Every time I checked out at Walmart the past month the machine won’t accept my SNAP card, and I think this guy behind the desk across from the checkout line is blocking my card because there is something about me he objects to. I got a bunch of dirty looks from him the whole time this is going on. I didn’t help my cause last week when our group was stuck in the garage while our van got new tires put on. I didn’t get those plastic bags for my milk while I was checking out, and I was afraid my milk would overheat and sour while we waited on the van. I went to the checkout stand and grabbed some of those plastic bags, which was a great big no go in Walmart. They are very stingy with their grocery bags. But, that considered, it is an incredibly frustrating experience to have the machine refuse your SNAP card again and again when you just checked your balance and you have plenty of money on your card. … In another incident I was shopping for a low end cell phone, and the people behind the desk there were very hostile. I asked for help in finding one, and the girl directing me led me on a wild goose chase. Basically, she refused to sell me a low end cell phone. That was another extremely frustrating experience. I think there were a number of reasons for that one, but I think the primary one was because I was frustrated by this guy who I loaned $30 to, and it was looking like he wouldn’t pay me back. I didn’t do anything to him other than give him a dirty look, and he must have spread word that I was threatening him. I told him that if he gave me $20 I’d say we were even, but it looks like he is going to stiff me. He must have had buddies in Walmart.
That’s not technologically possible. Banking networks have end-to-end encryption that is incredibly hard to compromise. The guy working the Wally World customer service kiosk sure isn’t hacking it.
Sorry to hear you’ve had such a hard time of it.
Walmart freaks me out because it’s so large and often crowded. Once someone forgot to remove a magnetic tag off a set of exercise bras and this triggered the alarm when I walked through those two panels. And it was sooo loud. I hate things that draw attention to me. Everyone stopped to stare at me, and the guy who stands near the door checked my bag and receipt. He thought it was the movie I bought…but there was a thingy on the bras. 
But the experience made me feel like a thief.
A cashier should be able to help you, if your card doesn’t work. You might just need a new card. They can manually enter it.
That would be quite a head twister. I’d probably melt if something like that happened to me.
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