Yeah, my boss is a smart ass. It still doesn't stop people from coming in there. They'll see her and be like "OMG. i HATE that bitch." I wonder how they can say that and don't know her. They don't know the shit she goes through yet they still judge her. She's actually VERY nice. She's only a bitch with the stupids. Today when we closed up, people were knocking on the window, so she took the clock and TAPED it to the window. That was funny as hell.

DynamicSavior said:

damn! she don't play!!!

DynamicSavior said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Like i can't tell the difference between


and



And when something is BOGO, you get the cheaper one free. So people will actually look for the 2 cheapest things...even when they're the same damn price.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

yeah! i saw her ripping of these HUGE ass pieces of tape, you know that SSSSSHHHHHRRRRRIIIIIPPPPP!! sound, and she taped the clock to the damn window. We had people knocking on the emergency exit door and shit. Crazy. People were asking me to go back in the store for them.

Today a customer told me his ladder should be half of what it rang in at. So we walk back the entire length of the store to find the ladders priced at what the register said. Under them was a completey different ladder priced at what the customer said. apparantly someone had left his ladder in front of them. "oh I saw those other ones and wondered why you had priced just this one different" (?!?)

paintsprayer said:

Oh yeah. I get that. When people put shit anywhere, and the customer doesn't read that tag. Come on now, a fucking 50oz. bottle of rug shampoo isn't gonna be 99 cents, BUT THE SCOURING PAD ABOVE IT MIGHT BE.

okay, i got another story: the very first x-mas i worked at walgreens, tickle-me-elmo and furby were THE toys to get. we never had a whole bunch on stock (we're walgreens, not f.a.o. schwartz--we gotta stick with selling enemas and cheap-assed makeup, too), so whenever they were on the shelves they'd sell out like whoa. same as any other store in town, for the most part--plus, walgreens sold 'em for a lower price than most other places so people would come in.

...and ohmygod, walgreens be damned if people came to the store whenever we were clean outta furbies and elmos: "what do you mean you're out of stock?! i know you got more in the back!!!" yeah muthafucka, we hoard our shit just to piss you off.

and the constant phone calls to the store...oh lawd...

me: "hello, S.E. 14th walgreens?"
shopper: "hello, do you have any furbies?"
me (exasperated, as this was like the 100th caller i've spoken with who's asking about the fuckin things): "no sir/ma'am, we're out of furbies."

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Then of course was the customer who took the two chickens that were missing tags and tried to get some kind of discount. Ya'll know i took the 2 tags from "teh steaks" and taped those shits to the chickens and scanned them. And this guy wanted a discount on a Vibe magazine because there was a small rip in the cover. Vibe magazines are not collectors items. They do not need to be in mint condition. People will get the can with the dent, the box with the rip, or the bottle with the loose cap and have the balls to ask for a discount. My manager gets that tape out....

paintsprayer said:

oooooh, i HATED that kinda shit, people not putting things back on the shelf where they got it, therefore someone thinks that what they got is on sale.

:pricecheckonbluevespa:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

People KILL me with that! Like we have an infinite supply of the item they're looking for "in the back". Turkey Hill iced tea? Oh jesus CHRIST. People will KILL over that nasty shit. One time they were 3 gallons for $5.00 and people went ape shit coo coo bananas over some damn tea. So naturally, we were sold out like the first 2 days then went on sale. So a customer asks my manager:
"Um, excuse me. There HAS to be some more Turkey Hill iced tea in the back."
"No, actually there isn't. Not until tomorrow night."
"I know you guys have some!"
"Well, you're welcome to go look, but you won't find any, so i suggest you make your own."
She pulls out her phone and over the P.A. system she says
"TEA IS IN AISLE 4."

DynamicSavior said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Customer: "Do you guys do anything for the 1 millionth customer?
Manager: "No, but you're the first dumbass to ask me that question."
[Edited 12/24/05 18:06pm]

I do have some MAJOR nightmares regarding the ONE DAY SALE circulars which Macy*s would have printed a month before the actual sale...then half the shit in it would never come in.

So of course, we (the salespeople) would get ALL KINDS of grief from customers who would come in looking for cheap crap that we never had in stock to begin with.

PurpleJedi said:

"Um, excuse me, do you sell such-a-such?"
"No we don't."
"Well, Wal-Mart has it."

DynamicSavior said:

DynamicSavior said:

"uhh, we ain't wal-mart, bitch."

Why is everything "in the back" ? as if the back is some magical place where every item in the world exists.


and my favorite one when you tell them it's of stock


"I know you have it, I bought here before"


well it ain't here now motherfucker.

lilgish said:

if that ain't the truth...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

And they dig thru our entire stock of blue vespas to find a horrid scabby one that was returned by a crazy woman with a yeast infection, and they want a discount on it.

"were there no others on the shelf?"

"who knows, you never have anyone working here anyways"

(?!?)

paintsprayer said:

If the last of an item we have is fucked up, they get a R-R-R-R-RAINCHECK!!!

People were MAD outside a SF Safeway tonight that wouldn't let people in @ 6:45p b/c they closed @ 7p

I thought it was lame (if you close @ 7, you CLOSE @ 7, not 6:45!!!) but I didn't give enough of a shit to stand out there screaming like folks were doing, calling out the name of who to write to for complaints

That's some bullshit closing at 6:45pm though. I know you gotta get the last customers out the door but

CinisterCee said:

I figure it goes w/ the territory - you close @ 7 on Xmas eve, you know your ass ain't gettin' the last customer out until 7:15 or 7:20. But how do you close the doors that early? A bitch had ONE item to grab & couldn't get in

CalhounSq said:

It happens to me at music stores. And I used to work in one.. I really didn't care if one person came in last as long as they knew what they were getting.

paintsprayer said:

aw shit...

CinisterCee said:

RIGHT??! As long as you have your punk ass in line by closing (or 5 minutes till, whatever) it should be cool...

LMAO @ DynamicSavior and Handclapsfingasnapz!!! you guys are crackin me up!!!




i used to work in retail too, no horror stories of my own to share, but i seen people acting stupid like that . . .

how did they get approved for a daypass in the first place???

fantasyislander said:

This is how people act in public. I love how when i'm working over night they call at 3 in the morning and ask if we're open. Like i would've answered the phone if we were closed. And apparently they can't see the big ass Vegas-style neon sign that says "OPEN 24 HOURS" They must think there's 24 hours in half a day, or 24 hours a week or something...

DynamicSavior said:

occasionally, i am disgraced by my fellow human beings. "did you momma drop you on your head??"