Reason #947 why I HATE Walmart

As I said, last night I ordered my Christmas pictures online. I also ordered a set of invitations for Hannah's upcoming baptism. Usually, I would use Costco for this, but since we haven't renewed our membership, I didn't feel like paying an extra 50 bucks for the renewal just to get my cards.

So I decided to go with Walmart. I've ordered Christmas cards online from them before, and had no problem. There are many options to choose from for the style of cards, and I can use whatever picture I choose, so I was happy. After choosing the cards and placing my orders, my total came to $33.26. Great. I can pick them up by Noon Tuesday, fantastic.

Except it wasn't fantastic. I went in this afternoon to pick up my order and as I was looking through the cards, I noticed the sticker on Hannah's package said $29.66, and our family cards were priced at $20. Ummm...what? That's a SEVENTEEN dollar difference people! I told the woman that Hannah's cards were priced incorrectly, and she of course DID NOT KNOW what she was talking about.

I told her the price that I had been quoted online, and that Hannah's cards were supposed to only be 58 cents each, making the total for hers $11.60. She proceeded to tell me that her price was correct because they were a 5x7 print, and that it was MORE EXPENSIVE to ORDER ONLINE. Hello?? Does anybody else not see her logic? Then she looked up a price in her book and quoted me $1.87 per card. So....that doesn't make sense either because if we go with her math, then the price should have actually been $37.40 JUST for Hannah's cards, instead of the still wrong price of $29.66! STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!

By now, I was fuming! The errand that should have taken me all of about 5 minutes to finish, was taking a ridiculous amount of time. And neither of us were going to budge. Now, if I would have been wrong, I gladly would have paid her price, BUT I KNEW that I wasn't! In fact, by an act of sheer brilliance, I happened to save the invoices that had been emailed to me from Walmart.com!

I asked her to hold the pictures, and told her I would be back. Yeah lady, it's serious now, I'm pulling out the big guns! Except, I couldn't really pull out the big guns, cuz my husband had used EVERY last bit of toner in our printer!! AAAGGHHH! I did some quick thinking, and dropped by my friend Cindy's house. She very kindly allowed me to use her computer to print out my invoices.

Hah! I sped back to Walmart, maybe a little too fired up, but oh well. I handed her the invoice, fully expecting her to apologize and correct her mistake. Well, I guess I expected too much! She actually started to argue with me again, saying that she didn't know where I had gotten this price and it was wrong! By this time, I was so frustrated, even my beloved Certain Dri was no longer working! She took my paper and began walking away, when I asked her to please bring back a manager. She came back a few minutes later, and again started questioning the price on the farging WALMART.COM invoice! I told her that this was the price that was quoted me online for 5x7 prints, and I'm sorry that her books don't agree. She went to look through her books one last time, and then FINALLY she printed off a new sticker with my price...THE CORRECT price, and slapped it on my envelope. Still, no apology...but whatever. I thanked her, paid for my pictures and left.

Just to be sure, when I got home I checked online again, and lo and behold....the 5x7 prints are 58CENTS EACH! Normally, if it's a discrepancy of a couple of dollars, I would be willing to over look the mistake, but SEVENTEEN....I don't think so! I stood my ground, and it paid off.

Here's the clincher though...because it's so stinking convenient I know I'll be back in that wretched, wretched place later this week! Please, please let the Target gods send us a Super Target...soon!