Evil Walmart cashiers

[babs6219]

So, I know all about how awful Wal-mart is and I totally agree with the fact that they're kinda evil. However, even knowing that, I recently began shopping there anyway, strictly because of their price-matching and coupon policies. Basically, in case you didn't know, Walmart will honor their competitors ads, within certain guidelines, and each

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[notthebuddha]

It sounds like the cashier was scolded by a manager for her own matching and couponing attempts. Calling everything they don't like "stealing" or "theft" is very common among managers and other people who feel threatened by people daring to do things normal people would want to do, or common faults normal people can have without being considered pathological. It's to capitalize on social conditioning against criminal activities. "Time theft" sounds much worse than being lazy, for instance; the movie industry was represented by a guy who called VCR owners "rapists

[tortillafactory]

They also can't take advantage of any price errors even if they didn't know it was an error in the first place.

How does this work, exactly? I know "ignorance is no excuse under the law" but this sounds ridiculous.

[tortillafactory]

Ok, I can understand if they're not entitled to match the price on the sign or tag (although I think it's shitty), as they would be doing so knowingly. I was picturing a scenario where something rings up a cheaper price than it should be and the employee who bought it gets in trouble even though they had no way of knowing about it.

[ljmydayaway]

Having worked at Wal-mart - price matching is not "so much work." It's hitting one button, typing in the original price, and typing in the new price.

I fail to see how that is really any extra work at all.

But then again, I think I'm the only person in the world who feels like, "I'm getting paid to do this, it's part of my job, it's not extra work because I'm getting paid to do it in the first place."

It's like being mad that someone didn't buy a camera that you get commission off of, when you're getting paid more than minimum wage just to show them the camera and talk about cameras. (That, the camera job, was THE best job ever.)

[latin_lunatic]

It depends on how much to pricematch. Near/On/After Black Friday/some release days there's usually a good 10 dollar difference for some items and that always requires paging a manager to bring a key to unlock the machine and okay the change.

This happens to me EVERY time.

[notthebuddha]

If there's an actual work rule against the cashier doing it, she has definitely been told she would be stealing from the store if she did it, or had a friend do it on her behalf.

[dustyshakleford]

Actually yes they can price match.