ANGRY MINUTE #0025: WalMart’s Photo Center
I like taking pictures; some would say it’s a hobby of mine. And when I want to print those pictures I take them to a Photo Center and have them created into reality. Typically in the past I have done this at K-Mart, but with K-mart slowly dying and WalMart everywhere I decided in my last two print adventures to travel to WalMart for my printing. But my experience at WalMart was nothing short of insulting.
The last time I went was just insulting. I took in a few pictures and set them to print, came back an hour later to get those prints. Yet it seems everytime I go get pictures from WalMart I’m being subpoenaed by some douche behind the counter accusing me like I’m a criminal.
WalMart has this rule about printing copyrighted pictures, but the problem is there is no real way to tell who owns the copyright of a picture. So when I take a picture that looks “too good” they start throwing a fit.
This last time was particularly angering to me. The lady told me she wouldn’t give me a picture because it looked “too professional” in her eyes and that I couldn’t possibly own the copyright to it. I informed her I took that picture so the copyright was owned by me… and then she asked me the stupidest most retarded thing ever: she asked me to PROVE that I took the picture! Now how in the BLUE HELL am I suppose to prove that?!? I asked her, and she stuttered and couldn’t give me an answer to save her life, her only “advice” was that I need to take crappier pictures. That’s right, WalMart (the store who SELLS high end cameras to take PROFESSIONAL STYLE PICTURES) tells me to take shitty pictures! What a Chris CROCKer of shit!
I told that photo lab bitch off! Frak her! Also, I read online that WalMart is supposed to make you sign a waver for pictures that they find to be “too professional”. I want to state that on every occasion I have NOT been given this form, only told that I could not print the picture because there is no way a guy like me could take such a great picture. That is insulting to me as a person, I’d say it was racist even!
Frak you WalMart! You own the copyright of being assholes! I WILL take my business elsewhere, you assmasters!
You should have taken your business elsewhere in the first place. Ever since I saw videos describing how Wal-Mart bullies companies into giving them horribly low prices I stopped liking them and refuse to shop there at all possible costs. I take my pictures to Walgreens or CVS to be printed, do my grocery shopping a Kroger, and my electronics shopping at other places like Best Buy.
Yeah, we’re in a recession and money’s tight for some but I’d rather pay a little extra to go somewhere that’s NOT Wal-Mart. That place can burn in hell.
Have you tried uploading them online and having them shipped to you? Last time I checked ordering online was actually cheaper than doing them in the store.