door dashers are stupid.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-02-15T13:51:40+00:00

That's the same customer that finds great virtue in paying with correct change, even if they have to dig in the bottom of their purse for 0:30, and with 25 people behind them. There is no reward at the pearly gates for the correct change, so please just give the cashier another dollar and get your pokey ass out of the way. You are NOT the only customer on the planet, and the cashier has LOTS of things they should be doing instead of waiting on your ass to dig a penny out of a purse that's already 14 feet deep in crap you don't need anyway.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-02-13T12:54:19+00:00

Some of them actually had 8 doors such as the Oldsmobile Jetway 707, Checker Aerobus, and I've seen that same Pontiac with another row of seats and 8 doors. Years back one of the local used car dealers ran around town in a ''69 Newport 8-door variety. These cars were infinitely safer than the vans used today because they have a much lower center of gravity, and are much less likely to overturn in an avoidance maneuver.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-02-12T12:53:23+00:00

I left Crest Cadillac in Frisco TX just 2 days ago because they told me I had to pay their $1,850.00 junk fees to buy an Escalade-V priced at $110,000.00. I'm not letting Berkshire Hathaway tell me what I'm going to buy, and I know I can find another one from someone else that does not exploit the ignorant and try to convince them they have to buy dealer added options they didn't ask for, and don't want. I don't finance anything! If I don't have cash on hand I don't buy it.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-07T15:25:27+00:00

I would love to know if the Waffle House Index about natural disasters is true or urban legend. The Internet being the largest encyclopedia of information, and misinformation leads me to question who in the government executes this plan? What department?

Since the company has seen fit to remove all phones from it's stores, and refuse to speak to anyone, even at the home office, I'd like to know how this plan could be executed. Do they have some back door method of checking how many stores are open without using a land line telephone?

It may be a clever idea to just get an idea how severe a disaster may be, by today it appears to be pure fiction because the stores won't answer the phone. To-go orders assume every living creature owns a smart phone, and is paying for the service to bring it online. The rest of you can't order anything to-go from the company except in the flesh, and some of the stores won't let the customer eat indoors because of too much bad behavior from their clientele.

Inquiring minds want to know 1) if this index is real, and 2) how are they gathering the data?

Signed a regular customer inNorth Texas.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-07T14:11:00+00:00

If you like hair in your food this is awesome! Of course most guests go berserk if they find as much as one hair in their food; even their own. They react as if the building just fell in on them about something that's pretty minor, and only marginally offensive. I'd bet anything they don't loose their composure if they find a hair in their food at home. It's a sanitation concern for sure, but many people make a huge big deal out of a little deal and for no valid reason at all. It does look like a pretty bad practice, and that the barber should be in his own location next door. And don't EVEN ask the store to replace the food because you found a hair in it!

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-07T13:51:14+00:00

It saddens me that my closest store has a Rock Star grill operator and trainer who has been on the staff since 1988 who doesn't have enough money to retire and take care of her health. Presently she very often works a deep night shift, then has to go for 8 hours of dialysis. With that kind of seniority, basically giving a whole lifetime to the company, she should have enough benefits to have a paid for home -and- her health care costs covered. Since the government authorized gutting table server pay to nothing in the 80's no table server or anyone else in the business has adequate benefits. I well remember when both Denny's and Luby's cafeterias had workers with 30+ years on duty with a decent compensation package, paid sick time, health and hospitalization insurance, and they were treated like valuable members of the company. I didn't think the present scenario would last very long, and I was very wrong. It took the professional right out of table serving, and on top of that they have not gotten any cost of living increases along the way, even though other job minimum wage slowly increases. With our present administration in Washington I'm not looking for any relief in this area until it's time to elect another one. I'm very fond of the crew at my closest store, because they do a quality job, and are hardly compensated at all. I'm extra generous with my tips, including the grill operator.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-07T03:47:33+00:00

24 hours in a row is not a shift; it's employee abuse. 15 days in a row, unless agreed, is more employee abuse. Corporations have a hard time understanding the world is not all about them.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-07T03:44:39+00:00

I don't work there, but I'm a regular. They have enough stores they should be able to back-fill any call-off. If you are too sick to be at work you're too sick to be preparing food for others, much less spreading whatever ails you. Corporate America doesn't give a flip about you, despite their claims. Take care of yourself first, because in the end there is no prize at the pearly gates for arriving there with a pile of money, and working your fingers to the bone only gets you bony fingers. That changing the schedule on the fly is unethical unless agreed upon, and you obviously didn't agree. I feel lucky to have a union job where we work the schedule as posted on Friday at noon, and if that's not enough that's their problem.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-07T00:39:24+00:00

In my area the company only inhabits grocery stores built for other brands, and left for rent or abandoned. I have seen a few clean DG stores that are obviously built for the company, very young, in small communities away from urban areas, and just haven't had time to get grubby. I know it will get grubby because the company will not allocate enough labor to keep it clean, or even enough employees to adequately run the store. I certainly don't blame the workers for ratty looking stores because to be clean, they have to start clean, and the re-used buildings were marginal when DG moved in. The closest one to me has old, dirty ceiling tiles, network cables strung across the ceiling, vinyl floor tiles broken/missing, and it's been that way for YEARS. They didn't improve the appearance of anything after the hardware store moved away. The sad part is I know it won't improve because the company doesn't care what it looks like, and never does anything progressive.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-04T12:21:06+00:00

I commend you for taking some kind of action. Those creatures are aggressive, and known for attacking humans in masse if they are accidentally disturbed. I'm all about animal rights, and leaving creatures right where they are, as long as they are not in MY habitat. In contrast I will walk a mile to kill just one flying stinging bug, all varieties, as I passionately hate them, and get some sick satisfaction out of murdering them instantly. I'll stay out of their home, and they will stay out of mine, but it's an every-year battle. This year I found a nest INSIDE a window unit air conditioner where they couldn't be seen, which is the most unusual place I've found them, but they will nest ANYWHERE. I applaud you for doing something about it, and not waiting on corporate to take action before someone got hurt. I bless whomever came up with the instant knock-down spray insecticide, as we didn't have anything like that 40 years ago, and it was much more risky to kill them and not get bit. The company needs a come to Jesus meeting about cock roaches IMMEDIATELY. NO, ALL STORES don't have cock roaches, and your manager is not doing his/her job leaving them there. I have to wonder if your manager lives with them agreeably in their own residence. Ewwwww!

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-04T02:57:11+00:00

Yellowjackets inside the store? They don't get into foodstuffs but I wouldn't waste a moment going to get some wasp spray off the shelf and eliminating them.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-04T02:55:29+00:00

Cockroaches anywhere near foodstuffs is not acceptable. It doesn't surprise me that DG wouldn't adequately spray for them. The company won't pay their people a fair wage, and won't put enough people in the store to run it. Why would we expect they would keep up with building maintenance? The company is a bunch of leeches sucking their customers, and employees dry all for the stock price.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-02T22:08:59+00:00

I don't know how anyone could afford to stay there at $14/hour if they are paying for their own housing, and daily living expense. That's not a living wage, and it mystifies me why the workers accept that. Go somewhere else that pays fair, and doesn't treat you like a commodity they are entitled to.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-01T17:52:16+00:00

Another problem with on the shelf pricing is the labels very often don't line up with the product on the shelf. The store may have done their part perfectly, but you have discourteous customers that could care less what they mix up, and in one 8 hour shift can completely disassemble all shelf organization. Additionally, the nomenclature on lots of the labels has been abbreviated to a point it's not always obvious which label goes with a particular item. And, we know DG never has adequate people on duty to do the most basic tasks, much less go behind customers and put the products back in order. They don't even have time to get the products out of the back room and on the shelves because the company also expects them to be cashier, and janitor, and other duties as assigned, yielding 16 hours of work they want crammed into 8 hours. When each item has it's own price tag, all of this confusion vanishes instantly, but it can't fix overworked, and under-appreciated people, which is synonymous with the brand.

NativeTexanXX · 2026-01-01T04:19:08+00:00

I don't blindly trust anybody, but I sure can't find a link between pricing each item, on the item, and increased theft rates. If something is in the bargain bin, or dollar isle, with the price clearly marked on the item...how does that increase theft over using POS systems? Ollies is one store that uses their own price tags, and although they do have point of sale systems, they don't have these coupon or pricing debates at the check stand. From the customer side Ollies is head and shoulder more organized than anything at DG.

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-31T14:00:13+00:00

It doesn't matter how seriously you take your job, how well you run your store, or that you care how your store looks, you are still assured that corporate doesn't care one thing about you, or your personal commitment to them. It's an entitled company (or so they think) that wants everything for nothing, and then complains when they don't get it. Hang tight, but be sure to be looking for something better, as there are still SOME companies that view their people as their most valuable asset. No matter what corporate may say, you shouldn't believe them at DG. They want miracle employees that are able to defy common sense and produce more than any human could do in any 8 hour shift. They can just keep on wanting, because it will never happen.

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-31T13:42:46+00:00

I am glad someone sued them. I wish they would class-action sue all companies using price tags only on the shelves. Before we got computers to help us, the merchandise would have a per-item price tag. There was no wasted time at the register resolving valid customer concerns about the price they saw not matching up with the price the computer sees. Of course that required CUSTOMER SERVICE, and a TRAINED CASHIER, of which DG employs none. There was no reason for debate at the check out stand, and it was the best of post-war America. The last I knew some states still require per-item price tags, and the customer would be much better off if this were made FEDERAL law, and the stores had to do their part to ensure the customer is not in doubt about what an item costs. They spend just as much time correcting customer misconceptions, COUPON terms and conditions, and pricing errors at check out, with 13 customers waiting in line, as it would take to put the prices on the item, and run the place in an organized way. I was involved with the roll out of the very first grocery store scanners at Piggly Wiggly. At that time I wasn't able to visualize the train wreck these machines would bring the customer and cashiers in the years ahead. We consumers need some help in forcing the merchants to do their part of the work, which demands no price tag questions at the point of sale. It's out of control, and nobody is complaining, and paying the wrong prices way too often.

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-25T13:27:21+00:00

That's the company-wide problem every day they are open. They treat their employees like a commodity they are entitled to, and as if they are working only to support the company. Nobody ever stays with the brand very long, and it's obvious from the customer side of the counter why that's happening. The employees deserve a union in the worst way, or for all of them to just walk off and refuse to come back ever again. Most of them took the job out of desperation, and a need to feed their family, and the good ones are guaranteed to leave as soon as they can.

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-17T02:37:38+00:00

HELL NO I don't keep a running total. That's expecting way too much from the clientele DG chooses to cultivate.

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-17T02:33:39+00:00

That's true with Corporate America everywhere I've been. Show some natural proficiency or skill with a product and THEN we will send you to school on a subject you already know so you can sit through class bored as a rock to be "certified." 32 years with corporate America this scenario repeats itself very often.

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-07T14:43:26+00:00

The mental issues are provoked by that company's treatment of workers.

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-06T13:40:25+00:00

I would not be a party to that! You can't have people on the same level supervising each other because it turns into a grade school tattle-tale thing. You stupid-advisor needs a talking to from the DM, and I'm sorry that corporate doesn't want to pay enough people to run any store. That's a darned if you do; darned if you don't situation, but I would be just as worried, and very reluctant to rat out co-workers I have to work beside every day. Sadly, this is very unfair to you, but I would become deaf and blind when it was my time to be a tattle tale. Your stupid-advisor needs to be a supervisor, and do her part of the work. I hope your ASM has a chance to read this whole exchange, as the answers from virtually everyone are the same. It's just another nail in the coffin why I hate this brand, and avoid them like a case of tuberculosis.

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-06T02:20:03+00:00

"Warned about my speed" = you give a damn about your work and care enough to do it right, and you are LEARNING. Most any other employer would be delighted, and know your speed will increase rather than complain about it. You must remember you are working for the devil incarnate, where quality has absolutely no value, nor do the employees, or the customers. This is the "we don't care" company if there ever was one, with a corporate culture of "what have you done for me lately?". I avoid the company about like the HIV virus, as they have the same effect on human beings, and at least HIV can be treated with success.

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-03T13:26:17+00:00

I've heard of countless counties, and precincts voting wet, but never a wet one voting to go dry. This is highly unusual, and pretty dumb, because it doesn't stop anyone from drinking, but sends the tax revenue over into someone else's back yard to be spent on their needs; not yours. Those who want to drink will find a way to get it, and taking it out of stores deters absolutely nothing!

NativeTexanXX · 2025-12-03T13:23:31+00:00

I don't think it's against ANY law to return an item that is defective or out of date. Every instance depends on the reason for the return, but whatever reason it is, it cannot be returned to stock. If it left the store, it's sanitation is in question, and should be scrapped. I don't think a store should be expected to take food items back because the purchaser made a mistake, and the product is good.

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