[G.AnteFilipovic]

Originally Posted by AaronT

Now for my jobs. When I use to work at wal-mart (markham markville to be percise)

- Milk sometimes sat in the back unrefridgerated after a delivery for several hours due to short handed staff to get the job done. The freezers in the back are not big enough to pull the whole skid of milk in so it took 2 employees 1 hour of heavy lifting to get all the milk in there. And like i said, sometimes the job did not get started tell several hours after delivery. And from friends who still work there, it STILL happens today. Do not buy milk from wal-mart.

- Often the frozen foods freezer (the on floor one) used to break down. Once time I helped in the clean up and basically we had to take all the food, file it, and throw it in bins to be disposed of. I threw EVERYTHING I got a hold of out, but there were like 10 of us working on it and the 3 managers kept lots of stuff (like yogurt and maple leaf meat packages which had clearly gone bad because of the broken cooling.) Anything to keep the store budget up of course, cause thats there sole job as managers.

- Employees are told when re-stocking shelves to bring older expiry dates (not expired yet tho) to the front of the shelf and place the new products behind. This makes sense, but it was often hard work to do that and no1 really did, thus the new stuff was usualy at the front. But just incase you shop on a day when an employee is doing their job properly, check behind your products before you buy, you can possibly snag ones at the back which have an expiry date futher away (new stock).

- Mostly all returns listed as defective (despite still working condition) are trashed. I always loved throwing out the defective returns cause it was easy to pocket any items I wanted. Free stuff I got over the years were A PSP, various video games, art supplies, a digital tire gauge and more. I always told the managers that it was wrong to throw out so many returns and that we should be donating them to a charity (Mostly everything was in good working order. Like if a pack of 105 pencil crayons was missing 1 pencil, it would get tossed, rather then being donated). They said they could not donate anything because they needed to trash it so the companies would refund them the money once they write it off (hence why the return policy is so lax)

This is spot on!!! Great post!