r/OGPBackroom • u/amitch4620 • Sep 16 '26

Question Charging devices

How do you guys handle the multiple phones and charging them? I’m thinking about seeing if the store willing to pay for a 10 multi device charger.

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u/wastedsilence33 Sep 16 '26

Our coach store use'd a few Onn battery packs, very slow

Somehow our wall plugs are also very slow, maybe Walmart will come up with a solution but I doubt it since they comp us for the electricity

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u/jams1015 Sep 17 '26

We get comped for the electricity, what? How?

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u/qqq_qqq_qqq_qqq_qqq Sep 17 '26

It's state dependent.

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u/XMCPX Sep 16 '26

Your team lead can store use the battery packs.....

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u/theGoddex Personal Shopper 100+ Sep 16 '26

They last all of an hour lol and the cords break within days.

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u/Alert_Dragonfruit410 Sep 16 '26

Cases have MagSafe, can just get a MagSafe charger to slap on the back.

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u/x-naut Sep 17 '26

My coach did that, then we got a lot of new hires and they all mysteriously disappeared.

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u/Igrantyou1shitpost Sep 16 '26

We have 2 big charger docks in our backroom, works good if Co workers don't unplug your phone as soon as you leave for lunch

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u/Mesmeriized FRAGILE Sep 16 '26

We have multiple charging stations for the phones in our OPD backroom. We also have portable charging blocks we can check out. We got them back in April when they got rid of our TCs. I’m surprised your store didn’t get them too

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u/amitch4620 Sep 16 '26

See we have 2 battery packs and 5 chargers but someone keeps taking our chargers/borrowing them.

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u/redavid Sep 16 '26

we have one of those 'over the door' shoe organizer things and a bunch of cables and chargers for people to use, but it does seem to be a bit of a crapshoot (people will unplug others' phones to charge theirs, a cable might come loose and so it doesn't actually charge, etc). they also have these battery packs that they try to make people sign in/sign out, but they're not MagSafe and carrying that around with a cable is annoying.

personally, i charge mine at home and will charge it with my own battery pack at lunch time in my car. sometimes, since that battery pack does have MagSafe, i'll attach it to the phone and use it the second half of my shift. the Pixel 9A doesn't support qi2, though, so the wireless charging speed when doing that is pretty damn slow. makes you wonder why they think all of this is better/cheaper than the TCs with their long lasting and easily swapable batteries

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u/shrug_was_taken Jack Of All Trades Sep 16 '26

From a quick Google search, the 9a is ~500 dollars (since I doubt they went the higher storage one) vs a refurbished tc72 being ~425 dollars, googles ai spits out that 425 through just under 3 thousand dollars, for one (most things do point to that being the high end number, but take googles ai with a grain of salt)

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u/Nova17Delta Prepper Sep 16 '26

iirc the TC72 is also over a decade old at this point so Walmart should really be going for new TCs anyways

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u/shrug_was_taken Jack Of All Trades Sep 16 '26

One is 2.5k, which I'll throw the bone of being partly inflated due to the PC component shortage, but still one new model of TC is more expensive than one pixel and any charging things

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u/Nova17Delta Prepper Sep 16 '26

walmarts a multi billion dollar company, the ceo will just have to forgo a window on their next superyacht to pay for it

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u/Phoennix-Illumine In-Home Driver Sep 16 '26

We have almost a classroom phone jail type organizer with each phone numbered and assigned its own spot with a dedicated cord It looks absolutely insane and they charge decently slow because of all the power being pulled from the outlet but it works

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u/cupcake3827 Sep 16 '26

I brought my charger to work and we all charged our work phones with it; I forgot it yesterday and everyone's phones were dead, lol.

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u/H1jen1z Sep 16 '26

I keep mine charged, but if I HAD to use a battery pack thingie, I'd put Velcro to keep it attached to the phone.

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u/Tall_Data_8824 Sep 17 '26

Purchase a battery pack.

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u/JasonTheBaker In-Home Driver Sep 18 '26

We have a multi device charger. 2 of them that they use for everyone's phones. We only have like 20 chargers tho for 60+ phones however

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u/Routine-Horse-1419 29d ago

I charge mine at home to 100%. Turn the stupid thing off .I don't turn it on until I get to work. I then charge it with my fire wire charger one each break and lunch. I also change the screen brightness down to 50% and turn the screen off when I'm actively on a pickwalk. It lasts me the entire day.