I really sympathize with what you’re dealing with. It’s awful.
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My coworkers and I blame it on the management mantra of giving the customer an ‘exceptional shopping experience’.
That exceptional shopping experience may or may not have led to more than a dozen of my co-workers (since September) getting exposed and quarantined, and possibly sick. Of course, some of those co-workers go to school at UW-River Falls, which is in the next town over. But I’m not hearing anything out of the college that would indicate they still have a problem there.
That we’ve gone about three months with no new report is quite interesting, as the school has been open for about two of those months.
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This was on Amanpour &n Company last night. It’s about racism in the tax policy.
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More correctly this is a class problem with race wrapped into it. Americans do a very bad job of conflating race with class. They aren’t the same thing but are related. This is what scares poor whites, but they don’t understand class either.
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It’s must be a local demographic thing. Here in the Twin Cities I never see anyone without a mask in either of the local Target/Home Depot’s near me. It’s really rare to see anyone without a mask in most public retail places of business.
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Just this morning my better half suggested that we announce that white men in red states be told that they can’t have the vax until all the POC in their state have gotten it first. Might rearrange their “thinking” (if you can even call it that)
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I have to laugh or I’d cry about general managers, district manager, regional managers, and some damn VPs at the home office and their drive to give an “exceptional shopping experience” claptrap. I really have never seen customers at Target or Walmart for that matter “shopping”, they looking for what they came in for. Yes I’ve purchased something off my list, I’ve walked over to department to see if they have something that I’ve purchased in the past to check the price, but nothing the store can do that would make my “shopping experience” better, they can make it worse by having long check out lines, half filled shelves, and dirty floors. But I try to go off peak hours to avoid long check out lines, and scheduling by management will help with the stocking issues, and dirty floors.
These are not the “ladies who lunch”, who do a little ‘shopping’ before they go to their lunch appointments.
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Maybe even “one last exceptional shopping experience.”
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A sprinkling of Marx in the elementary-school curriculum will take care of this.
Of course, we may have to wait for the Harris Administration. You know her type!
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run hand and glove together…
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My experience there over the last eight months is just the opposite.
If I had a dollar for every time a customer came with an overly full cart and told me they only came in for a couple of items, I could probably really retire. It probably happens a dozen or more times a shift (which, for me, is only about five hours).
Our store is probably one of the worst in terms of condition - we’re on the docket for an upgrade, but we’re really working with the building as it was when it opened a decade or two ago. I’ve countered the ‘exceptional experience’ nonsense with, when you give us exceptional tools, we can then give an exceptional experience. Having no human cashiers before 8a and after 9p when the store is open 7a to 10p, is just one example.
Again, don’t get me started…
I have to be honest when I say, before I started working there, I rarely went in the store - maybe once or twice a year at best. But it is the only department store in town and has limited grocery access (no deli or butchery or fish monger) in a town with only one full service grocery store and an Aldi. So we do get a lot of foot traffic.
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On the contrary: I read every comment you post.
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No matter how nonsensical??? LOL!!!
you’ve posted more than 21% of the replies here.
Too bad for you, D-bot.
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Kentucky—and the 42,000 doses went unused but were not destroyed.
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I go to Target because CVS is the pharmacy inside the store. There is a CVS stand alone location, but for me it’s in a inconvenient location. I’m on two medications, without insurance coverage for drugs, and CVS has the best price. Now recently CVS went into my grocery store, but I don’t think I’ll switch. Target has a better price on kitty litter than Petsmart up the road.
Walmart and Target are in the same shopping center, but I try to avoid Walmart.
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Not advertising anything in particular, but have you looked in to GoodRx? It’s a prescription drug program not affiliated with any insurance program.
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I am so sorry you have to deal with this.
We need to be more sympathetic with our conservative friends animosity to evolution.
After all, they probably feel left out of the process.
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One of the very constructive changes the CDC may be able to push through would be to restore rural health clinics in the southern black belt regions. In Georgia, for example, we don’t even have data on the number of covid deaths in the rural black belt because there is NO medical care of any kind available to these people. We know the death rate went up substantially during the pandemic and that’s about all we know. Rural clinics that used to service these communities have been eliminated. There are no hospitals. And so many of these communities don’t even have a doctor living among them. It’s miles and miles and miles to any sort of health facility.
The other thing the federal government could do is to mandate the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. With only two exceptions (LA and AR), no southern states have the Medicaid expansion – which leaves these rural, poor black belt regions without the means to obtain healthcare even if they can travel to it. Make Medicaid a federally run program, with delegation to states only if they show the willingness and ability to make it work. We do this already with the Clean Water Act. Do it with Medicaid too.
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… and how many people haven’t bothered to try making an appointment because they assume it’s crazy and they will never get one. My hope is that we can redirect public health staff from managing the queue of eager vaccinatees to figuring out who hasn’t gotten theirs and what help they need - a ride? a mobile clinic so they don’t have to navigate the convention center? A chance to tell a dr that they are worried and scared?
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