Seriously, it doesn’t matter if you visit Wal-Mart at 2pm or 2am, you’re pretty much guaranteed at least a 20 minute wait at the cash registers.
Tina and I stopped at Wal-Mart Friday night to buy breakfast sausage. We had already bought the rest of the groceries we wanted at Publix in Tradition (where there was no lines, by the way). But, Wal-Mart sells a certain type of breakfast sausage we really like and can’t (unfortunately) find anywhere else.
So, we pull into the Wal-Mart parking lot and wade through the Sea of Gray Carts in an attempt to find somewhere to park.
We go into the store, proceed directly to frozen breakfast foods, grab two bags of the sausages (so we wouldn’t have to come back for a while) and go directly to the cash registers. Of the 30 cash registers, numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 are closed. The lines for the few open registers are enormous. The shortest line was 6 carts deep.
So, we chose register 1. The Speedy Checkout line. We were the 9th person in line. So, I’m sure you can imagine our checkout was anything but speedy.
God, forgive me, but I hate Wal-Mart.
