Walmart is developing a robot that identifies unhappy shoppers - Sensationalist Headlines

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58120/fa38e1da-961b-4ad5-b05e-436baee4fcda/image.png Goodday, I am WalMarvin the WalMart happines robot... please don't be sad... that is my job...

a slightly better system would probably have put the cameras on the employees so you knew when they needed aid with extra checkouts, not the customers the most realistic situation: listen to employees when they ping a manager to get more checkouts open you overcomplicating corporate twits

... and kills them. This summer-- Jim Belushi Renee Zellweger Michael Beihn In THE BAGGINATOR.

It'd probably last about a day before someone gets so irritated by it that it'd get smashed, either employee or customer.

As an employee of a retail chain currently if these get installed I'm just going to walk past them scowling like Judge Dredd until management realize what a shit idea they are.

I can't stress how much I agree with this. Why do they have so many registers and even during the day not even half of them are open? I try to avoid Walmart as much as possible because I don't want to waste a half hour waiting in line.

I've found that you get more when you're polite as well when dealing with customer service, contrary to the whole "squeaky wheel gets the grease". You can still be firm but not be a dick about it.

The thing is we have to ask(I’m working at a hardware store) because people are fucking retarded cunts who don’t know how to look for themselves and need to be babied otherwise they keep going “derp I checked you don’t have it” ”can you tell me where the spray paint is? I can’t find it” oh gee look here in the very obvious paint section ”do you have cable ties? I can’t find them” says the man standing in front of cable ties at the electrical aisle. so we have to assume anyone who walks in is an idiot.

Destroy all synths. Fucking coming for our jobs. You see one of these skinjobs fucking push them over and laugh!

I'm never happy when I shop at Wal-Mart, it feels like I'm selling my soul.

the worst thing is, the specific walmart i've had the most experience with is one right smack in the middle of tourist zone in orlando, florida. No matter what time of the day I had ever gone into that store was it ever NOT packed, like even at 3 in the morning I'd go expecting a quick trip and I'd walk in to see the store packed with jet-lagged tourists blocking aisles and leaving shit on the shelves all incorrectly and yet NEVER EVER would they open more than 2 registers at night

To be fair I've worked at both Home Depot and Lowes. We're not "very helpful" because the computer training they give us does fuck all to actually explain some of the more common products that we sell. I couldn't tell you the first thing about ANY of the plants in the Garden Center because there was quite literally 0 training on them. As far as I can remember they didn't even tell you basics like the difference between an Annual and a Perennial. What kills me the most is most of the questions can be solved with a quick google search which, more often than not, I have to do right in front of the customer to get them an answer. Hell I've had people bring me a leaf, a single leaf, and ask me what plant it came from. I try to be helpful but it's hard to do so when some people come up to you with very broad questions that could be a very specific problem. "Why are my bushes dying after only a month", I dunno dude it could be many different things.

Literally not a single retail store I've worked in, in a long career of retail, has ever had enough staff period, let alone till staff, which you can blame management for, because they never fucking hire anyone.

I think the general philosophy of installing so many registers is 1: holiday rushes, and 2: costs are saved on repairs if you can just let a few of them break down over a month or two and just put staff on the ones that work, then send a technician once to fix up a handful at a time