Hey Gene! Delaware should thank me. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> When I leave my home no matter which way I turn, I'm in Delaware or Maryland in a few minutes.

Buy all my gas and groceries in Delaware, Newark is 2 miles away.

Pa gas prices are so high, and I refused to go to Pa State store. Delaware booze prices are the best, sometimes Maryland runs some good sales.

I love having this 3 state luxury of shopping, all at my back door.

What sales clerks turn a credit card over and look at the back? /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> I have various things signed on the back of mine, too. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

I have not had my cards flipped over and checked in years, normally they just look at the front. /biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

Newark having University of Delaware, being a college town they seem to ID more than any place I've ever shopped.

I also have to go through road alcohol check points, many times. I go grocery shopping, and have to get out and walk the line and touch my finger to my nose.

Gee, the things I'll do for food. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Got to go where the best booze prices are Symph...ya just got to /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

First, I agree with Lady....

Second, you are right about the credit cards Symph....I find that places like Staples, and things like that will check your card, now that everyone seems to have gone with the self swiping machines, most retailers do not bother with checking cards.....University of Delaware is known for its parties, or at least used to during my college days, I never attended that college, but heard lots of stories...Its neat you have three states to choose from as far as where to go to shop....I am stuck in the middle of the state....those pesky alcohol checkpoints are tedious, but I can't discredit them, they do catch a lot of people with DUI's. Being a small state, I know some of the troopers or friends of friends, so I usually know where the checkpoints are before they set them up....

Hey Gene! Delaware should thank me. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' /> When I leave my home no matter which way I turn, I'm in Delaware or Maryland in a few minutes.

Buy all my gas and groceries in Delaware, Newark is 2 miles away.

Pa gas prices are so high, and I refused to go to Pa State store. Delaware booze prices are the best, sometimes Maryland runs some good sales.

I love having this 3 state luxury of shopping, all at my back door.

What sales clerks turn a credit card over and look at the back? /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> I have various things signed on the back of mine, too. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

I have not had my cards flipped over and checked in years, normally they just look at the front. /biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':o' />

Newark having University of Delaware, being a college town they seem to ID more than any place I've ever shopped.

I also have to go through road alcohol check points, many times. I go grocery shopping, and have to get out and walk the line and touch my finger to my nose.

Gee, the things I'll do for food. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Got to go where the best booze prices are Symph...ya just got to /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Delaware thanks you for your shopping dollars, keep them coming....

I personally on the back on all my credit cards, instead of signing my name, I put "Check I.D." You'd be surprised though how many times the cashiers actually ask to see my ID (1 in 6....maybe)

Hey Gene! Delaware should thank me. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> When I leave my home no matter which way I turn, I'm in Delaware or Maryland in a few minutes.

Buy all my gas and groceries in Delaware, Newark is 2 miles away.

Pa gas prices are so high, and I refused to go to Pa State store. Delaware booze prices are the best, sometimes Maryland runs some good sales.

I love having this 3 state luxury of shopping, all at my back door.

What sales clerks turn a credit card over and look at the back? /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> I have various things signed on the back of mine, too. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

I have not had my cards flipped over and checked in years, normally they just look at the front. /biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':unsure:' />

Newark having University of Delaware, being a college town they seem to ID more than any place I've ever shopped.

I also have to go through road alcohol check points, many times. I go grocery shopping, and have to get out and walk the line and touch my finger to my nose.

Gee, the things I'll do for food. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

When is christmas? I wasn't aware. /blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

I think it may be sometime in April, but I could be wrong about that. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Delaware thanks you for your shopping dollars, keep them coming....

I personally on the back on all my credit cards, instead of signing my name, I put "Check I.D." You'd be surprised though how many times the cashiers actually ask to see my ID (1 in 6....maybe)

I do the same on some and on others I sign one thing, but on the actual slip I sign something else.

I worked in retail my whole life. Manager, dm, buyer, and sales rep.

The things I've seen, oh boy, and many times been assualted physically and by guns and knives.

Most recent, a pharmacy oxycontin, hold up.

This holiday season has been lovely so far. /rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> Many shoppers have no idea where their personal space begins and ends.

My daughter works for Walmart, she is a far cry from a drone, she's in her second year of nursing.

I remember last year in New York on Black Friday, shoppers before the 5 am opening, broke the glass doors and trampled a store employee to death.

Police were injured by the shoppers while trying to give the male employee cpr, as was a preganat woman.

Walmart is my most unfavorite account, mostly due to customers. The constant thinking I work for the store, and customers getting hostile while I nicely explain I don't.

Then the mutterings while they walk away. I will never shop at Walmart.

As a consumer, I think you have to realize discount does not equal service.

In Delaware where I do some of my shopping, id's are asked for on a regular basis, with purchases when using a credit card. Credit card fraud is very big.

Return scams are the highest this time of year. Most retailers are in the red before this time of year, hoping to be in the black.

All the scams, cost the consumer in the end. During this difficult time with the ecomomy, many chains are on their toes with returns and have adopted many of the retail return policies of twenty years ago. Good for them, I also as a consumer don't want to pay more.

I came home yesterday from store calls, drank a bottle of wine. I really hardly drink.

I shop on the internet, I hate going to stores any time of year. Sometimes, I even have my groceries delivered.

This time of year for work, makes me mental.

Cyber Monday, has some good deals also. I feel protected, too. /wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

If you got your deals, amd made it safe to your car and home, thank god.

Parking lot theft and muggings rise now, even in what is known to be likely a safe area.

Be careful shopping!

Delaware thanks you for your shopping dollars, keep them coming....

I personally on the back on all my credit cards, instead of signing my name, I put "Check I.D." You'd be surprised though how many times the cashiers actually ask to see my ID (1 in 6....maybe)

Oh, I wasnt being nasty in my post either, just had to put it out there. I am very proud of my son, and have to let everyone know! He is a college graduate that worked his way through college on his own and is now working in the field he chose!!!!! YAAAAYYY /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

I didn't think you were CB, as you've been one of my fave posters dating back to the board that shall not be named, I just realized after reading your post that it may come off as being a bit too harsh & perhaps wrongly placing all WalMart employees in the same corral (so to speak).

I'm not trying to cast ALL Wal-Mart employees in a poor light. I'm sure there are quite a few who break their butt over there and as I stated in a post made later on, I have a feeling that most of these people are just shell-shocked by what they have to deal w/on a daily basis. It just seems as though everytime I GO to this particular Walmart, I have the same experience. There's another Walmart farther away that has better service but it's a logistical nightmare trying to get there. I've also been assured by others that Walmart wasn't always this way but appears to be a recent development as they've expanded.

Oh, I wasnt being nasty in my post either, just had to put it out there. I am very proud of my son, and have to let everyone know! He is a college graduate that worked his way through college on his own and is now working in the field he chose!!!!! YAAAAYYY /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

I just want to say, the wal-mart story was soo funny. I did laugh, but I need to say, my son worked at wal-mart while he was in college,. Supported his family while he was in school to become a computer tech. he was very good at his job. Loved working in electronics, just not at walmart. Not all walmart workers are drones. They are overworked and under paid. Not to mention wal mart treats their people poorly.

I'm not trying to cast ALL Wal-Mart employees in a poor light. I'm sure there are quite a few who break their butt over there and as I stated in a post made later on, I have a feeling that most of these people are just shell-shocked by what they have to deal w/on a daily basis. It just seems as though everytime I GO to this particular Walmart, I have the same experience. There's another Walmart farther away that has better service but it's a logistical nightmare trying to get there. I've also been assured by others that Walmart wasn't always this way but appears to be a recent development as they've expanded.

I worked at JCPenneys ONE Christmas season in the Men's department. Basically my job was to assist people w/purchases/options, cashier and straightening up the section. Anyway, I get this incredibly flamboyant Asian gentleman who has me trailing after him as he shops and then the dreaded Bataan death march to the dressing rooms as he tries on his various outfits. It wouldn't have been so bad but he kept prancing and preening in front of me in various stages of undress while partially outfitted w/the clothes he'd selected asking my opinion. My nightmare ended w/him dashing out w/no pants or underpants to ask what I thought about this oxford he'd picked out, bare @$$ naked from the waist down w/his rod and reels swinging in the breeze. He even pretended he'd dropped something so he had to bend over and show me the full moon over Shanghai. I got up and told him to get dressed or i'd call the cops because there were children around. He wound up buying $600 worth of clothing and I got a nice commission off the sale, but wound up using the money to buy eye drops and counseling.

That's some of the funniest you know what I've ever heard. Oh man, I'm so sorry, but that was hysterical. People are CRAAAZZZY. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

No Virginia, even though there is a Santa...NO ONE SHOULD SHOP ON BLACK FRIDAY!

And Monk...I have no better luck at my Walmart. But I do have a very friendly (close to my age) cashier who waves me over every time she sees me. The only plus.