Walmart remodels, you can check in, but you can't check out.

From my understanding it is a theft prevention measure. It's a tough call because I hate being funneled in and out one entrance. On the other hand I dislike shoplifting.

At mine they check receipts at the door if you go through self check with a full cart.

This pisses people off. I've seen some healthy exchanges

Nobody F's with me though

When I'm on my feet and rollin I just must have this "presence" that screams you're in my personal space....be advised

I always go in through the exit and leave through the entrance. I take the cart and flip it upside down to make them work. Sometimes I go in and get a. Bunch of dairy frozen stuffs you know fill the cart and leave it in some remote location and walk out sometimes I shop lift just cause even though I got the money

Anyone else find it creepy that they put permanent gates in for COVID19, and now the remodel, so we can't leave at all unless we go through the registers. All the registers are all together now.

They just remodeled our Walmart, and thought it was weird, as it's not that old, and so now they have the gates when you come in, and so you can't go back out unless you go through only one check out area, so creepy.

If you try to go back through the gates an alarm goes off, so what say you GLP, whatever could we need to be choraled in one and not go back out.

Honestly, I felt pretty trapped. There were 20 people in line, which I didn't expect, and didn't really need the stuff, so that's when I realized, you can no longer just walk out of Walmart, one way in, one way out, creepy.

Glad I live in Florida. Our Walmart is wide open.
Didn't wear a mask shopping there.
Started working there yesterday tho, and I gotta wear the mask to work.
The lady scanned my temp at 7 am and was 93?
I'm like yeah, I rode my bike.
From Friday on it'll be 3am bike rides tho.
Only thing I miss is it being open 24 hours.

Please post pics. I've been to Walmart twice in the past seven years, it's not a store anyone needs to shop at very often; who needs Chinese sh*t?

Anyway a pic would help greatly. No one blocks my exiting a business.

Uh, this is in Florida, Tony Meatball, Tampa Bay area. You must be in a smaller populated county. We have had to wear masks here too since the whole COVID crap, real liberal mayor in St Pete and Tampa too I think, and I think that just spread throughout the two counties. Ugh.

Oh, and usually those forehead scanners tend to run cool. Normal temperature is 98.6, so personally, I find them pretty useless.

It’s to try and cut back on theft and people can’t just run out with merchandise now.

LOL, yeah, we had that at one of our super centers, so not sure whey they have to build a cattle corral.

Fort Myers area, across the bridge.

They also have us use an app to self diagnose in 5 questions lol

My HR girl at orientation said they do $3M/week in sales!

Walmart is F'd up, I went in yesterday to send Christmas money to my kids, just as I have for every Christmas, Birthday or emergency for the last 7 years. Just so happens I needed to renew my drivers license and in MO they stamp void on your plastic and give you a paper version (with pic) until the state sends a new plastic. So I tell the lady I need to send money, cash in hand, she pulls it all up on the screen, all the info is there and then she says (as always) I need to see your license...then she informs me that I can't send money without the plastic version, no other form of ID will do, not even my passport. I can cash a check and they will give me money without a license, but they won't let me send cash (that's the new sign she showed me) I said are you serious? yep, now I have to find an alternate way to get money to the kids...I was SO ticked off. NOTHING Walmart does any more surprises me, can't wait until I live somewhere that I don't have to go in another one

Nice area, probably not as crowded, maybe that's why.

LOL, yeah, we had that at one of our super centers, so not sure whey they have to build a cattle corral.

Walmart is F'd up, I went in yesterday to send Christmas money to my kids, just as I have for every Christmas, Birthday or emergency for the last 7 years. Just so happens I needed to renew my drivers license and in MO they stamp void on your plastic and give you a paper version (with pic) until the state sends a new plastic. So I tell the lady I need to send money, cash in hand, she pulls it all up on the screen, all the info is there and then she says (as always) I need to see your license...then she informs me that I can't send money without the plastic version, no other form of ID will do, not even my passport. I can cash a check and they will give me money without a license, but they won't let me send cash (that's the new sign she showed me) I said are you serious? yep, now I have to find an alternate way to get money to the kids...I was SO ticked off. NOTHING Walmart does any more surprises me, can't wait until I live somewhere that I don't have to go in another one

From my understanding it is a theft prevention measure. It's a tough call because I hate being funneled in and out one entrance. On the other hand I dislike shoplifting.

So if you go in and they are out of the item you came in for (which is often the case at our Super Center), must you go through the checkout line or is there another path?

I'm a former loss prevention manager for Kmart.
It is definitely to deter shoplifting. At this time of year, shoplifting is high and it's common for thieves to walk out with a full shopping cart of merchandise. That's tough to do walking through a line of shoppers and a cashier/checker, however. With the pandemic, many big box retailers have stopped shoplifting apprehensions to keep their detectives safe from Covid. A pro shoplifter wouldn't think twice about spitting or coughing on you. It sucks and it's inconvenient for the customers, though.