My Recent Walmart Experience

This afternoon I went to Walmart to get some things, and what I thought was going to be a quick 10 minute trip in and out, turned out to be about a 30 minute expeience.  After getting the things I needed, I then attempted to find an open register.  There were only 3 registers open, along with the self-checkout registers. I would have used the self-checkout registers, but I had too many items and wanted to do a regular register. I waited about 15 minutes in line before finally getting up to the cashier.  At 3:00 p.m., I would expect as a shopper that more than 3 lanes would be open, especially since late afternoon is when people get off work.  Now, I can understand that maybe a few employees were ill or called off, leaving less workers.  Whatever the case may be, I hope that my next experience will be better.