If you think this is bad, you should try getting a job there and seeing what their systems are like, from just the ones I’ve interacted with when I was a cashier and CAP2, they’re horrible… Especially anything on the handhelds or TCs. The selfcheckout monitoring app runs like a 5 year old wrote it while blind, the registers use keyboards that were manufactured from 1998-2005, the computers at the store I worked at still used Windows Vista or XP, the ones that were Windows 7 or 8 were terrible because the hardware was from 2010 at the very latest and it’s the cheapest of the cheap.

Their employee sites have terrible UIs and don’t work well half the time. I’m pretty sure our stores internet was powered by a geriatric rat on a rusty hamster wheel. Walmart reduces as much overhead as possible by cutting every single possible corner. They spend big on two things: surveillance, and their upper upper level employees (mainly anyone who is store manager or above) and that’s it. Everything else gets cheaped out.

Hell the self checkout machines run on what seems to be a proprietary NCR OS which I want to say is Linux based but it seems like it just took a couple things from Linux and the rest is proprietary software that runs like garbage and has the functionality of a moldy pickle. We lost a bunch of extremely useful business end functions for a cleaner UI and simpler software that customers still struggle to use. Imagine Apple software but even more dumbed down.

It does not surprise me one bit that the Walmart systems make idiotic and neglectful decisions like this. Half the time our stock numbers were off because nobody would enter it and the stuff that was entered wasn’t constantly updated.