My Weird Walmart Experience With a Cashier

Carolyn_79
Carolyn_79 Posts: 935 Member
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I went to do my groceries today at Walmart and was at the cash when I had what I can only describe as a "head scratching" exchange with the cashier .:huh:

This is how the conversation went.

ME: Can I have my orange juice in a bag please?
CASHIER: We don't generally give bags for items with handles.
ME: O.k., well can I purchase a bag please?
CASHIER: We don't charge for bags.
ME: O.k., can I HAVE a bag please?
CASHIER: Sure!

:laugh:

I couldn't help but giggle to myself as I left. WTF was that? Was she just messing with me for sh*ts and giggles, lol.
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  • shaynak112
    shaynak112 Posts: 751 Member
    lol, that is too funny! sometimes I wonder about some cashiers. hahahahah but ehh you got the bag! :P
  • Skeebee
    Skeebee Posts: 740 Member
    lol! you need to turn that into a rage comic.

    ADD-ON: DO IIIIIT!! http://builder.cheezburger.com/builder/rage
  • workoutgirl23
    workoutgirl23 Posts: 267
    lol. that's funny.
  • LATeagno
    LATeagno Posts: 620 Member
    Walmart cashiers, in my experience, are very interesting. I once had a guy who opened my shampoo to smell it, and then told me I had pretty hair-- then proceeded to lean in and smell my hair. And another lady who told me her mother owned a carwash when she was little and made her walk through the bay as punishment and was then put in jail. Another time, a toothless character made extremely racist remarks about certain shoppers who he presumed to be on foodstamps. Loudly, too. Yet another time, when the register said the cereal I was buying was $5.89 (was supposed to be $2.50), the cashier looked at me and said, "Well, do you want it nor not?" It was like ummm... no, I want you to price check it, you dumb... yeah. LOL... The front end manager at the store in the area I used to live in knew me by name. Not sure what the hiring requirements are there, but holy ****. Also, no offense if anyone works at Walmart. I've met plenty of nice people there too-- just the bad ones that stick out.


    ETA: Racist cashier was fired after my complaint. I genuinely think he was autistic, so I felt a bit bad-- but seriously, you cannot have someone like that working that type of job. It was awful.
  • itgeekwoman
    itgeekwoman Posts: 804 Member
    and yet.. for the person at walmart, I'm sure they thought it was normal. How sad.
  • Forthe4
    Forthe4 Posts: 30 Member
    Reminds me of an exchange my sister had one night ordering a Junior bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's.

    Sister: I'd like a Junior Bacon Hamburger please.
    Employee: We only have Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers, not Junior Bacon Hamburgers.
    Sister: Well can you get a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger with no cheese?
    Employee: Yes but you have to ask for a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, hold the cheese.
    Sister: I'd like a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, hold the cheese please.
    Employee: Anything else?
  • KaidaKantri
    KaidaKantri Posts: 401
    The Walmart I used to work at an go shop at has a lot of stupid employees. I always have a WTF did that really just happen? moments every single time I go through a cashier's line. I'm not sure if any other walmart is like the one I live at but I seriously am astounded to how many just plain stupid employees the walmart here has.
  • selig0730
    selig0730 Posts: 509 Member
    thats funny lol
  • deanna200284
    deanna200284 Posts: 23 Member
    When I was cashiering for Walmart we were told to ask the customer if they wanted it bagged while we hold the item by the handle to show that it has a handle, basically hinting to the customer that a bag isn't needed. This was to save money on bags. I never asked because I felt like the customer would look at me like I'm a moron, so if something fit in the bag... it went in a bag. If the customer didn't want it in the bag they would usually just take it out themselves.

    I'm betting that store has a cheap manager that is penny pinching. We were told the bags were like .03 cents a piece or something.
  • NoChub4Me
    NoChub4Me Posts: 27
    I once asked for a hamburger from Wendy's like this:

    Me: I'd like a single with nothing on it; plain.
    cashier: gives me a hamburger with cheese
    Me: "I asked for a PLAIN hamburger with nothing on it."
    Cashier: "You didn't say you didn't want cheese on it."

    :huh:
  • NoChub4Me
    NoChub4Me Posts: 27
    Reminds me of an exchange my sister had one night ordering a Junior bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's.

    Sister: I'd like a Junior Bacon Hamburger please.
    Employee: We only have Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers, not Junior Bacon Hamburgers.
    Sister: Well can you get a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger with no cheese?
    Employee: Yes but you have to ask for a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, hold the cheese.
    Sister: I'd like a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, hold the cheese please.
    Employee: Anything else?

    Oh gawd, sounds like so much like my experience I just wrote about. :laugh:
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Lol. Bizarre.

    I like when my purchase is 6.25 and I give them a $10 and a loonie ($1 coin for the non-Canadians) and a quarter so I can get a $5 bill back and they get confused and try to give me the coins back. Lol. Thats not just Walmart though.
  • deanna200284
    deanna200284 Posts: 23 Member
    The Walmart I used to work at an go shop at has a lot of stupid employees. I always have a WTF did that really just happen? moments every single time I go through a cashier's line. I'm not sure if any other walmart is like the one I live at but I seriously am astounded to how many just plain stupid employees the walmart here has.

    This is true. I used to joke around with the personnel manager telling her we needed to give IQ tests instead of that honesty test on the application.
  • droogievesch
    droogievesch Posts: 202
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvxNgdFeWqM

    Couldn't resist!
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    what the cashier shuld have said was "you really shouldnt be drinking orange juice. the sugar level is just whack, why dont you go grab a bag of oranges sweetcheeks"
  • nwhitley
    nwhitley Posts: 619
    We must shop at the same Walmart. About a month ago, I was buying some air freshener plug ins and they were about $7 or 8. So, the cashier rings them up.

    Cashier: Wow!! These are expensive. They are $7/8 each
    Me: Yes, they are but I like them.
    Cashier: Let me do a price check on them.
    Me: Pretty sure they aren't on sale. I didn't see a sale price. No need to price check.
    Cashier: That's just too much for air freshener. You don't need to pay that much. I will check the price.
    Me: Whatever
    She does 50 minute price check.
    Cashier: Yep, that's the price. Do you still want them??
    Me: Yes!! That's why I'm in the damn line. Jeez
    Walmart cashiers, in my experience, are very interesting. I once had a guy who opened my shampoo to smell it, and then told me I had pretty hair-- then proceeded to lean in and smell my hair. And another lady who told me her mother owned a carwash when she was little and made her walk through the bay as punishment and was then put in jail. Another time, a toothless character made extremely racist remarks about certain shoppers who he presumed to be on foodstamps. Loudly, too. Yet another time, when the register said the cereal I was buying was $5.89 (was supposed to be $2.50), the cashier looked at me and said, "Well, do you want it nor not?" It was like ummm... no, I want you to price check it, you dumb... yeah. LOL... The front end manager at the store in the area I used to live in knew me by name. Not sure what the hiring requirements are there, but holy ****. Also, no offense if anyone works at Walmart. I've met plenty of nice people there too-- just the bad ones that stick out.


    ETA: Racist cashier was fired after my complaint. I genuinely think he was autistic, so I felt a bit bad-- but seriously, you cannot have someone like that working that type of job. It was awful.
  • sathor
    sathor Posts: 202 Member
    I had done a photo shoot and needed the pics in more of a hurry than normal, so I created 4x5 image proofs on 4x6 sheets, with (c) data on them and took them to the 1 hour photo. They refused to release the pictures to me, because of the copyright, which matched the credit card I was paying with, the TAX ID card from that particular store, as well as the photo and name on the Sams Club card I had on me. Because they would need a release from the photographer. I told the lady it didn't matter, as business owner, my claim was above the photographer (even though I was the photographer, but I was po'd and not about to place nice)

    They finally released them after I 'half-*kitten*' filled out the release form, that stated I was the person who commissioned the pics, not the other way around, and even that took a manager.
  • Talmquist0222
    Talmquist0222 Posts: 30
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvxNgdFeWqM

    Couldn't resist!

    This was SO F*****G funny
  • stufie
    stufie Posts: 142 Member
    I once asked for a hamburger from Wendy's like this:

    Me: I'd like a single with nothing on it; plain.
    cashier: gives me a hamburger with cheese
    Me: "I asked for a PLAIN hamburger with nothing on it."
    Cashier: "You didn't say you didn't want cheese on it."

    :huh:
    This has happened to me too. I never really understood how they somehow thought I wanted the cheese.
  • Carolyn_79
    Carolyn_79 Posts: 935 Member
    what the cashier shuld have said was "you really shouldnt be drinking orange juice. the sugar level is just whack, why dont you go grab a bag of oranges sweetcheeks"

    Well then I'd have to explain to the cashier that not everyone in my family follows the same eating regime as I do and I've learned that a happy husband is a quiet husband :wink:
  • sarahrbraun
    sarahrbraun Posts: 2,261 Member
    Walmart cashiers, in my experience, are very interesting. I once had a guy who opened my shampoo to smell it, and then told me I had pretty hair-- then proceeded to lean in and smell my hair. And another lady who told me her mother owned a carwash when she was little and made her walk through the bay as punishment and was then put in jail. Another time, a toothless character made extremely racist remarks about certain shoppers who he presumed to be on foodstamps. Loudly, too. Yet another time, when the register said the cereal I was buying was $5.89 (was supposed to be $2.50), the cashier looked at me and said, "Well, do you want it nor not?" It was like ummm... no, I want you to price check it, you dumb... yeah. LOL... The front end manager at the store in the area I used to live in knew me by name. Not sure what the hiring requirements are there, but holy ****. Also, no offense if anyone works at Walmart. I've met plenty of nice people there too-- just the bad ones that stick out.


    ETA: Racist cashier was fired after my complaint. I genuinely think he was autistic, so I felt a bit bad-- but seriously, you cannot have someone like that working that type of job. It was awful.

    As the parent of an autistic 16 year old, I think he should have been fired. Autism is NOT an excuse for being rude. Before he was hired, he should have been coached as to how to behave in his job. My son goes to a monthly psychology appointment, and a lot of the appointment is spent talking about social situations and what people will think or feel if he says/does/acts a certain way.
  • Roos2104
    Roos2104 Posts: 22
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvxNgdFeWqM

    Couldn't resist!

    That's awesome!
  • HelloSweetie4
    HelloSweetie4 Posts: 1,214 Member
    WalMart trips are always fun experiences, I must say... lol
  • Blossommittens
    Blossommittens Posts: 1
    At my work we try to save bags or we're suppose to but I figure if we can print receipts long enough that I'm convinced I've killed three trees when people generally don't even want their receipts than I'm not really saving the planet by refusing to put orange juice or milk in a bag.

    On a side note though a lot of customers don't want things with handles in bags. :P So it's best just to ask. XD
  • tpittsley77
    tpittsley77 Posts: 607 Member
    See I always have problems with other customers at Walmart.

    I once had a lady see something IN my cart that she must have thought looked good, so she TOOK IT OUT of my cart. I was pushing the cart at the time. I stated loudly, "Don't worry ma'am I will go back to aisle 5 and get myself another!"

    Another time, I was with my 3 year old, who was looking at lollipops. Just looking, not touching, and she was telling me all the colors of the lollipops in the display. A woman announced loudly to me "Ma'am your kid is taking lollipops! You need to watch her!" I told the lady that I was fully capable of parenting my own kid. She started getting mouthy with me, telling me I needed to get my kid away from the candy. So I grabbed a lollipop, unwrapped it, shoved it in my daughter's mouth, and said "There, now she HAS a lollipop. How do you like that?" A lady in line ahead of me, burst out laughing at applauded me.

    Another time, I was waiting in line to cash out. I was 8 months pregnant, and with my husband and child. I was at the end of the cart and was about to cross into the threshold of the actual register lane, when a woman in an electric shopping scooter, came driving AT ME from two lines over, yelled at me that she was next in MY line and to get the F out of her way. I stood my ground, and asked her politely to explain to me WHY she felt she was next in my line. She said it was because she was shopping with the woman in front of me and I needed to get the F out of her way. She then aimed her electric scooter directly at me and started to drive AT me. Mind you I am 8 months pregnant. So I moved out of her way and moved over to the line she was in, and had to try calming my husband down. I really didn't want to create a scene, or worry about getting jumped in the parking lot. So after I moved lines, the two women started swearing at me from the line they were in, screaming at me. I told my cashier to get the manager immediately. After I explained what happened, and had witnesses backing me up, he attempted to ask them what happened. They went off on him calling him not nice names. He ended up kicking them out of the store, without their groceries. Then gave us an escort to our car.
  • MelissaGraham7
    MelissaGraham7 Posts: 406 Member
    Walmart weirdness is an event in shopping in itself. I think one burns extra calories dodging the weirdness and processing the cashiers' general surliness and attitude. In fact, if I have a non-weird and/or pleasant experience in Walmart, I consider it noteworthy and rush to go buy a lottery ticket. :laugh:
  • captawesome
    captawesome Posts: 121 Member
    We don't have Walmart here in Australia but I sometimes wish we did just so I had a place to go when I was in need of amusement (and apparently cheap shopping too?)... some of those "people of Walmart" emails I get just need to be seen to be believed :laugh:
  • SouthernSweetie74
    SouthernSweetie74 Posts: 844
    My boys were making their own purchases one day. They had some of those gold dollar coins, and the little old lady who was the cashier told them, "Honey, we don't take foreign money."

    :laugh:
  • flash4198
    flash4198 Posts: 40 Member
    Another case of the cashier not having a cup of coffee before she started working
    we got an airhead in lane 1
  • crazy8ts
    crazy8ts Posts: 360

    Another time, I was waiting in line to cash out. I was 8 months pregnant, and with my husband and child. I was at the end of the cart and was about to cross into the threshold of the actual register lane, when a woman in an electric shopping scooter, came driving AT ME from two lines over, yelled at me that she was next in MY line and to get the F out of her way. I stood my ground, and asked her politely to explain to me WHY she felt she was next in my line. She said it was because she was shopping with the woman in front of me and I needed to get the F out of her way. She then aimed her electric scooter directly at me and started to drive AT me. Mind you I am 8 months pregnant. So I moved out of her way and moved over to the line she was in, and had to try calming my husband down. I really didn't want to create a scene, or worry about getting jumped in the parking lot. So after I moved lines, the two women started swearing at me from the line they were in, screaming at me. I told my cashier to get the manager immediately. After I explained what happened, and had witnesses backing me up, he attempted to ask them what happened. They went off on him calling him not nice names. He ended up kicking them out of the store, without their groceries. Then gave us an escort to our car.

    Your husband must be a very patient man... I would have flipped my lid... then people would be on here telling their walmart story about me!

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