No I will not call a manager so you can steal!

[scroob]

I work in a deli. We sell hot foods priced by the pound and by the piece. A woman comes up and wants to buy some baked chicken (sold by the pound.) She wants 6 pieces (about 2 pounds) and decides that is too much. So she decides to get 3 pieces (which with the sauce is about 1.3 pounds.) Then she wants me to dump out the sauce so it won't weigh as much. We finally get the weight down to about .8 pounds. Then she wants me to put some more sauce into it (but doesn't want to be charged for it.) We are a business, we don't make money by giving product away. So I told her that I could of course give her more sauce but she would have to pay for it. Then she of course demands a manager, saying "are you sure you can't just give it to me?" I tell her I won't get a manager because he wouldn't give the sauce for free either.
What store just gives away its product for free and hopes to stay in business?

[MoonCat]

I want food but I don't want to pay for it.

Fine, go to a soup kitchen.

Who bitches about sauce, anyway?? I could see someone wanting more chicken (which they also shouldn't get for free) but sauce??

[Ben_Who]

You have to love how clever she thought she was being. Got to love a customer who thinks they found a loophole in the system.

At my local supermarket, the clerks keep finding grape stems in the produce bins. Apparently, some old lady is picking the grapes off the stems so she doesn't have to pay the two cents the stems probably cost in the weight of the grapes. You have to figure that's a woman who goes home congratulating herself on her cleverness.

[Food Lady]

At least she doesn't walk around eating them.

[Monterey Jack]

At my local supermarket, the clerks keep finding grape stems in the produce bins. Apparently, some old lady is picking the grapes off the stems so she doesn't have to pay the two cents the stems probably cost in the weight of the grapes. You have to figure that's a woman who goes home congratulating herself on her cleverness.

"Yeah, I need a price check on two grapes. Yeah, that's right, two measly, stinkin' grapes."

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

"Yeah, I need a price check on two grapes. Yeah, that's right, two measly, stinkin' grapes."

Nice Simpsons reference.

[Monterey Jack]

Nice Simpsons reference.

"THOU SHALT NOT STEAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Sapphire Silk]

You have to love how clever she thought she was being. Got to love a customer who thinks they found a loophole in the system.

At my local supermarket, the clerks keep finding grape stems in the produce bins. Apparently, some old lady is picking the grapes off the stems so she doesn't have to pay the two cents the stems probably cost in the weight of the grapes. You have to figure that's a woman who goes home congratulating herself on her cleverness.

Hope she eats them quick. Removing the stems shortens their shelf life. Not much of a savings if you throw away food that rots before you can eat it.

[Monterey Jack]

Hope she eats them quick. Removing the stems shortens their shelf life. Not much of a savings if you throw away food that rots before you can eat it.

Same thing with corn-on-the-cob...you unwrap the stalks from around them, you have to use them QUICK. Always amazes me to see so many customers unwrapping them in the produce section (with a huge, overflowing bucket filled with stalks).

[Teskeria]

Same thing with corn-on-the-cob...you unwrap the stalks from around them, you have to use them QUICK. (with a huge, overflowing bucket filled with stalks).

When I buy corn on the cob, I unwrap em in the store, but then again, I plan to cook it that night or at most the next day. Corn on the cob is best when you can cook it within 8 hours of picking.

[wolfie]

Corn on the cob is usually priced per piece, rather than by weight. Given that removing the husks in store won't save money, and that it accelerates the deterioration of the product, why do people do it?

[Jetfire]

Same reason people will open a package to check the quality of an item, then want an unopened one of the item because this one was opened (and/or want a discount for an opened item)

[dalesys]

I had a little brother who'd only eat one bite out of a cookie..

[Deevil]

Corn on the cob is usually priced per piece, rather than by weight. Given that removing the husks in store won't save money, and that it accelerates the deterioration of the product, why do people do it?

Mainly because people don't know that it goes bad faster once the husk is removed. But also:

• they can fit more husked ears in one bag
• the plastic produce baggies rip easily when you put an unhusked ear of corn in it
• they don't want to deal with having to clean up the mess from husking the corn
• since the can is sitting there, they think they are supposed to do it in the store
• it "looks prettier" when the corn is already husked

I live in corn country, aka a state where "the third largest city is a football stadium on game day", and will still get occasional weird looks because I just pull a bit of the husk down to look at the kernels and then put the husk back up and either bag it or select a different ear.

[MadMike]

Back at my old job at the home improvements store, a guy came in to by x feet of carpet. I unrolled the one he wanted, and found out there was a foot more on the roll than he wanted. I was about to cut the last foot off, when he told me he'd take the last foot too. Great, I thought. I won't even have to cut it.

When he saw me put a price label on it, he was shocked and annoyed that I was charging him for the extra foot. Seemed he thought I should just give it to him, since "No one's going to by one foot." I told him that wasn't really up to me, and offered to get him a manager. I called the department manager, who sided with me, and told the guy that yes, sometimes people do buy just one foot, possibly for a step or a shelf.

I can't remember if he ended up taking the last foot or not, but I do know he didn't get it for free.