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Walmart is as American as apple pie, which you can get for cheap at Walmart!The big-box store is where you can buy lobsters next to patio furniture next to books, just a few aisles down from sports equipment.Even more interesting than the product is the people, and Walmart employees have certainly seen some......stuff. They dished in what they&#39;ve witnesses in a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2dnqe8/employees_of_walmart_what_is_the_weirdest_thing/">Reddit thread,</a> and it may or may not be a statement on the store&#39;s merchandise, but it turns out that a lot of people use Walmart&#39;s aisles as a toilet. 1.<blockquote> My favorite was the guy who came in and said &quot;I lost the remote so I need a new TV.&quot; I asked him if the tv was broken. It wasn&#39;t, he just lost the remote and didn&#39;t want to bother finding it, so he wanted a new TV. I showed him our selection of universal remotes....he responded with &quot;but then I&#39;d have to program it. The new tv comes with a preprogrammed remote.&quot; So I sold the guy a 50 inch TV. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gigashadow89/">gigashadow89</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>2.<blockquote> A used pregnancy test was sitting on top of the Miracle Whip display. She wasn&#39;t pregnant. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Munchkin_Masher/">Munchkin_Masher</a> </blockquote>3.<blockquote> A man once peed on a display. After stumbling back to us he said he couldn&#39;t find the bathroom (it was 10 feet in front of the display). Then preceded to walk to the front, ride on one of the kiddie rides and get kicked out of the store. TLDR: Man gave 0 f*cks. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ContrastingWords/">ContrastingWords</a> </blockquote>4.<blockquote> I worked customer service one night and had an older man call asking if he could refund a carton of eggs he bought because &quot;they didn&#39;t hatch after being under a light for a long time.&quot; he was serious enough to start screaming at me and I had to have my manager take the phone...-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/blank_stare11/">blank_stare11</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>5.<blockquote> I was stuck as a door greeter one day and a dude dressed up in full clown garb walks in. You could hear him walking through the store.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gldnmmrs/">gldnmmrs</a> </blockquote>6.<blockquote> Was at my local Walmart once. Fire alarms go off. Jewelry counter is smoldering. Evacuate? No. Fire alarm silenced, shoppers allowed to keep shopping with smoke fogging half the store. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Wdwdash/">Wdwdash</a> </blockquote>7.<blockquote> There was this one family that came in about once a month and bought two carts full of frozen dinners. It was all the same brand -- some red box -- but they literally, NEVER bought anything else. No milk, no eggs, nothing but frozen dinners. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/joshannon/">joshannon</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>8.<blockquote> I used to manage Meat/Seafood Department at Wal-Mart. Once, a customer got all of our lobsters (you don&#39;t have to pay for them at the seafood counter), and released them in the toy aisle. I had to catch 6 lobsters with no bands on their claws. You can&#39;t sell fresh seafood once it has been taken away from the counter. Officially: I wrote them out of inventory, and disposed of them as required in the play book. Reality: So, I steamed all 6. My employees ate like kings that night. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Vroonkle/">Vroonkle</a> </blockquote>9.<blockquote> Nothing will ever, ever beat the day I went shopping during my break (I was a wal-mart cashier at this time) and saw a lady shopping in the meat department with three small monkies on leashes hopping around her cart and back. Even my janitor bro just shook his head and said &#39;Walmart&#39; and followed her the entire duration of her visit, waiting for a monkey to inevitably leak through their diaper. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SirinQuill/">SirinQuill</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>10.<blockquote> Ex employee of the produce department. Someone returned a mango to the store saying they &quot;didn&#39;t need it anymore&quot;. Was returned cut up into 3 different slices and stitched back up with scotch tape. I....what? -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Noromac/">Noromac</a> </blockquote>11.<blockquote> A woman went to try on a bra but bled all over it from an open wound on her side and we had to biohazard that shit.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/justgoawayplease/">justgoawayplease</a> </blockquote>12.<blockquote> i worked as a third-shift stock boy for Wal-Mart throughout college. One of the most interesting jobs I have ever had. One of my favorite stories was one night about 3am a bunch of kids came in wearing bandannas and riding adult-sized big wheels about as fast as they could. They made it clear across the store to the soda and stole about 5 2-liters and a bunch of chips and snacks. The entire staff just watched this happen too. Seemed par for the course. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bidsmack/">bidsmack</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>13.<blockquote> I used to work at Walmart, overnights for many many years and I&#39;ve seen some interesting things... One that sticks in my head the most would be the young woman in a sundress running barefooted through the parking lot doing cartwheels. Nothing under the sundress, and it was December. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ohhrissa/">ohhrissa</a> </blockquote>14.<blockquote> A trail of sh*t leading to the women&#39;s bathroom. We found it funny/disturbing, but some woman was probably having the worst day of her life. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/YouGotItDude_/">YouGotItDude_</a> </blockquote>15.<blockquote> Out of high school, I got a job at a local Wal-Mart as a 29 aka cart pusher. Anyways, it was almost closing time and I ended up helping a customer take out some merchandise. Right behind the customer service desk/exit doors was what appeared to be the top of a chocolate ice cream, swirl and all on the ground. I assumed it fell off someones ice cream cone from McDonalds. I holler that I&#39;ll be right back to clean it up. I get back inside and noticed this ice cream has not melted one bit. Curiosity got the best of me so I decided to lean down and get a whiff of it just to confirm it was ice cream......it was not ice cream. Someone some how managed to drop a turd right in plain view with an ice cream swirl shape. That was 10 years ago and it still blows my mind to this day. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Twitchy44/">Twitchy44</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>16.<blockquote> I remember working at my local Walmart when I was in high school. I used to see these same kids (around my age) come in everyday and hang out at the electronics section and afterwards head to the McDonald&#39;s located in the store. Little did I know that those kids were taking merchandise into the McDonald&#39;s. Opening up the packages and hiding everything they snatched in their to go bags and walking out of the store. This went on for almost 2 months. Until a McDonald&#39;s employee caught them in the act. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/chocolatepen15/">chocolatepen15</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

16 Walmart employees share the weirdest things they've seen on the job.

Walmart is as American as apple pie, which you can get for cheap at Walmart!The big-box store is where you can buy lobsters next to patio furniture next to books, just a few aisles down from sports equipment.Even more interesting than the product is the people, and Walmart employees have certainly seen some......stuff. They dished in what they&#39;ve witnesses in a Reddit thread, and it may or may not be a statement on the store&#39;s merchandise, but it turns out that a lot of people use Walmart&#39;s aisles as a toilet. 1. My favorite was the guy who came in and said &quot;I lost the remote so I need a new TV.&quot; I asked him if the tv was broken. It wasn&#39;t, he just lost the remote and didn&#39;t want to bother finding it, so he wanted a new TV. I showed him our selection of universal remotes....he responded with &quot;but then I&#39;d have to program it. The new tv comes with a preprogrammed remote.&quot; So I sold the guy a 50 inch TV. -gigashadow89 2. A used pregnancy test was sitting on top of the Miracle Whip display. She wasn&#39;t pregnant. -Munchkin_Masher 3. A man once peed on a display. After stumbling back to us he said he couldn&#39;t find the bathroom (it was 10 feet in front of the display). Then preceded to walk to the front, ride on one of the kiddie rides and get kicked out of the store. TLDR: Man gave 0 f*cks. -ContrastingWords 4. I worked customer service one night and had an older man call asking if he could refund a carton of eggs he bought because &quot;they didn&#39;t hatch after being under a light for a long time.&quot; he was serious enough to start screaming at me and I had to have my manager take the phone...-blank_stare11 5. I was stuck as a door greeter one day and a dude dressed up in full clown garb walks in. You could hear him walking through the store.-gldnmmrs 6. Was at my local Walmart once. Fire alarms go off. Jewelry counter is smoldering. Evacuate? No. Fire alarm silenced, shoppers allowed to keep shopping with smoke fogging half the store. -Wdwdash 7. There was this one family that came in about once a month and bought two carts full of frozen dinners. It was all the same brand -- some red box -- but they literally, NEVER bought anything else. No milk, no eggs, nothing but frozen dinners. -joshannon 8. I used to manage Meat/Seafood Department at Wal-Mart. Once, a customer got all of our lobsters (you don&#39;t have to pay for them at the seafood counter), and released them in the toy aisle. I had to catch 6 lobsters with no bands on their claws. You can&#39;t sell fresh seafood once it has been taken away from the counter. Officially: I wrote them out of inventory, and disposed of them as required in the play book. Reality: So, I steamed all 6. My employees ate like kings that night. -Vroonkle 9. Nothing will ever, ever beat the day I went shopping during my break (I was a wal-mart cashier at this time) and saw a lady shopping in the meat department with three small monkies on leashes hopping around her cart and back. Even my janitor bro just shook his head and said &#39;Walmart&#39; and followed her the entire duration of her visit, waiting for a monkey to inevitably leak through their diaper. -SirinQuill 10. Ex employee of the produce department. Someone returned a mango to the store saying they &quot;didn&#39;t need it anymore&quot;. Was returned cut up into 3 different slices and stitched back up with scotch tape. I....what? -Noromac 11. A woman went to try on a bra but bled all over it from an open wound on her side and we had to biohazard that shit.-justgoawayplease 12. i worked as a third-shift stock boy for Wal-Mart throughout college. One of the most interesting jobs I have ever had. One of my favorite stories was one night about 3am a bunch of kids came in wearing bandannas and riding adult-sized big wheels about as fast as they could. They made it clear across the store to the soda and stole about 5 2-liters and a bunch of chips and snacks. The entire staff just watched this happen too. Seemed par for the course. -bidsmack 13. I used to work at Walmart, overnights for many many years and I&#39;ve seen some interesting things... One that sticks in my head the most would be the young woman in a sundress running barefooted through the parking lot doing cartwheels. Nothing under the sundress, and it was December. -ohhrissa 14. A trail of sh*t leading to the women&#39;s bathroom. We found it funny/disturbing, but some woman was probably having the worst day of her life. -YouGotItDude_ 15. Out of high school, I got a job at a local Wal-Mart as a 29 aka cart pusher. Anyways, it was almost closing time and I ended up helping a customer take out some merchandise. Right behind the customer service desk/exit doors was what appeared to be the top of a chocolate ice cream, swirl and all on the ground. I assumed it fell off someones ice cream cone from McDonalds. I holler that I&#39;ll be right back to clean it up. I get back inside and noticed this ice cream has not melted one bit. Curiosity got the best of me so I decided to lean down and get a whiff of it just to confirm it was ice cream......it was not ice cream. Someone some how managed to drop a turd right in plain view with an ice cream swirl shape. That was 10 years ago and it still blows my mind to this day. -Twitchy44 16. I remember working at my local Walmart when I was in high school. I used to see these same kids (around my age) come in everyday and hang out at the electronics section and afterwards head to the McDonald&#39;s located in the store. Little did I know that those kids were taking merchandise into the McDonald&#39;s. Opening up the packages and hiding everything they snatched in their to go bags and walking out of the store. This went on for almost 2 months. Until a McDonald&#39;s employee caught them in the act. -chocolatepen15 

Walmart is as American as apple pie, which you can get for cheap at Walmart!  The big-box store is where you can buy lobsters next to patio furniture next to books, just a few aisles down from sports equipment.  Even more interesting than...