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| - This location of Kmart hasn't seen a capital investment since the Great Depression (yes, you read that correctly, Great Depression, NOT Great Recession.) Unaffectionately, I refer to this location as "Came-apart." The only thing they have going for them is they're right on my way home. And sometimes they have pretty decent prices on a few items. However the money you save is quickly evaporated by the time you lose waiting in the checkout line and then checking out. This location is still using beta IBM scanning equipment and registers - I feel so sorry that their minimum wage employees are saddled with such atrocious technology that I almost feel compelled to tip them out of sheer sympathy. (And once tried to do so on their smoke breaks that are held bi-hourly in the front of the store. But no one had an American Spirit to bum me so I refrained.)
I would rather be in line in Walnut Grove, Minnesota waiting for Nels Oleson to ring up a sack of flour for Caroline Ingalls than hit a line more than zero deep at this Kmart. Hell, I'd rather make out with Nellie Oleson too. Their pricing is always wrong on like 13 out of every 10 items. And dare you buy something from their close-out rack - they need 17 managers, a homeless Dominican and the tooth fairy to override the scanned price.
Let's not even discuss their "Shop Your Way" loyalty program. But since you brought it up, let me just say, they bombard you with idiotic emails with worthless calls to action, and then at checkout (after you've waited in line while wishing you were at your proctologist instead), their discounts never calculate at the register. Instead you're told by a chain-smoking minimum wager that "$4.27 is close to $5.00 in savings."
Needless to say, I suggest you let your cat go hungry an extra day or pass on picking up the dryer sheets your wife says your family is in desperate need of. Either way this Kmart is no place for anyone with an IQ with triple digits. Or a pulse (employees excluded of course).
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