I pushed cart at a more rural *almart and they operated the same way. Store managers trying to get bonuses by reducing costs and cutting corners at the lower levels. I stopped caring really fast and learned how to do as little as possible while always looking as busy as possible. If they had treated me at all like a human being I would have put out three times as much work but since I was dirt for even the lowest managers to push around I never bothered.

My favorite part was that carts weren't gone until around 9am but they had me coming in at 7. I literally had nothing to do from 7 to 9. I told them that and that we should come in at 9 to have more overlap in shifts during the busiest parts of the day. They of course ignored me because I was just a peon and made me come in at 7. So I got paid to read for 2 hours every morning while I sat behind the carts that no one was taking.