Thursday, December 20, 2012
POLICE LOG: Eureka Police Department officers responded to the following developments between Dec. 10-16, including another attempted suicide, a fraudulent use of a credit device and identity theft cases.
Following are recent incidences handled by Eureka Police Department officers: Three warrants for arrest were processed at the Eureka Police Station; one on Dec. 10, the second on Dec. 13 and the third on Dec. 15. Police responded to an attempted suicide at a Fairway Estates Court residence on Dec. 11. A case of shoplifting was handled at the Walmart Supercenter on Dec. 11. A resident living off of Hunters Lake Court filed an identity theft report due to an attempted credit card fraud case. The fraudulent use of a credit device was filed at Eureka City Hall against a person in North Carolina who stole a Eureka resident's identity and made changes as well as purchases on the victim's credit card. A Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) arrest was …
Friday, February 3, 2012
Yesterday's Patch poll results indicate quite a few readers feel like they are losing one of the main things they liked about Wal-Mart: the smiling, front door greeters.
Turns out, one of the factors that softens the huge retail feel of the Walmart Supercenter in Eureka is the front door greeters. Even when customers don't walk in to the store with the best of moods, somehow a quick hello does prompt a nanosecond pause and the impulse to return the greeting and to smile. In a very noticeable business move, Wal-Mart stores are eliminating door greeters as announced this week. Patch was told greeters in the Eureka location will be shifted to other parts of the store. Yet when considering that many of the greeters were often physically challenged or more elderly workers, one has to wonder what ultimately will happen with their new roles. Yesterday's Patch poll results regarding whether Eureka-Wildwood Patch …
Thursday, February 2, 2012
TAKE POLL ABOUT THEM: Wal-Mart announces phasing out an iconic employee role—those store greeters who issue friendly hellos and play double-agent regarding merchandise return and possible shoplifting. Will you miss them?
Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton fought for years to get people greeters positioned at the front of each entrance of his retail stores, but now customers have to say a slow and sure goodbye to the 32-year run of those greeters. This week, news is spreading throughout business circles about Wal-Mart's greeters being phased out. Patch spoke Tuesday to a longtime greeter at the Walmart Supercenter in Eureka, who said the good news is that greeters will not lose their jobs. Instead they will be repositioned at other locations inside the store, he said. An article about this topic in Huffington Post on Wednesday stated Walton first stumbled onto a greeter at a small Walmart in Louisiana in 1980. The greeter explained to Walton he had a "dual purpose…
karrygdar
3:02 pm on Sunday, February 5, 2012
I work for the state of MO helping persons with disabilities obtain employment. This was a good job for many of them. What a shame! This just points to the greed of Wal-mart in eliminating jobs. more ›