Been to Walmart lately?

[Felch]

So you don't understand the difference between indictments and convictions?

[kentonio]

You don't understand the difference between justice and acts of forgiveness carried out to aid national reconciliation?

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't normally defend Scalia, but I don't think his intent was out of line. The counter argument for maintaining the VRA approvals is that there were past patterns of racial abuse in those areas, so that's enough to justify on on-going oversight, even decades later, without real evidence of on-going abuse.

The cause of racial injustice will never end.

[MrFun]

[Felch]

You don't understand the difference between justice and acts of forgiveness carried out to aid national reconciliation?

I know that prosecutors aren't big on acts of forgiveness.

[kentonio]

I know that prosecutors aren't big on acts of forgiveness.

Prosecutors wouldn't have been the ones making calls that big at the time.

[Lancer]

Shop Smart, shop S Mart!

I haven't noticed a WalMart within 8000 miles.

[Berzerker]

I'm prefer reading the rules as written to divining the intent. Of course, given what these founding fathers were up to ten years earlier, it's silly to believe that they were morally opposed to secession.

that

[Sava]

My love for you is like a truck, Berserker
Would you like some making ****, Berserker
My love for you is like a rock, Berserker

[The Mad Monk]

Walmart shelves in Springhill, Mansfield, cleared in EBT glitch
Posted: Oct 13, 2013 12:38 PM CDT Updated: Oct 14, 2013 6:31 AM CDT
By Carolyn Roy - bio | email

MANSFIELD, LA (KSLA) -

Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits.
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Computer issue, not government shutdown, likely cause of EBT card failures

The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping frenzy ended.

Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd confirms they were called in to help the employees at Walmart because there were so many people clearing off the shelves. He says Walmart was so packed, "It was worse than any black Friday" that he's ever seen.

Lynd explained the cards weren't showing limits and they called corporate Walmart, whose spokesman said to let the people use the cards anyway. From 7 to 9 p.m., people were loading up their carts, but when the cards began showing limits again around 9, one woman was detained because she rang up a bill of $700.00 and only had .49 on her card. She was held by police until corporate Walmart said they wouldn't press charges if she left the food.

Lynd says at 9 p.m., when the cards came back online and it was announced over the loud speaker, people just left their carts full of food in the aisles and left.

"Just about everything is gone, I've never seen it in that condition," said Mansfield Walmart customer Anthony Fuller.

Walmart employees could still be seen putting food from the carts away as late as Sunday afternoon. "I was just thinking, I'm so glad my mom doesn't work here [Walmart] anymore, that's the only thing I could think about, those employees working, that would have to restock all that stuff," said O.J Evans who took cell phone video of the overflowing shopping carts at the Mansfield Walmart.

Evans believes it was natural human reaction that led people to fill up their carts during the glitch, but Walmart shoppers Stan and Judy Garcia feel very differently. "That's plain theft, that's stealing that's all I got to say about it," said Garcia.

Lynd says contrary to rumors, nobody was unruly or arrested and they were mainly there to help prevent shoplifting and theft.

A dispatcher for Mansfield police also confirms officers were called in for crowd control at the Mansfield Walmart. She said the shelves were cleared out, forcing Walmart to stop selling food at 9 p.m. There were no arrests.

There was, however, a huge mess left behind. Pictures and videos obtained by KSLA News 12 show aisles packed with shoppers emptying the shelves in Springhill. Another video shows what appear to be at least dozens of overflowing carts left abandoned in the aisles at the Mansfield store, against the backdrop of emptied shelves in the meat department.

It all happened at the end of a day in which the EBT system went down in several states, including Louisiana. Xerox, a vendor for the EBT system, experienced a power outage while conducting a routine backup test in one of the company's locations. While the system was back up Saturday night, it appears that it was not functioning entirely properly in some areas.

Kayla Whaling, a spokesperson for Walmart, tells KSLA News 12 that the company was "fully engaged and monitoring the situation and transactions during the outage."

"We did make the decision to continue to accept EBT cards (and purchases on WIC and SNAP) during the outage so that they could get food for their families."

Asked whether Walmart would be taking the loss on any food purchased on the cards that did not show limits, or on the perishable food left behind in carts, Whaling would only say that "we monitored transactions during the outage."

A spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services says they take all allegations of potential fraud seriously, they are aware of the reports and they will be investigating.

Copyright 2013 KSLA. All rights reserved.

http://www.ksla.com/story/23679489/walmart-shelves-in-springhill-mansfield-cleared-in-ebt-glitch

I think they did the right thing.

The EBT failure was not just local.

[Dinner]

Me and the spouse have noticed that at the 4 Walmart stores we went to shop, most of the shelves were empty or not restocked.
Asked one of the Walmart employees if they were going out of business and they said they "don't know what is going on and have not been giving any explanation".
I can understand the ammo shortage but everything else in low supply has me scratching my head.
Anyone else noticed bare shelves at your local Walmart?

Bad management. They're trying to save money by under staffing stores and as a result their stores look like crap. The good news is they've recognized what a crap job they've been doing and are trying to make some efforts to fix it but it really is too little, too late. Many customers already think of Walmart as a crap store and won't shop there.

[regexcellent]

I would venture to say walmart as an institution knows more about business management than you do Oerdin. They staff their stores on the efficient frontier of price and quality. I buy ammo from them now and then and never have difficulty finding what I need.

[Dinner]

I would venture to say that the proof of empty store shelves which aren't getting restocked in a timely manner is proof that Walmart screwed up. They tried to push a bunch of full timers to part time on flimsy grounds because senior management thought that would maximize profits but they screwed up because the basic job of running a store was no longer getting done. That's why Walmart reversed their course.

You can keep arguing against the evidence and against the company's own findings but that doesn't make you look very good.

[The Mad Monk]

I think the opening post happened before the "push" you describe.

[Sava]

walmart [...] quality