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I can confirm that to this day, 99% of the equipment in the stores are still in fact perpetually broken.

Fanta: “I’m in my old room with absolutely nothing in it”. Old room is full of games

Worked at *unnamed office supply company* for 5 years from 2012 to 2017. Yes, the registers were trash, and it took a long time to get new ones. Then, when I worked for the *competitor* in 2018, there's were even worse somehow.... They just don't care about the employees being able to do their job correctly. But make sure you're meeting your metrics and sales goals guys! GO TEAM!

Still cant get over that this guy wanted to get into a car accident so he didn’t have to go into his shift at wal mart. Been watching ever since!

I swear gas stations and fast food have the most up to date tech which makes no sense cause you'd think they wouldn't have as much money to spend on equipment as big retailers.

Worked at Walmart for 17 years in 3stores.Thank God I could retire.I won’t send anyone there to work.What a nightmare.You were right about the outdated computer systems and printers.

I don't think I've ever had a positive experience with a printer before.

Ah Walmart, 5 years of learning but also anguish, power hungry managers and constantly pissed off customers!!!

I think my Walmart computers were running the first ever operating system. It was literally just a black screen with green writing.

I went into a K Mart in like 2017, didn’t even know they even existed then. But anyway it was like going back to like 1998 or something. It was crazy.

Used to work for Banana Republic - before I left they gave us all these Gen 1 iPhones to use for mobile checkout and ordering online, which was great except for the fact they never worked, then for some reason they got rid of all but 2 of the traditional cash registers in favor of these iPhones.

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I'll still never forget when a store I worked in (redacted for safety and libel) "updated" the computer system so that it worked... the same only at a fifth of the speed. XD

I used to work for Staples and the alarm for the cameras there would go off if you looked at the cameras the wrong way. One time when I got there first thing in the morning, it was going off. It wasn't going off when the store closed the night before, just randomly started going off when no one was even in the store to touch any of the cameras.

Here in Canada Hudson’s Bay still uses these ancient IBM POS systems which are basically completely command line based, running some OS from the 90s.

The console stations disappeared in european game stops nearly completely and if a shop has them, they are usually turned off. the problem is that they just attract children occupying store area without consuming.

I'm a truck driver and the computers we use on our truck for sending company messages and logging our time and stuff like that runs on a modified version of Windows XP. It is frustratingly slow and can take like 10 minutes to boot up. Keep in mind, this computer we use is the industry standard.

Hahaha. If you look at the camera wrong the alarm goes off. If you steal the camera your fine. Lolz!

At my local Gamestop they must be using some really old cathode ray TV from the '90s for security footage, because I can feel that shit buzzing in my head when I stand too close to it.

The McDonald's I worked at was still using Windows95 and this was in 2015. Everyone was just waiting for the blue screen of death so the company would be forced to upgrade to a newer system.

had to pretend to like printers when I worked for HP as a salesman. I learned waaay too much about them.

Oh god I remember when I still worked at a grocery store, the scanners were old as hell and the new ones they had, they didn't even make a new program they basically ported what was on the probably 20+ year old scanners, so the new scanners were actually just as useless

I worked for Lowe’s for three years. It was a miserable place as anyone reading recent news over the past year, and I finally quit early this year. I will say that the newer-looking computer monitors and the online order system (completely separate from the main system) is horribly outdated. The computer system, Genesis, made for the cash registers, is dated back to the 1980s and you can tell just looking at the Pong-looking display, it made me as a cashier just want to throw myself off a bridge, and they regularly detach from the card readers. Every single update was absolute hell that the system couldn’t comprehend. About a month after I quit there was a nationwide (maybe even as far as Canadian stores) outage of the system that led to absolute panic with the employees and forced so much of the manual work that simply isn’t safe in today’s digital currency world. I remember even glancing at register screens at places like Kroger, it put how outdated we were in perspective.

The computers in the Photo Center in our local Walmart still uses the Terminal interface, and the registers run on JAVA... ugh

So when I worked at Hot Topic, we had the WORST pos situation. Like we had to run ppls cards through the keyboard (it had a card reader) and if it couldnt read it, we couldnt take the card AT ALL and that always is bad when you cant do sales. Also, whenever we had to do a gift card and the person was paying with cash, it would take like 20 mins to do it bc the system ran so slow. They updated my store after i left thankfully.

AS400s what most older PoS software run on was manufactured until 2012 and new stock ran out in 2014. It is a multiple generation system. The software was written often in Cobol language. In 2018 it was rare to see a experienced programmer. They would start at around 160K a year during that time. A lead programmer would make over 200K a year.

Take the TV apart and cut the wire to the speaker. When the DM asks why there's no sound, tell him the TV broke and he needs to buy a new one. He'll balk at the prospect of spending money, and it will just leave it as-is.

The furthering of technology has only ever made sense in conjunction with video games and other nonessential activities. There's currently too many cracks (bugs, glitches, hacking, etc.) in the systems of electronics for anyone with common sense to use them for anything essential if it can be helped.

Wal-mart/Sam’s Club crap was still broken when I left back in late August, 2019. Even “new” pieces of equipment, that we were suppose to use daily, was broken as hell to the point were I, and my co-workers, wanted to smash the handhelds with a sledgehammer. Hell, even our “new” self-checkout machine were utter trash. Ironically, one of the forklift drivers hit one of the machines at night. I think it was out for about a month or two before they fixed. I’ve been thinking of writing a novel on my experiences of working for that company.

The computers we use in Walmart aren't necessarily old. The program that they're running and the way that they are maintained are the main problems. Some of the computers are required to remain on at all times, can never be defragged, have logging systems that bloat the whole thing and are running the S.M.A.R.T. system. The S.M.A.R.T. system was created 2 years after the first commercially available computers were made. Most of the ones that aren't hooked up to photo, pickup, or a time clock are actually reasonably designed. If you have to reset the paint computer it takes like 2 minutes because I'd doesn't have any of that crap on it it's just a normal windows 10 computer that has the paint mixer software on it.

Banks are the worst for outdated n massively overpriced technology. No surpise since they have little to knowledge of how any of it really works. Branches running shit lexmark printers, even completely unsecured routers are just 2 among 2 many examples.

I can relate with the technology. This gas station still had computers that were so slow, when they had the buy over and they put the new software on it. It would just freeze the POS.

At the paint store I work at, our computers use the DOS operating system. At first it's a drag to use but over time I got used to it. However it's not very user friendly; you navigate with the arrow keys, ENTER is your left mouse button, F1 = Accept (basically ENTER but on steroids), F3 = Look up, F5 = BACK button, F6 = Add a color, F12 = Method of payment. Sometimes when a customer gives me their phone number in order to look up their account, I gotta be like "gimme one sec, gimme one sec" because the way to get to the phone number is entry is awkward as hell. To make matters worse, you gotta memorize these codes for every paint like DS36V00263; each code is unique to for every paint's brand, finish, and base. I've memorized like 60% of the paint codes, but that's only the main brands that most painters and home owner customers get on a daily basis. I stopped bothering to memorize the industrial paints because those codes are a nightmare to memorize. When it comes to our 30% and 50% off sales, sometimes our customers will freak out and assume we didn't give them the sale price. Why? Because our receipts print it in such an awkward fashion. For example, if one of our paints is $42.67 and there's a 30% off sale, instead of saying $29.87 on the receipt, it'll just say $42.67 - $12.80. So then you gotta explain to them that $42.67 is the regular price and that $12.80 is what you're saving. So fucking stupid. Now let's get to the fun part, Matches. Matches is a process where we scan an object's color and it tells the computer what color to make. Kinda like the turkey baster tool in MS paint where you scan a pixel and you get that right color. The only difference is that it's a pain in the ass. First off, the computer doesn't show you what color it is, I mean it's DOS for crying out loud. All it will show you is the color formula, so you have to guess that it's the right color. In order to get a GOOD match, you need to bring in a FLAT object that's bigger than a quarter. I get idiots all the time that bring in curved object or objects the size of a dime and they expect a good touch up (touch up means that you're trying paint only certain areas of the wall, trim, etc). Another thing that pisses me off is when a customer wants a match in the CHEAPEST paint brand. That's a no no because cheap paint when matched will turn out darker than the original piece that's brought in. I do my best to refuse to do matches in cheap paint but half the time, they come from painters (who make 90% of our prophet). Home owners don't care what brand I do the match under because it's not like they come in on a daily basis. Any mid-grade or premium paints will have a 100% guarantee GOOD match. Bottom line, if you're gonna buy paint at the paint store, be AWARE that our operating system sucks and if you're gonna come in with a match, please PLEASE make sure the object is BIGGER than a quarter, flat NOT curved. And if you're trying to match drywall, then cut out a piece from behind a TV, picture frame, or sofa so that you can worry about patching the wall later. And if you're matching trim, make sure the trim is FLAT. You have been advised

8:04 the Demo Units MADE GameStop the ultimate GameSpot ! Damn..... the good ole days 🍻

There was this one day half of the freezers shut down. My Walmart also now has a fast unloader. It breaks down a lot. Power equipment or balers are often broken too.

Finally caught up on my backlog of all the videos you have made.

I remember seeing Walmart associates carrying big scanner guns those things looked heavy as hell. Now wether in a warehouse environment or a store I mainly see Zebra brand scanner guns with a touch screen like a phone that's capable of going online.

Great and entertaining stuff man. Keeps me captivated the whole time and it sounds so terrible. Gonna try my best to avoid ever having to work at a place like that.

This is all because companies look at their technology as all costly purchases. So if it's not broken, dont fix it. Which makes their company run worse and less effective than normal.

Gamestop should give consoles to their employees if they expect them to be "In the know". Spending $400+ on a console that you're required to know about is bullshit. Just give them a refurb unit, you have plenty of them.

I just got furloughed from my retail job /: they said they were paying us all the paid time off we have in a few days

You answered your own question when it comes to how walmart is a successful business. They make a ton of money while not paying for upgrades.

P.o.s stands for piece of shit, not point of sales. Damn things never work

I worked at target for almost 7 years dude I feel your pain.

The reason walmart got off the ground is because they had technology, 50 years later they have the same technology...

when u started talking about walmart and the fuji printer i smiled i can relate to this from my walmart days

That intro tho

10 years ago I remember using the terminal apps on the Sam's Club computer. I doubt they ever upgraded since then.

I loved chatting with our Sony vendor. 💙

Upgrading to a new windows operating system means training employees how to use the OS and we all know GameStop wasn’t about to spend time and money on that.

If I remember correctly, most of the Walmart computer hardware was bought by the stores, not by corporate. Any new or replacement hardware would come out of the store's P&L which is how management is evaluated. Unless corporate absolutely requires something enough to send it themselves, you're keeping what you have for years and years.

Like the new set up.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

I miss Eric in these :/

It's still the same way at Wal-Mart the scanners barely work sometimes and the printers i have a problem with those printers everyday

FANTAVISION if you still worked at Walmart during this pandemic would you quit?

My man!! Hazy little thing is my go-to

I remember that time I have to fix the register's OS error just to buy my batteries so I could get $20 in change.

I have worked at Target and Walmart in the past so I’ve definitely got stories of my own. I’ve also worked at a couple of movie theaters as well. I’m currently working at a gym which is closed and a gas station which is not closed because of this yet. So lucky me right??? Lol

LOUD MUSIC IN STORES ? AND WE WALKED OUT !

I remember that kiosk, unfortunately they removed them, but the one I had at my store was shitty

Nice NES collection you got there!

Can you cover how bad the tech in the tech section at Walmart? There is so much cheap tech there not to mention so many old products.

Hi! Love your channel! Used to watch you and White game hunting! Would love to see a video about Blu Ray vs HD DVD. We’re you working at Walmart during the format war? Any thoughts on the battle? We all know how it played out. I still have one and use it. I love to show people who have never seen it! It looks amazing.

I think target and Best Buy had that screen thing too.... yeah they just disappeared....

lol the Telxeon, omg those things

Gamestop registers were always bad but the POS system was worse. When they upgraded to EB Games software I thought it was a godsend.

It's seems it was intentional for customers to stay in the store longer to spend more money🤔.I loved that scene in office space

It’s okay if you don’t tackle this subject, but how about having customers constantly ask/beg about toilet paper and hand sanitizer (despite there being shortages of both) as well as not having shelves be neatly organized with all that’s going on in the current pandemic?

I’ve beat the shit out of a fair share of printers during my life

Background looks good.

I always tell people to not buy tech from Walmart. It's overpriced, under-performing garbage.

GameStop computers are still running windows XP.....

Looks and sounds good!

Those hazy IPAs are so good And they’re brewed in Chico, CA

Birds aren’t ? Robots? Drones?

We had someone pick up the alarm box and dunk it inside a big gulp cup, and then stole everything.

I remember the GameStop I used to go to as a kid always had long lines and I even as a 8 year old I tired Of it

12:22 so like a Fallout terminal? Hahahahahha

Sierra Nevada is referring to the region, the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range is located in Nevada and California. Sierra Nevada Beer is located in Chico, Ca.

Oh, shit! The birds aren't real shirt! 😲😮

Its funny how not upgrading their ways seems to be part of the downfall! Burn baby, burn!

The grocery store I work at only just finally got rid of Windows XP today.

All US Airport run on 80s terminal system

You should try sears/kmarts computers

Wal-Mart is still using fucking DOS programs for Inventory control...... fuck.....

It's great that old, electronic technology is used by cheapskate companies, unless it's an ATM. That way, they get hoisted by their own petards. No vengeance required by anyone! Windows XP is pretty much an expansion pack for Windows 2000 which is just terrible, and ATMs use Windows XP (It makes them so exploitable by thieves). Good Luck with getting cash from your bank account. Printers have always been garbage. Inkjet printers are basically like extortionists with payment-over-time damage to your bank account while the ones that require toner are super expensive but you can avoid the damage over time to your bank account over a much longer period of time.

Was the printer a N64? Because that sounds like my N64

Do a video on entitled costumers

You need to get some NE beer bro. Content is enjoyable though. Cheers.

Fanta my dude i love your exsposing Gamestop. Over the years when Funco Land was arround they was so professional. The sales associates was pleasantly nice, and there game libraries are organized. When it came to Gamestop it started off good. With Funco Land passed the baton to Gamestop again it started off nice.....fast forward, Gamestop got so greedy for money there new ideals to boost revenue and keep customers keep coming in. There game credit system really sucks. They encourage us to pre order or suggest buy the newly released games.....so you do it , you take the game home. After hours of playing a game maybe you want something new, have beaten the game or the game too difficult and you want to trade.....then they give you the lowest dollar credits. To see good dollars if you turn in alot of games. We talking like a bag of games or trade in more than one console.....other then that dont hold your breath on G.S. credits. Now they wanted to expand by selling these ridiculous smart phones, T-Shirts, & key chains and posters. Now they ready for another change here in 2020. I heard a rumor that Game Stop wants to bring back the Silver Elite Cards again...Its bad when you have to bring back they thing that flopped.

I remember I worked this grocery store two years back and the computers were so slow and so bad all the boomer I remember I worked this grocery store two years back in the computers were so slow and so bad all the impatient boomers were so mad all the time, after a while those registers were so bad that the buttons started falling out of them and stopped working 😂😂 don’t get me started on the scales to weigh fruit and what not

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Old Operating System ? Alot ATM´s still running an embedded Win XP ;)

Hey I just got a job at Walmart, any tips on high to survive the first day

Target runs on MSDOS

Every video he sounds more and more like a how great gamestop is mouthpiece!

Fallout wal mart style

PC load letter. What the f does that mean!?

safeway register runs server 2008 windows