Re: My Walmart Experience
[QUOTE=coffeebreak;597361]Stitching woman...most every fast food/store I go to where the clerk is mid 20's (looking) or younger... will literally be searching for which coin...looking back up to what the register says (like they forgot how much they were looking for) then back down and search around and grab coins, then drop them back...and of course NEVER count back the change to the customer. And I count my change and when it is wrong I will tell them and they look at me like I"m the stupid one! Since the automated world does the thinking for you and push buttons have become all it takes to do things... people don't have to think anymore. Schools these days (well, back in my kids days even) they teach you about computer this and that, but dont' bother teaching kids about how to balance a check book or calculate interest rates or things that we do in daily life.
I'll never for get when my 4 year old grand daughter told me... we were shopping and I didnt' have enough money for something and she said "well, nanny, why don't you just swipe your debit card?"[/QU
Yes sometime I wonder if the kids are learning anything in school it is so sad. Love your grand daughter they don't equate that debit card with money.
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If you want to really see someone get confused - go to a register that doesn't automatically tell the clerk how much change to give you, purchase something that costs $8.26, give the clerk $10.01 and see how long it takes to get the correct change! I hate pennies so if I can give them one penny so I don't end up getting 4 as part of my change I will, but it usually causes more trouble than it's worth! Our kids don't know the basics these days - I had a cousin who couldn't tell time on a regular watch - he only had digital clocks when growing up so had not a clue how to read a clock/watch with a regular non-digital display :(
Re: My Walmart Experience
Many of the stores around here are putting in machines that automatically give the change. I get frustrated when they just say take the change without having any idea what was given is correct or wrong. Sadly, if I hand change to a clerk, they just stare out it or just put it in the drawer without even counting it. My 8 year old can tell me exactly what change I would get back & what the coins should be while the clerk just looked at the drawer in a complete loss. I still make my 8th grade son do Pre-Algebra without a calculator and he is good at doing math in his head. We homeschool and I think it is important that children can do math.
As far as our local Walmart, it does not have a very good selection of fabric. We are a college town and there is a town about an hour away that is just a tiny town but their Walmart has a good selection of fabric and crafting supplies plus the rest of their store is really nice too.
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BobW
I have only purchased at Wal-Mart once. It was a slow process, but the fabric was cut properly. I went into my LQS a few weeks ago to buy backing for a top I had finished. There was a new clerk in the store and the owner wasn't there (which is unusual). The new clerk measured out the material I asked for and then snipped a small cut in the fabric and tore it. I was 18 inches shorter on one side that the other. I asked her to measure and cut it again. She said there was enough material there so I should just take it. I took the material and went back the next day and spoke with the owner and she cut the fabric correctly and gave me my money back.
I went in the other day and bought some more fabric and the "New" clerk cut the fabric instead of ripping it.
Wow...just tore it? And at a LQS? Wow...can't believe that! Why would she do that? You were nicer than I would have been. Fabric at LQS is expensive and if I was paying that much, I"d have told her cut another piece or I'm not taking it. It seems to me that tearing it like that would also stretch the fibers and thread to make the rest of the fabric wonky. Weird!
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MayinJerset
" As far as math goes I think that is a lost skill for a lot of younger people.....the computer went down at McDonalds one time and they had to close...because no one knew how to count back the change.....;0(
bopeep "
Was at my cousin's yesterday and her 3 and 5 yr. old grandsons had their tablets in their hands the whole time, only time they put them down was when the had to use a fork to eat but that tablet was right next to their plate. These kids can manipulate games etc. so easily but are they learning anything? To read, to do math? How are they going to write as I don't think they can text their way through the first few grades but then again maybe they will.
Sad state indeed.
As for someone's grandkid telling her to swipe her debit card, I remember a friend telling her son he couldn't have something because they didn't have the money for it, his reply was, so write a check, you have a whole bunch of them.
I know! It is sad...they don't have to "do" anything,... just press buttons! Now I do figure that maybe their hand/eye coordination might be strengthened, but still...it is enough to be an asset in regular life? and they don't have to do any interaction with others. I made a hopscotch quilt, and an I Spy quilt for my grand kids - 4,5 and 8 and they just loved it! Ask me to bring it every time I visit and whine if I forget! And don't want to stop playing when I leave! And CAndyland board game...if I don't have the quilts...they automatically get out the board games!
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Simply Quilting
Many of the stores around here are putting in machines that automatically give the change. I get frustrated when they just say take the change without having any idea what was given is correct or wrong. Sadly, if I hand change to a clerk, they just stare out it or just put it in the drawer without even counting it. My 8 year old can tell me exactly what change I would get back & what the coins should be while the clerk just looked at the drawer in a complete loss. I still make my 8th grade son do Pre-Algebra without a calculator and he is good at doing math in his head. We homeschool and I think it is important that children can do math.
As far as our local Walmart, it does not have a very good selection of fabric. We are a college town and there is a town about an hour away that is just a tiny town but their Walmart has a good selection of fabric and crafting supplies plus the rest of their store is really nice too.
Good for you and your kids Simply Q! If for no other reason than they learn to count change so THEY don't loose any money! The grocery stores have had that automatic change thing for some time...granted it I still count it when I take it out, but...sometimes I come near to forgetting to get it since so much going on and being rushed, now that they have the scanners!
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I have only bought fabric a couple times at WalMart - I just don't feel their quality is very good, overall. I think if you search and be selective, you can find a few decent fabrics (at least the ones here). The funniest story was at JoAnn's, with a mom and her 2 teenage daughters - one asked how big a yard was. The answer? "About 30", or so." And the mom didn't even know!! It is very sad, because this next generation is the one who will be running this country.... scarey, eh?
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THAT^^^ makes me want to find a cave to hide in!
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The local Walmart where I live doesn't carry fabric anymore. 70 miles round trip to Walmart in another town and the selection was poor AND no one to cut the fabric. Back when all Walmarts had a fabric dept the selection and the help was great. So sad because all of us can't afford to buy at LQS and even JoAnn's fabric is expensive and there clerks are rude and not very helpful. Closest Hobby Lobby is about 70 miles one way. I have purchased from fabric.com and was very pleased with the selection. Just not the same as looking and feeling the fabric!
Re: My Walmart Experience
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Originally Posted by
Simply Quilting
Many of the stores around here are putting in machines that automatically give the change. I get frustrated when they just say take the change without having any idea what was given is correct or wrong. Sadly, if I hand change to a clerk, they just stare out it or just put it in the drawer without even counting it. My 8 year old can tell me exactly what change I would get back & what the coins should be while the clerk just looked at the drawer in a complete loss. I still make my 8th grade son do Pre-Algebra without a calculator and he is good at doing math in his head. We homeschool and I think it is important that children can do math.
As far as our local Walmart, it does not have a very good selection of fabric. We are a college town and there is a town about an hour away that is just a tiny town but their Walmart has a good selection of fabric and crafting supplies plus the rest of their store is really nice too.
I agree! We homeschool too and have for 10 years…Common Core is just one more reason I am happy to be homeschooling my kids! It is ruining our schools. A couple of my many jobs during the college years included being a cashier and it was a requirement to be able to count back change on your own, in order to run a cash register. I used to know what the change would be faster than the machine did, its how I kept from being bored out of my mind. It is so frustrating to see how many people can't do basic math in their heads. Technology is great, but we should not be dependent on it.
As for walmart fabric, I don't waste my time, the couple of stores here that still carry it have really thin fabric….kleenex is thicker.
