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Meijer, Inc. Compliment - People need to stop blaming Meijer for thier own fault at times

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Review by TL03 on 2010-09-02
I have been shopping at Meijer for about 5 years and I have to say that I don't have a problem at the store I go to. I like how their are a lot of variety. They live up to their "One stop shopping" I can go there and buy car items, groceries, plants, electronic items, clothes and home essentials with out having to go to different stores. I have worked for retail before and I can understand some things can be out of worker and company hands. I do have to agree that they do need more cashiers and less U-scans (I personally hate those things) just because for one they take jobs away from people. And of course that is what companies are striving for. Thier prices are good especially when they have items on clearence!

I have read some of the post on here that are just so ridiculously stupid. One is made because it is possable like he said that he probably hit the pay inside button, OK that is not their fault. Consumers take things way out of hand and don't stop to think that maybe they might have done something wrong or they didn't read the sign or didn't read it properly and they jump down the workers throats and demand they get it the price they "think" they saw or get it for free. Then later complain that prices are going up. HMMM well when you have thousands of people who come in and out of the store their are mound to have people who are going to complain or leave perishable items in lanes instead of walking back or handing it to a cashier so they can take it back, the company is going to lose out on that money and of course it is going to effect the prices and when it effects the prices and people don't want to pay the price then the company doesn't make the money and they are losing out on more money and then it effect the workers because now the company have to start cutting hours. Then people start complaining about not enough workers at the store or hard to find a job, but it is all a chain effect.

So since I have worked in retail I can understand when something goes wrong. And that is fine mistakes are going to be made oh well move on. When I have a problem and I ask one of the workers and they are nervous it upsets me because IT'S NOT THIER FAULT and its like they are waiting for some one to yell at them or to call them stupid (which I have seen). And it's NOT right. And people want to complain about workers are rude or they have an attitude, hmm I wonder where it came from??? I bet one of those customers who do yell at these workers probably wouldn't be talkin' all that crap if that person was not on the clock. You just don't go some where and call people the B word or stupid because something didn't work in your favor OR you did something in which you believe wasent your fault.

But like I said I don't have a problem with Meijer nor for any other comapny I shop at. Like they say you have to be in the other persons shoes to understand it and I have.
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Posted by clutzycook on 2010-09-02:
I personally like the self-scan lanes. What I don't like is being stuck behind someone who doesn't know how to use the self scan lanes.
Posted by oldisgood on 2010-09-02:
I guess I am the one you are probably stuck behind. The first time I used one of the self-scans I embarrassed my husband so bad because I was literally yelling (not loud) at the stupid machine. I swore at that time I would never ever use a machine that was smarter than me. A few months later, I tried again and only cussed a little bit. But---I did conquer it. However, I think I like the cashiers better because they go faster than I can. Meijers, however, has the u-scan lanes with LONG belts so the machine isn't saying "put the item in the bag" all the time when there is no room to put the item in the bag. I have encountered some very friendly Meijer cashiers who have helped me through and been very, very courteous. I LIKE MEIJERS
Posted by Venice09 on 2010-09-02:
And I'm next in line, oldisgood. I don't even want to learn how to use the self-scanner. I like dealing with humans.
Posted by clutzycook on 2010-09-02:
The only problem with the self scan lanes at my local Meijer is that they seem to put the B-team members on those lanes. But I'm with you oldi, I like the longer belts.
Posted by Nohandle on 2010-09-02:
Nice reminder for everyone. I personally have never made a scene at any business I've shopped at. I still love the story of shopping with my SIL in another area. She smugly looked at me while I waited in line to have a cashier ring up my purchase and she was in the self-scan line or whatever it's called. I wouldn't take any thing for propping my foot on the bottom of the cart, looking at my watch and she was still having a problem trying to check out. I was ready to go and she was still fooling around. A big smile at the memory.
Posted by Wally86 on 2010-09-02:
they used to have self scans at my Wal-mart but they got rid of them. Prob cause every minute someone was calling an employee for help and the dang thing malfunctioned half of the time.
Posted by clutzycook on 2010-09-02:
They got rid of them here too, wally. I miss them, actually.

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