What Ever Happened to Wal-Mart Greeters?

None here for a lot of years. If you're shopping at wal mart you are desperate for deals here. So no elegance required.

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It's a popular notion that Walmart and Target are about the same, except Walmart is for people who have given up.

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Target has smaller profit margins because it doesn't have Walmart's clout in China. As such, they care a bit more for quality, since they have to pay more. They also pay better on average on the retail side than Walmart.

Walmart's business model in the US revolves around being the cheapest option for the most people in areas where watching the bottom line is a need for even the wealthiest households.

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I don't hate Wal-Mart, but I don't shop there often because Meijer is nicer and is closer to my house, and stuff there doesn't cost that much more.

Kroger still does, around here. The other chains just have the bags on a little turntable thing and the cashier bags the item as he scans them.

edited 5th Dec '11 7:42:49 PM by CentralAvenue

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I applied to be a Walmart Greeter but on the app they had a personality question that asked "what would you like in a boyfriend/girlfriend" and I answered "me"

I didn't get the job ;)

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In Sandusky Ohio, I had cause to enter a walmart.

Let me just say that I will never enter Sandusky Ohio again in my life due to it hitting every single stereotype of quietly desperate suburban life.

As the greeter, they had an old man who was missing a leg. I wanted to take pity on him so damn bad.

I focused more on the Sandusky part rather than the walmart part and I apologize to anyone from Sandusky.

Also, their questionaire requires, which they don't tell you, that you basically have to be an utter slave to the store as part of your personality.

Thanks, no.

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I go to Walmart all the time, but it's not because I actually like them. While some of their store-brand stuff is good (like the drink mixes), I hear buying pretty much anything other than grocery items there is a bad idea because so much of it is made in China, made to lower specifications, or both. It's all about hitting a price point, and if they could hire robots to run the store, they would.

That said...I'm not crazy about the alternatives, either. Target's nice, but a bit more expensive and not as well-stocked. Costco is meant for huge families and resellers, so it's not really in my wheel house (and the lines there frequently make Walmart look like 7-Eleven). And Kmart Sucks. That's all there really is to say about it. If I do shop elsewhere, it's usually a regional grocery chain like Shoppers, Giant, HT or Wegmans.

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Costco gives you the chance to buy in bulk though, optimizing savings. Just gotta have the space to hold it all.

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I bought a bulk case of straws at Costco. I will never need to buy a straw again in my life.

Some of them are pretty good at that. They'll read the receipt and do a once over make sure it matches and off ya go.

And most of the folks who do that are decent people.

Also, I've noticed the age of Wal-Mart greeters and doorpeople has plummeted in the last 5 years. Or it may just be Colorado.

edited 6th Dec '11 5:40:53 PM by MajorTom

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And apparently there's some sort of thing where Walmart employees have to have their receipt marked by a greeter every time they shop at the store. Cuts embezzlement, probably, but putting a highlighter dot on it confuses me.

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I can't remember the last time that I went to Wal Mart and was greeted. I rarely go there anymore anyway.

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I hope shops here don't adopt this. I'm still annoyed that random check-out monkeys keep asking how my day has been. As if they cared. Patronising scum.

Marks and Spencers or Sainsbury's for me. We have an ASDA (now a subsidiary of Walmart), but I only shop there for non-own brand 60W lightbulbs. I wouldn't attempt to buy food or electrical appliances there.

EDIT: Come to think of it, there was a while when some old fart used to hang around outside ASDA. I assumed he was a security guard.

edited 7th Dec '11 2:04:57 AM by InverurieJones

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@Enkufka: As a Penn State alum, I'm trying my best to avoid any mention of the word "Sandusky", for entirely different reasons.

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I shop at Sam's Club. That is probably not much better.

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Joe: True, but that's kind of a problem for perishable things like milk and prepared foods. And we don't have enough freezer space for a lot of frozen food (indeed, we're in dire need of a new fridge; the old one works well enough but is small).

I guess what I like least about Costco are the lines, the parking situation at the Potomac Mills warehouse, and the fact that they've slurped down enough of American Express's precious bodily fluids (male or female, take your pick) that it's kind of disgusting. I don't even have an Amex, aside from the work card I use for buying supplies, which makes going there kind of awkward if I didn't just get paid.

edited 7th Dec '11 9:15:11 AM by lee4hmz

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Does any grocery store still have people who put things into bags for customers?

Northwest IGA still does that. They even carry the groceries outside for you on specialized carts.

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Yeah, I'm not saying you should go shop at Costco. I'm also not condemning people for shopping at Walmart, I know plenty of people need to save every cent they can.

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^^ Nope. Bagboys were obsoleted with the invention of the spinning bag table.

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My town still has greeters at Wall-mart.

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Every grocery store I have been to has people put your groceries in bags, even if it is just the cashier themself.

Sure, they only expect the customers to bag their own stuff at the self-checkout. The question was whether there was a discrete "bagger" position.

At the Target where I work, we don't even have the bag carousel.

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Bag your shopping for you? No! Hands off my shopping, till-troll! You'll just put the bread on the bottom under the bricks or something!

EDIT: Wait, 'bag carousel'? Like at an airport?

edited 7th Dec '11 11:42:39 PM by InverurieJones

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Gally: Weird. :o Everywhere I've gone, you're expected to do it yourself. :3

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