Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Today Wal-Mart Fails

Today I make a rant about Wal-Mart and the idiots who shop there.
So I went to wal-mart today to get some sewing things. Oh, first of all. The other day I bought a sewing machine. I've been looking at one from wal-mart for a while and just decided to get it. Keep in mind that I bought this one online and it came with free shipping to my home, so I get to avoid wal-mart with this purchase, awesome. It should be here Friday (I'm hoping). Anyway, so I go to wal-mart to look at mat boards and razor thingys and pins and stuff. So I pick a few things out and head over to the bread section... all my bread is gone, healthy life 35 calorie whole wheat bread. Some one cleaned it out. So I settled for white this time (dumb). And then I go to check out and all the lines are crazy long. They really need more cashiers. So I get in the "Speedy Checkout". I'm third in line and there's maybe a total of 5 items between the two customers in front of me. But why does it take over ten minutes to check out one person? First off they did it in two transactions, the first took forever by itself (maybe a check was being written?). And then the microwave they were buying with a gift card or in store credit or something, but of course, it wouldn't work (or most likely didn't have the money on it). So after waiting for more than ten minutes in line for something that should have taken no more than three between the two customers, I gave up. I pulled a Dad. I walked right out of the line leaving my cart sitting there because it had become so frustrating. People need to learn how to check out properly. And if you're going to take forever to buy one thing, maybe you should go stand in the slow line, because I'm fairly sure I could have checked out two or three overflowing carts of groceries in the time I was standing there. Stupid wal-mart wasting me time.
But then I went to Jo-Ann's to see what their prices were like, because maybe it would be worth not having to go to wal-mart again to buy the stuff. And it was more expensive... until I noticed the 40% off sale going on, on mat boards and cutting stuff. And it ended up being like 18 dollars cheaper than it would have at wal-mart, which is awesome. Oh, and they had the size of mat board I wanted there, wal-mart of course only had one size, which was ginormous for my needs right now. So all in all a frustrating, but in the end, productive trip. And I'm totally going to learn to sew. I have to with all the money I've spent :).