Typical walmart gun customer service

[spacemanspiff]

i've had good success buying my shotgun and 22 rifle from walmart, but i doubt i'd buy from them again. usually the sporting goods clerks i come across know what they are doing and arent complete dolts, except for the midtown manager that thinks the selling price of blazer .45acp 230gr fmj is $16, while the south store has it for like $8.50.

i've seen that red/green map, and apparently alaska stores can sell to a LOT of other states residents, which i thought was kinda cool.

the most ignorant moment i've had with walmart was when i bought a couple bulk packs of 12 gauge birdshot, and walked to the front cashier to pay for it. the clerk nearly had a heart attack, saying it was 'federal law blah blah blah had to have a manager escort me to the front blah blah blah'.
i smiled, and said, "well its walmarts policy to tell its employees things are 'federal law' when in fact they are not". she calmed down a bit after i explained that the bulk packs were found on the back wall, not behind the counter, and that there is no federal law stating a manager must walk my ammo to the front if i wish to pay for it outside the sporting goods department. i went back the next day for some .45acp ammo and told the sporting goods manager, he had a good laugh about it and informed the other managers that their clerks didnt know what was what.

 

[Gus Dddysgrl]

Personally I love Wal-mart, but have never even looked at the sporting goods section. I go to Wal-mart about 3-4 times a week. Guns/ammo I buy elsewhere. I think Wal-mart is a great place to work for people who can't get better jobs. I also think the managers should be more picky when they assign the people to departments. I mean come on all the video game guys end up in electronics.

I think it's good that they still sell guns/ammo since most stores that big won't. There are a lot of stupid people out there. I've heard just as many stories complaining about gun store idiots.

I do love wal-mart since it's close, convenient, and cheaper than some others. But that's a personal preference. Good job on sending them down the road and then helping them out. I'm sure it went a long way.

Gus

 

[griz]

I forgot my two other Wal Mart stories. One was the cashier who dropped a box of shotgun shells in the blue plastic bag and they landed on a corner, spilling all 25 into the bag. I thought she was flustered because she would have to rebox them so I told her don't worry about it. But that wasn't it. She was scared because she thought they would blow up being loose like that! Don't know how effective my assurances of safety were, but you just never know what some people are thinking.

The other is the cashier who called her supervisor for a price check on a jelly doughnut:
supervisor: ring it up like all the other doughnuts.
cashier: but it doesn't have a hole.
supervisor: it's still a doughnut.
cashier punches in the wrong number, looks at the prompt on the regiester and says: why's he got to be 18 to buy a doughnut?

See, it's not just guns that confuse them.