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It depends on the length of your shift and they only schedule shifts in half hour periods (almost never shorter than 4.5 hours).
All lunches and breaks should be spaced out with 2 hours between them. Work two hours: no break or lunch. Work 4 hours: one break at the 2 hour mark. Work 6 hours: it's 2 breaks at the 2 and 4 hour mark. Work 8 hours: it's 2 breaks at the 2 and 6 hour marks with a half hour lunch at the 4 hour mark (2, 4 (lunch), and 6). If you work 9 hours it's the same as 8 hours except you get an hour lunch. If you work 11 hours (rare): it's three breaks and a lunch spaced out thusly: 2, 4 (lunch), 6, 8 marks. If you work more than 12 hours (very rare) you get two lunches: you get 3 breaks that begin at the 2, 6, and 10 hour marks and two lunches that begin at the 4, and 8 hour marks (2, 4 (lunch), 6, 8 (2nd lunch), 10).
This is all theoretical however because sometimes you're with a customer and go to lunch a few minutes beyond your time. Not a big deal, however you cannot work more than 6 hours without taking a lunch. The cash register will not let you sign in once you've worked 5 hours and 45 minutes and will begin warning you at 5 and a half hours. They call it "locking out" (or "locked out", if you've already been). They can reprimand you if you go to lunch late...get a meal violation. If I remember correctly it's a maximum of 2 in a 6 month period and then you're fired.
I've worked at Walmart 6 months now and have never even come close to having to worry about a meal violation. The management at my store respect the employees breaks and lunches and they take them very seriously. If I'm on break they won't bother me. If I don't want a break they make sure I take one anyway.
Some Walmarts, California, I think have gotten in trouble for making employees work over their unpaid lunch shifts but these are just individual stores and not representative of walmart ads a whole. It represents the poor managers themselves who make these decisions and they are reprimanded by the company for doing so. Walmart as a corporation does not support making employees work over lunch or not take one. Quite the opposite, they enforce them to the benefit of the employee.
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