Spinning the carousel

[k0ua]

I’ve experienced the same thing as OP, or they leave a bag on carousel, and only hand you one.
I take the more cynical view that they want customer to not see a bag or two and leave the store without their merchandise. It’s pure profit.

owww... now that is cynical...

 

[airbiscuit]

I don't question your motives. It;s just that in my opinion, Walmart doesn't treat their customers or their employees all that well.

 

[kf4uda]

Just be glad she didn't have to count change back to you without the cash register telling her. I have encountered that before with some young folks. It is both sad and comical. I would say that I blame the education system but they are not alone in the blame. My Mother taught me how to count change long before the education system did.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Sort of like a third grade science lesson...note the picture at the top right of the page...it states that bacteria is ten times bigger than viruses...Body odor is caused by bacteria and you can plainly sense body odor through most masks...

You are not smelling the bacteria themselves, but molecules produced by their metabolic processes. Kinda like smelling a pot of beans cooking; you are smelling airborne molecules.

 

[ustmd]

As someone who once worked in a "loss reduction" department, I can say the most likely reason they are taught to turn the carousal away from the customer is to keep unscrupulous customers from slipping unpaid merchandise into the bags with other product that has been already scanned. Having shoplifters either "co-mingle" paid and un-paid merchandise in a single bag or just brazenly put product into a bag and try to walk out was a fairly common problem. From the thief's perspective, co-mingling the product is a good strategy. First, since they are buying stuff, it is less suspicious, but also if there is a receipt checker, he may not notice the unpaid product or if it does get caught, the thief can claim that it was the checker who did not scan the product.

 

[airbiscuit]

That's a pretty good explanation.

 

[bunyip]

Go to Aldi, they won't pack your bags (not here anyway)

 

[k0ua]

As someone who once worked in a "loss reduction" department, I can say the most likely reason they are taught to turn the carousal away from the customer is to keep unscrupulous customers from slipping unpaid merchandise into the bags with other product that has been already scanned. Having shoplifters either "co-mingle" paid and un-paid merchandise in a single bag or just brazenly put product into a bag and try to walk out was a fairly common problem. From the thief's perspective, co-mingling the product is a good strategy. First, since they are buying stuff, it is less suspicious, but also if there is a receipt checker, he may not notice the unpaid product or if it does get caught, the thief can claim that it was the checker who did not scan the product.

That might be a possible explanation, but what would prevent a person from still doing that when the already checked and now complete circuit of the carousel has occurred and the bag is now in front of the customer? I don't really see the difference. Perhaps I lack skill in sneaking goods past the ever vigilant checker? I am still betting on the "she lied" scenario, and many if not most of the other checkers will by their own volition without being prompted spin the carousel the "correct" way.

 

[k0ua]

Go to Aldi, they won't pack your bags (not here anyway)

yep. bring your own bags and pack your own goods. and no stinking carousel either!

 

[k0ua]

As someone who once worked in a "loss reduction" department, I can say the most likely reason they are taught to turn the carousal away from the customer is to keep unscrupulous customers from slipping unpaid merchandise into the bags with other product that has been already scanned. Having shoplifters either "co-mingle" paid and un-paid merchandise in a single bag or just brazenly put product into a bag and try to walk out was a fairly common problem. From the thief's perspective, co-mingling the product is a good strategy. First, since they are buying stuff, it is less suspicious, but also if there is a receipt checker, he may not notice the unpaid product or if it does get caught, the thief can claim that it was the checker who did not scan the product.

So... how does the efficiency department stack up against the loss reduction department? Or where they one in the same?