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Brian Schmidt

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I had to go to WalMart today to return an oil filter which I got the wrong one. While I was standing in line at the customer service desk, I watched the clerk open several shopping bags of meat. This included frozen chicken, pork chops, hamburger, and bacon. None of which appeared to be frozen any longer. When I got to the counter, I asked the lady if they typically take back food items like this. She said that they usually don't get this much at once. I asked but none of this is frozen. She stated that it would be fine. After I left the desk to go get the right filter, I heard her call over the speaker for the meat department to come to customer service for returns.

This is disgusting. Someone could get very sick from this. I wrote WalMart online. We will see if I get any kind of reply. I will no longer be buying frozen chicken from them. This was the Cedar Falls, Iowa WalMart.
 
It shows you how little people know about food safety at discount places, you get what you pay for.
 
I would bet that the meat dept will dispose of it. Food can not be put back on the shelf after it has left the store. (food tampering laws)
 
I believe that , I rarely go to Walmart maybe a couple of times a year . The last time I was in there my wife was trying to buy a vacuum and someone had spit there chew out on the shelf. We left and went to sears wich was actually very clean the service was great.
 
I Never go to Walmart......For the exact reason you say here, and many other reasons. Substandard product, trashy people, etc.
 
We as a family hate ours, I will not go in there unless I need fishing supplies... (Seem to always have name brands at VERY good prices)

The people are what creep me out... Just creepy, you know what I mean!!!!!

One of the worst things that ever happened to me, was mom bought me a 1/2 water melon from their produce stuff, I got the WORST food poisoning I have ever had (had it 9 times) actually ended up going to the doctor, and it was Salmonella, MEAT BORNE the doctor said.. WTF is raw meat doing in my watermelon?!?!?!?!?!?!
 
I buy no meat at Walmart.
I will buy some at Sam's, but most of my meat is from Butcher Block in Quincy.
The crap they sell at Walmart is 2nd rate compared to Sam's. Same company, but Sam's seems to be managed better.
DOUG
 
Always get a good laugh about the people here that go to Walmart and then complain about the store they freely chose and talk about the crazy people there if you're there you're one of them.Seems there must be a quite a few that like Walmart every one I pass has the parking lot full.And if you aren't capable of picking out the right oil filter you need to be going to an auto parts store anyway.How much $$$ did you save making 2 trips to Walmart?
 
You think that's bad, look at this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2725048/Lye-Utah-restaurants-tea-severely-burns-woman.html

Some guy mistook lye for sugar.
 
Here is a web site that is dedicated to the creepiness of Wal-Mart:

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

Be fore warned; not for the faint of heart.
 
Thanks bud!!

My deal was since you are so interested, someone put the wrong filter in the box I bought. It was my fault for not checking the package before leaving the store.

It is also that we don't have many options in the small town I live in to shop. Walmart is open 24/7. So on Sunday afternoon and you realize you are out of filters and have the oil drained, you go where you can and buy several. So for me it is not about saving $$. It was about finishing the job.

Thanks, I appreciate all your concern.
 
Why would anyone think that they would risk a lawsuit that could cost them 100's of thousands for a few 100's. I'm no fan of walmart either but that's ridiculous.
 
Everybody is right here, there is no way anyone would take returned meat. I would imagine the meat department would come to dispose of it.
 
We buy meat, and pretty much everything else food related, from our local Wal-Mart all the time. They carry the exact same products that the other big chain grocery stores carry, and have the items for less money to boot. So I don't want to hear any crap about 'buying American made", or anything else as the Name Brand dictates where it's made, not the store it's bought from as some seem to think given the comments often made in relation to buying from store A -vs- store B........

That said, having worked in several grocery stores in my younger years, I can't imagine Wal-Mart's grocery section would be any different than they were. In other words the meat service desk isn't going to hang onto the meat. Instead they call the meat department to pick it up so they can do the return within their system and dispose of the product. If they didn't do this, the meat would have to lay there at the service desk until someone, from where ever, came and picked it up to dispose of it. That being the case, why not let the department in charge of that type of product do it? Makes sense to me.......
 
Gassed up at a Bp and the clerk i know told me she sold a quart of ice cream to a woman and 20 min later comes back in and says theres a problem with the ice cream,opens the lid and about 4 or5 spoons full were missing.The clerk said do you want a replacement? She says no just want my money back. WTF
 
The state food laws I know of do not allow any frozen item that has passed the check-out to go back in the freezer. The same for any item found in the store that was taken out of the freezer and abandoned. There is no window of time for lawful return to the freezer. Refunds may be given but the food cannot be resold.
 
Wayne has a good point here. Just because the person at the returns desk called the meat dept. did NOT mean they were going to put it back on the shelf. It is the responsibility of the mead dept. to dispose of it, and note it on their records as well.
 
They possibly cut the watermelon with the same knife that they had been using to cut up meat. I know there is no excuse for that, but it can happen.
 
I take defective stuff back to walmart all the time and then see it back on the store shelf a few days later. I wouldn't put it past them to put meat back in the freezer case.
 
Correct procedure for Wal Mart is to take the meat to claims and send it to the grease and meat rendering company. Whether the store does is another story
 
Exactly. They have a dumpster up front. Why send it to the back to be tossed out when there is a big dumpster up front? I can't see how it would be the meat's department to judge the quality of the product. They are simply shelf stockers. If it's sitting there, it goes on the shelf. Regardless of what the law says or implies. When I read on the WalMart website, they say they don't take back perishable items. So there shouldn't have been anything there to begin with. But the lady sounded like it occurs now and then.
 
I buy them Farmland five pound hams from WalMart. Stopped in one night to get some food. There were about four hams left in the display case. Picked one up and when I put it in the cart it rolled over. Don't know where it had been but it had not seen refrigeration in at least a month. Bottom half of it was rotten. I did not buy it.
 
About a month ago wife came home from Meijers with a box of Keurig coffee cartridges. Something just didn't look right with them. They had been opened and about half were gone. Got our money back, no problem, but message is don't be like wife. Look closely at what you buy. Scumbags are out there.
 
They will take the meat and make it ready-to-eat. Returned raw chicken today will be baked and ready-to-eat tomorrow. It's easier to hide the evidence that way.
 
Thanks a lot! I go in that store at least a couple times a week. I will remember this post every time I walk past the roasted chicken by the express lane.
 
I will strongly disagree about the quality of cuts of meat at Wal Mart when buying the family packs. Great looking cuts on tops and what looks like scarps under the visible layer. At least that's how it was before I quit shopping Wal Mart.

It's funny to me how many people complain about Wal Mart yet shop there. It's their business but I find it amusing.

Rick
 
I agree with Shadetree,it's the meat Department's job to dispose of the bad product.It went to the rendering plant.I hate it when people jump to conclusions about things like this.Find out the truth BEFORE you start rumors like this.Ron
 
Brian, Guys, I DO NOT CARE HOW MUCH LIPSTICK THE PUT ON THIS PIG!!
I HAD bought the big pork loins and gotten bad meat 50% of the time., Bad in the package
I Do Not, Nor will I, EVER buy any Sort of meat an any Walmart Store
I have looked at the crap they call meat,...Not me or My Family, H3LL NO!!
I Have too many Good Butcher Shops around me to go there, and take money away from my local Shops who call me by name when I go In. My $$$ helps support them and their families and the local economy!
Wallmart, Their meat only slightly better than dog food it is meat for people who don't know the difference in a really great piece on meat and one that should have been ground up into hamburger or fed to ones Dog! It is my Opinion!!!
Later,
John A.
 
I don't buy meat at Walmart so I can't comment on its quality. He11, I had no idea you could even return meat to Walmart or any store.

But as disgusting as Walmart's stocking/re-stocking practices may be, the thing I find more disgusting is those primates posing as human beings who breeze through the store, loading their buggies with ice cream, meat, frozen entrees, veggies, etc., and then, when they decide they've overspent their food stamp card, start dumping these items wherever they happen to be in the store. Every time I see a rump roast stashed among the paper towels, or a box of Eskimo pies dumped on the ladies' underwear shelf, I see red. Go to a Walmart at about 1 a.m. and look at the two or three dozen buggies loaded with merchandise that employees have retrieved from all over the store, stuff that has been just dumped by shiftless shoppers too lazy to return it to its rightful place. I'm beginning to believe people get what they deserve, whether it's from their store or their government.

Yeah, I know I shouldn't get so worked up over this, but I do. I just regard it as a symbol of a much larger problem. It's kinda like the " broken window theory".
 
Thanks Doug I was reading through all of this and we do buy a lot of meat from Sam's and none from Wally world. I was wondering if anyone else did the same.
 
(quoted from post at 21:18:38 12/01/14) They will take the meat and make it ready-to-eat. Returned raw chicken today will be baked and ready-to-eat tomorrow. It's easier to hide the evidence that way.
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Do you really think barely-above-minimum-wage shelf stockers and aisle droids care about Walmart's bottom line, that they would expend effort to hide this returned meat?

No, it absolutely gets disposed of.

They didn't put it in the dumpster up front because they don't want unrefrigerated perishable food products stinking up the front of the store. It goes in the "meat dumpster" out back.
 
Oil filters is one thing I can't complain about, my Walmart has
factory mopar ones so that's all they need to have me covered.
 
I know the local Wal-Mart pays a lot more than minimum wage. Half my family worked there at one time or another while going to college. My neice is making over 11.00 an hour working nights while attending classes. Beats graduating with $40k in student loans.
 
Just a few notes here.....

First - would you prefer to have rotting meat sitting at the returns counter? Or a dumpster at the front to throw spoiled food into? OF COURSE it would be returned to the meat department for disposal. No doubt they have other material to dispose of in that department as well as the facilities to handle it.

Second - Health department. IF by any chance a store (Wal-Mart in this case) were caught putting returned product back in the freezer, the fines and penalties could be VERY expensive - as in "not worth the risk" expensive. Health inspectors could shut down the entire grocery department pending re-inspection and re-certification. That could get very expensive for Wal-Mart. Might even get managers and employees fired. Might even get responsible parties some jail time.

Third - Liability. Deliberately selling compromised product opens up a whole world of liability. Local lawyers would be foaming at the mouth for a piece of this one!
 
The average person has no idea how much food has to be thrown away every day because of people who leave it laying all over the store. And I'll wager Wally-World isn't the only one with this problem. You have a right to get worked up about it, because it costs you extra money every time you buy something. Those losses have to be covered somehow and that somehow is the decent people who wouldn't think of doing such things. If you want to see my better half explode just mention those type of practices from the group of people you mentioned. Stand back and run fer cover, my friend!
 
my daughter works 60+hours a week in Minot, ND Wal-Mart, gets $18 an hour plus overtime, but then it takes those wages to compete with oilfield wages. She has more money in the bank than I do.
 
Dude, do you really think they put that back on the shelf? Did you actually see it go back on the shelf Or in the freezer? I am no defender of Wal-Mart by any means (sort of view them as a necessary evil in our society), but there is no way returned food can go back on the shelf.
 
My youngest son worked at walmart while he was in college. He absolutely hated it not for the work but for the customers. He told me something I already knew that there is an epidemic of stupid. Just reading some of the comments on here verifies that. He started out at minimum wage but soon worked up to making considerably more than the average wage for the area.
 
Here is what really happens.

I got in a bind and needed some income. I hired on at Walmart sometime in 2005. I hired in on the midnight shift stocking shelves.

When a customer brings in spoiled food they must take it to customer desk with the receipt. CS checks to make sure product codes match. If food is valid purchase and was spoiled before expiration date a refund is issued to customer.

CS then places spoiled food into a folded lid plastic Tot that is marked for the Meat Department. CS calls Meat Dept. and requests for them to come to CS desk to pick up package.

MD arrives at CS desk and retrieves tote. Tag is scanned and noted in the computer as returned and reason for return.

MD clerk then proceeds to rear of store and goes through those big double swinging doors.

All the way in the back are three large trash compactors. All inside the rear of the building.

Each compactor is labeled. 1 for food/perishables, 1 for hazardous waste and 1 for misc.

Way off to the side of these is another compactor for crushing and baling the cardboard shipping boxes.

Through the night the stocking associates are restocking shelves and checking expiration dates. Anything that is expired is documented and put into the system. Then taken to the room in the back of the store and dumped into the appropriate compactor and crushed.

BTW, I have witnessed tons of food that I thought was good food still being crushed because it had reached it expiration date.

I at first asked "Hey, if your going to just throw it away, could I take it? I know many people that could benefit from some of this stuff you are tossing. Their answer was "No, it has to be crushed and taken to the dump".

Liability reason I guess...

I digress, Anyway, this is how spoiled/expired food is handled in Walmart.

I quit after one month.

I hope this will ease some of the misinformation on how spoiled/expired food is dealt with at Walmart.

On another side note-
The reason everything that is tossed has to be entred into the computer is the somputer software was designed to keep track if inventory It tracks what is sold or tossed constantly throughout the day. That night, the program generates a order of everything that was sold/tossed for the day to distribution center. The people working at the distribution center the load up the trailers with the stock to replace the sold/tossed stuff. And those trailers are the sent to the store the following day with merchandise to replinish the sold/tossed stuff.

After the arriving trailers are backed up to the loading docks then the tractors hook up to the empty trailers unloaded the previous night shift and return to the distribution center.

And the cycle starts all over again.

HTH
 
(quoted from post at 17:41:53 12/02/14) So what did you think about the comment that Wal-Mart had their dumpsters in front of the store?
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have seen a lot of WalMarts over the years, and have never seen a dumpster in front of one except for a construction dumpster a time or two.

My daughter works at a Walmart, and not only is any food product that leaves the store destroyed if returned, but anyone who violates the policy is fired on the spot.
 
Dan- The reason the compactors are accessible from inside and located in the rear of the store is to keep people from "dumpster diving" in them and getting themselves hurt of killed.

On the outside of the back of these compactors is locked doors covering the 'chute' the allows them to be unlocked and chute extended once the garbage hauling truck is on site.

The 'chute' works very much like a square baler. The compressed waste is pushed along the chute as more bales are compressed. Once the truck is full and pulls away the chute is pulled in and the doors are locked. Only the truck driver is ever outside, everything else is done from inside the bay. (unless you wanted to step out real quick to grab a smoke lol).
 
As far as wages are concerned Wal Mart lowest starting wage according to the news media is 8.25 an hour. That's above minimum wage in most states. Where the minimum wage is higher they pay at least minimum wage.

I may not like Wal Mart but I'm not going to make up stories about them. I have experienced very poor customer service, poor products and such. That's why I no longer shop there.

Now can I see in my mind a lazy Wal Mart employee putting perishable foods back on the shelf? If it's easier than disposing of it the proper way and they don't think they will get caught? Sure! That's not saying all Wal Mart employees are lazy but they do have more than their fair share of lazy ones.

When my son graduated college during one of his interviews was told that his working at Wal Mart wasn't gong to hurt him but the company considered anyone who worked at Wal Mart more than 6 months as lazy. He got a break because he was attending college while he worked there. That's a pretty harsh evaluation of a work place.

Rick
 
The Wal Mart haters are pretty funny. There has been a long string of bigger stores running the small ones out of business. Woolworth. Kmart, Sears, and the list goes on, Wal Mart is just one of the latest ones. As to the clientele? Well it is a representation of the dropping of standards in the USA, not just at Wal Mart. Try working at Lowes or HD same mess ow low life people/thieves. Yes if you return a partial product you are a thief.

By all means if you do not like Wally World go elsewere to buy the same imported stuff.
 
(quoted from post at 20:28:39 12/02/14) The Wal Mart haters are pretty funny. There has been a long string of bigger stores running the small ones out of business. Woolworth. Kmart, Sears, and the list goes on, Wal Mart is just one of the latest ones. As to the clientele? Well it is a representation of the dropping of standards in the USA, not just at Wal Mart. Try working at Lowes or HD same mess ow low life people/thieves. Yes if you return a partial product you are a thief.

By all means if you do not like Wally World go elsewere to buy the same imported stuff.
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Well you must be shopping at different stores than me. I've seen the people in Wal Mart. I've been in their stores I just don't shop there. I sometimes take the MIL there or a handicapped friend. I do shop Target and Home Depot. Sorry, the "people or Wal Mart" types are not in either one here.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 23:47:49 12/01/14) About a month ago wife came home from Meijers with a box of Keurig coffee cartridges. Something just didn't look right with them. They had been opened and about half were gone. Got our money back, no problem, but message is don't be like wife. Look closely at what you buy. Scumbags are out there.
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Yup, Meijer's is starting to attract the same clientele as WalMart. Went to the one in Clinton Township for Battery Cables recently. I picked up a few boxes to read the labels. Grabbed one to buy and it seemed lighter. Opened it up and someone had put a set of the cheap jumper cables in the box. My guess is that they put the HD set into the cheap set box to save about $10 or so. The clerk at the register probably wouldn't know the difference. Found a floor clerk and he thanked me and rolled his eyes. Said "you won't believe what people do".

There is a growing element in our society that feels entitled to steal without any guilt or remorse. When I was a young kid, I took some candy from a store. When we got home, my Mom caught me eating it, asked where I got it. She marched me right back to the store and made a huge deal in front of everybody, made me apologize to the clerk and pay for the candy. I was embarrassed as heck. She said "wait till your father comes home". Then he was mad as heck. Didn't get a beating over it (got plenty of them for other things, though :lol: ), but I remember that incident to this day. It was over 50 years ago.

Today, Mom/Dad defend Johnny to the nth degree and there is no accountability for one's actions.
 
(quoted from post at 06:12:45 12/03/14)
(quoted from post at 23:47:49 12/01/14) About a month ago wife came home from Meijers with a box of Keurig coffee cartridges. Something just didn't look right with them. They had been opened and about half were gone. Got our money back, no problem, but message is don't be like wife. Look closely at what you buy. Scumbags are out there.
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Yup, Meijer's is starting to attract the same clientele as WalMart. Went to the one in Clinton Township for Battery Cables recently. I picked up a few boxes to read the labels. Grabbed one to buy and it seemed lighter. Opened it up and someone had put a set of the cheap jumper cables in the box. My guess is that they put the HD set into the cheap set box to save about $10 or so. The clerk at the register probably wouldn't know the difference. Found a floor clerk and he thanked me and rolled his eyes. Said "you won't believe what people do".

There is a growing element in our society that feels entitled to steal without any guilt or remorse. When I was a young kid, I took some candy from a store. When we got home, my Mom caught me eating it, asked where I got it. She marched me right back to the store and made a huge deal in front of everybody, made me apologize to the clerk and pay for the candy. I was embarrassed as heck. She said "wait till your father comes home". Then he was mad as heck. Didn't get a beating over it (got plenty of them for other things, though :lol: ), but I remember that incident to this day. It was over 50 years ago.

Today, Mom/Dad defend Johnny to the nth degree and there is no accountability for one's actions.
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Amen!! No discipline now for many means more prison cells in the future.
 
Thanks for the info. I read the post below and I started to wonder if the person had ever seen a Wal-Mart - let alone been in one.
 
Two different departments. The guy says he's had food poisoning 9 times and this is the time he can put the blame on Wal-Mart?
 
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