March 16, 2006
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That was a new low in customer service.
Just returned from a short trip to the Wal-Mart Food Center out on
Vickery. Yesterday I’d lifted with one hand a very heavy bag of
clothes and stuff that was in the middle bedroom, so as to hand it out
into the hall to the boys (we were clearing out that room a bit).
Last night my left wrist began to hurt, and it finally dawned on me
what the culprit had been.However, that’s really neither here nor there. Point is, due to
my wonky wrist I decided against my habitual practice of self-checkout,
instead preferring to let the checkout people scan and sack my
merchandise.Except the ONLY….and I do mean only….lit checkout lane indicators were those of the self-checkout stations. That’s right, there was no one
at any of the usual, staffed lanes. I went over to the
“customer service” counter and waited whilst another woman was helped,
and after a minute or two one of the employees appeared and waved me
over to the adjacent lane.Do you know, I found myself apologizing for wanting to be checked out while explaining about my wrist?
Not only that, but the gas price there was 4ยข higher than the Shell station at I-30 and Hulen.
You’ve got to be alert every moment, no doubt about it.
Comments (5)
Wow, the picture show is fun! Do you choose or are they from your photo folder?
I choose, but have been dismayed the photos uploaded this morning aren’t appearing. I’ve got over 100 on my Slide show, not that you can tell from the one above. >:^<
Visiting the Slide forums revealed it can take 24 hours or so for new photos to appear on the above slideshow, so that’s why only the initial pix are being displayed, though I’ve uploaded close to 150.
Fun, fun , fun!!
I love that slide show!!
The Walmart closest to me is always packed at the manned checkout stations mostly because the self service ones are “express lanes”. Tho, last time I was in a couple of the self service ones were out of order, but still it was a shorter wait. Hope the wrist feels better.