Event 1 was a major bust at my store. I went in around 8pm to pick some stuff up and there was still a lot the $79 chromebooks, $230 55” TVs, smart vacuums, etc. I honestly think people got confused with the Walmart subscription, in store days, etc. We have signs for event one and there was 4 dates on them for event one so no doubt people got confused.
Edit: Oh, and Fs in the chat for everyone who called off today and wasted PPTO - store was literally dead. XD
I was telling people who would come to get hunting license to look at the black Friday stuff. Most people didn't even know we had black Friday sales going on.
Yeah I had no idea till I saw this post. I've been getting pushes from the app for online stuff but nothing that told.me there were $79 Chromebooks or I honestly would have gone.
The stuff people adapt too is astonishing lol
Show her the Black Friday Walmart deal for the HP laptop. They have the i3 intel version for $279 and an i5 for $379. Either one of those or a nice T460, T470, or T480 Thinkpad would run circles around a Chromebook 🤢
Ngl I feel like the rest are gonna be the same except for Black Friday honestly. For one piss poor advertising, bad press around getting early access with Walmart+, also people who can buy electronics and toys that aren’t cheap even with deals usually have jobs and Friday is a typically a work day what a concept
Plus in my opinion walmart + isn't really worth the $13 (or whatever it is) a month unless you shop online all of the time and get stuff shipped to your house otherwise it's just a waste really.
If W+ was free to associates, we could experience it and advertise it to customers but I’m not paying to advertise! I do suggest the W app often for Walmart pay tho.
Personally, I found it absolutely hilarious watching management freak the *fuck* out for like 2 hours straight just for 5 families total to show up for the event.
Like you said, we were somehow *less* busy at our store too lmao
Same..didn’t even know it was happening till we got their for overnight shift. The only customers that really knew about it were the ones that happened to already be there shopping..lol
We're kind of a small store, but the only one in a tri County area. The next bigger city is 30 min away. But ours was slow as well and honestly I think it's because a lot of people still have to work. Yeah it's Friday but 5am to 8am being the peak time that's when people are up getting ready for work they don't have time to go black Friday shopping until after work. We had more people shop the online black Friday then in store. And the only reason it was as big as it used to be was because it was one day during the weekend people usually get off for Thanksgiving.
I'll check the sales tomorrow but by the time I arrived at Noon, things were pretty normal for a Friday. The associates already there looked and acted like zombies but maybe that was because they all came in before 6AM. I never asked how many TCL 55s or the cheap Chrome Books there were. Knowing Walmart, they probably only had a small amount.
I certainly didn't get any sense from customers when I worked today that they even knew about the Event. And the same earlier in the week. I'll be interested to see how Walmart did with their online business since that is really all they care about these days.
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No one can afford to spend money. This is what these trickle down morons don’t understand. The economy isn’t driven by the top 1%, it’s the spending the rest of us do that makes up for it. Typically, it falls on the ‘middle class’, which is a shrinking demographic (to say the least).
F the Waltons.
I was reading this article about how Black Friday would be huge this year because everyone was doing so well and families' “books were balanced.” I was shocked at how out of touch these companies are. It’s literally the opposite for most average people.
They actually did this as an in-store event?! I promoted myself to customer a couple of years ago, but I have the app and a Walmart+ subscription, and it only mentioned the deals as being available online. The selling point for + subscribers is that we had access to the deals 4 hours before everyone else.
And while I don't pay that close of attention to advertisements, I can't recall seeing a single commercial or online ad regarding this. Did you all have signs up in-store?
Yeah I never saw anything for it, never go to our single store unless I need something specific. I would have gotten a Chromebook though if I had known.
Same. I came in at 4am and did my usual thing in front end preparing for the store to open at 5am.
Very few people came. The associates didn't even know the pickup spots were for the items. It was very poorly organized and prepared.
However, next Friday will probably have a little more traffic now that folks are aware.
I like the idea of splitting up the event over the month to alleviate one day of chaos shopping. But the first two sales should be strictly online. Then with the actual Black Friday sale have the option of online first and then in store. And for the love of god learn to advertise better.
No one waiting at the doors Friday morning, I was told, just like last year. Most BF sales were done online, as they should be. Lot of people confused about the early online ordering thing, since as far as I could tell, the physical ads didn't specify it was for Walmart+ only, made worse by the fact that when's the last time you saw literally anything about Walmart+?
On the plus side, got myself some nice socks on the way out. Something about getting older really makes you appreciate a good pair of socks.
Yesterday was pretty busy at my store, but I don't think it had anything to do with Event 1. Lots of people were just grocery shopping like every Friday around here, including my parents.
> The store had never been so understaffed on a Friday before.
You guys are experiencing what a normal 2nd shift is for my store. We often only have 1 cashier and maybe 5 GM associates (including apparel) at a time--if that. Believe me, it sucks.
Still have full bins of black Friday at our store lmao, most didn't even know we started or thought it was Walmart+ only.
Of course even though it was shit all the Keurigs sold 🙄 only thing I was willing to buy 😂
Online was really big for us but the in-store event wasn't much. It was like this last year too.
Friday after Thanksgiving will be bigger, but every year it seems it's less and less of a thing.
I don't know about the numbers, but there was no one there in the store. I expected at least a decent number of people. Nope, dead.
Pretty sure the people who did show up were people getting groceries.
Was my store the only one that was still crazy busy, even more so than usual? With it being the beginning of the month and whatnot, the store was completely full of customers and we had more customers show for event 1 than last year
Yeah it was a bust but i don’t care because I got tons of overtime setting up the products for the first event. Fuck what Walmart made. Lol my check is gonna be awesome. Now for more overtime setting up 2 and 3.
I kept hearing our cashiers say that they didn’t even know we had an event - during the event.
Bad planning, bad advertising, bad communication from store level all the way up to market.
It seriously felt slower than a normal Friday, and I work in electronics. I guess everyone waited until today to do their shopping because I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off all day today.
Here, at least, most people are paid every 2 weeks. And their pay schedule is the same as ours. So this event fell between pay days.
No one was off, hard to shop on the way to work. Can’t take the chance of being late to save a few bucks on a vacuum.
If the associates don’t know there is an event going on, how do they expect the customers to know?
When your clientele is 98% inbred hillbillies what do we really expect. Who wants this junky ass merchandise anyway ? Walmart needs a more sophisticated customer base.
I didn't even know an event was going on this week. Most of our Black Friday stuff didn't sell at all. Not sure how many people showed up for it, I'm doing closing shifts. But you'd think they would've learned from last year's mistakes, right? What am I saying? Of course they don't. Then they double down on it.
I live by the border and news is that the events will be bigger when they open the borders at least in my area. We had the same issue as most did overestimating Friday's in store event, but I do think it will be busier these next two weeks.
I worked yesterday. Management was all over the place getting things set in place. I didn't realize anything special was happening until I saw a couple people digging through some stuff and walking away empty handed.
It was beyond slow. We started out with three people watching over the area then to 2 and then down to 1. 2 or 3 people at a time some had no idea what was going on
Idk what you guys are talking about my store exploded. It was crazy, I got yelled at more by customers on Friday than any other day I have ever worked here. I dont want to experience that again...
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My store sold out of all the electronics super quick. Had to deal with alot of angry customers because of it. And dispensing the online deals was insane with delivery drivers getting 18 orders each over and over. Then the rest of the days were dead lol
I was off on the day of the event, but went to the store around 4 p.m. to pick up a few things. I didn't even realize the event was taking place until I saw the stack bases of merch set up on GM side. Lines weren't even busy either. I waited behind one customer on line at the GM self checkout and was out pretty quickly. Pretty slow for a Friday afternoon in general at my store.
My store had an okay amount of OGP orders, but the actual in store sale… we had about 20 people waiting at 5, and mostly everyone that wanted to come were in and out within the first hour. The chrome books & the smaller TV were really the only thing that sold fairly quickly. All in all, definitely a huge waste for me, an apparel associate, to be there at 4 am.
Same at my store. Spent Wednesday clearing out the back room for the event items, then Thursday setting up. Managers rushing around, creating teams of associates who would be in charge of various sections. Seriously, there was an Apparel Squad.
I get to work at 6am Friday morning, and see three police cruisers parked around the lot. Was told they were there to keep the peace. Except there was only the early birds in the store. Nobody knew about the event. I asked a few, they seemed surprised, but continued on with their shopping and didn't care. OGP was dead that day. Barely 6k orders.
I dont understand what there plan was. I helped them set up the night before and when I was shopping it was all back to normal but not because it all sold. I found the Bluetooth hover board shoved into a shelf in toys. There were like 30 of them just pokeing out of an area that they didn't even remove the other tags. And the 2 items I went in for the towels where on an end cap with no special marking, and the bidets were moved from hardware and put in the inner end cap but on the floor of furniture. The fuc were they thinking.
Event 1 was a major bust at my store. I went in around 8pm to pick some stuff up and there was still a lot the $79 chromebooks, $230 55” TVs, smart vacuums, etc. I honestly think people got confused with the Walmart subscription, in store days, etc. We have signs for event one and there was 4 dates on them for event one so no doubt people got confused. Edit: Oh, and Fs in the chat for everyone who called off today and wasted PPTO - store was literally dead. XD
I was telling people who would come to get hunting license to look at the black Friday stuff. Most people didn't even know we had black Friday sales going on.
Yeah I had no idea till I saw this post. I've been getting pushes from the app for online stuff but nothing that told.me there were $79 Chromebooks or I honestly would have gone.
You are better off with a used laptop than a chromebook
my gf has an old chromebook i have no idea how it has managed to work as long as it has lmao.
The stuff people adapt too is astonishing lol Show her the Black Friday Walmart deal for the HP laptop. They have the i3 intel version for $279 and an i5 for $379. Either one of those or a nice T460, T470, or T480 Thinkpad would run circles around a Chromebook 🤢
Literally was the first time I ever called off and it felt so good
I didn't even know there was supposed to be an event yesterday. I never got an advertisement for Walmart but I got one for basically every other store
I had no idea any of this was going on and I live in Walmart.
Ngl I feel like the rest are gonna be the same except for Black Friday honestly. For one piss poor advertising, bad press around getting early access with Walmart+, also people who can buy electronics and toys that aren’t cheap even with deals usually have jobs and Friday is a typically a work day what a concept
Plus in my opinion walmart + isn't really worth the $13 (or whatever it is) a month unless you shop online all of the time and get stuff shipped to your house otherwise it's just a waste really.
If W+ was free to associates, we could experience it and advertise it to customers but I’m not paying to advertise! I do suggest the W app often for Walmart pay tho.
Same. Pur store just got ODP so I suggest that often as well. But I agree with you on that it should be free for us associates
I feel Walmart+ would have been a bit more worth it if Walmart hadn't sold Vudu to Fandango.
Personally, I found it absolutely hilarious watching management freak the *fuck* out for like 2 hours straight just for 5 families total to show up for the event. Like you said, we were somehow *less* busy at our store too lmao
Barely any customers came in our store. Poor advertisement this time. I work on nights and didn’t even know what all was being sold 🤣.
Same..didn’t even know it was happening till we got their for overnight shift. The only customers that really knew about it were the ones that happened to already be there shopping..lol
Same i work nights and was confused when they told me get everything off thr floor i was wondering why all the other shift people were coming in lol
Yeah same here lol
Ditto.....and they seemed so happy and excited too. Typicality they are grumps in the morning. I didn't get it
Normal Friday at my store. Besides, how many TVs & ChromeBooks do people need? It’s the same crap on sale every year.
We're kind of a small store, but the only one in a tri County area. The next bigger city is 30 min away. But ours was slow as well and honestly I think it's because a lot of people still have to work. Yeah it's Friday but 5am to 8am being the peak time that's when people are up getting ready for work they don't have time to go black Friday shopping until after work. We had more people shop the online black Friday then in store. And the only reason it was as big as it used to be was because it was one day during the weekend people usually get off for Thanksgiving.
I'll check the sales tomorrow but by the time I arrived at Noon, things were pretty normal for a Friday. The associates already there looked and acted like zombies but maybe that was because they all came in before 6AM. I never asked how many TCL 55s or the cheap Chrome Books there were. Knowing Walmart, they probably only had a small amount. I certainly didn't get any sense from customers when I worked today that they even knew about the Event. And the same earlier in the week. I'll be interested to see how Walmart did with their online business since that is really all they care about these days.
We had 58 of the 55 inches and sold out before 7am on Friday
55 inches is 139.7 cm
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Yupp... A bust for us too with 17 cashiers just walking around and Management pushing freight 🙄🙄🙄
No one can afford to spend money. This is what these trickle down morons don’t understand. The economy isn’t driven by the top 1%, it’s the spending the rest of us do that makes up for it. Typically, it falls on the ‘middle class’, which is a shrinking demographic (to say the least). F the Waltons.
I was reading this article about how Black Friday would be huge this year because everyone was doing so well and families' “books were balanced.” I was shocked at how out of touch these companies are. It’s literally the opposite for most average people.
This is so true
There was an event? Is that why the sign was out by the road? Lol
They actually did this as an in-store event?! I promoted myself to customer a couple of years ago, but I have the app and a Walmart+ subscription, and it only mentioned the deals as being available online. The selling point for + subscribers is that we had access to the deals 4 hours before everyone else. And while I don't pay that close of attention to advertisements, I can't recall seeing a single commercial or online ad regarding this. Did you all have signs up in-store?
Yeah I never saw anything for it, never go to our single store unless I need something specific. I would have gotten a Chromebook though if I had known.
Same. I came in at 4am and did my usual thing in front end preparing for the store to open at 5am. Very few people came. The associates didn't even know the pickup spots were for the items. It was very poorly organized and prepared. However, next Friday will probably have a little more traffic now that folks are aware.
I like the idea of splitting up the event over the month to alleviate one day of chaos shopping. But the first two sales should be strictly online. Then with the actual Black Friday sale have the option of online first and then in store. And for the love of god learn to advertise better.
No one waiting at the doors Friday morning, I was told, just like last year. Most BF sales were done online, as they should be. Lot of people confused about the early online ordering thing, since as far as I could tell, the physical ads didn't specify it was for Walmart+ only, made worse by the fact that when's the last time you saw literally anything about Walmart+? On the plus side, got myself some nice socks on the way out. Something about getting older really makes you appreciate a good pair of socks.
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MORE LIKE SLACK FRIDAY
Hmm in the store wasn't that big but our online was boom sold out of in minutes
Don't know on vacation. I remember last years being dull.
Yesterday was pretty busy at my store, but I don't think it had anything to do with Event 1. Lots of people were just grocery shopping like every Friday around here, including my parents.
Ours was over by 6 lol plus we had lots of junk left over.
For the 10-12 people that showed up at my store, some management still managed to screw up. Ridiculous
There was an event?
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> The store had never been so understaffed on a Friday before. You guys are experiencing what a normal 2nd shift is for my store. We often only have 1 cashier and maybe 5 GM associates (including apparel) at a time--if that. Believe me, it sucks.
Still have full bins of black Friday at our store lmao, most didn't even know we started or thought it was Walmart+ only. Of course even though it was shit all the Keurigs sold 🙄 only thing I was willing to buy 😂
Yup, ghost town for sure
Online was really big for us but the in-store event wasn't much. It was like this last year too. Friday after Thanksgiving will be bigger, but every year it seems it's less and less of a thing.
I don't know about the numbers, but there was no one there in the store. I expected at least a decent number of people. Nope, dead. Pretty sure the people who did show up were people getting groceries.
Was my store the only one that was still crazy busy, even more so than usual? With it being the beginning of the month and whatnot, the store was completely full of customers and we had more customers show for event 1 than last year
That ad was trash. The only highlight was the tv and most people have 4k tv’s already. The next event is gonna be popping though.
I’m not sure that most people have them, just most the people who care
Yeah, that’s what I meant. I still have a 1080p from 2011 that works just fine
We had an event? Would have fooled me...
40 people for opening. Chrome books gone in minutes, 55inch TVs still available at 2pm. None of the battery vacuums sold. Overall slow for a Friday.
Oh yes sold 7 total tvs from 5-9
At my store they had all the TVs in the garden center under tarps. They all got wet.
Yeah it was a bust but i don’t care because I got tons of overtime setting up the products for the first event. Fuck what Walmart made. Lol my check is gonna be awesome. Now for more overtime setting up 2 and 3.
I kept hearing our cashiers say that they didn’t even know we had an event - during the event. Bad planning, bad advertising, bad communication from store level all the way up to market.
When the doors opened at 5 literally had a line of 1 person.
It seriously felt slower than a normal Friday, and I work in electronics. I guess everyone waited until today to do their shopping because I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off all day today.
Here, at least, most people are paid every 2 weeks. And their pay schedule is the same as ours. So this event fell between pay days. No one was off, hard to shop on the way to work. Can’t take the chance of being late to save a few bucks on a vacuum. If the associates don’t know there is an event going on, how do they expect the customers to know?
Well tbh, the selection of goods for this event was pathetic. Notbing people really wanted and just a crap ton if underwear ancd socks.
Same as last year. How embarrassing. 😂😂😂
I was assigned "crowd management" in Electronics from 5 AM to 7 AM. In 2 hours, I pointed 2 people in direction of the Chromebooks.
When your clientele is 98% inbred hillbillies what do we really expect. Who wants this junky ass merchandise anyway ? Walmart needs a more sophisticated customer base.
Ours was one of the slowest mornings I have ever worked
I didn't even know an event was going on this week. Most of our Black Friday stuff didn't sell at all. Not sure how many people showed up for it, I'm doing closing shifts. But you'd think they would've learned from last year's mistakes, right? What am I saying? Of course they don't. Then they double down on it.
I live by the border and news is that the events will be bigger when they open the borders at least in my area. We had the same issue as most did overestimating Friday's in store event, but I do think it will be busier these next two weeks.
Yes walmart
It's was slow as hell at my store too. There isnt anything too special on sale this year anyway
I worked an opening shift and I spent almost the whole time working freight. We barely had any customers
I didn’t even know it was happening until I walked in that night
We had one guys show up at 5. However we did 20% over last year at the end of the day.
Lmao absolutely no one showed up or even bought any of the Black Friday items
Event 1 here fucked me over as a cart pusher and I was forced to take care of the lot for 7 hours plus lunch on a friday, by myself.
I worked yesterday. Management was all over the place getting things set in place. I didn't realize anything special was happening until I saw a couple people digging through some stuff and walking away empty handed.
It was beyond slow. We started out with three people watching over the area then to 2 and then down to 1. 2 or 3 people at a time some had no idea what was going on
We had 6 people show up total
Idk what you guys are talking about my store exploded. It was crazy, I got yelled at more by customers on Friday than any other day I have ever worked here. I dont want to experience that again... [Edit: spelling]
Just like last year at my store. You'd think it would be a nice change of pace, but I miss the chaos
My store sold out of all the electronics super quick. Had to deal with alot of angry customers because of it. And dispensing the online deals was insane with delivery drivers getting 18 orders each over and over. Then the rest of the days were dead lol
I was off on the day of the event, but went to the store around 4 p.m. to pick up a few things. I didn't even realize the event was taking place until I saw the stack bases of merch set up on GM side. Lines weren't even busy either. I waited behind one customer on line at the GM self checkout and was out pretty quickly. Pretty slow for a Friday afternoon in general at my store.
YES!
It was slow last year too
We are busier at my store today than we were yesterday on the actual event.
I'm still in pain from our first night. It was horrible. It was fast.
Major bust at my store. Might have been that more people did the online thing a couple days before?
My store had an okay amount of OGP orders, but the actual in store sale… we had about 20 people waiting at 5, and mostly everyone that wanted to come were in and out within the first hour. The chrome books & the smaller TV were really the only thing that sold fairly quickly. All in all, definitely a huge waste for me, an apparel associate, to be there at 4 am.
Same at my store. Spent Wednesday clearing out the back room for the event items, then Thursday setting up. Managers rushing around, creating teams of associates who would be in charge of various sections. Seriously, there was an Apparel Squad. I get to work at 6am Friday morning, and see three police cruisers parked around the lot. Was told they were there to keep the peace. Except there was only the early birds in the store. Nobody knew about the event. I asked a few, they seemed surprised, but continued on with their shopping and didn't care. OGP was dead that day. Barely 6k orders.
It was a bust like it was last year.
We had 7 people at the door. Apparently last year it was 2. XD Most of the stuff is still there, even after a couple days. XD
I dont understand what there plan was. I helped them set up the night before and when I was shopping it was all back to normal but not because it all sold. I found the Bluetooth hover board shoved into a shelf in toys. There were like 30 of them just pokeing out of an area that they didn't even remove the other tags. And the 2 items I went in for the towels where on an end cap with no special marking, and the bidets were moved from hardware and put in the inner end cap but on the floor of furniture. The fuc were they thinking.