The 'What the fuck!' thread

[dmg1969]

I got yelled at once for being in the "10 items or less" express lane. I had like 15 items and, like Clodfobble, got called over from another line by the clerk. "I'll help you over here, sir".

I'm unloading my stuff onto the conveyor when this snotty bitch comes up behind me and says "that doesn't look like 10 items or less". She caught me in a foul mood after a shitty day at work and not wanting to stop at the store, but the wife insisted. You should have seen her face when I quietly asked her "what are you...you fucking grocery police?". I only said it loud enough her for her and the clerk (who was trying not to laugh hysterically) to hear. My day got a whole lot better after that.

[infinite monkey]

All us Walmarter-after-work people want are these considerations:

1) If you have all day to grocery shop, how about not doing it when people are rushing home trying to end their work day? Or from noon to 1? If you have all day, why go, with 5 rugrats in tow, when the rat racers are just trying to get something for dinner and get home?

2)If you're not buying cigarettes, don't take 423 items into the only lane that walmart allows cigarette sales. In fact, I think people using that line and not buying cigs should have a surcharge attached. (This is Wally World's fault, really, but I've seen 2 giant carts take up a half hour or so of checking out in that lane, not buying smokes, and I have a case of diet coke and a can of cat food and I need cigarettes. I suspect it's part of a Walmart Morality Stance: the harder we make it for you to get your slightly more expensive smokes the more we poo-poo all you heathen smokers.)

imho

[glatt]

I had no idea they make you go in a special line for smokes. Why do they do that?

[infinite monkey]

It's Walmart. They know what's best for us.

I haven't yet seen lines for Hostess products and Frito-lay products. Though the checkout lanes might be wider, to compensate.

[Clodfobble]

Usually it's because the cigarettes are locked up to prevent theft, so you have to go to the lane that's got the big rack of cigarettes above it that the clerk can get out for you.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

All us Walmarter-after-work people want are these considerations:

1) If you have all day to grocery shop, how about not doing it when people are rushing home trying to end their work day? Or from noon to 1? If you have all day, why go, with 5 rugrats in tow, when the rat racers are just trying to get something for dinner and get home?

2)If you're not buying cigarettes, don't take 423 items into the only lane that walmart allows cigarette sales. In fact, I think people using that line and not buying cigs should have a surcharge attached. (This is Wally World's fault, really, but I've seen 2 giant carts take up a half hour or so of checking out in that lane, not buying smokes, and I have a case of diet coke and a can of cat food and I need cigarettes. I suspect it's part of a Walmart Morality Stance: the harder we make it for you to get your slightly more expensive smokes the more we poo-poo all you heathen smokers.)

imho

Wait, what is somone with a job doing at Walmart?

[infinite monkey]

Hey! I saw about half the nouveau-riche there this weekend. 3 separate factions from the city workers who hit the mega-mill, shopping at the Wally World.

I don't have a problem with that, though if I had an extra mil or two (or actually, they each got 6) lying around I'd probably move on up to the KRoger.

What gets me is WHY WOULD YOU STAY IN THIS GODFORSAKEN TOWN? (I'm sorry, was I yelling?) I might visit but I'd be living elsewhere, for sure.

One of them hangs out at this bar that I go to maybe once a month or so. He had two shares of the split because he "bought a ticket for his mother" and I heard he bought her a car and kept the rest. And he still hangs at the bars in this sad little town.

Besides, if an old woman such as me wants to feel really hawt, she only need hang out at the Walmart for a while.

[infinite monkey]

OH, and walmart is really only my default because my bank branch is in there and since I can't do an hour and a half round trip on my lunch hour to run important banking errands, and these branches are open until 7...it's just really convenient.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Usually it's because the cigarettes are locked up to prevent theft, so you have to go to the lane that's got the big rack of cigarettes above it that the clerk can get out for you.

Kroger locks them up too, but if you're 6 lanes away they'll get them for you. One lane over at Wally World? Nope, sorry ma'am. Smoke Nazis.

[John]

[BigV]

Why your children won't friend you on FB:

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by BigV

Why your children won't friend you on FB:

That is wrong on so many levels...

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Kroger locks them up too, but if you're 6 lanes away they'll get them for you. One lane over at Wally World? Nope, sorry ma'am. Smoke Nazis.

Heh, we have Kroger here as well. Super Kroger rocks. And Super Walmart is not to bad either. My bro thinks Walmart is the Devil Incarnate and refuses to shop there.

[Gravdigr]

The 'cigs in the stores' issue can be cleared up very easily.

Need a can of cat food and some smokes?

Here's an idea:

Stop at Minit Mart, instead of the largest, most popular, busiest store in town.

[Gravdigr]

That said, I also hate Walmart.

The last straw for me, finding sheet rock screws hanging out in the aisle with the Velveeta.