More bad Wallmart deals

[shotgunner]

Even though I asked her not to my wife went into Wallmart to print digital pictures. The sing on the machine said 21 cents each for small prints. She selected a slightly larger size and ordered 20 pictures. The bill came to almost $50!!!! When she asked if there was a mistake she was told it was the posted price. When she asked where it was posted the clerk moved a bunch of junk from the counter and showed her that the prices were there, hidden from sight. The pictures stayed right where they were. Do your self a favor and shop anywhere else. Shotgunner

[30-30man]

I hate buying pictures from anyone. Olin Mills is the worse.  It doesn't take long to rack up a bill with pictures.  My wife once came home with $300 worth of Christmas pictures the girl at Olin Mills talked her into.  I made her march right back and get a refund on the order.  I said it was either the pictures or the groceries.  She chose the pictures and never got the refund...I have tried since to go with her when she is buying pictures from anyone.  You can't eat pictures, ya know.

[hardertr]

Why is this a bad thing??  If it were any other business, THEY probably would have made your wife pay for the pictures they developed.  Atleast Walmart sucked up the loss and let your wife walk away without paying for HER mistake.

I don't understand why Walmart gets such a bad wrap all the time. 

[beemanbeme]

Hardertr, basically, its because noone will take responsibility for their own screw-ups. 

[powderman]

HARDRT. They get a bad rap because they've earned it. They are not the family friendly store they claim to be. The commercial they air showing 100 or so blue vests all around the salvation army bell ringer and telling how they are working hand in hand with them is a joke. In reality they asked for volunteers to ring the bell on Dec 12th from 2-4 pm, off the clock of course. They still brag about giving the katrina victims over $23,000,000, what they don't tell you is that they cut EVERY employees hours for 5 weeks to pay for it. They brag about giving holiday pay for Thanksgiving, but don't tell you they cut us 6 regular hours, and a full day for Christmas week.Theres lots more but I'll shut up for now.  POWDERMAN. 

[dukkillr]

Huh... she saw a sign that said a certain item was a certain cost, then got something else and expected the same price?  That's Wal-Mart's fault.  There are real reasons to dislike Wal-Mart, I don't think this is one.  I suspect a pre-existing dislike for Wal-Mart is more influential here than the actual facts.

[beemanbeme]

Powderman,

[powderman]

Powderman,

YES?? Powderman. 

[ironglow]

  Guess Walmart has to learn how to run an upright, honest business..

   Perhaps we should send them to the UN... to take lessons from Kofie Annan & co...LOL

[williamlayton]

Let's look at this another way.
If I see an obvious price posted for an item and that is the only price I see---Well that is the price I expect to pay.
If there is another price--hidden, misplaced, covered by product--and it is not where I can, and would be expected too see it, I have no concern about refusing to pay. I would also just say thank you but no thanks and walk away. I would not feel any obligation to pay more for something jsut because The price was not placed where it could be viewed.
No sir--if the coffe sign says $.75 and I get a cup and then someone says $1.50 because you got cream also--I feel no obligation to pay. I would not drink it and I would return it--but I would not feel an obligation to pay for it.
A mistake was made-I agree. Who made the mistake available for it too happen??? Not the lady--she is not responsible for keeping the store straight.
I am not in favor of Wal-mart I admit.
Blessings

[Brett]

Yes, but if the sign said "small coffee - $.75" would you expect to pay the same for a large cup of coffee or would you ask someone how much is a large cup of coffee?   In his post Shotgunner said that the sign clearly stated the size of the prints that were $.21

Here is another example. Most of the gas stations around here have big signs touting the price of their regular grade of gas.  You often have to search for the prices of their mid-grade or premium gas.  If I fill up with premium I don't expect to pay the regular price would you? 

Besides, how much difference was the price per print and how much larger did she make her prints?  I have to agree with those who said she was lucky the store let her walk.  Speaking as a business owner myself I might have given her the larger prints at a discount just to keep a customer (depending on her attitude) but I would not feel obligated to do so.   

[Hairtrigger]

If it was me I would have walked away from the photos.
There are other places to get digital pictures

[Siskiyou]

Quit crying and do something about it.  There is an answer, and my wife has it.  Recent printers do a great job of printing photos.  My wife currently is making family history albums for the kids and grandkids.  She has a Cannon printer hooked to her computer and it produces great photos.  I in turn I have a low cost Dell printer, copier, scanner, hooked to my computer.  It was part of a package which came with my laptop.  We recieved a picture of her 90+ aunt in Alaska in a Christmas Card.  The wife made copies of in using the copy function and photo paper.

What amazes me is that the printers that cost less then one hundred dollars and producing as good or better photos then the ones at retail vendors.  And you can crop the pictures and manage them on your computer.  I must admit that the cost saving is like a reloader discribing how he saves money.  Her shopping list includes ink, photopaper, photo albums, and sleves. 

The reward was great at our son's birthday.  The album did not get put down for three hours as he, his wife, and son looked at.  Then other family members examined the photos and the way the album was put together. 

Even our old printers produced fair pictures using photo paper.

[ggeilman]

The point is the prices were covered up and the larger sized prices were jacked up. I would expect to pay slightly more for slightly larger pictures, but $50 for 20? That is over a 10 fold increase.

[powderman]

Powderman,

What am I missing here?? POWDERMAN. 

[Brett]

The point is the prices were covered up and the larger sized prices were jacked up. I would expect to pay slightly more for slightly larger pictures, but $50 for 20? That is over a 10 fold increase.

The point is one should never make assumptions.  Retail stores are very busy this time of year, it could very well have been the customer just ahead of her who moved display items, etc. in front of the price list.   It irks me when folks try to push the blame off on others when thy make a mistake.  Face it, if she did not know the price of the print size she wanted she should have asked before making the prints.

[Sourdough]

Like the sign said .21 for small pictures.  She selectes a differant size then she should expect to pay more.  What's the problem?  Photo paper is expensive, the bigger the sheet the more it cost.  If you want the bigger picture then expect to pay for it. 

If I was going to get photos and the size I wanted was not readily availiable (in sight) I would ask someone what the price was.

Most stores would not have sucked it up like Wal-Mart does.  Using material and making photos or maps, then refusing to purchase them is illigal, you can be prosicuted for it.  Plus it's just not right, it's theft!

[gypsyman]

My wife had 3 of the throw away camera's sitting around, so dropped them off at wallyworld about a weeke ago. 2 came back, just fine, the picture's good. The third one is in limbo land. So today, called the photo shop, and raised a bit of a stink. They put a trace on the envelope number, and the photo lab had a record of it. So it should be in late today, or first thing tomorrow. The manager said that the picture's would be free. Will put a notice in in the next day or so, just to keep ya informed. gypsyman

[BlkHawk73]

  Let's see.  A person sees a price for service "A" yet wants service "B".  They see no price, yet procede anyways and it's the store's  fault?  When do individuals take responsibilty? 

[MS10point]

It seems to me that the question is.....would another photo place charge $50 for the larger prints also. If that is the prevailing price in town then there's not much to gripe about. If the store around the corner would do them for a lot less then you have a right to be upset.
FYI I email my photos to the local CVS and have them printed there. You can usually go get them in an hour and you only have to make one trip.

TP

[jhm]

Somewhere I must be missing something:  If Wal-marts is so Bad, how on earth have they become the worlds # 1 Retailer??  I am sure they make a mistake now and then as we all do, and the employers I know that work there seem vary satisfied with their situation, I have had a sporting goods manager I know tell me with his education its the best job he could hope for, remember anything we do in life requires us to take some responsibility for the out come lets not forget their are some out their who are always looking for a reason for a retailer to give them their product for FREE.   JIM

[WVMikeyC]

Well gentlemen, after wonderfull wally world runs all the other stores out of town, they then control prices for that area pretty much. They KNOW you will shop there and that they are the only supplier in the area and thats when you finally find out they have. Also read online recently about some of the practices for employment, no full time people except dept heads, "flex shifts"  no set shifts meaning you get bounced around like crazy. They are also very very strict on missing work to the extreme in my opinion, now I wont miss work unless its family. But even in severe inclement weather missing work cause your snowed in is no excuse to them!!!

[Swamp Fox]

Shotgunner didn't say what size and how many of each size were involved. $50.00 divided by 20 is $2.50 per pic. I'm guessing that there were a couple of enlargements and maybe the 4X5 premium for the regular prints.

Bottom line is this is third hand info minus the details necessary to make an intelegent opinion.

[Swampman]

Does anyone work at Walmart against their wishes?  Does anyone have to shop at Walmart that doesn't want to?  Since Walmart dropped most of their sporting goods, I don't really have a reason to go there.  If I'm looking for the best price on something I usually check them out.  I can't take the crowd and waiting 30 minuets to check out.  Like the Interstate highway system, chain stores have killed the little man.  We let them do it.

[hardertr]

Shotgunner didn't say what size and how many of each size were involved. $50.00 divided by 20 is $2.50 per pic. I'm guessing that there were a couple of enlargements and maybe the 4X5 premium for the regular prints.

I was thinking the same thing.  SOMEONE isn't giving the whole story....  I'm willing to bet Wal-mart doesn't charge $2.50 a pic for a "slightly larger size"   

[gypsyman]

Walmart photo manager called, and the wife got the last set of picture's free. So as far as I'm concered, they redeemed themselve's.--gypsyman

[dukkillr]

Shotgunner didn't say what size and how many of each size were involved. $50.00 divided by 20 is $2.50 per pic. I'm guessing that there were a couple of enlargements and maybe the 4X5 premium for the regular prints.

I was thinking the same thing.  SOMEONE isn't giving the whole story....  I'm willing to bet Wal-mart doesn't charge $2.50 a pic for a "slightly larger size"   

You guys are thinking reasonable.  His post was designed to appeal to your unthinking emotional level.  You're supposed to hate walmart.  Don't think about it, just hate walmart.

[hardertr]

MAN I HATE WAL-MART.... They wouldn't charge me a penny over $350 for a gun the local stealer...urrrr...I mean local dealer that is completely commited to bettering his community    ......wanted almost $500 for.

[Graybeard]

I had ocassion to be in three different Wal-Mart stores in three different cities during December. In each case they had large signs hanging up in the air above the photo departments with the prices marked on them. Yeah they also had a much smaller one on the counter and yeah at times it gets covered up, after all it is right where you put your merchandise for check out at the photo department. So if someone is checking out most likely their merchandise was sitting on it.

In the story that started this thread I can see nothing Wal-Mart did wrong. In fact they were quite accomodating as compared to a regular camera or photo store that would most likely NOT have allowed the customer to back out after the prints were made.

[kennyd]

," how on earth have they become the worlds # 1 Retailer?? "

Easy, Wallmart is 2 miles, K Mart is 5, Target is 8.  Wally is open all night, but so is K Mart.  Walmart's bread is some of the best, their hams a joke.  Bought a "can" of tarp straps, they don't stretch at all.  A roll of "hunter" duct tape wouldn't stick to anything.  My photo disc Z(vacation in Bahamas with kids--never will be able to do it again) won't copy without buying $16. of software so daughter can have a copy.  On the other hand my son once applied for a job at K mart, and was offered 4 to 12 hours a week, rotating.  Target treats their employees poorly too.  I still frequent the regular "union" grocer; I know the checker pays his own medical bills, has car insurance, and can raise his family in a home of some sort.  The gun guy at Walmart is a dorq.  The gun guys at the regular stores are knowegable at least, and the prices aren't that different around here.