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Miss Marple is Slipping
An old lady came to me with a roll of contact paper.
"I found this in the clearance aisle but the scanner says it's ten dollars. That's clearly not the clearance price so it must be in the wrong place. I'm trying to find where it goes."
Rather than argue with her, I politely took it from her and asked if I could help her find anything else. By now you know that most of my customers have only one good song in them so I just waited until she was out of eye sight and brought it back to the clearance aisle.
She showed up almost right behind me and said, "That doesn't go there. It's ten dollars and that's not the clearance price so it doesn't go in clearance."
I waved a manager down who happened to have a handheld. She confirmed it was clearance and that was all there was to it. But the lady clearly did not believe that ten dollars was a reasonable clearance price.
It Just Doesn't Make Sense
A guy was examining a package of underpants that were marked down to nine dollars. He showed me that the sticker said, "Was 7.50, Now 9.00."
"I just don't get it," he said, very smugly. You know in that tone that you reserve for when you think you've caught someone in a lie and you're just trying to set them up to trap themselves.
I scanned the product. It was nine dollars. But I told the customer that because the tag shows a lower price, if he wanted to get it for that price, the cashier would gladly change it.
"I just don't get it," he said, as if I was running a big racket.
What's not to get? Someone with the ticket gun screwed up. That's all there is to it. I marked the packages I could find so that the 9.00 was clearly the price but there were others in the clearance aisle and I just didn't have enough time to track them all down.
Pants! We Want Pants!
Someone is bound to experience some flashbacks from this episode.
A woman came up to me with a pair of pants that rang up as 20 dollars. Clearance. Her "crew" stood by the other clearance pants and pointed out to be some of them were 13, some were 15, and some were 20.
There were different brands, different sizes, different styles. Some come from different seasonal sales. I wasn't about to explain all this because these were not people to whom you could explain anything. I just said, "I don't know, I don't handle the pricing."
Today in Balamory, we learned that clearance prices are just prices that were marked down from their original price. They could be as low as a dollar or as high as one hundred dollars but you're getting those things at a fraction of what they would originally have cost.
An old lady came to me with a roll of contact paper.
"I found this in the clearance aisle but the scanner says it's ten dollars. That's clearly not the clearance price so it must be in the wrong place. I'm trying to find where it goes."
Rather than argue with her, I politely took it from her and asked if I could help her find anything else. By now you know that most of my customers have only one good song in them so I just waited until she was out of eye sight and brought it back to the clearance aisle.
She showed up almost right behind me and said, "That doesn't go there. It's ten dollars and that's not the clearance price so it doesn't go in clearance."
I waved a manager down who happened to have a handheld. She confirmed it was clearance and that was all there was to it. But the lady clearly did not believe that ten dollars was a reasonable clearance price.
It Just Doesn't Make Sense
A guy was examining a package of underpants that were marked down to nine dollars. He showed me that the sticker said, "Was 7.50, Now 9.00."
"I just don't get it," he said, very smugly. You know in that tone that you reserve for when you think you've caught someone in a lie and you're just trying to set them up to trap themselves.
I scanned the product. It was nine dollars. But I told the customer that because the tag shows a lower price, if he wanted to get it for that price, the cashier would gladly change it.
"I just don't get it," he said, as if I was running a big racket.
What's not to get? Someone with the ticket gun screwed up. That's all there is to it. I marked the packages I could find so that the 9.00 was clearly the price but there were others in the clearance aisle and I just didn't have enough time to track them all down.
Pants! We Want Pants!
Someone is bound to experience some flashbacks from this episode.
A woman came up to me with a pair of pants that rang up as 20 dollars. Clearance. Her "crew" stood by the other clearance pants and pointed out to be some of them were 13, some were 15, and some were 20.
There were different brands, different sizes, different styles. Some come from different seasonal sales. I wasn't about to explain all this because these were not people to whom you could explain anything. I just said, "I don't know, I don't handle the pricing."
Today in Balamory, we learned that clearance prices are just prices that were marked down from their original price. They could be as low as a dollar or as high as one hundred dollars but you're getting those things at a fraction of what they would originally have cost.
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