I went to wal mart early this morning

[Beachnutt]

and in talking to the cashier I told her what a great job President Biden is doing and she agreed and I said I just don't understand folks still on the trump train and she said it makes her so mad and that they have to be idiots as he is stealing from them as he is broke.
Then she tells me that every Saturday morning at I-20 and Cooper street in Arlington Tx she has to drive by the idiots that gather there with the trump flag crap.
I told her I didn't know that there was a magaloon gathering there on Saturday mornings and she said oh yes every Saturday.
I will be driving by there this Saturday to give them a one finger salute, if your in the area do the same.

[MuseRider]

1. You still have cashiers

at your Walmart? We barely have cashiers at any store like that!

[Beachnutt]

2. Yes but only a few,

they have the diy scanners but nobody was in line at 6:15 this morning at the cashier so I did that.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Wal*Mart had a long standing policy of not opening a register unless lines were more than 3 deep.

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Now, what they are doing it trying to force people to use self-checkout.

They've added a lot of scanning equipment to detect if the shopper makes a mistake at self-checkout and they will be stopped upon exit and challenged. One of the smaller profit centers seems to be the criminal shakedown by loss prevention and local PD.

Using self-checkout at Wal*Mart is to do at your own peril.

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[MuseRider]

11. I do not go there.

My husband will and I will sometimes go with him but I refuse to do a job that Walmart should and did pay people for. Here Target, the craft stores, many places are doing this. I know it is for them to save money, like they needed more? I am amazed by the people who gladly do this and think it is better this way. I just wonder what is next.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Lowes by me forced me to self-checkout after working 12 hours and shopping for 1.5 hours.

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I had a full cart with almost 100 items from all parts of the store, including lumber. I was barely able to shop and when I got to the checkout 30 minutes before closing, they said I had to check everything out by myself. Others were forced in the same boat. I told them I was too tired to do it and refused. I asked for a register and they refused. After three times of me telling them I would not be checking out myself, I just walked out the door. They were stunned and asked why. I said, you know why and did a cargo drop.

From that day forward, that store always had at least one register that was staffed.

When I said I had stuff all over the store, literally it was from every isle except appliances. Not 20 of one ting, this was one and twos of an item. It must have taken them an hour or two for them to sift through the cart and wood cart and find where everything went.

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[SWBTATTReg]

13. Good for you! I hate this when a store does this, cuts back the number of people checking

customers out, and then they expect us to applaud them, etc. for the 'great service'! I don't know where they got this idea of cutting back the checkout lines w/ a cashier there, I don't like this at all (without a cashier).

Where they got this idea is not from customer service (providing a great customer service) but instead, cutting their bottom line even more, to save them money (and not us). It's all about them and not us.

It's time to bring back great customer service, and keep it around. Don't make us do yet even more work for the store, we don't work for the damn store. You do, so give us the great service that we expect (or before long, we'll go elsewhere).

[BlackSkimmer]

3. I simply cannot imagine starting a political discussion with a person working in a store.

What if she had disagreed with you? Would you have chastised her?

Fascinating story though.

[Beachnutt]

4. No, I would simply change the subject

I always just say well let's talk about the weather and move on..
It doesn't have to be or turn hateful.

[ForgedCrank]

5. That's basically

how I view this stuff.
If a random stranger started making political statements, I'd want to get away as fast as possible. It's a cantankerous subject that far too often leads to conflict, even when discussing with someone you mostly agree with. I would interpret it as a lack of awareness regarding socially acceptable barriers. It would only be acceptable at a political gathering of some sort.
I'm not looking for a fight, so I keep my political views to myself and never try to initiate a conversation on that subject with a stranger or even personal friends. I like smiles, not snarling.

[Easterncedar]

7. I go with a big thumb down instead

Makes the point but without adding to the angry crudity. And then it makes me feel even more superior.

[Hortensis]

15. :) Yes. I wag a finger back and forth disapprovingly like an old schoolmarm.

Usually they're smiling and waving, doesn't happen often enough that they recognize me coming. I don't want to insert angry crudity, and of course you're right about the feeling of virtuous superiority.

Maybe that last's why driving by these groups doesn't bother me.

[BannonsLiver]

9. It's amazing to me people engage random strangers in political conversations

Totally bizarre.

[TigressDem]

18. Sometimes you get a sense about someone and can educate or build an ally relationship.

At work I am a bit more careful because I don't know what people's affiliations are, but there is one person who from a few comments I take it they don't support tRump.

I just smiled, "So you did see the news." He grinned back. "Yes I did."

[BannonsLiver]

19. Yeah that's a slightly different scenario.

Random clerks at the grocery store is a whole other deal. What was the clerk supposed to do, disagree with the customer? I just think that situation is just weird and shows bad form. In a work setting, where you kind of know people and what makes them go it's just different. There is some baseline familiarity.

[mitch96]

10. I keep a 11x14 cardboard sign in the car that says

..45 lost ..
get over it

When I see these magaloons on the corner I just drive by and raise it in front of them with a big ass smile.. A drive by "truthing" if you will...

[Harker]

14. There are half a dozen people who show up every Saturday

in a nearby town, on what passes for a busy intersection, to fly flags and hold up signs for passing motorists.

I nearly cried a little when I saw that they were demonstrating in favor of democracy and against fascism.

That means a lot to me, given that I'm obligeded to drive by a bunch of "Let's go Brandon" and "F your feelings" banners and signs on the road in.

[Midnight Writer]

16. We have a Trump "pick-up truck" parade down Main Street every Friday night.

They drive in a line with their Trump flags flying (and quite a few altered American flags that always piss me off) all the way through the center of town, then turn around and come back. I figured they would have run out of steam by now, but I think it has become a social event for these people. I noticed last week that there were quite a few spectators, so the MAGAs are still energized.

[TigressDem]

17. Be careful.

Don't want your salute to get return gunfire or have them run you off the road.

Maybe do reconnaissance first time and if safe, do the bird on the return route.