My depressing trip to Kmart today [View All]

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First thing I noticed was two middle-age men ... about my age walking up and down the street out front of the store wearing advertising sandwich boards like these:



With "Big Sale at Kmart today", written on the front and back. It was in the forties outside today. Pretty cold for old geezers like me.

Pull right up to the front of the store and park next the the Handicap parking. The lot seems rather empty. This is the Sunday the week before Thanksgiving. Normally this store would be a mad house. It isn't.

I go in and there are more employees than shoppers. This is the Sunday before Thanksgiving I keep telling myself. I get my things and head for the checkout that normally would be so long people would be complaining about the delay. Not today. There was only three registers open and I only had to wait for one person in front of me. It was a woman with some things that looked like a few essentials and a few small child's outfits and two small toys. When she went to check out she asked for the price of the child's outfits that she found them on the discount rack and wanted to check the price of them to see if they were on sale. There weren't and said she didn't want them. Same thing happened with the child's toys. I was going to pay for the stuff for her but I checked and I barely had enough for my stuff or I would have.

As I said there were three checkout ladies in a huge Kmart where there are maybe 14 registers available. And the three were standing around most the time. And as I walked out I noticed there were five people at the computer systems with chairs in the front of the store filling out applications. All this the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

I told my brother what I seen today when I got to his house and said to him that at the rate we are going him and I are going to end up being Walmart greeters before this mess is all over with. He disagreed. He said all the good jobs like those will all be filled when we need them. I looked at him and realized that he wasn't kidding around.

Don