Um, the store is CLOSED, dingus

[Lace Neil Singer]

Well, at the moment the supermarket is undergoing a refit; there are huge arse signs out front and back with "*supermarket* is closed, come and see the new store on Thursday 19th" in white on a bright orange background. You'd have to be blind to not see them, even if you did miss the huge signs, you couldn't possibly miss the security guardss at the entrances, the huge piles of metal shit everywhere, and the contracters working on the shelving and fridge/produce sections; not to mention all the staff working to fill the shelves and the tills covered in plastic, right?

Wrong. Today, when I was filling shelves along with the rest of my checkout collegeues, a couple walked in oblivious to all what I just listed above and tried to start shopping. They even had a trolley they'd obviously half inched from the fenced off section off the car park. An announcement then went out on the tannoy:

"Attention, this is a customer information announcement. If you just walked in the door, please walk out again. We are closed right now and cannot meet your needs."

This brain dead couple apparently argued with one of the managers for a while, before finally leaving to the sound of an entire store of staff laughing at their stupidity.

Disclaimer; I mean of course, metorphorically speaking of course. We waited til they were well away before we laughed at them.

[MrSunshineState]

Me feels more dumber now

[JustADude]

Disclaimer; I mean of course, metorphorically speaking of course. We waited til they were well away before we laughed at them.

Awwwww! I would've loved to see them tuck their tails in shame having a SUPERMARKET full of people laughing at them at once.

[teelaz]

Some people think that they are special and you should uncover the registers and hook them up just for them because they are better then everyone else and should be able to shop when they want. Flippin' idiots!

[mariamousie1]

I had a great aunt who was an awful driver. She and my grandmother were driving somewhere and they pulled up to a laneway into a store where there was machinery, dirt everywhere, and signs saying "Construction- Do not pass" My aunt went to drive in, my grandmother said "I think you can't go in here" My aunt said "Oh, I come in here all the time!" Anyway, they ended driving straight into a huge pit and had to be towed out. The moral: Don't drive with my aunt.

[Ljt09863]

i recently just helped with two store openings near by. at both locations, there were people trying to shop. even though there were signs all over saying when the store was opening. one lady walked in with THREE of our advertisments, all set to shop. after being told the store was still closed, she took about 5 minutes to leave.

[Jack T. Chance]

Just one question...

Here's my question: If the store's CLOSED, why weren't the bloody doors LOCKED?!?

Seems painfully simple to me. If you're not open for business, LOCK THE DOORS!!! It's not rocket science!

Sure, you had giant, day-glow signs. But it's been scientifically proven that when a customer is approaching the door of your establishment to enter your business, they get a sort of tunnel vision, wherein their eyes fix their focus on the door handle, and they ignore all else, including those giant signs telling them you're closed! And they're not even aware they're doing it! It's a subconscious thing. Somebody actually spent time and money to research this and verify it. I saw it on a news program on TV several years ago.

So, yeah, when you're closed, LOCK THE DOORS. It's the only way to get the message across to the customers that you're actually CLOSED!

[JustADude]

Here's my question: If the store's CLOSED, why weren't the bloody doors LOCKED?!?

Construction crews, etc, have to get in and out. It was a remodeling.

[Sandman]

Would you just love to take away drivers licenses for people who don't read those signs? If they can't read signs that big they definately can't read signs about the roadways.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Construction crews, etc, have to get in and out. It was a remodeling.

This. The doors had to be open, for the constructers to get in and out, and bring in various scary machinery items. The staff were instructed to enter thru a fire exit specially opened for that very reason; those brain dead customers were lucky not to get hurt, seeing as the flipping tiles on the floor were being torn up at the time.

[Boozy]

If I recall correctly, fire codes don't let you keep doors locked (even from the inside) when there are over a certain number of people in a building.

[DesignFox]

And locking the doors does not send the message. Trust me on this. I lock the doors at night to close, and you wouldn't believe how many people pull on the door...when it doesn't open...pull again...peer inside...look confused and make hand motions at me...I motion that we're closed...and then they will either a) pull on the door some more and make motions that they want something supposedly simple (to which I ignore them until they finally leave) or b) go away.

[jrh215]

About two years ago, I was helping set up a new store in town. I only worked there a day, and everything was pretty much set up as far as major setup was concerned. We were just putting the finishing touches on the store and getting ready to open it in about a week to ten days.

Still, it was pretty obvious we were not open for business. When I showed up for work that morning, they were telling me how they were having to chase people who thought we were open out of the store. This was back before I was totally deadened and hardened by the idiocy of the masses, so it surprised me to hear that some people could actually be that dense and oblivious.

But sure enough, at least three or four times that day people would pull up, park their cars, walk past the contractors's trucks out front, make their way through the various pieces of construction equipment outside or the yellow tape all over the place, not notice the workers power washing the front of the store's exterior or any of the other construction workers doing their thing, walk up to the *closed* doors, peer inside, then force the automatic sliding doors open themselves, walk through the doors while stumbling over cables and power cords that were running through the door to equipment on the outside, coming into the store and seeing trash all over the place and about 50 employees in plain clothes running around in a flurry of activity and not paying any attention to them. Some of the employees would politely inform them we were not open.

I, on the other hand, wouldn't say a word because I wanted to really see how damn stupid these people really were. One of them actually got so far as to get a shopping cart and start walking around the store, maneuvering through the piles of crap all over the floor.

One of my first experiences in learning to never be surprised by anything.

[customersruinmylife]

Disclaimer; I mean of course, metorphorically speaking of course. We waited til they were well away before we laughed at them.

Damn it you should have laughed at them while they were there! That would have made them feel stupid

[Strange Magic]

Damn it you should have laughed at them while they were there! That would have made them feel stupid

Yeah...but the disclaimer keeps any managment types that might be keeping tabs here off thier collective hienys...