Scotty, I agree that you certainly do not want to make a blanket statement about all the K-Mart employees, but there has definitely been some problems with management. When I bought my place in the country 11 years ago, the only Walmart was one of the old stores with no groceries and only open in the daytime. And across the street was a Super K-Mart, groceries and all, open 24 hours a day. It was also the closest grocery store to us. But we had to watch very closely when purchases were being "rung up" at the cash register because they very frequently rang up at a higher price than the posted price. And I don't mean occasionally; I mean nearly every time we shopped there. And many neighbors had already learned about that and had the same experience. IF you caught the error, they would change it. But even when we told the manager about specific items, and he apologized, and said he would get it changed in their computer, he didn't do it. I told him about specific items that he said he would correct, then went back a week later to find the same error.
In addition to the Super K-Mart store, K-Mart also had one of their major distribution warehouses in that town, and was a major employer for the city. Well, first they started closing the store at night, then they closed the warehouse and threw a lot of good people out of work, but told the employees that the store would remain, but then they finally closed up the store. Who was at fault? I don't know. I'm sure they had some good and some not so good employees, but management failed somewhere.