5 warnings to buyers of former Walmart employees
If you are in the store, you are watched, but that's not all you need to know.
Millions of Americans like Walmart for its competitive prices and its great selection. Whether you need a last minute bag of dog food or plan to buy larger tickets like a living room section or a lawn mower, this large -scale retailer has covered you. But even for pure and hard fans, there are things you may not knowShopping in Walmart- And, finally, the former employees overthrow the beans. Read the rest for five major warnings from ex-employees of Walmart.
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1 Security cameras can read your texts.
Walmart's security cameras do not spoil. According to a former employee who goes through @obeygoddess on Tiktok, they offer full coverage of the store and are so high definition that you can zoom in to read the text messages of a buyer.
"One of the first things they have done [during training] were to bring us into the losses prevention room and zoom in until now [on an image of the camera] that you could literally read the date of the newspaper, "she said in aviral video. "They were trying to show us that if you fly Walmart, they will see."
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2 Check machines are more supervised than you think.
It is not because there is no cashier on the machine check check machine. According to @obeygoddess, the retailer has special devices that show employees what each person sounds with self-gray. If they suspect that you fly, they can suspend your transaction from afar. If this happens, it will seem that your cash machine was broken.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"At this point, you have no choice but to call for help," said the employee inAnother viral video. "When we come, we pretend that something is wrong with the machine." The employee then discuss your items and will ask you to go to a supervised cashier machine. And just like that, the display attempt at the display is avoided in the most secret way possible.
3 None of the employees are product experts.
If you have a question about a product at Walmart, you could be better consulted Google than a Walmart employee. On Reddit, aformer employee Which passes by U / Beepboopbopbopdo Work in the PET section. Today it's. Yesterday, I was in equipment, and tomorrow, I could be healthy and in style, or I could be in paper and chemicals, "they wrote." The same goes for everyone here. ""
In fact, a general lack of knowledge is essentially cooked in the training of employees. "We are trained to read the box and essentially tell you what we see on the box," explains the former employeeParis Mars, an influencer of the social media which goes through the Heyparis handle, in aYouTube video. The only exception is mobile phone workers, who are employed by telephone companies rather than Walmart.
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4 There are plainclothes security agents in the store.
If you are in a Walmart, buyers next to you may not be the buyers - they could be security under cover. Mars also notes that she saw this during her mandate at the store. "There is a security dressed in simple clothes and they look like customers," she said. "They claim that they are shopping - they could have a cart, they could have a basket - but they look at you."
In addition, she says that these workers can even be encouraged to catch shopping thieves: "I have been told that for each person they catch in Walmart, they get as a percentage, or increase, or commissioned for The person they caught. " In other words, people with sticky fingers should stay at home.
5 You shouldn't ask employees to check the back for you.
At least not if you wish, that is to say. Mars says that most employees on the ground will simply go to the back-shop, will chat with their friends and return to explain that they could not find the article.
"The best way to bring someone to check if something is in stock in the back for you is not to speak directly to an employee of Walmart, but look for one of the boys behind the scenes," she said. She explains that these employees are those who wear large cases, boxes and pushcartts. "They are more likely to look in the back for you for the article you are looking for a real Walmart employee," explains Mars. Look for one and you might find what you're looking for.
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