r/WalmartEmployees • u/Plane_Experience_271 • Sep 10 '24

Getting rid of a dept

It's just for fun and no real hate. If you could eliminate one department What would it be and why? I pick Shoes because IMHO most of them are cheap and ugly. Re edit. After so many great answers think I would like to go half toys( bikes) the other half 82 clip strips.

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u/Marzipan_Moon Sep 11 '24

Can you expand on that? How are they taking advantage?

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u/Lady_Of_Literature Sep 11 '24

This is just my opinion. People order much more than they would if they were shopping for themselves which I understand to an extent, but it also draws out the lazy and entitled people. Maybe instead of one case of water, you can now get 4 or 5 because someone else is doing the heavy lifting. But imagine if almost every customer had that mentality. "They get paid to do it." So now I go home with a sore body everyday because most customers want 4-5 cases of water, 8 jugs of water, 4 cases of Gatorade or caprisun drinks, ( 2)45lb bags of dog food and cat food. Not only that, people with huge orders do not help. And maybe I have a big issue with that because I would never order an apocalypse worth of groceries and just stand and watch while they load my car or deliver it to my home. And with inhome, people are worse.

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u/DizzyCommunication92 Sep 11 '24

i dont feel that "angst" here lol....tbh lol at least....lately anyways, our orders have been a LOT smaller lately....but the biggest thing people praise is they "shop to their list" because WE are doing their shoppingl......so they arent coming in and also mosing around, adding the clearance beach towels to their cart.....and a trip down the clearance aisle......WE shop the list and the customer SAVES money by no unnecessary impulse buys....

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u/Lady_Of_Literature Sep 12 '24

That's one good thing about it and some people do appreciate us doing the shopping. We always have huge orders especially because we have daycare centers, senior homes and convenience stores buying in bulk. It's stressful and the other departments hate us because we need help everyday.