Tracking toy tariffs

Justice said:
My Walmart's toy aisle is the direct path the pickup order fillers use to get to the outside door and it's like grand central station.They come barreling down the aisle right in the middle barely paying attention. I risk life and limb just trying to browse.
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Relatable, as my local Target has the door to the stock room at the end of the doll isle, so I'm constantly playing frogger with metal shelves on wheels carrying boxes of stock and big in-store pick up carts. I'd say about 20% of employees acknowledge my existence with an "excuse me" or similar, while 10% would absolutely plow their cart into me if I didn't move out of the way.
 
vicious said:
Relatable, as my local Target has the door to the stock room at the end of the doll isle, so I'm constantly playing frogger with metal shelves on wheels carrying boxes of stock and big in-store pick up carts. I'd say about 20% of employees acknowledge my existence with an "excuse me" or similar, while 10% would absolutely plow their cart into me if I didn't move out of the way.
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Retail workers really are a different breed these days than when I was working at PetSmart and Circuit City in the early 2000s. We wouldn't have dared to not give a customer the right of way. That was heavily emphasized in training and by management at both places but these Walmart order fillers with those huge carts just get all in the way and don't even try to move. It really puts me off of even wanting to go in there.

At a couple of Targets I go to the Neca sections are right next to the stockroom door and there are always stocking carts parked in front of them that I have to move to even shop.
 
Justice said:
Retail workers really are a different breed these days than when I was working at PetSmart and Circuit City in the early 2000s. We wouldn't have dared to not give a customer the right of way. That was heavily emphasized in training and by management at both places but these Walmart order fillers with those huge carts just get all in the way and don't even try to move. It really puts me off of even wanting to go in there.

At a couple of Targets I go to the Neca sections are right next to the stockroom door and there are always stocking carts parked in front of them that I have to move to even shop.
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My target to get to the neca station I have to talk to a guy about my phone plan so I never go back there
 
mrboshek said:
Hard to believe less than 20 years ago any surrounding town that could support a decent big box store also had a national toy chain, TRU for the bigger populations and Toy Works for the smaller towns.
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My best toy store memories are Toy Works. used to go to the one just near the Whitman/Brockton line in MA, right next to the Bradlees. That was a GREAT store.
 
Mr_Saver said:
My target to get to the neca station I have to talk to a guy about my phone plan so I never go back there
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That is the absolute worst. There used to be a guy at Walmart who did that and I would go through some dramatic self-rerouting to avoid him entirely.
 
Yes, the phone guys have to go. I don't go shopping to be telemarketed to. I just say no thank you and keep walking - sometimes I get snide remarks about me being rude. I take routes to avoid them and sometimes I swear they'll chase me down. I don't see how that's a win for Target.
 
Justice said:
That is the absolute worst. There used to be a guy at Walmart who did that and I would go through some dramatic self-rerouting to avoid him entirely.
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I have literally just started going "No thank you", and keep walking when they give me the ol' "Hey, man, how's it going?"

Sometimes I'll even give them a "Nawwww".

Did it one time and the guy just laughed and said "Fair enough".

Works like a charm. I recommend it.
 
Here, those guys and the 'cheaper energy rates' guys are set up just as you exit the self-checkout coral at every Walmart, so you literally cannot avoid them. Which is fine. I have absolutely no problem just being like 'No' without breaking stride, or ignoring them entirely. Nothing obligates you to talk to anyone else if you don't want to.

Or, I dunno... pull up your Articulated Thoughts trade/sale thread while talking to them and see if you can get them to buy some toys from you. If they can hustle, you can hustle right back.
 
Damien said:
Here, those guys and the 'cheaper energy rates' guys are set up just as you exit the self-checkout coral at every Walmart, so you literally cannot avoid them. Which is fine. I have absolutely no problem just being like 'No' without breaking stride, or ignoring them entirely. Nothing obligates you to talk to anyone else if you don't want to.

Or, I dunno... pull up your Articulated Thoughts trade/sale thread while talking to them and see if you can get them to buy some toys from you. If they can hustle, you can hustle right back.
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You should try to get them to subscribe to your Only Fans! The ultimate power move against a salesman.
 
At Target I just go down the back side of the toy isles that butt up against the home goods section until I hit the figure isles, then I'm past them to get to the the 'main' NECA section (if they're even there, which isn't a guarantee).

At my Walmart, the phone guys don't approach unless you're actually looking at the prepaid or contract phones. I have had them approach me at other Walmarts, though.

I've also have Xfinity.Comcast cable/internet sales people approach me at Walmart, and I tell them before they even get started that they don't cover my area (which they don't because I actually had a guy not take no for an answer and actually looked up my zipcode trying to 'get me a deal' when he found out they DON'T serve my area).
 
I do have a pretty good out with them honestly. My job pays for my phone. I should just ask them if they are going to pay me monthly to have their phone plan because that's the only way they are beating free.
 
Chooch555 said:
Yes, the phone guys have to go. I don't go shopping to be telemarketed to. I just say no thank you and keep walking - sometimes I get snide remarks about me being rude. I take routes to avoid them and sometimes I swear they'll chase me down. I don't see how that's a win for Target.
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Yes. The dudes at malls or Best Buy who try to catcall you over and then snark and drop attitude when you carry on.

The hell happened to retail and sales?
 
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