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| - Walmart finally found a way to enter Toronto's east end, by taking over the anchor spot vacated by the defunct Canadian chain Zellers in Ghetto Square. (Oh may you be missed.) It's a basic small Walmart with a pharmacy, but no full grocery so don't expect any Superstoreness here.
The aisles are generally messy and disorienting. I'm never a fan of the uniquely Walmart shopping experience anyhow. But a particular experience of their electronics department worth writing about was off-putting.
All I wanted was a set of earphones and a pack of blank DVDs. Simple, yes? But the department had this policy, I was informed by the cashier, that they have to photocopy my receipt, so they have a copy. Like, really?
This ridiculous process took five minutes, because they ran out of paper in the consumer-grade printer-copier like the kind you'd find in a home office they use under the counter for this purpose. Ugh. I never asked why. Why one of the world's largest companies is making this poor underpaid worker make a copy of a sales receipt is something I'm still wondering about. At least he wasn't a dick about it--he kept a friendly posture and also felt this extra step he is forced to make us all endure is stupid.
Walmart is fine if all you want is to get some cheap essentials like soaps and underwear and then GTFO before the zombie hoards strike. But I wouldn't come here to buy a TV or video games, never mind more blank DVDs and cables, if this is how my and the employee's time is valued. Damn, I'd rather have a salesman attempt to sell me on extended warranty, than have five minutes wasted on photocopying a receipt, an archaic practice that today's point-of-sales technology have solved a long time ago. Get with the bloody program.
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