Yet again, I have been infuriated by Walmart. Was in the area of our local Walmart and popped in to get a few things before the store got crazy. Went to go pay at a self service checkout. Scanned the first item and it said it was busy. It wasn't as I was the only one there. Hit the ok button for the message and scanned it again. Same thing. Told the clerk it's not working..she told me to hit the ok button. Told her I already did that twice and it still didn't work...just got a blank stare. Now I'm in IT and that was a system message that users aren't supposed to see. There was something definitely wrong with it. Said screw this and found the only checkout with a clerk in the whole store with someone with a cart already there piled up to the ceiling. Think Sponge Bob...5 hours later...I get to undoubtedly the slowest clerk in the Nation... Why do I do this to myself?
I'm sorry to burst your bubble Jim but you did NOT have the slowest Walmart cashier in the nation. That pleasure fell on me yesterday. Naturally I had ice-cream, popsicles, frozen fruit bars, frozen French fries, and frozen hash browns in my cart. Not only did I have the pleasure of waiting on the slowest clerk but also the slowest customer as well.
Don't you just love it when the person in front of you takes FOREVER to unload their cart and then they wait till the cashier has rang EVERYTHING up and then, and only then, will they rummage around in their purse for that magic piece of plastic to insert it into the reader. It's also great fun to watch all of this and then to have this customer give to an incredibly dirty look because she seems to think that you're trying to eyeball her PIN when she enters it.
Did I mention that it was 98 degrees outside at the time? That didn't help my frozen goods much either, even though I had a small cooler in the car with blue ice in it for the cold stuff.