I shopped at Walmart this past Saturday afteroon. I made a small purchase of 6 items. I set my cell phone on the charge machine shelf, and proceeded to get my credit card and id out of my purse, I slid my credit card on the machine. When it was clear she wasn't going to ask for my id, I proceeded to put them back into my purse, when the clerk, spun the shopping bag "lazy susan" around and because she had not hooked my bag on one of the lazy susan hooks, my bag went flying off and landed on my feet, upside down and half of the merchandise fell out onto the floor on my feet. I was flustered by what the clerk had done, I bent over, to pick up the items, she handed my my receipt. I went to the door, walked out to my car, and at that point (60 seconds) realized that I had left my cellphone at the register. I walked back into the store, approached the clerk and told her that I was back for my cell phone, she looked at me with a startled look and said “Oh, that phone was yours? HE said it was his.” I asked WHO, HE?? What guy?! And the customer in her line, replied “She asked who's phone it was, and he came up and said it was his”, she continued to say that he came up took the phone and went out the door. I asked if they would come to the door, and point him out, since I had no idea WHO I was looking for...they both looked at each other, like, I cant do it...and they shook their head, and played dumb.
After spending a few minutes by myself in front of the store trying to see if i could figure it out on my own, and asking a stranger to call my cell, trying to see if I could find the man, I came back the Customer service department, first asked for someone in security and then for the manager. The clerk there said, Loss Prevention, said there was nothing they could do. I then asked to speak to the manager on duty, a phone call was made however no manager ever came down. I finally left as I had to go home and change passwords etc, that were on my stolen cell phone. This was not a situation where I left my phone and someone else came up and slipped it into their pocket secretly. The clerk, made an announcement so that anyone could come up and claim it as their own. Seems to me that instead, she should have put it into a drawer, and when someone came into the store asking for a lost phone, that she should be asking them to identify it. Per the other female customer's admission to me, the clerk, announced to anyone who was within earshot, “Who's phone is this?”
Wouldn't a responsible Walmarts store policy be that an employee should hold a lost item in drawer till end of shift in case owner shows up and they must describe it (NEVER ANNOUNCE IT) ..and if customer does not come in by end of shift. Turn it into their lost and found department.
I was going to write a letter of complaint to the headquarters, or is it a waste of time. Do you have any suggestions about anything you would do?