The ones at Costco seem pretty serious. They want to count the total items sold and how many you have. At Walmart all I’ve ever gotten is “uh… it’s fine” probably because it’s too much trouble.
One Napoleon Dynamite-looking removedbag gave me trouble at Costco one time because he couldn’t fucking count… I had my items on my own dolly vs a cart, which seemed to make him think I was an indigent shoplifter (really I was walking to my house 2 blocks away). He counted … 11!! Receipt says 10!! Okay, so which item did the clerk miss? He counted again… 9!! Uh, okay, am I missing something? He counted again… 11!! Then he found an item he missed and said , oh, that explains it (? Isn’t that 12?) Just turned to someone else and went on like nothing happened.
I don’t so much mind it at the membership stores because it’s part of the membership.
But my local Walmart recently hired some new woman for it. Most others just glance at it an say “you’re good” to every 10th person but this one takes your recipt and checks every item in every bag, and does this to every person and then freaks out if people walk past the line. It’s bad enough there was a whole thing on the town facebook page with hundreds of people complaining about it.
The most recent time I tried to ignore her and keep walking but a traffic jam stopped me and this removed walks up and grabs the cart and starts reaching for my recipt.
Lately Walmart self checkout gives you an option to just text you the receipt which I always choose because I don’t need an extra piece of paper that I’m just going to lose in 2 seconds. I think it makes me look extra sus to the receipt checkers though because now they try to stop me every time. I really don’t care though, Walmart’s problem with shrinkage is not my problem, and I’m not going to take the time to stop, take my phone out of my pocket, and pull up the receipt just to satisfy them. Like Walmart, you gave me the option not to print a receipt, and you’re confused that I don’t have one?
What bothers me the most is the fucking Walmart recipt checkers.
Don’t make me check out my own shit if you don’t trust me.
The correct response to them is a wave and a “no, I’m good” as you walk past.
I don’t even bother with the no thank you, I just ignore them. It’s nothing but security theatre anyway.
The ones at Costco seem pretty serious. They want to count the total items sold and how many you have. At Walmart all I’ve ever gotten is “uh… it’s fine” probably because it’s too much trouble.
One Napoleon Dynamite-looking removedbag gave me trouble at Costco one time because he couldn’t fucking count… I had my items on my own dolly vs a cart, which seemed to make him think I was an indigent shoplifter (really I was walking to my house 2 blocks away). He counted … 11!! Receipt says 10!! Okay, so which item did the clerk miss? He counted again… 9!! Uh, okay, am I missing something? He counted again… 11!! Then he found an item he missed and said , oh, that explains it (? Isn’t that 12?) Just turned to someone else and went on like nothing happened.
I don’t so much mind it at the membership stores because it’s part of the membership.
But my local Walmart recently hired some new woman for it. Most others just glance at it an say “you’re good” to every 10th person but this one takes your recipt and checks every item in every bag, and does this to every person and then freaks out if people walk past the line. It’s bad enough there was a whole thing on the town facebook page with hundreds of people complaining about it.
The most recent time I tried to ignore her and keep walking but a traffic jam stopped me and this removed walks up and grabs the cart and starts reaching for my recipt.
Lately Walmart self checkout gives you an option to just text you the receipt which I always choose because I don’t need an extra piece of paper that I’m just going to lose in 2 seconds. I think it makes me look extra sus to the receipt checkers though because now they try to stop me every time. I really don’t care though, Walmart’s problem with shrinkage is not my problem, and I’m not going to take the time to stop, take my phone out of my pocket, and pull up the receipt just to satisfy them. Like Walmart, you gave me the option not to print a receipt, and you’re confused that I don’t have one?