What Ever Happened to Wal-Mart Greeters?

I only see people who bag your groceries for you (who aren't also the cashier) at HEB.

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On the topic of regional differences in bagging:

Also consider shopping carts in the parking lot. One grocery store where I live has a sign telling people to be polite and bring them to the marked areas, while in the South, either Hilton Head or somewhere in the Outer Banks, I can't remember, I saw a sign telling people to leave the carts wherever, it was somebody's job to grab them.

And on St. John a man in a hoody (despite the blistering heat) would bring your groceries to the car and load them in your trunk for you.

It was fun shopping there, the locals were all bundled up, and in shorts and a t-shirt I was feeling just fine.

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... I do that. I'm just trying to be nice, though. :(

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I've never seen an old person as a Wal-Mart greeter. My local store uses the mentally disabled instead.

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Why do people get so touchy over others bagging their groceries and the like? ._.

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Baggers at HEB are really nice, but the only time I ever see them is when they've got a lot of customers.

They're also courtious enough to help you carry your stuff out to your vehicle if you ask. Never done is personally, but it feels like every time I go there I see an employee walking someone's groceries to their car. Very nice.

I'm a Walmart greeter over at the Fairlawn store and while my original job was to simply stand by the door and greet people, handout carts and scan returns in the line at customer service, My store decided that we're more useful walking in circles around the store putting away returns and the endless amount of crap people are too lazy to put back themselves and dump in random spots, which includes clothes,left behind coffee cups and food containers and lots of perishable stuff like milk and eggs. Additionally they also have me bring in carts or help with carryouts, when the stock-man isn't available.

Needless to say I used to like people before I started working there.

I hate my job.

edited 16th Apr '13 10:33:06 PM by dazai

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I was going to say in response to the first page that NYC has no Wal-Marts, but then I realized the post was from 2011.

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Man, retail stores are sociopath factories. I and all my coworkers hate people too.

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ASDA, which as someone pointed out became the British subsidiary of Wal-Mart some years ago (it wasn't originally) used to have greeters in one of the stores round here. Not now as far as I know. No other British supermarket (Tesco, Morrison's, Sainsbury's etc.) has ever had them to my knowledge.

It's rare to have people bag your groceries but I've known it to happen. Even the local Scouts or Cubs did it once for their good turns/fundraising once as I recall.

Apparently, they're gonna put a Walmart in D.C. Where, I don't know.

edited 17th Apr '13 11:02:07 AM by PhysicalStamina

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It's worth noting that I worked at Wal-Mart for like a year, and I somehow like people more nowadays.

Man. That's one hell of a necro, some of the posts on this page are old. Who started this thread?

... Oh.

edited 17th Apr '13 12:07:49 PM by Mukora

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I stay away from the Walmart greeters at the one I go to. They're old and they will just come up and talk to random customers during their breaks, which creeps me out a little since I'm generally nervous whenever a stranger comes up and talks to me anyway.

In fact, I stay away from most of the old people there. Random old people coming up and talking to me seems to be a regular occurrence there.

edited 17th Apr '13 6:49:32 PM by Explosivo25

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edited 17th Apr '13 8:32:32 PM by TParadox

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Old people are adorable, when they aren't bitter and crazy.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

The one near me usually hires old people for greeters. They have this one dude who looks like Colonel Potter from MASH, I think he's been there since the store first opened ten years ago.

"If everybody is thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking"- George S. Patton

Sam's does the greeter thing too. Theirs makes sense. It's a Club store. People can't get in without showing their cards, so the greeters handle door guarding as well as greeting. Although it's MORE guarding than greeting, if the ones at my store are any indication.

However, they actually empoy two greeters. One for entrance, to check cards and hand out any sales fliers, the other for exiting, to check receipts and make sure the cashiers don't fuck up. I stopped shopping at Walmart for the most part once I started working for Sam's. I'm a cashier, I'm friendly and efficient, and outside of telling people about the extras we sell, I consider my job akin to that of bar tender. People actually can talk to me, while they're at my register.

And the greeters at MY Sam's, at least, aren't sent there because they've pissed management off. It's because they're injured/disabled and can't handle anything else. One of our greeters actually got bumped up to Cafe worker after being asked to do it by management.

Everytime I'm in the US I'm majorly crept out by the practices of the service industry.

Greeters at the door.

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I don't like that idea either...

It's unsettling for some reason.

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It's the idea of someone watching you shop. Or someone MEANT to be polite and nice and do things for children and it peeks up your pedophile fears and adds all kinds of weirdness to the event.

Really, all the people at our doors do is look at your card. Some might be nice, but they're not sickly so. Most barely look at you.

I'd actually err on the said of not liking the idea of being waited upon.

I feel uncomfortable enough with waiters and bartenders, never mind someone paid to actually greet you.

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