Hey Walmart Customers, Can You Read?

@akalinus 1. The Walmart where I work, there are often days in which several cashiers call or in or just don't show up and therefore the store is short on cashiers. I'm sure it's the same at other Walmarts. Hundreds of employees working at the same time is probably a bit of an exaggeration. Not every Walmart employee is a cashier so just because they are there doesn't mean they can be put on a register. Also, it is not practical to open up every lane just because there is 3 or 4 people in line at the ones that are open, which I've noticed that many customers expect. When there are long lines (long lines means more than 5 people in a line) and not enough cashiers, all qualified associates are called off the floor to work registers up front, and usually at that time, all or most all, of the lanes are open. 2. In the self-checkouts, the platform in the bagging area is a scale. It compares the weight of the item rung up, to whatever item is placed in a bag, or simply set down in the bagging area to make sure they match up. It's an anti-theft precaution. If you don't want to bag something, all you have to do to prevent the thing from beeping or whatever, is just the set the item down on the bagging platform. You do not have to actually put the item in a bag. 3. What usually makes the express lanes faster than a regular lane is that fact that its 20 items or less, so the not as many items are being rung up per person, and therefore it should go a little faster. However, when customers insist on going through those lanes with 100+ items, then of course it will be no faster than a regular lane, and maybe even slower since the express lanes are not equipped to handle that large an order.