Wal-Mart

[HolyFire]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

Walmart...good or bad ...ya gotta love it or hate it.

I vary between the two opinions.

What I want to know is other people's experience when buying from them.

In my area, they have cameras pointing in every direction, in every corner, at every cash register ( don't blame them for that one at all) and then the big booming voices at the entrances and exits if what you buy does not get electronically deactivated at the cash register. When you come in, they use hand held scanners to show you are bringing something back. To top it off, they have people standing at the door to check your receipt if you buy a case of soda pop that they cannot bag. Or if you buy a storage container.

I had an episode the other day that makes me want to stop shopping at Wally world all together. The woman at the door saw me check out at the register and she still stopped me to 'check my receipt' on a case of soda pop.

One would say ...well why would it bother you if you did nothing wrong?
The point is that I feel like I am in the Soviet Union always having to show my papers in a place where I exchange my money for a product. I feel like this place is Nazi Germany instead of being in a free land. I resent being treated like I am guilty of theft instead of our country's signature premise of presumed innocence until proven guilty. Why can't all their electronic surveillance and screaming machines do the job instead of us being accosted and what we bought "searched" before we get out the door?

All the other stores I buy at do not treat their customers this way.

Do they do this at all the Walmarts around the nation or is this just an area thing? I do not remember being treated this way in other cities...like Cordova, Memphis and other little towns across North MS.

It's a long story, but a local Wal Mart banned me for theft. I was a vendor with Flowers Bakery (Nature's Own, etc.) and I took some stale home as I had 100 times before. The store manager said no all of a sudden. The stale was never in their inventory (pay by scan). The manager, being new, wanted to show off. He said he'd not press charges if I didn't come back to that sorry excuse of a Wal Mart in a podunk Alabama town. I tried to explain I got free bread whenever I wanted, I didn't need to steal, but he had to show the underlemmings how tough he was pimping the white Wal Mart management polo.

[Scott Hutchinson]

Originally Posted by HolyFire

It's a long story, but a local Wal Mart banned me for theft. I was a vendor with Flowers Bakery (Nature's Own, etc.) and I took some stale home as I had 100 times before. The store manager said no all of a sudden. The stale was never in their inventory (pay by scan). The manager, being new, wanted to show off. He said he'd not press charges if I didn't come back to that sorry excuse of a Wal Mart in a podunk Alabama town. I tried to explain I got free bread whenever I wanted, I didn't need to steal, but he had to show the underlemmings how tough he was pimping the white Wal Mart management polo.

I understand the manager in the store where I reside is bad.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by HolyFire

It's a long story, but a local Wal Mart banned me for theft. I was a vendor with Flowers Bakery (Nature's Own, etc.) and I took some stale home as I had 100 times before. The store manager said no all of a sudden. The stale was never in their inventory (pay by scan). The manager, being new, wanted to show off. He said he'd not press charges if I didn't come back to that sorry excuse of a Wal Mart in a podunk Alabama town. I tried to explain I got free bread whenever I wanted, I didn't need to steal, but he had to show the underlemmings how tough he was pimping the white Wal Mart management polo.

LOL! Sorry, but this is quite hilarious! I could just see your manager pimping the white polo! LOL!

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by HolyFire

It's a long story, but a local Wal Mart banned me for theft. I was a vendor with Flowers Bakery (Nature's Own, etc.) and I took some stale home as I had 100 times before. The store manager said no all of a sudden. The stale was never in their inventory (pay by scan). The manager, being new, wanted to show off. He said he'd not press charges if I didn't come back to that sorry excuse of a Wal Mart in a podunk Alabama town. I tried to explain I got free bread whenever I wanted, I didn't need to steal, but he had to show the underlemmings how tough he was pimping the white Wal Mart management polo.

Somebody started a forum about Walmart.
Your story reminds me of this thread on that forum.

http://www.walmart-blows.com/forum/v...126a1319c9db4b