Wal-Mart Asks Suppliers to Give Up Control of Their Deliveries

there is only 1 simple reason i dont go to walmart

you are guaranteed to wait atleast a half hour at the checkout no matter what....they never have enough cashiers or even self scans

its a joke and i refuse to do it...i go to meijer and never wait at all

 

I don't disagree..

 

I drove around all day yesterday looking for a Meijers and didn't see one. So I had to settle for a Walmart <sigh>

 

where do you want me to go? they put everyone else in my area out of business.... oh, we have meijer, bestbuy, a couple of big box office stores, target, etc....its all the same cancer.

 

I like how if you sit in line for 3 hours (ive done it before), and were 2 hours early when you got there (the earliest they'll take you), and now you're an hour late...and we wont take you. what the god #### #### do they want you to do?

 

You "don't Know" because You've NEVER EVER Worked for that company. PERIOD. Therefore You haven't got a clue as to what goes on behind the scenes. Admit it. What info you have about them is plain "He said She Said". Plain and simple.

I however, Have, in many different facets. From a general Contractor on the construction side, to data & communications, to General Retail & have seen more BS & crap that they do their folks, of whom work VERY HARD, had never missed a day, Always On time & did what ever they were told/ Yet, let one of them make a comment that a manager or higher up didn't like, You were quickly found to be on the fast track out the door. PERIOD.

The way they treat customers as a whole? Implorable, NO EXCUSE. Heck, the Associates try harder to please the customer's than Managment ever did. Yet let management discover that the associate is now behind in their work for taking the time to help a customer, the associate is pulled to the side and lectured. Period.

Out of the 300+ stores & DC's through out the US, canada, China & India, I've worked in over the years, IT's all been the same crap. And the drivers? OMG!! They are really treated like dirt in behind the scenes at the DC's by their Fleet mgrs. Managers from the store will call the DC and complain about a load that had toppled over inside the truck & now at their dock, the inside of the truck looks like a bomb went off in it. And even though the driver, Most times than not, never sees the inside of that trailer until he's getting ready to unload it at the store, He's the one catching hell. Some how, it manages to surpass the higher ups over loading those trucks that it's 90% of the time, those morons that are loading those trucks, who are at fault. But guarenteed, 99% of the time, nothing will ever be said to those loaders. It will be the Driver who catches hell.

Why? each truck is assigned 4 people to load what ever is comming down the belt. & between the 4 of them, they have less than 30 minutes to load that truck. How? What ever comes down that track, it is taken off in that order and slung onto the floor of that trailer. (Unless there is paletized freight) then it is "Most of the time" set on the floor to one side of the trailer (NOt Both-side by side, front to back.) NOPE! That would be too simple. One side, front to back, and that is no exageration. And if that isn't bad enough? These idiots will stack yet another Pallet of "say, dog food or grass seed" On top of either a pallet of toilet paper, or worse yet, Cases of product already stacked on the floor.

So please, spare me your "infininate wisdom" of "How They truely function on the inside behind closed doors", until you've acutally walked a mile in those workers shoes. Then come back & talk to us about WM. Untill then, WM Drivers have my greatest respect, while at the same time, & that company needs to keep their trashy practices withinside the company, not try & pass it off to those like swift, McLeod, or any other carrier. As I'm fully convinced that is the reason as to why swift & those like wift, has such a high turnaround on drivers. I'd almost bet that most of them that is no longer there, were placed on dedicated WM loads or Targets.

Now that I've said my peace on that, I'm done. Think what you want, but know this, I know better.

Peace

 

I totally agree with THD

I had interesting experiences when i worked at walmart store 2062. (i94 exit 29 in michigan) I worked in "grocery ICS", aka "stocking groceries", and everyone in that department was supposed to be scheduled for 11am-8pm. Well, i never was! I was in college when i started, and had to have a bit of an odd schedule to work around my classes, but walmart was perfectly willing to work around the classes. Or my managers were atleast.

I should point out that i almost always had a 1 hour unpaid lunch, so thats why most of these are 9 hour shifts...most people wouldnt expect walmart to give a full hour for lunch...

Well, i ended up working primarily 1pm - 10pm. Since everyone else on that entire side of the store went home at 8, including the managers....guess who was there to stock? Me. Guess who was there to help customers? Me. Guess how many customers there were? A LOT.

Most of the time, my manager would tell me several things he wanted me to do before i went home, when he went home.

I'd do what i could, but quite often, those 2 hours were entirely unproductive because of constant customer questions. And they'd always seem to come up in groups. Sometimes they'd start asking about things in frozen or dairy, and i'd have to go in the freezer and cooler and dig up stuff. And for the most part, since those werent my departments to cover, I didn't know where stuff was. But...what good is a store with no customers? So i'd do what i could, unless someone in those departments was at work.

I got written up for helping customers. "low productivity", they called it. They even claimed i was often wandering around in other departments, in GM. bulllllll. never did that.

Walmart does not know how to keep employees happy. at all. Period..

 

Meijers is just as bad as walmart. They're union, sure, but i've known a few people that worked at our local meijer, and it sure didnt sound like a worthwhile union. They make the same thing walmart pays, not much! The union does not seem to be doing anything over there that walmart does not do without a union. Things like "not firing without good reason", and grandfathering workers who have been there for a long time into pay scales that dont exist anymore.

For example, yeah, walmart'll fire you without much reason, but theres a quite lengthy process they go through, unless you "steal". Sometimes they accuse people of stealing time and fire them for it, which is bad enough, but whats a union going to say when you say..."THIS GUY IS STEALING FROM THE COMPANY!!!!!"?

And walmart used to pay DOUBLE TIME to anyone working on sunday..regardless of hours worked. At my walmart, there were several associates who were grandfathered in on that one.

Hell, walmart didnt really have any set maximum pay on the pay scales when i worked there. You could count on a 40 cent raise after your first 90 days, and then every year after that, unless you screwed up...some guys at my store were making $16ish an hour stocking shelves...dont know how they dealt with working for the company that long though...

Unions are good, but I can't stand it when i see a local that is not doing anything helpful whatsoever, and when i see that the workers in that local dont give a #### and dont do anything to fix it.

One guy i talked to, didnt even know what union he belonged to!!!

Everything costs more at meijer, but it still hurts local economys, even if it is a smaller company. Most everything they sell is imported, etc. But it costs more...and a lot of people seem to go there because of that, lol.

 

the walmart by my house looks like they go to every prison and mental instituition, picks the people with the least people skills and says congratulations you now work at wal mart