I'm a dork. Duh.

[impy]

Fucking cigarettes. I spent all freakin' night resetting the cigarette display/shelves/section. ALL NIGHT. I had to cut my lunch short and I still didn't finish until five minutes before my replacement came in. ALL NIGHT. On what freakin' planet do we need 15 slots for Marlboro reds? NOT THIS ONE. Lights/Golds/whatever you want to call them, yes. Reds, no. NO.

It got to the point that I just started putting things we shouldn't be deleting back into the section because some of these cigarettes, if we don't have them, will result in someone getting the crap kicked out of them on camera. I'm dead serious.

To recover from this, Mums and I stopped by Walmart on the way to the bank (where she was depositing money in my account to pay the water/electric bill, both of which have now been pain) to see what they might have. Because the boy had to work this morning, I had to make it quick. I had to choose between trying to find my sangria and running for the MH section. Sadly, the booze lost. Turns out that I could have checked because his royal majesty didn't roll out of bed until an hour ago, but whatever.

I think Walmart is in the middle of their reset. They had the W2 girls (Frankie, Cleo, and Clawdeen) and I seriously considered grabbing Clawdeen since mine is wonkified. However, I noticed they had the DotD set. So I had to flash back to my pro/con list for this.

Pro:

• Unlike GB, these dolls have been out for a year. With a new wave of the line coming out, it actually makes sense to refresh the original wave and if Walmart was butthurt that Target and TRU got exclusives, well, here, give them one. Price wise, it doesn't suck either.


• I wanted a second Frankie.


• I wouldn't mind a second Clawdeen.


• I'm weak when it comes to missing one. Unless that one is Jackson. (Not having Holt bugs me sometimes. His ugly orange/purple/red/whatever combo stops me from buying him, or he's wonky, but... it bugs me.)


• The doll, other than being cursed by the glitter herpes, is very prettiful in a "...I think DL's on the sauce again" sort of way.

Con:

• That dress is really short and I feel old every time I say this and yet I can't not say it. Frankie's may be shorter, but she's got tights on and Jem taught me this makes everything A-Okay, alright?


• I do not *need* a second Clawdeen, or Frankie really, since DotD Frankie is usually bottom on my list o' Frankies, aside from the bolts.


• The glitter herpes is strong with this set. The dress, the purse, the eyemakeup.


• It's Walmart. I feel bad shopping there.


• There are others I want MORE.

Yeah. Draculaura is sitting on my bed as we speak. :P If they'd had Deuce and/or Ghoulia, they'd have taken the gift set's spot, but they didn't. I looked. I looked at all four, and other than the glitter extravaganza, the sets were all without serious wonk. I'm not really the person to be able to tell, however, since I didn't realize until today that it was an issue with Lagoona and her bulgy eyes not being centered enough or something. Or maybe it's something I already look for but don't care one way or the other? Not sure.

I'm content with my purchase and unless there's some horrible surprise in store for me when I open 'em up, yay times are here. :D Draculaura is cuter in person. Of course, I also think Spectra is as well, so your mileage may vary considerably. Mums wishes to see Draculaura wearing Frankie's dress and vice versa. "Too much pink" she declared. I'm fairly certain Draculaura has never heard of such a notion, but I also agree.

My feet hurt. I'm off to read and soak them in something while I read something. Mums brought home Hit List from the library, but I think I have to work myself up to that level of pain and misery. (And yet I still plan on reading it. I think my logic button is broken.)

Tomorrow: PHINEAS AND FERB. The MOVIE. Yes. Caps are required for that announcement.

Comments

[zallia.livejournal.com]

Ah, I wonder if my Walmart will have them then?? I try to look at the eyes when I remember too, but usually there's only one and I seem to look at hair rather than face for imperfections.

I'm actually rather tired of ALL of them being so color-coded. It's nice for a few outfits, but now it's turning into freaking Power Rangers where EVERY PIECE OF CLOTHING has to be the color ascribed to them. >_>

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

If it helps, my Walmart is one of those non 24 hour ones where they've been hit or miss on new things. I like it because it's not a super Walmart and thus not filled to the brim with people at 8am. Which is to say, I'm betting it falls on the ass end of Walmart's general "get them this toy now!" list. So... my money would be on yes, your Walmart should probably have it. (Granted I also tend to assume that if my stores carry it, it must be out everywhere else and occasionally this logic is false.)

I'd noticed their fear of putting Ulla D (lazy) in anything not dripping with pink, but it really was hammered home when I gathered up my Clawdeens and noticed all the purple. If it ain't her hair, her outfit is purple. It's a lot to take in all at once.

So yes. Other colors, Mattel. I promise people will still be able to tell the characters apart if you put, I dunno, Clawdeen in yellow. Or gold, since it's supposed to be one of her favorites. (And I loathe yellow. Gold, however, is another story altogether.)

[luxken27]

Fucking cigarettes. I spent all freakin' night resetting the cigarette display/shelves/section. ALL NIGHT. I had to cut my lunch short and I still didn't finish until five minutes before my replacement came in. ALL NIGHT. On what freakin' planet do we need 15 slots for Marlboro reds? NOT THIS ONE. Lights/Golds/whatever you want to call them, yes. Reds, no. NO.

Oh, God, I'm having flashbacks of my customer service days...I hated our cigarette display so much that I took it over, reorganized it, and did the order every week simply so we wouldn't have 10-year-old expired cartons laying around anymore. I feel your pain, yo - and if you don't particularly find organizing and ordering to be to your liking, then it can be a job worse than hell!

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Since I'm night shift I'm only partly responsible for cig hell. Which is good and bad. Good in that when things don't come in, not my fault. Bad, well... limited input, really.

Stupid corporate redoing things in ways that make no sense. They completely killed our storage for old cartons and last night every cig we'd ever even thought of ordering appeared.

I could've cried. I wish I could've just redone the cigs to my liking because even if I tried to make it more messed up, short of just throwing them up randomly on the shelf, I couldn't do worse than they did.

[luxken27]

LOL, I basically told corporate/vendors to suck it when they tried to change my display. (We, too, had the ten rows of Reds *facepalm*) It was my display and we ordered the stuff our customers wanted, not so much the stuff that would just set around on the shelves for 10 years, unopen and unwanted. That was the only thing I liked about my CSS position, the control I could exert over ordering and arranging stuff. (I wrote a book when I left, no joke.) I'm sure its gone to hell now, but yeah. Efficiency trumps all.

And we literally stored our expired cigarettes in the back office out of the way if we had to.

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Ah, I envy your power. I somehow became cig queen although I don't really understand how since my ways hinged upon someone else's way of doing things. "If you do X, A will flip. Do not do X, because I don't want to hear it and I will if you continue. No. Seriously. Stop." Somehow that turned to jokes of cig queenage and then people wouldn't touch the cigs until I came on at night.

Since person A is still around and still gets miffed when the cig reps chew hew a new one, my tweaking is minimal. But there is defiance! (15 rows has been cut in half and then some... mainly because of hardware issues, but still.) I'm sad she's on vacation for the first part of August because this clusterfuck is just a sight to behold, really.

This means I get to help with the order beyond "they didn't send these. Back on the list!" This could either go extremely well, or next week will find me stabbing someone with a pen.