Skav 2008-11-16 15:19:09 ET Long day today. Dealing with throngs of toothless, stable smelling farmers in Walmart. I must have had a dozen or so people ask for John Deere toys. If you want farm toys, either buy your tike a tractor(*only about 210,000 grand), or go to the hardware store. I have more important things to do like gaze/appreciate the fine scenery that walks around my store! People can be such fucktards! Asking if John Deere toys come in other colours! What the fuck! Yellow and green are their staple colours doofus! Perhaps you'd like me to find one with fucking rinestones encrusted on the tires? Or maybe one that is bluetooth compatable? I could probaly rig you one up that makes a splendid latte and comes with a good dentist!!! An eight hour shift at Walmart is like watching all the Jaws moves in sequential order. By the time your done. All you feel like is a numbed brain sitting atop a quivering spinal column. And you've lost some intellegence points....so roll to see if you cower in a rolled ball in the shower. Or beat someone with a scan gun!

the odd girl out 2008-11-16 15:29:15 ET i totally want a pink blinged out john deere.

nuclear fallout 2008-11-16 16:27:37 ET there is pink and white john deere stuff :]

Skav 2008-11-18 13:49:52 ET I guess we don't carry the extended versions of Deere items. I want one with gattling gun mounted on the front!!!

klemmy 2008-11-20 00:58:39 ET there's a reason they have colors literally called JOHN DEERE GREEN AND YELLOW! its true, rustoleum makes the colors. also, on a similar front, john deere toys (and small tractors tots can pedal) come through UPS all the time.

Skav 2008-11-20 11:43:12 ET We get them at Wally-world too. Must have sold 6 last week. Those things aren't cheap!!!

klemmy 2008-11-20 13:25:25 ET yeah your company is one of our biggest customers, especially walmart.com orders.

Skav 2008-11-21 06:33:08 ET Ever heard of the horrors of a Walmart semi? Half the items are usually beat up! I had the misfortune of unloading one the other nite. And found 4 HP desktops under 20 cases of bottled water! I was appalled!!! Here's the odd thing.Like all the left over Halloween stuff. Doesn't get sent back. It gets thrown away and then compacted, and written off as a loss. As opposed to being sold at a cheaper rate, or donated!

klemmy 2008-11-21 22:53:17 ET oh yeah you should see the sears trucks. they can barely package. the boxes stay the same size and fill them with packing peanuts, so they shift around and break open a lot, so we end up repacking a lot of them in our own boxes.

Skav 2008-11-23 07:43:49 ET When I worked for Schwanns in southern Cali. OMFG!!! Imagine having 21 flavors of hot pockets, in a 53foot reefer semi.Total of 4200 cases, all mixed up. Cause they were, what we call "rat packed" in the semi. Then doing a physical inventory on every unit, as they were unloaded. Took almost all friggin day.

nuclear fallout 2008-11-23 11:37:29 ET there are 21 flavors of hot pockets?

klemmy 2008-11-24 11:30:59 ET we had auditors watch this one load cuz the customer says they get complaints about the packages we deliever from them (the truck is just their products, no other products), so every day they took pictures of the truck, how it was unsecured load (stuff on pallets but no retaining straps or bars) and how some boxes were already popped open when we'd get them or how damaged boxes already were.

Skav 2008-11-24 19:12:58 ET We see that all the time.

klemmy 2008-12-02 00:40:39 ET i had this devious idea for next time parents ask for the john deere's in colors other than yellow and green to say, "they can be special ordered but mark up is..." then make up an amount and say it has to be half down. then never deliever or start making bootleg'd john deere toys in pink

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