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[–] [email protected] 161 points 3 months ago (4 children)

As a former cashier (grocery store not walmart admittedly, but I doubt things are that different), I dont think weird uses for the items are the way to go, the cashier is barely even going to notice or care what you're buying. what I bring to freak out the cashier, are some item that needs ID to buy, some big heavy item with the barcode removed so that it will take a bunch of lifting and turning in a hopeless effort to find it before someone eventually has to go find another one and bring it over, and a propane refill if walmart does those (at my grocery store the process to go find a full one was a pain, especially in the winter since they were outside). Further, I try to buy these items with the help of a ton of expired and unexpired coupons mixed together, several gift cards, and a stubborn half-deaf old person who wont take no for an answer.

[–] Mpatch 103 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are a fucking monster. The point of this was to have some laughs not cause a poor walmart employee to beat their spouse or off them selves. Damn you're cruel.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey, it could always get worse. I could also specify that these items are purchased on a Sunday that a locally favored football team happens to be playing a game, during the rush of people buying snacks and soda.

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[–] Buddahriffic 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would it be more or less frustrating if instead of an old person, it's a middle aged person who clearly doesn't understand the language but keeps smiling and nodding as if you're on the same page and any time you try to prompt for information, they encouragingly push their items towards you or try to pay you in a currency you don't recognize?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

A bit less, partly because it's easier to be sympathetic to those people, and partly because, in my experience, it can be helped by getting out google translate on one's phone, if one can figure out which language it is

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

How make a cashier consider on the job suicide

[–] EvolvedTurtle 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What aisle has the half-dead old person

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

In my Walmart there is one in every aisle directly in front of what I want scratching their ass and adjusting their teeth.