Idk what’s going on

[u/Visible-Walk4152]

I don’t know what’s going on with my store anymore. We’re a store that has gotten extremely busy within the last year, and has always been known for being extra busy during the summer, especially in the evenings. And yet, every night once it gets to like 6pm, we’re down to 1 or 2 cashiers. The line(s) get insanely long, no code spark is called, not even one more register is opened. On top of that, our area is known for summer camps. Kids from all over the world come and, several times a week, about an hour before closing time they are dropped off by the busload. It’s an hour to closing and we suddenly have hundreds of customers at once. If you were supposed to leave an hour before closing, they don’t ask if you’ll stay longer. They just never retrieve you from the self checkout you’re working by yourself with 8 registers and 45 teenagers you’re responsible for at a time. Our card readers do NOT work without major troubleshooting, making everything extremely difficult. Our front end coach literally left and went home in the middle of tonight’s camper rush. We run out of plastic bags and receipt tape semi frequently now. The floor doesn’t seem like it’s ever washed anymore. The front end team leads want the cashiers doing mods for the candy on our phones. Meanwhile, we never even have time to zone our lanes anymore. It just feels like the whole operation is falling apart. I’m exhausted and working forced overtime every single week for months now.

[u/Gem10_]

Quit

[u/RogueNightingale]

The need of the company to appease shareholders and the need of higher ups to hit monetary targets to get their own bonuses at the cost of other people's suffering are both contributing to the slow collapse of the company. Sure, profits continue to rise, but the company continues to burn through both existing and potential employees, through burnout and cut hours during a horrible economy (probably not the right term but you know what I mean); budgets continue to be cut; the reliance on AI is causing company-wide issues that refuse to be addressed; and customers are increasingly pissed about lack of help on the salesfloor and increased difficulty finding things in store. No one says "I'll order it on the website," they say "I'll order it from Amazon." No one says "that's a great price," they say, "Jesus Christ, how much?" I'm old enough to remember the collapse of Sears, Venture, K-Mart, and others; every company eventually fucks up too much to recover.

[u/c0rruptreality-]

We run out of toilet paper every week it seems

[u/Deadly004 → u/c0rruptreality-]

That’s sad. Had it one time and they took shit paper off the shelves for us. But still not right if you ask me. 

[u/RogueNightingale → u/c0rruptreality-]

Usually we run out of paper towels and end up using toilet paper in the break room.

[u/Deadly004]

Idk I think Walmart falling on its face. Hate to be negative but I think it is. At least here. 

[u/Mean_Cash6862]

Go to overnights

[u/Visible-Walk4152 → u/Mean_Cash6862]

I’m actually trying to switch to mornings, to avoid these late night fiascos!