dirtybuck
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I had to make a small trip to Wal Mart earlier today to get a money order and something for lunch. This Wal Mart is fairly new (about a year old) and a mile or so from my apartment.
After I finished making my money order transaction, I found a wrapper on the floor near one of the registers for the new coconut M&M's (which, I'm assuming, somebody probably didn't pay for).
I threw said wrapper away and continued to the deli area to pick up my sandwich. While heading back to the registers, I noticed a school planner and a 12 pack roll of Scott paper towels abandoned by two of the empty check out lanes. I picked these items up, proceeded to the shortest line possible, and waited for the cashier to finish with her customer.
When it was my turn, I told the clerk right away that I had found the two items near the registers, and I did not want them. Dead silence on that, but she asked me if I wanted my sandwich, and I replied yes. I told her that I used to work for K Mart in El Paso, and that abandoning items in the front of the checkout aisle or through the store was one of my pet peeves. Again, dead silence. She told me what my total was, and I paid for my sandwich. I apologized for my menial complaint, in which she retorted, "Well, some of us need to complain about something." She said thank you for my purchase, and I said thank you as well. I was going to tell her, as I tell most people, "have a good day", but she could've dropped dead before I said anything along those lines.
At the front door, I told the greeter about the situation, and she summoned someone from the service desk. I told this "manager" what I did and told of the clerks rudeness, and added that the clerk should have at least been a bit more appreciative and said "thanks" or something along those lines. She looked at me with somewhat of an odd look on her face, and said if she knew who the clerk was, she would be more than happy to talk to her. I pointed the clerk out (who was coming back from the service desk, to probably abandon the items I gave to her). I don't know why, but I apologized to the "manager" for my trite and meaningless complaint, but said there were other things that their employees could be doing, instead of picking up after other shoppers.
Mind you, I was not looking for the clerk to come bounding from behind her register and start showering me with kisses, while repeatedly saying "thank you, thank you, thank you". I would've appreciated a small bit of acknowledgment that I had done a good deed. Lord knows how long those items had been or would had been sitting there before I picked them up. I also don't know if the clerk was having a bad day, or maybe was feeling ill, or possibly this was her normal every day presence, but her demeanor could have been a tad bit more pleasant.
I'm one of these people who will pick up an item if I see it abandoned, and, if I'm going in the direction of where the items originally belongs, will put them back on the shelf. I'm sure that most of you have seen frozen foods in (of all aisles) the detergent aisle, electronic items in sporting goods, plants in the automotive area, and on and on and on (there was one day when I found an OPEN box of Nicorette patches in the cereal aisle, with all the patches removed. The cost on something like that is about 25 bucks).
The people who leave their unwanted items around Wal Mart (and other stores as well), should shuffle their fat a**es back to the area where they got the item and replace it (believe me, some of these people look as though they could use the exercise), or do like I did and give it to the cashier.
My apologies if this sounds trite and meaningless, but I needed to vent. Thanks for reading it.
After I finished making my money order transaction, I found a wrapper on the floor near one of the registers for the new coconut M&M's (which, I'm assuming, somebody probably didn't pay for).
I threw said wrapper away and continued to the deli area to pick up my sandwich. While heading back to the registers, I noticed a school planner and a 12 pack roll of Scott paper towels abandoned by two of the empty check out lanes. I picked these items up, proceeded to the shortest line possible, and waited for the cashier to finish with her customer.
When it was my turn, I told the clerk right away that I had found the two items near the registers, and I did not want them. Dead silence on that, but she asked me if I wanted my sandwich, and I replied yes. I told her that I used to work for K Mart in El Paso, and that abandoning items in the front of the checkout aisle or through the store was one of my pet peeves. Again, dead silence. She told me what my total was, and I paid for my sandwich. I apologized for my menial complaint, in which she retorted, "Well, some of us need to complain about something." She said thank you for my purchase, and I said thank you as well. I was going to tell her, as I tell most people, "have a good day", but she could've dropped dead before I said anything along those lines.
At the front door, I told the greeter about the situation, and she summoned someone from the service desk. I told this "manager" what I did and told of the clerks rudeness, and added that the clerk should have at least been a bit more appreciative and said "thanks" or something along those lines. She looked at me with somewhat of an odd look on her face, and said if she knew who the clerk was, she would be more than happy to talk to her. I pointed the clerk out (who was coming back from the service desk, to probably abandon the items I gave to her). I don't know why, but I apologized to the "manager" for my trite and meaningless complaint, but said there were other things that their employees could be doing, instead of picking up after other shoppers.
Mind you, I was not looking for the clerk to come bounding from behind her register and start showering me with kisses, while repeatedly saying "thank you, thank you, thank you". I would've appreciated a small bit of acknowledgment that I had done a good deed. Lord knows how long those items had been or would had been sitting there before I picked them up. I also don't know if the clerk was having a bad day, or maybe was feeling ill, or possibly this was her normal every day presence, but her demeanor could have been a tad bit more pleasant.
I'm one of these people who will pick up an item if I see it abandoned, and, if I'm going in the direction of where the items originally belongs, will put them back on the shelf. I'm sure that most of you have seen frozen foods in (of all aisles) the detergent aisle, electronic items in sporting goods, plants in the automotive area, and on and on and on (there was one day when I found an OPEN box of Nicorette patches in the cereal aisle, with all the patches removed. The cost on something like that is about 25 bucks).
The people who leave their unwanted items around Wal Mart (and other stores as well), should shuffle their fat a**es back to the area where they got the item and replace it (believe me, some of these people look as though they could use the exercise), or do like I did and give it to the cashier.
My apologies if this sounds trite and meaningless, but I needed to vent. Thanks for reading it.
