I stopped in Walmart last Saturday to pick up a few things. As I was checking out I struck up a conversation with the young lady running the checkout. We were chatting and then I noticed that a single onion rang up at almost $4. I said "hold on, there's no way that one onion weighs over 2 pounds".
She took the onion out of the bag, re-weighed it. This time it came in at about $0.80. I was still confused about the first weight and as she continued to ring up my items, I looked down at the scale.......and her belly was resting on the thing.:-O
I started to say something, but I decided that there was no point in embarrassing anyone.
After I got to my car, I wondered if this was another of WalMart's little ploys to extract more money from customers......:-(
You're not alone, Frank
From "People of Walmart"
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?page_id=9810&paged=4
May 27th, 2010
By The Pound
During Thanksgiving there is a coffee company that makes pumpkin-flavored coffee as a limited edition item and they get snatched up in our little town pretty fast. Seeing as Walmart always seems to have what we need, we ran in one night after a movie. My friend decided she was more broke than I and would buy the coffee in bulk and I grabbed a prepackaged bag for myself. After we went through the line we compared our receipts and realized mine was much cheaper for the amount of beans I got. We both stood there and turned around to see the rather large cashier check the next person out and noticed that her flap of belly fat had nowhere else to go but the produce scale in front of her. She had actually weighed her own stomach while weighing my friend’s small bag of coffee beans! I wanted her to go to customer service and tell them what happened, but she thought it would be too cruel.
You're not alone, Frank
Wow!! What's really sad is that most people take that computer/ register to be the gospel. I hardly ever go through the checkout without something ringing up incorrectly.
My wife has abandoned WalMart and I'm slowly getting there myself. Things certainly went to heck when ole Sam died.
You're not alone, Frank
Many years ago I saw a comic that involved a butcher named Chuck, his thumb and a lady ordering chuck roast.
