Some strange things and policies regarding Walmart.
They tend to be cheap regarding staffing and customer service and keep employee hours as low as possible, there may not be a single associate on the sales floor, if a cashier or two calls out sick, then they fill that by pulling a floor employee and making them a replacement cashier, very few employees are not register trained, exceptions would be cart pushers most of whom are mentally challenged, and a very few other long time employees that somehow never got trained for that.
There might not be an associate to assist you, but they are watching you on cameras, they don't like getting ripped off and are as vigilant as any other store and above that level, they ain't soft on asset protection checking zone. That works fine in a grocery store, but at a Walmart sort of place they sell tons of non-food items that require age verification from the cashier that it becomes problematic, just some of the items that trigger the system and need approval...
Spray paint
Canned air
Sharpies
White out
Wd-40
Super glue
Fuel injector cleaner
R rated movies
Certain types of knives
Cough syrup containing dextra morphine
Cig lighters, but matches are Ok
Nicotine gum
That's not even a complete list
Any one of these things will require approval, but fortunately once approved for one, the rest are automatically approved.
Finally a banking tip. My bank is less than a kilometer from home, I find no need to actually go there in person, maybe once a year , it that. I don't even any checks haven't written one in probably 10 years.direct deposit is great , love it been doing that for 20+ years.
Many stores allow cash back on a purchase, usually limited to $50-200, it's $100 at WM, no problem at all, say you have a $500 limit on the card and want as much cash as possible back. I rarely want more than $200 personally, but if your limit is $500 piece of cake goto self checkout and make multiple transactions, buy one item, get cash back of $100, repeat 4 times you got $400, buy cheap items the first 4 times and you can pull another $80 on the 5th item, nothing crooked or dishonest doing this, you're not defrauding anyone , a live cashier would likely hassle you for even trying to do it twice.
Self checkout is also a great way to dispose of unwanted accumulations of coins, don't give Coinstar 10%+, just feed them into the self checkout machines, a bit slower but it will work.
They tend to be cheap regarding staffing and customer service and keep employee hours as low as possible, there may not be a single associate on the sales floor, if a cashier or two calls out sick, then they fill that by pulling a floor employee and making them a replacement cashier, very few employees are not register trained, exceptions would be cart pushers most of whom are mentally challenged, and a very few other long time employees that somehow never got trained for that.
There might not be an associate to assist you, but they are watching you on cameras, they don't like getting ripped off and are as vigilant as any other store and above that level, they ain't soft on asset protection checking zone. That works fine in a grocery store, but at a Walmart sort of place they sell tons of non-food items that require age verification from the cashier that it becomes problematic, just some of the items that trigger the system and need approval...
Spray paint
Canned air
Sharpies
White out
Wd-40
Super glue
Fuel injector cleaner
R rated movies
Certain types of knives
Cough syrup containing dextra morphine
Cig lighters, but matches are Ok
Nicotine gum
That's not even a complete list
Any one of these things will require approval, but fortunately once approved for one, the rest are automatically approved.
Finally a banking tip. My bank is less than a kilometer from home, I find no need to actually go there in person, maybe once a year , it that. I don't even any checks haven't written one in probably 10 years.direct deposit is great , love it been doing that for 20+ years.
Many stores allow cash back on a purchase, usually limited to $50-200, it's $100 at WM, no problem at all, say you have a $500 limit on the card and want as much cash as possible back. I rarely want more than $200 personally, but if your limit is $500 piece of cake goto self checkout and make multiple transactions, buy one item, get cash back of $100, repeat 4 times you got $400, buy cheap items the first 4 times and you can pull another $80 on the 5th item, nothing crooked or dishonest doing this, you're not defrauding anyone , a live cashier would likely hassle you for even trying to do it twice.
Self checkout is also a great way to dispose of unwanted accumulations of coins, don't give Coinstar 10%+, just feed them into the self checkout machines, a bit slower but it will work.
