The Target registries print off a ton of pages, but that seems to be true no matter where you register, instead of on line per item every place you go seems to think each item needs to take up like 10 lines and most of it is white space. The Target registries are sorted by department and within department by price. (On baby registries this effectively means they are just sorted by price since baby stuff is a department.) The prices are the only thing in that column which makes it really easy to go through and see what is in your price range and concentrate on that part and put the other pages away. The other really great thing Target does is for every item on the registry (unless it’s not available in the store) it lists the aisle number. All the aisle numbers at Target (at least my local one) have a letter that seems to be a department identifier followed by a number. This makes it incredibly easy to find whatever item you decide on. Even if you are having difficulty you can be pretty sure you are looking in the right place.

On to Walmart, a couple months ago my church had a baby shower for a lady that goes there (they do for all the ladies who attend who are having their first), and this particular lady was one I knew in High School, so I really wanted to go. She was registered at Target and Walmart, and I wasn’t feeling well, and Walmart is closer to my house so I decided to go there. Big mistake. I got to Walmart and I wasn’t sure where their registry kiosks were, but decided to try near the service desk since many stores have them there. Sure enough there they were, I sat down, found the registry no problem, told it to print, sat there while it processed and processed and processed, I tried moving the mouse to see if it had locked up and it hadn’t. I also tried clicking so things. Then suddenly I was back at the initial screen. (It was either asking if I wanted to Find or create a registry or If I was interested in a wedding or baby registry. I don’t quite recall which one was first.) I did it again thinking it had just been some glitch. Same results. I checked around carefully, since sometimes those kiosks do a good job hiding where the paper comes out. No luck. I tried it once last time thinking maybe I was messing something up hitting stuff and being impatient. I didn’t touch anything from the time I hit print. Same results. No error message, just back to that initial screen.
Then I went to the service desk. They told me that perhaps the printer was broken and to use the one back by layaway. She also said if that didn’t work that they had a printer at the electronics counter and could print it for me. I walked back to layaway and found their kiosk had a sign on it (that given the looks of the tape had been there awhile) saying that the printer was out of order and to use the one at the front of the store or go to the electronics desk.
I went to the electronics desk and the lady there pulls up Walmart’s website and prints it for me, but tells me that customers are really supposed to print it off the website before they come to the store.
Of the ~15 pages that printed 1 is a cover page that basically parrots back the information I entered to pull up the registry and has a Walmart logo and a Walmart baby registry logo etc on it. The final page is equally useless. The items are sorted by price, but over half the pages are of items for which no price is given. I didn’t investigate, but I suspect those items were not available in the store. It would have been nice if it had said that, or otherwise explained why over half the items on the list had no prices. There were 1-2 items that were in the range I wanted to spend, but all of them had been purchased. (Normally I’d blame the person who made the list, but with no prices listed for over half the items, and the prices I did have seemed to do a good job of covering a wide range I suspect suspect there were more, but I just didn’t have prices for them.) Luckily I was picking something up from my mom too, so I pooled what I was spending and what she had given me to spend and found something close.
Then I found the next irritation. Walmart does not in any way indicate where the items are to be found. I searched the whole baby department carefully and could not find the item, could not find an empty spot where it appeared they were sold out. SO I picked the next closest item (more expensive unfortunately) and I was able to find that. I bought that and got the H*** out of there.