Yes I remember layaway too.  We still have customers asking if they can put it in layawy.  My new store will be open for 2 years in January.  We have the space for layaway, when our store was in the planning stages we still had layaway but by the time it was finished it was gone.  We use it for site to store pickup.  There is a credit card signature capture device back there.  On the screen it says touch here for site to store pick up.  Not many people that shop at my store know how to read they are always asking for someone to come to get their stuff.  When I touch that device they say oh I did not see that.  WTF  I tell customers if you touch here it tells the CSS on the palm device there is someone for site to store and they will be right back.

I remember Layaway being mentioned by many people as one of the few things that set Wal-Mart aside from Target. But once again, the Wal-Mart executives feel that copying Target is priority #1.

 

I can not believe they got rid of Layaway in all stores. Yes, there were some that it should have been eliminated from (like mine) but at the same time, there were others, like one that I helped during a holiday season that had a Layaway line of about 30-40 people, that should have kept it.