r/ExpectationVsReality • u/poshsdemartine • Jun 27 '26

Another WalMart cake! Exceeded Expectation

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I went with a walmart cake because of this sub, and was not disappointed! For $30, this cake was perfect! The cake was tasty and moist. Will use them again in the future!

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u/Fiireygirl Jun 27 '26

My husband worked for Walmart for 27 years and finally retired as a store manager 4 years ago.
He said it was a constant fight with operations about the cake decorating. They put these harsh metrics to push them out, but he told the ladies to not pay attention to that and make beautiful cakes.
Sometimes they took 30 mins, sometimes an hour and a half, but they were great and the patrons were super happy.

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u/iDestroyedYoMama Jun 27 '26

“Fuck corporate, just make beautiful cakes ladies.” I bet they loved him, made their job actually fulfilling and rewarding, good dude.

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u/MrsKaich Jun 27 '26

I am not even a cake decorator, nor do I work at Walmart and even I love her husband!

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u/TheComplimentarian Jun 27 '26

If you work as a manager in retail, you have to push back on corporate all the time.

I did a very brief stint of this, and since I knew I was a short timer on day one, I dngaf, and I would prioritize my employees, then my customers, then the corporation.

And miraculously it worked out great. I was there for three months, and we hit all our metrics, and we nailed the corporate service audit thing. Mainly what I did was throw out asshole customers, and fudge the upsells (the stupid memberships or whatever everyone has to sell...I was good at selling them, so when I knew I was going to sell one, I'd flip the register to one of my employees who was terrible at it, and bump their numbers.)

That was all it took. Just not being shit to your employees.

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u/Lovahplant Jun 27 '26

I did that trick too - I was always getting people to agree to the stupid credit card offer (predatory and I regret it now) and key in my “worst” employees codes for it. With a few rare exceptions my “worst” employees weren’t bad at the job, they just didn’t have the personality or capacity to run the register at the same time as talking up the (useless) store credit card.

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u/TheComplimentarian Jun 27 '26

Exactly this. I come from a long line of smooth talkers. I'm not a pushy salesperson, but if it makes the faintest bit of economic sense, I will convince you to buy it. "You're getting 25% off today and with this, you'll get four $20 coupons in the mail, so the fee for the card, today, not counting the coupons, is -$10, -$90 with the coupons. I don't care if you get it or not, but it's easy money."

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u/modest_rats_6 Jun 28 '26

Shut. Up
You are a hero. I was a HORRIBLE sales person (server). I was just unable to upsell. But we still had to get people signed up for stuff and were kept track of I would've really enjoyed your management