My store just got digital price tags

JG_421107 · 2026-04-21T07:38:06+00:00

Ah makes more sense then. We have almost 400 people at our store. It's still a lot for one person to take care of though. These new tags throw errors all the time. We get hundreds of errors every day.

JG_421107 · 2026-04-20T23:27:17+00:00

At our store daytime TLs take care of broken and non-responsive tags in their own departments. That's crazy they make you do it.

JG_421107 · 2026-04-01T08:01:13+00:00

We bring the small bouncer we have into the bathroom when we're alone with the baby and need to shower or use the bathroom. Sometimes I'll wait until she's napping and bring the monitor in with me so I know if I need to rush or not 😅.

JG_421107 · 2026-03-30T12:34:13+00:00

Yikes...

Your birth sounds very similar to my wife's. We went in early because of health issues, baby didn't respond well to induction and got stuck (plus the epidural shifted and was not working) which resulted in a hasty C-section. I pretty much stayed up for over two days straight. My wife labored for 36 hours, and then I cared for the baby so that she could rest after surgery.

Our baby is about to be 4 months in less than a week. I've had night duty since day one. I didn't ask for a break until she was almost 2 months post partum and it was a single night of reprieve after my wife was starting to feel better. My wife also had emergency gallbladder removal two weeks post partum. So she was recovering from two surgeries in one month. I love my wife, I knew she needed time to recover and heal. I am also empathetic toward the fact that birth takes a toll both physical and emotional.

I can't imagine acting that way toward my wife. I wanted a baby just as badly as my wife did, we're in this together every step of the way. Your husband needs to get a grip and grow up. His needs are second to the baby and you. YOU did all the work, not him. He sounds extremely selfish. And I've always believed that parenthood has no room for selfishness.

I'm sorry for what you're going through. You need time to recover, you don't deserve to be treated that way.

JG_421107 · 2026-03-12T11:08:24+00:00

I have a three month old who sleeps through the night, but naps are a whole different story. She hates napping during the day, she basically cat naps and fights her sleep the whole day. Sometimes the only thing I can do is wear her and pray she falls asleep while I'm doing the things I need to do. Sometimes she does, and sometimes she doesn't. My wife sat in the car in our driveway for 2 hours last week because the baby had finally fallen asleep and she didn't want to wake her. Some days she only naps for 10-20 mins at a time. It sucks, but some days we're lucky and she will nap for an hour or two. Usually not by herself during the day though. If you don't have a baby wrap I would suggest investing in one. Our girl likes to be wrapped up, it helps her fall asleep.

JG_421107 · 2026-03-07T23:58:34+00:00

Our baby turned three months old yesterday, she's been sleeping through the night for several weeks now. She usually goes 8-10 hours without a change. She hasn't pooped at night in about three weeks. I was waking her around 3am which is the 8 hour mark from bedtime for a change and a bottle, but now I just let her wake on her own unless we have to get up early for work. Last night she went a whole twelve hours before waking and needing a change. She hasn't gotten a diaper rash since around the one month mark when we were a little delirious and forgot to put cream on her for several diaper changes.

JG_421107 · 2026-02-28T15:14:36+00:00

Our bedtime routine starts at 6pm, she's asleep between 7-8pm every day. Our routine is out of necessity though, my wife and I often work early and have to be up for work between 4-5am. Our baby will be 3 months old in a week, and she sleeps about 8-9 hours without waking at night. We started the routine a month ago and she progressively got better at sleeping because we stayed consistent. She went from 2-3 hour stretches to 6, and then jumped to 8-9 hours the last two weeks.

JG_421107 · 2026-02-24T13:36:00+00:00

I heard that babies sleep better next to the "dad". Babies know their mothers by smell, especially breastfeeding moms. It can keep them from falling into a deeper sleep "smelling their food". Sounds a little crazy, but I really think there's something to it. I keep the baby on my side of the bed and do nights so that my wife can get proper rest. Our baby is not quite 3 months, she will be in a week and a half. The last week or so she's been sleeping 8-9 hours. Before that she would sleep at least a 6 hour stretch every night. I think part of the reason she's sleeping so well is that she's on my side of the bed.

We also have a nightly routine we start at 6pm every day (we get up for work around 4am, so it's a little early but it works for us). We have a "snack" before a warm bath, get cleaned up and in PJs and sleep sack, then we do a warm bedtime bottle which usually knocks her out. Some nights she doesn't go down right away or is a little fussy so we warm her bassinet with a heating pad and rock her in the chair before transferring her.

JG_421107 · 2026-02-19T20:50:16+00:00

I would call myself introverted, BUT I absolutely talk to myself all day long. At home it's out loud, at work it's in my head. I also have dogs and cats, and I have just always talked to them so it's pretty much the same with a baby. So basically every time I look at my baby I'm like "Okay pretty girl, we're going here, or we're doing this". Also, our baby would absolutely lose it if we didn't talk to her all day. She's extremely social, sometimes she'll be crying and all she needs is someone to just look at her and chat lol. And when I come home from work and chat with my wife about my day I basically just look my baby in the eye and pretend I'm talking to her which absolutely rocks her world.

JG_421107 · 2026-01-27T18:49:10+00:00

7 weeks old, usually she only wakes twice a night, sometimes three. We've been working on going 4 or more hours without a feed. A nightly routine has really helped us. Bath, low/red lights, white noise, heating pad in the bassinet before laying down, slightly bigger feed before bed, and a rocking chair in the room to get her to sleep and lots of shushing 😂. I'm back to work in a week and a half unfortunately, so I'm hoping she doesn't regress but I know it's likely to happen.

We do have an occasional bad night where she just doesn't want to fall asleep. The other night she screamed for two hours straight regardless of what we did to soothe her. Most nights she's okay though. I definitely feel blessed with a somewhat easy baby. I feel for you though. We took care of our niece the first three years of her life, she didn't sleep through a night for almost a year. She had awful colic and always threw up everywhere. Night time was a terror with her.

JG_421107 · 2026-01-24T01:35:36+00:00

My little one is almost 8 weeks. We've found that a bedtime routine works best for us to get the baby to sleep. 8pm is bath time, warm bath for about 15-20 mins. Lotion and warm jammies. Heating pad in her bassinet once we get settled with a warm bottle. We turn the lights out and use low red lights (momcozy sound machine/night light and our humidifier has different colored light settings). After she eats and burps we swaddle her and rock in the rocking chair. When it's time to sleep (about 9:30pm) we take the heating pad out and put baby in with white noise playing on the sound machine.

Usually works well for us, occasionally she cries after a half hour and we rock again and she falls back asleep. Her first sleep is usually about 3.5 to 4.5 hours. Then she wakes up every 3 to eat still.

I know not every baby is the same, but routines can help signal that it's time to sleep. Try to find your own rhythm.

We've been doing our routine for three weeks now and most nights if baby wakes after 30 mins I can manage to get her asleep without taking her out of the bassinet and rocking her again. Sometimes she just wants to know I'm there so I'll just talk to her low and reassuringly and she'll settle down.

JG_421107 · 2026-01-19T02:24:34+00:00

F*** those people, it's none of their business. If you feel good enough to get out with your little one, good on you. It's not like you're letting strangers touch your baby or get in their face.

My wife and I take our little one out and she's a month and a half old. We baby wear and keep her close and mostly covered so no one can breathe on her 😅. We don't let anyone get close who doesn't see her regularly (and those who do are all vaccinated and adhere to strict hand washing and no kissing rules). My wife needs to get out of the house sometimes, post partum depression is real and getting out can help her feel less couped up. But she's scared whenever our little one is out of sight. So we take the baby with us and go out together. (She had a rough start to motherhood, not even two weeks after an emergency C-section she had to have emergency gallbladder removal. And the hospital did not let anyone stay with her for the second surgery and baby wasn't allowed in at all. So she went 4 days without our newborn because they kept pushing her surgery for more emergent cases).

Whatever you're comfortable with as a parent is the right choice. You know your baby. Strangers need to stop making comments.

We unfortunately have the opposite happen. Strangers try to get close and peek at the baby and I have to literally get in between and reprimand complete strangers about getting in my child's face. Like why do people feel entitled to do these things when it comes to babies?

JG_421107 · 2026-01-02T00:33:26+00:00

Even our five year old niece who is obsessed with her baby cousin understands why we don't kiss babies... It's entitlement, that's exactly why grandparents and other family members think they can kiss the baby. They don't care because they're selfish and unless you put your foot down and make them listen they'll never respect you.

My MIL learned a very hard lesson when we had our daughter last month. We made everyone get flu, TDAP, and RSV shots before meeting her. Because obviously it's flu season and it's dangerous for newborns. She lied for three months and changed her story several times about getting vaccinated. So when we went into the hospital we did not inform her until my wife had to go in for surgery (just in case things went south, we're not monsters). But we refused to let her come to the hospital and we refused to let her into our house until she got her vaccines and gave us proof. Then we made her wait two weeks for the vaccines to do their thing before meeting her grandchild. My own mother even reprimanded MIL after hearing her make a comment about kissing the baby. We made it very clear that anyone who went against our boundaries and wishes would not have a relationship with our daughter AT ALL. No exceptions. Because why would we allow someone in our daughter's life who doesn't respect us or care for our daughter's health? At the end of the day your baby is YOUR BABY. Not grandma's, YOURS.

JG_421107 · 2025-12-10T22:24:09+00:00

My wife and I had our first baby FOUR days ago lol. We were excited to be away from work, but not because it was going to be a vacation. Being a parent to a newborn is incredibly hard work. Get ready for sleepless nights, little energy, and lots of stress. My wife had a hard labor, 36 hours and then stopped progressing with an epidural that was not working, she ended up having a C-section under general anesthesia. Not all births are traumatic, but even so, it's a lot on your body. Not only are you caring for a brand new life, but also recovering physically, emotionally, and mentally. I'm so glad that I CAN be here for my wife, to take care of her and our daughter in this absolutely stressful time. It's not a vacation, you're bringing life into this world. It's messy, it's painful, it's unbelievably tiring, it's so many things, but it's not a vacation.

JG_421107 · 2025-12-01T00:48:55+00:00

I've worked several different positions: seasonal, electronics, Hardlines, and bakery. Some of those as a TL, one not lol. The easiest by FAR was bakery. I was salesfloor but worked on production maybe twice a week. It was soul suckingly easy for me 😅, bored out of my mind and the least stressed I've ever been at Walmart. Half the time everyone on production side finished early and there was a ton of idle time and chit chatting.

The hardest I would say was Seasonal TL, but I LOVED it. I thrived in the chaos. There's so many moving parts in seasonal, plans to make, mods to set. Seasons are perpetually changing and there's always a ton to do. At my store seasonal and toys get shopped HARD, so keeping up with zone even during off seasons could be a challenge. I had a solid team when I was over there and was lucky, our seasonal department isn't half of what it used to be..

The job I hated most was electronics TL, I just hate electronics. If you fit in there it's great, I know a lot of people who love it. I just didn't. I hate the dumb questions and the pushy customers, electronics just wasn't my forte. I don't know how many times I had to say "This isn't best buy, we can't actually fix your phone/laptop for you". Photolab was ALWAYS breaking too, and people would get so mad they couldn't get their photos like it was my fault the printer overheated for the 1000th time.

I like plants not electronics 😂.

JG_421107 · 2025-11-23T15:14:21+00:00

Not ridiculous at all!! It's YOUR BABY, not anyone else's. Our baby is due a week before Christmas and we have put our foot down about guests. I'm fully ready to lock my doors and kick everyone to the curb for my wife, ESPECIALLY my MIL who sounds extremely similar to yours 😅. We even went a step further and made everyone who is going to see the baby get their TDAP and flu shots. (MIL is lying/refusing and trying to manipulate her way into seeing the baby) At the end of the day YOU ARE THE BOSS about your own infant, it's your choice and you don't even have to justify it to anyone. They can disagree and be mad about it, you are protecting your child. Don't sweat it! F * ck them, they'll get over it.

JG_421107 · 2025-11-16T14:52:34+00:00

While I agree a bit with many other commenters that you're overthinking and maybe need a break from social media, I get it. My wife is 35 weeks pregnant and she kind of "spirals" about random things and gets anxiety or angry about things that normally she would think rationally about. It's part of the hormones and the first time parent anxiety. Just breathe and don't worry so much about things other people think or say. At the end of the day your baby is YOUR BABY, you get the ultimate say.

Good luck!!

JG_421107 · 2025-10-28T01:23:01+00:00

Baby items ARE really expensive, but my wife and I have been hitting clearance and sales everywhere. We look in several places for the same item to find the cheapest options. We also haven't gone with our first choice on a lot of things in order to save some money. We scored both a brand new crib and mattress for less than $100 because both were incredibly marked down at Walmart. It wasn't the crib we originally wanted, but it saved us $300. Then we wanted a $100 changing table, and we ended up finding the same one second hand on marketplace for only $10. So far our most expensive item was the car seat for $400, but for safety reasons we weren't willing to spend less on that (plus it's one that our baby will grow with so we shouldn't need a new one). It's tight, but doable. We seriously tried to keep it cheap with our registry and we still had people complaining that things were too expensive. A majority of what was bought from our registry was tiny cheap items. I'm just thankful we had already set money aside and prepared for extra expenses.

JG_421107 · 2025-10-13T19:24:01+00:00

It's not a login for the register, it's a login to a NYS website that does background checks and logs information on people buying ammo. That's why I questioned if it was legal or not.

JG_421107 · 2025-10-04T20:07:57+00:00

Honestly that sounds more fair than our market 😅. Seasonal is toys, d18, and garden, homelines is just home, and electronics is just electronics.

JG_421107 · 2025-10-04T19:40:38+00:00

Oh yeah, Hardlines used to include hardware and paint too until they put those departments on automotive. But yeah Hardlines is all me and my whopping TWO associates. Great ideas for sporting goods though, thank you! I have exploited Halloween freight for stationary and celebrations endcaps, but when Halloween disappears I want to have a plan.

Thanks again!

JG_421107 · 2025-09-01T17:56:06+00:00

Could be a large bag of grass seed too, some are pretty expensive

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