Target or Walmart

In a statement from the United States, Wal-Mart said, “While we are trying to determine if the factory has a current relationship with Walmart or one of our suppliers, fire safety is a critically important area of Walmart’s factory audit program and we have been working across the apparel industry to improve fire safety education and training in Bangladesh.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/world/asia/bangladesh-fire-kills-more-than-100-and-injures-many.html

I worked for Walmart in 1999-2001 as a cashier and I was making pretty good money ($10+/hr by the end of it) and working plenty of full-time weeks. Though yeah that was over 10 years ago so maybe things have changed. They were pretty anti-union back then too fwiw.

walmart for president

Rented a RugDoctor from the kiosk at Wal-Mart yesterday. I attempted to return it today and see nothing but a blank screen at the kiosk. I ask an employee if the machine is not working, and she takes one cursory glance at it, and says "must be down", and walks away. Then I ask her what I'm supposed to do with the heavy machine I'm holding and need to return, presuming that since there's a machine in their store, they know who to contact.

Instead, she says "Be right back", then comes back with a supervisor who says "It must be down. You'll need to call RugDoctor and explain the situation to them. We'll vouch for you." They also tell me I can return it at another Walmart with the kiosks (I think this is BS - the kiosks only have enough door slots for the machines that originated at their location).

I really do not want to haul the thing back to my car and into another Walmart, as they're heavy, plus I know RugDoctor isn't going to magically 'waive' my late fees just because I call them, but I do anyway. When I call, it's readily apparently that the store is the one supposed to be calling, because the instructions say for the store to report a kiosk issue at their local district number. All I could do was leave a voicemail.

A couple comes up to rent one and I explain what's going on, and then one of them realizes THE FUCKING THING IS UNPLUGGED, so he plugs it in. Problem solved, we think, but it gets hung up at the startup menu. I found a CS manager to tell her it's plugged in, but stuck at the main menu, and she clearly isn't listening, and walks away, thinking we just need to let it boot. After about fifteen minutes passing and other employees telling us to call RugDoctor ourselves, I called corporate to complain, and one of the other customers found the manager again to tell her we still needed help, as the machine hadn't booted (since she wasn't listening).

First supervisor comes back and basically barks at me "I told you I was gonna call, didn't you hear me" (which she didn't), then finally picks up the phone to call them (it's been about 45 minutes now). The other supervisors have no idea what to do or if they even have a key to open it. Then, the manager asks the CUSTOMER to unplug it and replug it in, and after 5 minutes, it's working.

So basically, wasted an hour in a Walmart talking to five managers over a goddamn unplugged machine. This is why I never visit Wal-Marts (well that and because of the people that typically visit them!)

Those people are just Neanderthals.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/23127186

If Walmart paid its workers a living wage, the price of your macaroni and cheese would go up by one penny

but even a penny more might cause walmart to lose a customer. and walmart can't . . . bear . . . to . . . lose . . . even . . . one . . . customer.

http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/0513/more-mentalnicktoons-krabs2.jpg

i love target's fascist aesthetic; plus the one here has actual sidewalks (some of the few in my town!) extending out into the parking lot, so you can push your whisper-quiet plastic fascist shopping cart to yr car without checking behind yr shoulder every two seconds. plus there are three or four trees planted nearby! it's like versailles.

my hometown wal-mart has been a dud since i was in high school and it stopped staying open 24 hrs cuz we used to go there ~2AM to play sardines.

maybe walmart does to but target has good surveillance, it p much caught this kidnapper/murderer this was an interesting/terrifying true crime ep i saw recently

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kelsey_Smith

Alice Walton knows where her bread is buttered

http://usuncut.com/politics/alice-walton-hillary-clinton/

uh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EUxCGnkWcI

http://i.imgur.com/8G3O0Pv.jpg

some of the Targets near us are hilariously incompetent at delivering products.

Last December, I was over one of my close friends' houses, and Target had delivered a bunch of christmas gifts to the door, but instead of putting the toy inside a Target box, they just slapped a Target sticker on the product's box, and their daughter found it at the door so they had to give her gift early.

but today, another one of my friends ordered Nintendo Switch controllers, paying $80 for them. instead of getting a box with two switch controllers, they got an envelope with a cardboard endcap display featuring a picture of both controllers. i feel bad for the friend but i'm having a hard time not giggling at the image they shared.