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Walmart announces $75m change to stores with departments expanding but it’s bad news for shoppers who hate self-checkout
WALMART will be remodeling its stores for a whopping $75 million as departments expand, but shoppers who hate self-checkout won’t be as thrilled.
The remodeling projects include expanding Walmart’s pickup, delivery, and express delivery services.
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Walmart is spending $75 million on a new remodeling project they hope to achieve by the end of Autumn[/caption]
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The pickup, delivery, and express delivery services will be expanded as well as the self-checkout stations[/caption]
The express service delivers your groceries to your home in only two hours compared to other grocery delivery services.
Twelve stores across West Central Ohio will undergo remodeling projects, which Walmart hopes to complete by the end of autumn.
The stores will get a fresh look with new paint, signage, lighting, and flooring.
Bathrooms and nursing rooms as well as the Vision Center will be updated and departments will expand such as offering summer merchandise year-round.
Walmart will also be expanding its self-checkout stations, which customers may love or hate.
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While self-checkout can be more efficient, the machines could lead to more trouble than they are worth.
A counselor from Arizona said Walmart, specifically, has been linked to bad customer service when it comes to self-checkout monitoring.
Sandra Barger exclusively told The U.S. Sun that “there was one particular Walmart here in Tucson that I was getting a lot of clients [from] … it’s averaging two to three a week.”
These clients were getting charged with petty theft, even when they didn’t mean to steal anything.
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Barger heard the same story over and over again – “they forgot to scan something very small,” she said.
The counselor believes some stores should do a better job at monitoring and helping their shoppers at self-checkout, so shoppers don’t get into this mess.
Walmart previously told The U.S. Sun: “Addressing store theft is a challenge for every retailer, including Walmart. To help, we’re continually investing in people, programs and technology for stores combating this problem.
“Should customers have questions or difficulty using our self-checkout registers, we encourage them to ask for assistance from our associates managing that area.”
When talking about the store remodeling, a Walmart spokesperson told the Dayton Daily News that projects are moving quickly.
Jessica Villanueva, a Walmart regional general manager told the outlet:
“These stores serve a substantial number of rural communities, so whether someone is shopping in-store, online, through mobile or Pick Up, our brick-and-mortar stores play an important role in fulfilling those orders.
“These investments will make it easier for our stores and associates to get customers what they want, when they want it.”
Walmart is hoping that these projects won’t disturb customers too much while the stores are under construction.
Felicia McCranie, director of corporate affairs and global communications at Walmart, told the outlet:
“We know some disruptions are impossible to avoid when remodeling a store, but we do our best to reduce or eliminate customer friction as much as possible,
“Including temporary directional signing, relocation of services, and extra associates working the floor to direct customers.”
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D&D Reviving ‘Planescape’ Setting in 2023, Expanding on 5e Adventures
Dungeons & Dragons has announced its intended release schedule for 2023. The lineup includes deep dives on classic D&D items and lore, the expansion of one of Fifth Edition’s earliest and most famous adventures, as well as the revival of the classic Planescape campaign setting.
The schedule includes five releases, with one book dropping every season (except for Summer, in which a pair is planned):
- Keys From the Golden Vault (Winter 2023)
- Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants (Spring 2023)
- The Book Of Many Things (Summer 2023)
- Phandelver Campaign (Summer 2023)
- Planescape (Fall 2023)
Details about what’s included in each sourcebook were minimal, but several members of the D&D creative team were on hand to provide a bit of insight into each. “Keys from the Golden Vault is Ocean’s 11 meets Dungeons & Dragons,” says Design Architect Chris Perkins. “It is an anthology of short adventures, each one revolving around a heist.” Glory of the Giants is described as a companion to 2021’s Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, only focused (as the name implies) on the various types of giants found throughout the D&D multiverse.
The Summer releases are The Book of Many Things, a sourcebook based on the infamous Deck of Many Things from D&D lore, and an updated version of the original D&D 5e adventure Lost Mine of Phandelver, which kicked off Fifth Edition in 2015. “[LMoP] is a fan favorite,” said Chris Lindsay, Product Manager for D&D. “And it’s going to expand it into a full campaign that is tinged with cosmic horror.”
The final release of 2023 will be a revival of the Planescape campaign setting. The product will be presented as a boxed set, similar to the recent Spelljammer: Adventures in Space. Classic computer RPG fans will likely remember this varied web of interplanar realms from 1999’s Planescape: Torment, which IGN hailed as an amazing RPG thanks largely to its unique setting, which made it “a hell of a lot different than anything else that’s ever been released.”
“This is a legendary campaign setting,” Perkins says. “A lot of folks out there in the world have been wondering when it was coming back, and here it is.”
JR is a Senior Producer at IGN, you can follow him on Twitter for more video games and tabletop RPG shenanigans.