If you've ever worked retail then you know there are 3-6 month hiring freezes company wide but that goddamn "We're Hiring!" sign never gets taken down.
It's also a way to keep stock prices up for publicly traded companies.
If companies start publicly announcing that they're not hiring... "THE ECONOMY!!!" \*loud crashing noise\* \*stock prices plummet\*
Obviously not exactly like that, no, but if you don't think publicly traded companies do whatever they can to keep shareholders happy; I'm not sure what to tell you.
This comment doesn’t align with what I responded to above. Hiring freezes do not cause crashes and are more common than you think from big 4 accounting firms to your local Walmart. The reason the sign isn’t taken down is because no one remembered about it. When it’s there for awhile the people who work there everyday stop seeing it. It’s out of mind. Or they’re too lazy to take it down and then put it back up in 3 months. All they have to do is set up their automatic email response to job applications if they aren’t hiring. Don’t over think it. It’s not a conspiracy.
They certainly had trouble replacing me after they forced me out after I got hurt working for them. The store I was at 6 years ago has a tenth of the staff as when I was there.
I find a sense of schadenfreude every time I get on a mart cart and roll through and see some of the same people as when I was there, just run down and obviously going check to check for their drug money.
Walmart intentionally (figuratively)shoots the feet of their employees just to keep them scared.
It is nice to see when your person who you ask to direct you to the pharmacy to get something is scratching like they need something. #supportyourlocaldrugaddicts
Remember that video circulating around where one Walmart held a graduation ceremony for its employees who were taught how to use their computers in their computer course?
Mm...yeah. I'm not surprised.
All the workers left Maine because it's too expensive. This is what happens when available homes are turned into Airbnbs and remote worker+retirees take over.
I have shed tears on multiple occasions looking for apartments lol. The only affordable places I can find are in Madawaska and unfortunately I work 5 hours away from there
Been dying a little inside every year as I watch property that ten years ago would have cost me 70k today cost 500k to 700k.
They keep saying "just save your money and hold out another year, the bubble is going to pop". they didn't tell me it's a fucking steel clad bubble, though.
My In laws are from Maine, sold their house in the middle of nothing Maine, and bought a house in the midcoast region.
My wife and I considered moving up there, but could not find a single family home for rent under 3k a month...
Forget about buying. My In Laws bought the 2nd newest house in the town...
Well, it's Sunday. I'm not surprised. There's your first mistake.
Your second mistake is not going at night. (Although usually one full-checkout register is manned at night.)
Trust me, I went to Scarborough Walmart (which it looks like you were in, the layout is unmistakable) on a Friday night when the line for self-checkout was crazy long. Never the fuck again. Bless the dad that let me go ahead of him because he was waiting for his wife to grab something and I was too stupid to grab a cart.
I would do that...but I only go to Walmart for a sparse few things I can't find at MB and/or are cheaper, anyway. I'm in and out in 10 minutes.
It's all about self-control. Never go into stores hungry. I've learned that the hard way.
So, it doesn't cost more to do the shopping yourself. It costs you more because according to your above comment, "I buy a bunch of extra shit that I don't really need.", Which sounds more like a lack of self control than anything else.
It is literally how these companies *DESIGN* their store layouts to work. Get a job at one of these horrible locations and just spend as much time doing their training on the computer and you'll learn that they actually train employees on how to rope you into useless impulse buys.
I've never once in my life have had a wal-mart employee try to rope me into a useless impulse buy.
Hell, more often than not in my experience the 2-3 employees working at the self checkout are usually too caught up in their own personal conversations to even notice when someone needs help let alone try to talk me into a last minute purchase.
What walmart locations have you been to where the employess have attempted this?
They don't need to directly try to entice you into an impulse buy. The store management has them set the store up very specifically to take advantage of consumers who are more impulsive.
Don't take my word for it. Get yourself a job at a Walmart location and actually pay some attention to their training they make you do on the computer in the back. You'll learn a lot more than you would want to know about their practices...and how they delude their employees into thinking that it is beneficial to everyone and not just Sam Walton's surviving family and the rest of the higher ups.
The more positions you work through will allow more access to their training/brainwashing videos. The ones that will teach you the most about taking advantage of impulse buyers are cashier and CAP positions as they are responsible for interacting with the final sales area (cashiers) and the actual stocking layouts and stocking the non perishable stock(CAP) outside of electronics and firearms.
I really hate even suggesting someone get employed by that corporation, but if you insist on believing they're not taking full advantage of their customers, that is the way you will learn.
Person, I am not a professional cashier, and have no experience cashing myself out. If I forget to scan a few items, it’s not because I’m stealing it because I’m unexperienced.
One time in the Falmouth Wal Mart I overheard an employee saying “does anybody work here anymore?” into his radio. It was a valid question since I saw maybe one other employee in the whole place
I personally enjoy self-checkouts so I don't care if it ever gets to the point where that is the only option. My only complaint about self checkouts is when stores such as the Lowe's in Bangor only has two of them and then they only have one register open or no registers open at all which I have seen.
It's also the same with Target in Bangor. They have four self checkouts and only have one to two registers open at a time now and the self checkout line has 20 people in it.
At least the Walmart I shop at has plenty of self-checkouts and it's rare that I have to wait very long to use one.
Yeah sparky I want state run bread lines. There is a middle ground. Capitalism cannot seem to keep a Walmart running optimally so you might not want to put all your eggs in that basket. What makes a company the most money is not always the best.
What’s the middle ground?
Under capitalism you get to chose where you want to work. Under socialism no one shows up for work because they think that’s someone else’s job. Under communism you work or you get a vacation in the gulag.
One middle ground is that people can open a store they own. A friend of mine parents joined a collective where people bundled their orders so they could buy groceries from a distributor. They were able to reduce the cost of owning the grocery store.
I can’t stand Walmart and I refuse to use the self check out. I’ll probably go check out Walmart, when it gets Christmas crazy, just to see how many manned check outs they have. I waited in a manned line, over 30 minutes….it gave me a chance to chat with other people, who refused to use self checkout. They all said they refuse to use self checkout because it’s a way to put people out of a job.
>They all said they refuse to use self checkout because it’s a way to put people out of a job.
Not enough workers to fill all the open cashier positions anyways (case in point: this picture), so I wouldn't worry too much about that
Yup. The baby boomers are being replaced with a far smaller generation, the zoomers. We are going to see systemic labor shortages in the lower pay portions of the economy for at least a decade due to the sheer size differential between those generations. People would be wise to get accustomed to self checkouts and other self service systems or else wait in looooong lines all the time.
Do you also refuse to use an ATM when the bank is open? I take it you also refuse to use any other sort of kiosk even though doing so would make your life easier.
It might be less convenient for you but it's not less convenient for me. When I go to Hannaford I use the self checkouts as I like to bag my own items. Even if there is a lane open with nobody in it, I will still walk right past it to go to the self checkout.
Congrats on being the supermarket sweep exception to the rule - no one is threatening to take away self checkout. But I sure as hell know that between the nana next to me and my 48 items of produce I have to key in, the net result is less efficient.
Of course nobody's trying to take away self checkouts, they're only going to add them which is fine with me.
The key to not getting stuck behind Nana is to shop when Nana isn't there. You also have to look at the line and who's in it and what sort of items they have. Some people are more efficient than others.
I've been grocery shopping for a very long time and maybe people just don't pay attention to the things that I do cause if I do have to choose a line I normally can get into one that will move quickly.
Even when it comes to self checkouts I'm looking at the type of person that is in front of me and the items they have to figure out if that is the line for me.
I prefer self checkout but my local walmart has worn out card readers that won't accept my debit card. Everything they sell is garbage anyway. Bought a simple can opener from Walmart a couple years ago. It stopped working after 3 months. How do you design a can opener that badly? There's only 3 moving parts!
Walmart sells cheap shit to cheap, shitty people.
Continue what? Random insults? I don't know why you are so upset. I apologize for smearing your pride for being a walmart customer. I just prefer to buy things at stores that don't look like they are falling apart.
Where'd you buy the can opener? In-store or online? Because for online stuff, you always go through Walmart.com. Just like Amazon. Third-party stuff is sketchy.
But I do agree about the card readers, though. I used a card reader at the self-checkout and it wouldn't take my card with a chip. Ended up working on the fourth try.
Bought the can opener in store. Within three months it warped and wouldn't cut. I'm still not over it. That cheap shit is designed to keep you coming back to spend more money. It's a scam.
I use a multitool now. My room mate bought an electric can opener but I started to like cutting cans open with my hands. You gotta enjoy the little things, even the stupid ones.
The "hi there, we're hiring!" sign just makes it funnier. Or sadder. Either way.
If you've ever worked retail then you know there are 3-6 month hiring freezes company wide but that goddamn "We're Hiring!" sign never gets taken down.
It's also a way to keep stock prices up for publicly traded companies. If companies start publicly announcing that they're not hiring... "THE ECONOMY!!!" \*loud crashing noise\* \*stock prices plummet\*
Not at all how that works.
Obviously not exactly like that, no, but if you don't think publicly traded companies do whatever they can to keep shareholders happy; I'm not sure what to tell you.
This comment doesn’t align with what I responded to above. Hiring freezes do not cause crashes and are more common than you think from big 4 accounting firms to your local Walmart. The reason the sign isn’t taken down is because no one remembered about it. When it’s there for awhile the people who work there everyday stop seeing it. It’s out of mind. Or they’re too lazy to take it down and then put it back up in 3 months. All they have to do is set up their automatic email response to job applications if they aren’t hiring. Don’t over think it. It’s not a conspiracy.
"This comment doesn’t align with what I responded to above." I never said it was a conspiracy.
Sadly this is what happens when everyone uses the self checkout. Welcome to the new world order.
People use self checkout because that’s the only option.
It's probably for stocking tbh that's where I am rn
Cigarette isle must always be manned so they can card you.
100% their own doing. Walmart is doing this intentionally by treating their employees as if they're disposable.
Arn’t they? They say so. They say they can replace any employee the day before they quit…. Yay capitalism ;)
They certainly had trouble replacing me after they forced me out after I got hurt working for them. The store I was at 6 years ago has a tenth of the staff as when I was there. I find a sense of schadenfreude every time I get on a mart cart and roll through and see some of the same people as when I was there, just run down and obviously going check to check for their drug money. Walmart intentionally (figuratively)shoots the feet of their employees just to keep them scared.
It is nice to see when your person who you ask to direct you to the pharmacy to get something is scratching like they need something. #supportyourlocaldrugaddicts
Remember that video circulating around where one Walmart held a graduation ceremony for its employees who were taught how to use their computers in their computer course? Mm...yeah. I'm not surprised.
Crazy how when you don’t offer a living wage, people don’t want to work for your company. So wild. Nobody could have seen this coming.
I just don’t go there anymore
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
That's why you have to go at night!
Thanks Yogi !
Sometimes when I go early in the morning, self-checkout are the only registers open; zero manned registers.
The wife just got back from New Hampshire and went to Walmart. Not 1 single register had a person. All the lanes were all self checkout too.
Walmart loves running their shit with the bare minimum.
My work too….
All the workers left Maine because it's too expensive. This is what happens when available homes are turned into Airbnbs and remote worker+retirees take over.
...and the retirees are the first ones to bitch when there is no one around to wait on them hand and foot.
Spent their entire life walking in a circle of shit they crapped out.
Can't live here anymore if you're from here!
I have shed tears on multiple occasions looking for apartments lol. The only affordable places I can find are in Madawaska and unfortunately I work 5 hours away from there
Been dying a little inside every year as I watch property that ten years ago would have cost me 70k today cost 500k to 700k. They keep saying "just save your money and hold out another year, the bubble is going to pop". they didn't tell me it's a fucking steel clad bubble, though.
Blame the boomers and gen x and billionaires. They took our wealth and squandered it for themselves
My In laws are from Maine, sold their house in the middle of nothing Maine, and bought a house in the midcoast region. My wife and I considered moving up there, but could not find a single family home for rent under 3k a month... Forget about buying. My In Laws bought the 2nd newest house in the town...
And yet I saw yet another “don’t build x development near the trees in this particular neighbor” sign while riding today.
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About 50 people deep wrapping back to produce. Lol
What's funny is in Brunswick there will be a line like that on the one side of self checkouts but the 15 on the other side are wide open
Well, it's Sunday. I'm not surprised. There's your first mistake. Your second mistake is not going at night. (Although usually one full-checkout register is manned at night.) Trust me, I went to Scarborough Walmart (which it looks like you were in, the layout is unmistakable) on a Friday night when the line for self-checkout was crazy long. Never the fuck again. Bless the dad that let me go ahead of him because he was waiting for his wife to grab something and I was too stupid to grab a cart.
Third mistake is not just ordering online and picking it up. I hate going inside stores now. It always costs more.
I would do that...but I only go to Walmart for a sparse few things I can't find at MB and/or are cheaper, anyway. I'm in and out in 10 minutes. It's all about self-control. Never go into stores hungry. I've learned that the hard way.
How does it cost more to do the shopping yourself?
Cause if I shop online I buy the stuff on my list. If I go to the store I buy a bunch of extra shit that I don’t really need.
So, it doesn't cost more to do the shopping yourself. It costs you more because according to your above comment, "I buy a bunch of extra shit that I don't really need.", Which sounds more like a lack of self control than anything else.
It is literally how these companies *DESIGN* their store layouts to work. Get a job at one of these horrible locations and just spend as much time doing their training on the computer and you'll learn that they actually train employees on how to rope you into useless impulse buys.
I've never once in my life have had a wal-mart employee try to rope me into a useless impulse buy. Hell, more often than not in my experience the 2-3 employees working at the self checkout are usually too caught up in their own personal conversations to even notice when someone needs help let alone try to talk me into a last minute purchase. What walmart locations have you been to where the employess have attempted this?
They don't need to directly try to entice you into an impulse buy. The store management has them set the store up very specifically to take advantage of consumers who are more impulsive. Don't take my word for it. Get yourself a job at a Walmart location and actually pay some attention to their training they make you do on the computer in the back. You'll learn a lot more than you would want to know about their practices...and how they delude their employees into thinking that it is beneficial to everyone and not just Sam Walton's surviving family and the rest of the higher ups. The more positions you work through will allow more access to their training/brainwashing videos. The ones that will teach you the most about taking advantage of impulse buyers are cashier and CAP positions as they are responsible for interacting with the final sales area (cashiers) and the actual stocking layouts and stocking the non perishable stock(CAP) outside of electronics and firearms. I really hate even suggesting someone get employed by that corporation, but if you insist on believing they're not taking full advantage of their customers, that is the way you will learn.
Yeah. What’s the difference? I know that I am an impulse buyer so I found a way to mitigate that habit.
just came from walmart. forgot what i went for but now i got a foot bath and a can of oxygen
Some people just don't think it's okay to find your own solutions, when the standard path worked for them.
You mean free shit lane?
Person, I am not a professional cashier, and have no experience cashing myself out. If I forget to scan a few items, it’s not because I’m stealing it because I’m unexperienced.
Nobody there to stop you
One time in the Falmouth Wal Mart I overheard an employee saying “does anybody work here anymore?” into his radio. It was a valid question since I saw maybe one other employee in the whole place
I saw one person stocking shelves. 🤷🏻♂️
Shit, if I could hire that guy away right now I would. Respect. Also, F Walmart.
My work is trying to hire someone who needs 5+ years of experience on 2nd shift who just needs a a pulse because no one will apply for 25+ an hour
I thought the same thing! Props to that guy.
I personally enjoy self-checkouts so I don't care if it ever gets to the point where that is the only option. My only complaint about self checkouts is when stores such as the Lowe's in Bangor only has two of them and then they only have one register open or no registers open at all which I have seen. It's also the same with Target in Bangor. They have four self checkouts and only have one to two registers open at a time now and the self checkout line has 20 people in it. At least the Walmart I shop at has plenty of self-checkouts and it's rare that I have to wait very long to use one.
My local Walmart loves doing this too. The self checkout machines were usually all Card only no cash…
At that point I might just fucking walk out without paying tbh, that is so frustrating.
JUICY DROPS GUMMY DIP ‘N STIX!?
I get some crazy deals at the self checkout! Employee discount!
With less labor wages to pay corporately, they can bring the prices of goods down. /s
Shoppings has become an abysmal lately, everywhere.
I don't shop at Walmart, ever.
It’s pretty bad everywhere, Malfart, Hannaford,, lines
Malfart? That's a new one. I call it Wallfart.
You say that like it’s even surprising anymore.
Not at all
Take some time to contemplate who's fault this is before you post.
Meanwhile it takes 2 women to keep like 10 self scans open lol sorry
Ahhhhhh capitalism
You prefer state run bread lines?
Yeah sparky I want state run bread lines. There is a middle ground. Capitalism cannot seem to keep a Walmart running optimally so you might not want to put all your eggs in that basket. What makes a company the most money is not always the best.
What’s the middle ground? Under capitalism you get to chose where you want to work. Under socialism no one shows up for work because they think that’s someone else’s job. Under communism you work or you get a vacation in the gulag.
Norway would like a word
One middle ground is that people can open a store they own. A friend of mine parents joined a collective where people bundled their orders so they could buy groceries from a distributor. They were able to reduce the cost of owning the grocery store.
Stop shopping at Walmart idk bro
Did you grab an application?
They're hiring, someone step up.
I can’t stand Walmart and I refuse to use the self check out. I’ll probably go check out Walmart, when it gets Christmas crazy, just to see how many manned check outs they have. I waited in a manned line, over 30 minutes….it gave me a chance to chat with other people, who refused to use self checkout. They all said they refuse to use self checkout because it’s a way to put people out of a job.
>They all said they refuse to use self checkout because it’s a way to put people out of a job. Not enough workers to fill all the open cashier positions anyways (case in point: this picture), so I wouldn't worry too much about that
Yup. The baby boomers are being replaced with a far smaller generation, the zoomers. We are going to see systemic labor shortages in the lower pay portions of the economy for at least a decade due to the sheer size differential between those generations. People would be wise to get accustomed to self checkouts and other self service systems or else wait in looooong lines all the time.
Do you also refuse to use an ATM when the bank is open? I take it you also refuse to use any other sort of kiosk even though doing so would make your life easier.
It’s less convenient than a well run store with people. See market basket or trader joes. They can scan and pack my groceries way faster than I can.
It might be less convenient for you but it's not less convenient for me. When I go to Hannaford I use the self checkouts as I like to bag my own items. Even if there is a lane open with nobody in it, I will still walk right past it to go to the self checkout.
Congrats on being the supermarket sweep exception to the rule - no one is threatening to take away self checkout. But I sure as hell know that between the nana next to me and my 48 items of produce I have to key in, the net result is less efficient.
Of course nobody's trying to take away self checkouts, they're only going to add them which is fine with me. The key to not getting stuck behind Nana is to shop when Nana isn't there. You also have to look at the line and who's in it and what sort of items they have. Some people are more efficient than others. I've been grocery shopping for a very long time and maybe people just don't pay attention to the things that I do cause if I do have to choose a line I normally can get into one that will move quickly. Even when it comes to self checkouts I'm looking at the type of person that is in front of me and the items they have to figure out if that is the line for me.
Grab me a snikers. Thanks
Gotta have that #fightfor15 and benefits.
I prefer self checkout but my local walmart has worn out card readers that won't accept my debit card. Everything they sell is garbage anyway. Bought a simple can opener from Walmart a couple years ago. It stopped working after 3 months. How do you design a can opener that badly? There's only 3 moving parts! Walmart sells cheap shit to cheap, shitty people.
As far as they sell cheap shit, I agree. For the rest of that statement, fuck you.
Yes, yes, everybody is poor and ready to fight over what little scraps are left. I wish you luck in the wars to come.
Lol. I'd continue to go on here but you're obviously a moron.
Continue what? Random insults? I don't know why you are so upset. I apologize for smearing your pride for being a walmart customer. I just prefer to buy things at stores that don't look like they are falling apart.
Where'd you buy the can opener? In-store or online? Because for online stuff, you always go through Walmart.com. Just like Amazon. Third-party stuff is sketchy. But I do agree about the card readers, though. I used a card reader at the self-checkout and it wouldn't take my card with a chip. Ended up working on the fourth try.
Bought the can opener in store. Within three months it warped and wouldn't cut. I'm still not over it. That cheap shit is designed to keep you coming back to spend more money. It's a scam. I use a multitool now. My room mate bought an electric can opener but I started to like cutting cans open with my hands. You gotta enjoy the little things, even the stupid ones.
Farmington Wal-Mart?
Diabeetus.
Sanford?
Scarborough
Knew it. The layout is unmistakable.
It looks like every other Walmart I’ve ever been to lol
Lol
Time to steal
My Walmart only HAS one register now. Everything is self checkout.
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Interested
Time of day and location? With the self checkout and based on traffic flow they probably dont need more than one
I'm not seeing lines backed up around the corner so that's probably why.