the Wal-Mart where I work is, in fact, a SuperCenter. Which means that a lot of those customers who get fed up waiting in line and abandon there carts are abandoning cartloads of groceries. Which means, frozen goods thawing, meat and milk warming up to the temperature that makes them unsafe to put back on the shelf, ice cream melting, assorted perishables spoiling…
Clothing, housewares, sporting goods, etc. can be put back on the shelves and the store gets another crack at selling them, but the groceries that end up going bad because the customer ditched their cart are pure loss.
It does my heart good to be coming back from my break and see a cartload of groceries abandoned and spoiling in the aisle. Every dollar lost on those items represents a dollar not saved by not hiring enough cashiers to service the customers or laying them off when we’re already understaffed.
BTW, one of my co-workers was grousing in the break room last night. Seem that two months ago she asked for, and was approved, this Friday and Saturday off to attend her cousin’s wedding. We’ve had a bit of a management shakeup in the meantime, and the new manager scheduled her to work, yep, this Friday and Saturday. When she protested that she had been approved in advance to have the days off, the new manager refused to give them to her and told her, “If you want those days off, you have to find someone to trade with you.” I offered to trade her Saturday for Thursday these are the only days that my days off don’t overlap with hers, so now she only has to find someone to trade Friday with. Pretty short notice, though.
Also, this girl was scheduled to have the 4th of July off- the fourth is on a Friday, which would be a day she would normally work, and she needs the money from the holidy pay, but… Wally World is actually scheduling people for an extra day off the week of the Fourth so that the money they don’t have to pay them for the extra day off will negate the double time they would get paid for working the holiday.
Scumbags.
I’m planning to apply at Target within the next couple of weeks.