Wal-Mart doesn't have exceptionally low prices, either. Maybe in the 80s or 90s, but not today.
Read into those cheesy TV commercials that have side-by-side price comparisons. No sale prices for the competitor, and the products are mostly non-food ones. And I bet you never see the customer wading through crowds of people to get to the merchandise and spending 30 minutes in line. Yeah, right. Wal-Mart blows.
My notice of Walmart-ism is when we got a new policy to turn around the carts in the lobby to face out instead of cart handle out. This may sound trivial but it takes my guys longer to get carts because it's harder to push them in from the opposite direction. Plus the lobby carts in all different directions make it look like crap. In a bout of civil disobedience, I put all the carts handle first one night, and I heard the next morning, a customer complimented to the morning supervisor that the carts were so neat.
My notice of Walmart-ism is when we got a new policy to turn around the carts in the lobby to face out instead of cart handle out. This may sound trivial but it takes my guys longer to get carts because it's harder to push them in from the opposite direction. Plus the lobby carts in all different directions make it look like crap. In a bout of civil disobedience, I put all the carts handle first one night, and I heard the next morning, a customer complimented to the morning supervisor that the carts were so neat.
We don't do that -- we bring them in same as has always been done, pushing the front of the cart forward toward the inside of the lobby. We are far too busy to push them handle-first and if we end up having to do that I think it is one of the few things that would make me quit. Sure I need the money to help myself and my family, yea it will be a pain in the ass to find a new job and have to deal with finances while I look but I already make $7.25 an hour and don't get any extra for the crap I go through to bring the carts in as a courtesy clerk. Waiting ten minutes behind a line of ten of them while people pull in and out of spaces, spending 5-10 minutes average on a single corral when busy because customers are ignorant or just don't care, the douchebags that leave a cart 20 feet from a corral, things like that. It's tough enough and rough enough. I just won't do it if I ever have to send them in handle-first. I know it is more convenient for customers but for those of us who have to bring them in it's murder. I will quit before I end up having to do that, it is a big enough pain in the ass having to make the carts do a 180 degree turn after I pull them from a corral then bring them anywhere from 40 - 200 feet into the store. All that in the summer temps and humidity. Sometimes I pray for the rain.
