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Wal-Mart
August 19, 2009
A while back my wife and I wanted to carve some pumpkins for our front porch during Halloween. We thought Wal-Mart would be the cheapest place to buy them so that's where we went. As we walked in, we could see there were several different varieties to choose from. There were regular pumpkins, giant pumpkins, and then a bin full of mini pumpkins (containing white, orange, and green mixtures).
The giant pumpkins were very expensive, on the order of $15.00 each. Instead of paying a lot for those ones, we decided to just get a few regulars that were on the larger side. After searching for about 15 or 20 minutes, we had selected all the pumpkins we wanted. I had found a particularly large pumpkin which was perfectly round.
We then headed for the check out counter. After waiting in a huge line, it was our turn to make our purchase. We placed the pumpkins on the conveyor belt and watched them approach the cashier. The total came out to be over $50. Completely confused, we asked why it came out to be so much. The lady told us that we weren't buying the regular pumpkins but that we must have gotten them from the jumbo bin. When I told her that we got them from the regular bin, she flat out told us she thought we were lying! I told her that we had selected them from the bargain pile and guaranteed her that they weren't the jumbo variety. It was obvious that this was the case because the jumbo variety had distinctly different features such as large ribs that went down the sides. Also, the jumbo pumpkins had been marked to differentiate them from the regular ones.
Just then, her manager rushed by. The Wal-mart employee yelled out to her boss, "Hey, are these the jumbos or the regulars?" Her manager glanced over at the pumpkins as he quickly passed and said, "Yeah, those are the jumbos", and continued on without missing a step. I was furious. How could he tell from that far away?
She turned to us with a smug look on her face as if she were totally vindicated and said, "See, they are the jumbo pumpkins. You're just trying to cheat the system!" I was so mad I could have exploded. I sure wasn't going to pay fifty bucks for a couple of crappy pumpkins. I told her to keep the stupid pumpkins and that we'd never be back. That was last October and I probably haven't spent more than five dollars at that miserable store since. They would have made a lot more money by just trusting their customers and looking into the issue a little further to discover that in fact they were regular pumpkins.
I hate Wal-Mart! - Guest
August 19, 2009
A while back my wife and I wanted to carve some pumpkins for our front porch during Halloween. We thought Wal-Mart would be the cheapest place to buy them so that's where we went. As we walked in, we could see there were several different varieties to choose from. There were regular pumpkins, giant pumpkins, and then a bin full of mini pumpkins (containing white, orange, and green mixtures). The giant pumpkins were very expensive, on the order of $15.00 each. Instead of paying a lot for those ones, we decided to just get a few regulars that were on the larger side. After searching for about 15 or 20 minutes, we had selected all the pumpkins we wanted. I had found a particularly large pumpkin which was perfectly round.
We then headed for the check out counter. After waiting in a huge line, it was our turn to make our purchase. We placed the pumpkins on the conveyor belt and watched them approach the cashier. The total came out to be over $50. Completely confused, we asked why it came out to be so much. The lady told us that we weren't buying the regular pumpkins but that we must have gotten them from the jumbo bin. When I told her that we got them from the regular bin, she flat out told us she thought we were lying! I told her that we had selected them from the bargain pile and guaranteed her that they weren't the jumbo variety. It was obvious that this was the case because the jumbo variety had distinctly different features such as large ribs that went down the sides. Also, the jumbo pumpkins had been marked to differentiate them from the regular ones.
Just then, her manager rushed by. The Wal-mart employee yelled out to her boss, "Hey, are these the jumbos or the regulars?" Her manager glanced over at the pumpkins as he quickly passed and said, "Yeah, those are the jumbos", and continued on without missing a step. I was furious. How could he tell from that far away?
She turned to us with a smug look on her face as if she were totally vindicated and said, "See, they are the jumbo pumpkins. You're just trying to cheat the system!" I was so mad I could have exploded. I sure wasn't going to pay fifty bucks for a couple of crappy pumpkins. I told her to keep the stupid pumpkins and that we'd never be back. That was last October and I probably haven't spent more than five dollars at that miserable store since. They would have made a lot more money by just trusting their customers and looking into the issue a little further to discover that in fact they were regular pumpkins.
I hate Wal-Mart! - Guest
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