Walmart Baby Registry Disaster

I had a similar experience at a Walmart at Orange City, FL yesterday.
A supervisor told me that they don't have baby registries anymore.
When I told him I can pull up my sister's registry at the kiosk, he
said it was probably because it was only online, that they don't do
them at the stores anymore. I told him I needed to print it out, and
there was a print button which printed somewhere, and he said it
doesn't work anymore. I talked to a cashier about how baby registries
work, that the store has to print out the registry so the cashier can
scan the bar code of the items on the registry to avoid duplicate
gifts. She said out of the 2 years she has worked there, she has never
heard of baby registries and hence never scanned a bar code. I am
going to contact the manager about training their people about this.
Thank God the other store is Baby's R Us. Apparently this isn't an
isolated incident if other stores have the same problem.

Yeah, that is Wal-Mart for you. They pay their employees poorly, and
they train them poorly... This creates an environment in which the
employees are not motivated to do their work, or to help out, and in
the rare instance that you find some one who does care, they are
clueless because, they were not trained well at all.

Try Target next time, if you are looking for a low budget place to do
a baby registry.

Congratulations on the new baby. :)

but it's WalMart!

I wouldn't register my DOG there!

Not withstanding the fact that you had poor service, why are you
registering for what must be at least your second child (you say you
went with your daughter). I thought registries were for your first
child only.

I would not be inclined to give a registry gift for someone's second
child, a gift, yes but not off a registry.

My advice would be not to even register at WalMart.

The items sold by WalMart are low quality and low reliability.

Register at somewhere decent such as Bloomingdale's, JC Penney, Macy's
or somewhere else of value.

It's bad that more of the employees don't know how to handle customers
wanting to work on a registry.

However, I totally disagree that the person should have stopped
helping people who were there ahead of you waiting for her help to
assist you. She wasn't ignoring you from what you write. She told
you that she would be with you when she finished with them.

You were directed to the jewelry counter but questioned that
instruction. So you went elsewhere.

When you finally did arrive at Jewelry with your sheet, there were 2
other people "in line", waiting for assistance. The manager helped
them first.

As someone who appreciates a societal rule, I'm glad the manager
assisted the customers who were in front of you. We teach kids about
"sharing" and "taking turns". These rules also apply to adults
waiting in line.