One employee from Wisconsin told Business Insider that they felt their team didn't receive "enough help or equipment to do the job." A Walmart manager also wrote in a 2017 Reddit AMA that their store experienced a distinct "lack of staff," which they said was the reason so many cash registers often went un-manned on busy days. "As a manager, I spend a lot of time on a register myself trying to cut down lines but there are a lot of managers who won't take it upon themselves to do that," the Walmart manager wrote. Previous news reports have indicated that the issue of understaffing at Walmart is a company-wide phenomenon. "Understaffing from the sales floor to the front end has greatly affected the store," Walmart customer service manager and union-backed OUR Walmart member Janet Sparks told The New York Times in 2014. This problem isn't unique to Walmart, though. In 2016, employee engagement platform WorkJam found that 89% of retail stores were understaffed each week.