Wally World STILL!!

Wife came home angry yesterday, started firing off texts to me as I was off to Oklahoma, seems WM in Owensville MO and Warrenton MO are now Pressing use of the Self Checkouts, reduced the number of Checker lanes to four at Owensville and six at Warrenton then only had TWO open at either store with a clerk explaining to customers they NEEDED to use the Self Check stations.  Ticks me off the wife HAS to shop at Wally Worlds anyway.

Edited by DMiller - 22 Aug 2021 at 8:21am

     Seems to be the trend at the Wally Worlds around here too. Really gripes me that you usually have to wait in a long line to check out even when there are relatively few people in the store, like at 8:00 am. We have Aldi's grocery stores around here: German based. They don't have the variety of brands that other stores have but from what we have seen good quality and mostly less $ than WM. The checkers literally will process your cart full in a couple of minutes but do not bag. You bring your own bags or buy theirs and do it yourself. And you don't have to cover 5 acres to get through the grocery selection either. All good for us old farts.

We have a couple of Aldi stores to. Like them pretty good. We also have an old IGA in Fairmount and that's where we usually go. It costs a little more and they don't have nearly as much as Walmart but you deal with people. You can even still talk to the butcher to get what you want. I know the self checkout thing started a while back but I have to wonder if the push to it now stems, at least in part, from the lack of people willing to do the job

IF I am the one to shop for the week to two weeks I shop local, two small grocers and a Sav-A-Lot here in town. SAL gives good bargains but have to watch as some are actually higher priced than the other shops, the market north of town has a Awesome Meat section and full time butcher shop, tends to buy locally grown beef/pork and lamb.  Other grocer uses same discount supplier that supplies WM and other grocers with Best Brand sells at similar pricing and do NOT have to drive thirty minutes to get there.

They been doing it here (Wally world central) for quite some time. Our local store has lost many customers.
I can’t understand it???
A few years back they opened a lot of small gas n grocery stores in small towns all around North west Arkansas. Ran them six months to a year and shut them all down. Said it was an experiment.

Most checkout lanes at Wally World are the self checks now. I despise them, its not horrible if you have just a few things, but if have a cart full, its worse than spending time with your wife’s family.
Haven’t bought a can of paint from WM in over 25 years, around here they handle Glidden, and WM generic.
WM’s are doing away with a lot of the sub sandwiches, and such. Guess the Subways in store didn’t like the competition.

we have an aldi store about 25 miles from us, we were there once, most all we bought expired the next day.  

WOW, my wife ran to Wally world today in Festus,same deal as everyone else is saying , she said two check out lanes going, couple of managers steering everyone else to the self checkout, she also said very very little left in there to buy.I told her she should have left that cart loaded and right where it was at, screw them, we'll spend our money at the local mom & pop grocery.

That's fine, they'll have to pursue that cost cutting measure without my participation.

Walmart, Taco Bell etc. all going to self checkout, a generation or two and nobody will notice. My kids never experienced a full service gas station, you can thank Casey’s for that. They could sell their gas cheaper by not paying an attendant, worked so well they became a volume buyer.
Back in our day, the parents had the money and business catered to them, nowadays kids have lots of spendable cash and we’re just in the way for a little while.

When the "assistants" come up to me and ask me to use self checkout, I always ask if there is a discount in price, for doing so.  Now they leave me alone.

During our stay in Orlando during the 4'th of July week, we visited a Walmart that had MORE cashier lanes open than the self checkouts  !!