been a while since I posted, but I was so aggravated this past weekend, I just needed to make a post!
I've long since despised buying DH's razors for him because it seems as though every store in town thinks everyone is either a criminal or suicidal and likes to lock them up, or at the very least, lock up all the mens razors aside from the disposable ones (which is something that doesn't exactly make sense either). its definitely a huge annoyance having to track someone down with keys to these locked up razors, but it normally isn't so bad that it takes just a few minutes and i'm on my way.
walmart, for whatever reason has a vendetta on letting anyone get razors and pay for them in less than 5 minutes. I was doing my weekly grocery run and the DH asked me to buy him some razors (even though I've protested buying them for him anymore because of this nuisance) so I thought i'd be nice and do it for him instead of pitching a fit and telling him to get them himself.
I had to return something back to walmart so I thought i'd get ahead of the game by asking the customer service desk to call someone over to the razor cabinet so that it would be a quick ordeal. I headed over there and waited a couple minutes in case I beat whoever had the keys. no one showed up but I noticed they finally installed their own type of bell (like their horn at the dressing rooms, but it was a doorbell), so I pressed it in hopes someone would be on their way... no one. press it again. no one. at one point some woman walked by, looked right at me standing there and kept walking. so I press it again and she comes back. I ask if they really don't have a better system in place for getting razors since I had been standing there for a good 10 minutes and pressed the button multiple times and all she could tell me was to keep pressing the button until someone shows up! she said it as though she completely ignored me when I said I had pushed it about 5 times in a matter of 10 minutes. I was just dumbfounded.
so she got the razors I wanted and then told me I had to pay for them at the pharmacy (which don't keep the keys even though they're closest to the cabinet) to which I asked if there was another way so I didn't have to make two separate transactions (one for the razors and one for my groceries) and she suggested getting my groceries and then going to the customer service desk to pay for everything and she would leave the razors there for me. while that would be the better option, I don't like paying for things there because its for customer service, not for everyone to be making their purchases! i'm far more considerate than that. so I sucked it up, told her the whole thing is ridiculous and they should find a better way to deal with razors and paid for them at the pharmacy.
I know I shouldn't blame her, but she didn't exactly give me polite and kind service either (not that I was very polite after being forced to wait for so long). I should be placing blame on those who give stores like walmart a reason for having to lock up the razors. I can't help but be incredibly confused when its only the expensive (read: non-disposable) razors that get locked up and even more confused when its only the men's razors that get locked up at other stores in town.
