're not assholes and demand it.
 
Because reasonable people "ask" for assistance, they're not assholes and demand it.

I tried asking for service at a Walmart - once. It seemed like the associates genuinely wanted to be helpful, but they were just completely swamped. A sure sign of underhiring. That's just one reason I never shopped there regularly, and am not likely to in the future.
 
I tried asking for service at a Walmart - once. It seemed like the associates genuinely wanted to be helpful, but they were just completely swamped. A sure sign of underhiring. That's just one reason I never shopped there regularly, and am not likely to in the future.

Personally, I don't generally ask for help. If I can't find something, I don't buy it. I want stores laid out logically. If they cannot do that, I take my business elsewhere. However, that's quite a different issue from being demanding and simply requesting assistance. One is the sign of an asshole, the other of a polite individual.
 
Hopes and dreams don't improve one's life, hard work, commitment and responsibility do. You can dream all you want, it isn't going to do a damn thing unless you get off your ass and make it happen.

it DOES require work, perseverance, vision, sacrifice, commitment, responsibility, opportunity and a dose of luck
but real accomplishment never happens without first the dream of it. being able to dream it is just as important as those other characteristics of success
 
Liberals caused this? Conservatism empathizes that individuals look out for themselves ahead of anyone else, be self-reliant, and only take interest in other people, things, and events when it plays to their advantage as an individual to do so. The state of American society today generally reflects that.

Cultural behavior is ruled by the market place, which is typically a bastion of conservative and libertarian political feeling. For example, companies moved technical assistance to over the phone instead of in person, face-to-face. Then they took that job away from people who spoke your language and dialect and shipped them overseas. Then they created an arcane automated messaging maze to filter out the number of people using the service on a given day so that they could release faultier products without having to employ more Indian people to provide the technical assistance that would enable their customers to use them.

Or, if you decide a fry cook doesn't need a living wage because he is replaceable, that fry cook can work from the exact same logic and invest minimal effort and energy into his job. I've known guys who've walked out on the job in the service industry and had no trouble securing another position because its a revolving door. Given the choice between a guy who walked out from his last position and a person whose never had a service industry job before, the boss would pick the guy who walked out because the person who has never had a job isn't worth the time or energy to invest training.
 
Makes you wonder who is the ignorant one, the one who "demands assistance" while shopping, or the masses who are able to locate items on their own.

The ones that can locate all items on their own can do so because they go to Wal-Mart exclusively and that is something to be very proud of and to hand down to their children and the children's children.
 
The ones that can locate all items on their own can do so because they go to Wal-Mart exclusively...

No, they are the ones who aren't blind. It's really not that difficult. Food items are in the food section, men's clothing is in the men's clothing section, tools and hardware are in the tools and hardware section, etc. All sections can be clearly identified by their contents. Even the food isles have descriptions of the categories of food on each isle.
 
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