Disclaimer: this is just a meme.

  • clearedtoland@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The fact that things like this never occur to me as possibilities goes to show just how naive I am about how the world works

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        1 year ago

        Be the change you want to see in the world! The shopping cart/parking lot affects us all. Walmart losing money on every avocado doesn’t bother me at all.

        In fact walmart probably doesn’t care at all either, they’ll take electricity over humans any day

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          1 year ago

          A friend of mine told me that when he worked at a grocery store as a teenager that he always liked being tasked with rounding up the grocery carts in the parking lot because he got to go outside and be by himself for a bit. I think about that a lot, but I also return my cart.

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            1 year ago

            Former grocery store teen here. It was nice to get away from customers a little, but then again then you’re stuck in a parking lot with those same customers and now you have to try and avoid getting run over.

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              I always thought it was nice except for when the weather was terrible like when it was really hot or cold and you were out there with numb hands shoving 30 carts across a snow covered parking lot.

              It was only occasionally good

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            Great, since those carts are returned by good people now, it means they can have a 5 minute break outside in the sun instead.

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            1 year ago

            Damn, now I’m going to think of those kids when I return the cart! Maybe I could like, pile them up real bad in the little hut so they can still get fresh air.

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        1 year ago

        Me returning the cart makes a person’s job easier.

        Stealing doesn’t affect the workers.

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          1 year ago

          Funfact: Walmart pays the vendors (usually local person who rents their own truck and buys their own stock) on scan data. If it doesn’t scan, Walmart is also not affected.

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        I return my shopping cart but I couldn’t give a shit less how much Walmart is losing to shoplifters.

        “Oh know guys! We only made $28 million in profit this year instead of $29 million! What will we tell our investors who are each worth six times that?”

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      1 year ago

      It’s all fun and games until you are banned from the local grocery stores .Loss prevention is pretty good these days. It’s the Internet though, they really aren’t stealing. It’s internet tough guy shit.

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        1 year ago

        I was at one and moved an unscanned item to close to the bagging area and the screen froze then showed an areal cam of me getting too close to the bagging area.

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            1 year ago

            Aw, that’s the best part. I love paying with my ridiculous smart watch that I didn’t need.

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                  Oh these are the worst. I had an Apple watch Series 0 I got cheap from a friend. Was pretty neat, but the charging was annoying.

                  Now I have a Casio GBD-200 which gives me a few smartwatch features (notifications, phone finder, vibration) with a battery that lasts 1-2 years and since it’s a G-Shock I don’t have to worry about damaging it.

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                    10 months ago

                    I was curious to see if there was someone else than me with that watch so I searched for GBD-200. Howdy fellow Casio bro ⌚

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      1 year ago

      I have had the thought when buying 2 donuts from the bakery section I could ring it up as 1, but then I realize that it might lead to trouble just to save maybe a dollar at most.