dust off your resumes' - Wally World greeter positions are back!

RRP

LOL
http://fortune.com/2016/05/04/walmart-brings-back-greeters-to-improve-service-and-fight-theft/?xid=yahoo_fortune

DoubleEgger

It's been so long since I've been to Wally World that I didn't know they had eliminated the greeters. 

RRP

Only reason I know was a fellow I know retired from banking and has been a greeter there for 13 years. He sure the hell doesn't need the meager pay, but he's one of those guys who needs structure in his life that job gives him. BTW I often run in to him and his wife grocery shopping at Kroger! I don't mean a little of this or that half a cart of food! He says the shop lifting problem is horrible, but when they crank up the detectors even little old ladies with a box of Depends get stopped!

WeberWho

Jeremiah

I had wondered whether they got rid of the greeters. I think the bigger problem is society in general and the fact that the majority of wal mart shoppers are just not great people... Ever watch the people of Walmart YouTube video? Lol

SGH

@RRP
Ron, if I had your money I would buy Walmart and close it down

johnkitchens

SGH said:

@RRP
Ron, if I had your money I would buy Walmart and close it down

You going to Target?

Fred19Flintstone

Yeah.  I would rather my family shop at Target.

RRP

you asking me or Scottie? If I had Scottie's money I'd just bring along a "Honey Pot" to Target so I could get neeked and so I could sh*t out in the parking lot so nobody would know what the hell my long tailed shirt covering my blue-jeans really were! You know..."was that man wearing a short skirt or a long shirt?" Door sign would read  Democrats and Chill-dren need not come knockin! 

SGH

johnkitchens said:

SGH said:

@RRP
Ron, if I had your money I would buy Walmart and close it down

You going to Target?

No sir. They will never get one cent of my money for obvious reasons.  

Darby_Crenshaw

Quick question: your wife ever sneak into the men's room because the line for the ladies' room was too long?

if so, she's a criminal b!tch who should be arrested. 

She was trying to rape me, or my son, probably. 

And i think that frankly, she looks a little mannish. We're gonna need to see her genitals to make sure she really should be in there. Sorry. Just trying to be safe

RRP

I'm assuming you directed that to me, and no she never has. My wife of just 3 months shy of 50 years of marriage is from a direct era/upbringing. Oh well - not trying to start a p*ssin contest, but carry on and maybe someone else will engage you tonight.

Ozzie_Isaac

Hmm.  The Walmart up here never lost their greeters.

Fred19Flintstone

Having a couple of daughters and my youngest is a second grader, I will never put her in a position where some perve could waltz into the ladies room with an ironclad cover story and have access to her.  I would feel the same if my daughters were in their thirties.  I don't care what sale they run, Target will not see any of my money.  IMO, Target has endangered vulnerable people to accommodate the wishes of a very small percentage of the population that are transgender and sexual predators will take advantage.

HeavyG

Fred19Flintstone said:

Having a couple of daughters and my youngest is a second grader, I will never put her in a position where some perve could waltz into the ladies room with an ironclad cover story and have access to her.  I would feel the same if my daughters were in their thirties.  I don't care what sale they run, Target will not see any of my money.  IMO, Target has endangered vulnerable people to accommodate the wishes of a very small percentage of the population that are transgender and sexual predators will take advantage.

Statistically children are far more likely to be violated by pastors/preachers/ministers/etc. at churches and religious institutions than they are by random strangers in public restrooms.

buzd504

Fred19Flintstone said:

Having a couple of daughters and my youngest is a second grader, I will never put her in a position where some perve could waltz into the ladies room with an ironclad cover story and have access to her.  I would feel the same if my daughters were in their thirties.  I don't care what sale they run, Target will not see any of my money.  IMO, Target has endangered vulnerable people to accommodate the wishes of a very small percentage of the population that are transgender and sexual predators will take advantage.

I'm curious how you think the pervs are suddenly going to see a new opportunity by recognizing LGBT rights, and I'm wondering what exactly has kept all of the pervs out of the wrong restroom up to now.

Fred19Flintstone

buzd504 said:

Fred19Flintstone said:

Having a couple of daughters and my youngest is a second grader, I will never put her in a position where some perve could waltz into the ladies room with an ironclad cover story and have access to her.  I would feel the same if my daughters were in their thirties.  I don't care what sale they run, Target will not see any of my money.  IMO, Target has endangered vulnerable people to accommodate the wishes of a very small percentage of the population that are transgender and sexual predators will take advantage.

I'm curious how you think the pervs are suddenly going to see a new opportunity by recognizing LGBT rights, and I'm wondering what exactly has kept all of the pervs out of the wrong restroom up to now.

Simple.  They have a cover story & legitimized reasons to stroll into the ladies room now in case of confrontation.

"Take your hands off me!  I identify as a woman today!"

I don't think I'm the only one thinking this as evidenced by the cartoon.

johnkitchens

RRP said:

you asking me or Scottie? If I had Scottie's money I'd just bring along a "Honey Pot" to Target so I could get neeked and so I could sh*t out in the parking lot so nobody would know what the hell my long tailed shirt covering my blue-jeans really were! You know..."was that man wearing a short skirt or a long shirt?" Door sign would read  Democrats and Chill-dren need not come knockin! 

I was asking the question to @SGH because I was pretty sure I knew how he felt about Target.

jak7028

I thought Texas AG Ken Paxton handled the Target situation well for now.  

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/05/04/exclusive-texas-raises-stink-over-targets-transgender-bathrooms.html

Instead of challenging the new rule, he just states it does open up the possibly of danger for women and children.  He wants Target to disclose the full text of the restroom policy and how it intends to protect women and children in the stores now.  At a minimum, it is another headache for Target and set the foundation for a lawsuit.

I haven't seen a response from Target yet, but this was a stupid decision that Target that would win them points with their demographics.  They obviously didn't think it all the way through judging from the amount of backlash they have received.  

The big problem, is bathrooms weren't even an issue until Social Justice Warriors went looking for a problem.  They have created a solution to a problem that didn't exist.

Oh, and I go in Wal Mart so little, didnt even realize they got rid of greeters.  I used to go in Target instead of Walmart.

Legume

I'm not sure the target policy creates more risk for shoppers there than they get from the regulars at most city-based walmarts. 

Rural walmarts (smallmarts) are a different animal altogether and generally nice places to shop (because dollar generals take their place lower on the pecking order in small towns in my experience)

Legume

Buffalo sighted.

Darby_Crenshaw

RRP said:

I'm assuming you directed that to me, and no she never has. My wife of just 3 months shy of 50 years of marriage is from a direct era/upbringing. Oh well - not trying to start a p*ssin contest, but carry on and maybe someone else will engage you tonight.

nope.  it was rhetorical. "your wife" is all our wives.

my point being, under that 'law', if my wife is at a patriots game with and there is a line to the women's room which snakes a hundred feet out the door, while the men are conversely walking in without a line (which is always the case, despite the place being designed to avoid it) , and she says "to heck with that, i'm going in with you" and she walks in with me to grab an open stall, well, then damn, she could be arrested for being a cross dressing ambiguously sexed pedophile, no?

anyway, Ron, you must divest yourself of thinking that everything i say (or others say) is aimed directly at you, and that it is mean-spirited.

there is a general rule here that people give each other grief, and it's no harm, no foul.  it's not life and death. 

and it's not always serious.

RRP

Jeff, what got us sideways was that time I thought I was being funny when I referred to your powerful computers and printers that took so much electricity that street lights dimmed around your town. That set you off and you lashed out! I swore that I would never respond to any of your posts, but recently I sensed you had warmed up so I decided to do the same. I will do my best to turn over a new leaf.

Toxarch

Ours never got rid of the greeters. All they did was take away a couple of their duties like putting stickers on return bags. They can't do that anymore.