I hear that.....The same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago when I put one in. I too had to wait 30 minutes but I was glad that the let me put some items in that had been clearanced. Guess I shouldn't be too excited about it after all though, because I noticed on my receipt that I was charged $5 for putting in the layaway. Then, as per the terms of their layaway, I came back in the store to pay 2 weeks later and the girl with "assistant manager" labeled on her name tag couldn't even get the register to work to take my payment and sent me up front to the registers, where only the service desk was open. And where I had to stand in line behind 6 other people. I said then that I'd never put another layaway in at K-mart, but now that Walmart is discontinuing theirs, I may have to bite that bullet and renig.....