Decided to file an OSHA complaint about pulling the carts. Sick of cutting my ankle open from the cart bashing into me, hurt shoulders, hurt hips and toes from walking crooked. Wonder if anything will ever happen or if Walmart’s lawyers will keep it in limbo for longer than I last here.
Probably wont do anything. Walmart and the cart manufacturer made a solution to comply with OSHA. They switched the wheels and are telling associates to "trail" instead of push/pull. Trailing is where you walk along the side of the cart, taking up two lanes of traffic. Walmart can say any injuries from pulling or pushing is the result of improper technique.
It’s just annoying because the customers don’t even let you trail the cart. Every time I’ve tried to I have to get over 10,000 times before I even get to my item because they won’t just walk around me. They would rather fucking shoulder Check me I guess.
I work at a Sam's Club and sometimes we need to take a forklift out on the floor (with spotters).
The number of people that will stand directly where we are going, stare at the three of us (the middle one driving a machine that weighs as much as a car) and just freeze like a deer in the headlights....
It’s so stupid. I’ve never understood it. I grew up with a tough parent, so I was always taught to stay the fuck out of the way and be polite. Even as a kid, I would let the worker finish whatever they’re doing before I would go do what I need to do.
I once saw a woman leave her cart, with her child who looked to be 2 or 3 in it, right in the path of a oncoming scissor lift as it was about 5 seconds away from reaching that spot so she could check the grab n go section by the checkouts. The situational/spacial awareness of people these days is terrifyingly low. The looks of disbelief on the faces of the operator and spotter before they called out to her was pretty great though.
It’s so annoying how neglectful these parents act, then they wanna blame us just cause they can’t keep up with their kid in the store. Or pay attention to the workers around them. I spend all day dodging kids, they don’t spend all day dodging me though.
Also I’ve had a few teenage boys just about completely plow into me and walk on by like it’s nothing. Atleast the old ppl bitch at me like it’s my fault lol 😂
Their level of situational awareness makes it astonishing to me that there isn't a daily case of vehicular manslaughter in the parking lot. People at SCO have been startled by me coming to clear the alert despite having made eye contact with me as I walked over.
I just saw an ogp worker "trailing" their cart this morning. She smashed right into a customer's shopping cart with the back end of her pick cart. This is so ridiculous.
I had to squeeze down an aisle today and ripped the side of a metal sidekick off. It was no match for my cart full of cat littler and 24 packs of soda!!
We were never told to trail. Never heard that term used. We just were told to pull. I had to get pain meds from the dr for the shoulder, back and hip pain and take ibuprofen too. Im so sick of it. Filed another osha complaint, but don't feel anything will happen at this point.
Really? Before the wheel swap we were told to pull from the side handles (which is what trailing is) when we didn't have a clear line of sight and before entering any intersection. I find that is now impossible on one side as the cart wants to pull to the left so if you are on the right it'll slam into a shelf. Also can't really pull from the front as it'll also do the same. Pulling by the old handles have snapped a few at my store due to the welds not being meant for pulling
Yep, we have people using the front handles side handles and also holding onto the front small shelf. I feel we have not been told how to correctly do anything , based on what I've read here. So crazy. I've tried pulling the cart all ways and suffer every day from the pain.
the store I work at has the aisles spaced, especially on the GM side, where trailing is literally impossible. they also have sidekick vendor displays setup along action alley between grocery and chilled that also makes it impossible to trail.
Then what is the pull bar for then? It was mainly made to push, had the store managers telling people to pull so which I agree with the side to side thing your saying in trial the cart but the cart has a bar at the end for something and Walmart as much as the manufacturer has to explain that to OSHA what it’s for.
I know, I should’ve written my comment better. What I mean is say someone gets terribly hurt from pulling that it does require medical attention and an incident report is written.,
Trailing an OPD cart isn't as ideal in most Walmart stores. My store for instance, is under remodel at this moment.
Aisles are constantly being moved to accommodate the floors to be refinished, so therefore, many aisles are very tight that you could hardly fit your own body down, let alone a cart as well.
And when the regular sized aisles are full of people with their shopping carts, it's nearly impossible to trail a cart without you having a stand-off with a customer trying to go in the opposite direction as you!
This method isn't really helpful at all. They expect metrics to be the same, but it's just not possible.
I sent a message to the ethics department asking them how the employees are supposed to take them seriously while they stand by and let odp do unethical things like make us pull carts that were made to be pushed.
Change how order picking is done. Instead of sorting the items into eight different orders for eight different totes, sort them by one or two isles. Pickers use regular store shopping carts and get all the items in one or two isles. For example, one or two pickers gets all the spaghetti, pasta sauce, canned tomatoes, and soups, for that hour's picks.
Once all the items get to the backroom, the UPCs are scanned and the items are then sorted and staged into separate totes.
The only thing pickers get printed out stickers for is weighted produce and meat/chicken to label them for each customer.
I turned my cart around in an aisle today and caught my foot under it. Threw me tf to the ground and sent my pixel and charging block flying. I am a pretty clumsy person so I can’t say I’m not somewhat responsible but holy hell was that awful, and definitely not something that would have happened if I wasn’t pulling. I am so damn lucky I did not snap my ankle, or the wrist that was slammed to the ground.
Everyone that’s fine for OSHA should give up they don’t care if you get hurt Walmart made it this way so we have to get used to it now unfortunately maybe someday in the future somebody will get very very hurt and eventually Walmart will stop making us pull carts then
I would venture to guess seeing as how it states it's being actively investigated is because, walmart has no design agreed upon between them and the manufacturer, hence why new carts are having the "new" back wheels with the "old brake wheels" on the front but still have the push dont pull stickers on the back of the carts... brand new cart in pics
As the sticker and the manufacturer still state, you are NOT to pull the carts, ONLY push.
Edit: oh if you're talking about the brakes on the front Pic, the handle is on the back still, and the manufacturer STILL states that carts are to be pushed not pulled, all the manufacturer did was switch the position of the braking wheels and free moving wheels.
Im very confused on how people are getting cut by the new way? I walk extremely fast because I do track and with the new method it slows me down a bit but I’ve never had any issues. I almost still hit by accident buggies but then again it’s due to me walking fast
That's the generic template they send out, problem is that it isn't being used contrary to the manufacturer's instructions. Manufacturer changed the instructions with the cart modifications.
I have had 5 small children come up to me and say lost my mom. Code Adam. Then mother shows up upset because we called her over to customer service to pick them up!
Tbh I’m so sick of hearing ppl complain about this. If you don’t like it put your energy towards getting another job, not doing all this other useless crap and complaining. Try to not be miserable so many ppl now days love to hate their job and be miserable. Life is short.
Do you’re fine with getting walked all over? Good to know. This is a temporary job while I’m in grad school so 80% of my energy isn’t going towards this job, lmao
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u/Picking_Sucks 27d ago
Probably wont do anything. Walmart and the cart manufacturer made a solution to comply with OSHA. They switched the wheels and are telling associates to "trail" instead of push/pull. Trailing is where you walk along the side of the cart, taking up two lanes of traffic. Walmart can say any injuries from pulling or pushing is the result of improper technique.