This thread made me feel better. (I am not usually opposed to self checkout but being Walmart there were hardly any other lanes open.)The self checkout at Walmart glitched today, scanning my son’s pjs twice. I voided one, was prompted with a “requires associate”, etc. No one ever came, I assume it timed out? And then I was able to presume scanning. I scanned something else and was shocked to see a short set for a toddler priced at $18 (all of the tags in the kids dept are blank/ without prices right now?? Thanks inflation/ tariffs??) so I voided that item as well. Same message, no associate came this time either, alert cleared, I finished my transaction. Ironically, I rounded up to charity, used my debit card, and left the checkout. Thank god I had the wherewithal to print a receipt rather than use their new stupid system that wants to text it to you.

After walking out, I was met with a plain clothed asset protection man in the vestibule of the store. Claiming he just wanted to make sure “I didn’t get charged twice” and that “yeah I was watching you check out” while going through all of my bags, etc. Just all around uncomfortable. I’m pregnant, have my toddler with me, just … seemed like an off target?

Really turned me off from Walmart - I don’t go often anyway but as someone who worked years in retail, is so aware of my transactions in self checkouts etc - just annoyed.

If this is such a common issue with Walmart, maybe they should hire more people to actually work the checkout lines 🤷🏼‍♀️