Thursday, March 4, 2010

Shhhh....

If you walk carefully, slowly, and just listen you can hear it from a distance. slowly approach the doors, they open for you, almost magically. you feel a rush of wind, a breeze on your face, it's warm and cavernous. the inner doors lay before you, you gather yourself and take a few more steps... and you are greeted by.... the SOUNDS OF TORTURED CHILDREN!!!
Just sitting at work on a slow day, you can hear the kids crying in the toy aisle, candy aisle, frozen section, produce, near the carts, in the checkouts. Something about Walmart brings out the nasty in kids, they can't help but feel intimidated by the sheer volume of stuff they can't have. Now I've never actually seen a parent hit their crying kid, but I've had some awkward "stern-talking-to's" happen right in front of me, do I walk away, they are paying customers trying to decide what to buy?

On a separate note... if you put something in your cart and decide on a later aisle that you don't want it, don't just put it anywhere you please, you CAN take it to the checkout and tell the cashier you decided not to buy it... that makes it much easier for us to handle it than finding something on your shelves that doesn't belong and having to search the rows and rows of stuff to find where it belongs. And STOP LEAVING YOUR CARTS FULL OF STUFF ANYWHERE YOU PLEASE! every single day, without fail, there is a cart parked in between produce and deli/bakery full of stuff, that just sits there for hours on end before we finally can be sure that someone decided to be a bastard and leave all this food to spoil in the middle of the store, gee THANKS!