What are the silliest things you have had customers ask for?

[roguesqd]

Been reading for a while now but first time poster. I was wondering what are the silliest things that you have had customers ask you for that in no way your store would even carry.

I work for a national hardware store, so far I have had customers ask me for auto parts, fishing supplies, pet supplies, all variety of home electronics, furniture, and the one that beats all was for our clothing department, specifically womens and children's.

I am just waiting for that one day when my response is faster then my filtering mechanism and I actually ask someone if they have lost their mind when they ask me for things better found in other stores. So what are some of your silly searchs??

[rerant]

I was asked if we sell clothes.

I work at Ikea.

[Arcade Man D]

Maybe they wanted a clothing kit? *flrrd*

I get people asking us for show times, and if we carry various video game systems. In an arcade.

Honestly, the laser tag makes more sense, because the one in the other mall (not owned by the same company, but games are provided by our company as a rev share) has laser tag.

[CreepyCarrie]

I now work at a well known pastry and coffee shop that rhymes with Flunkin' Numbnuts. At least once a month, I'll get an idiot that will ask me if we sell hamburgers. Well, let's see, moron. Look at the pretty little sign outside. Does it feature golden arches or a little redheaded girl with pigtails? No? Then guess what? WE DONT SELL BURGERS.

[Javarod]

I was asked if we sell clothes.

I work at Ikea.

Actually this doesn't surprise me, after all, Ikea sells its product using a lifestyle image, and quite well, while clothes are a bit of a stretch, its not that far off the wall.


Nor is auto parts in a hardware store, depending on what they're looking for Rogue.

[Linda]

I work at a dry cleaners / photo lab.

I've been asked for:
--Animal slippers
--Prescriptions filled
--Mobile phones: ie
SC: "Hmph! You don't have much in the way of mobile phones do you?" </sarcasm> Me: "That might be because we are a dry cleaners..."
--Cakes
--Olives
--Office type stuff - photocopying, laminating, faxing
--Cash withdrawals / deposits

And maaaaaany more!

[amphrite]

"Do you have Gum?"

I work in a Swimming pool. I wanted to say "Well, I could go check the filters downstairs for you."

[Saydrah]

For some reason, when I worked at a pet store, I got asked constantly for batteries for products we did not carry. We did have a few batteries, but not mostly the AA type- the type that go in yucky electric dog collars! People would come in asking for D batteries, and I would just have to wonder- do you never grocery shop?

[STEELMAN]

I work at at a steel warehouse. We sell structural steel products. The business name is Pacific Steel. A man came in and said he wanted to buy some of that decorative rock. I told him we didn't carry anything like that, but he might try Robinson Brick down the street. He yelled at me that his friend told him he got it here and he wouldn't lie about something like that. Then his wife dragged him out of the store.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I have gotten people asking for tax forms. It's a bookstore, not the library.

Best is when they get all flustered and but where can I find them? when we say no.

[Jack T. Chance]

Stupid furniture store questions

• In a mattress store that is CLEARLY displaying ONLY mattress sets, headboards/footboards, bed frames, pillows, mattress protectors, and the odd futon -- "Do you carry dressers/chests/etc.?"
• In a bunkbed store that is CLEARLY displaying ONLY solid wood bunks, desks, chairs to go with said desks, hutches for the desks, matching bookcases and various matching chests -- "Do you carry futons/couches/coffee tables/(insert living room furniture item here)?"

What scares me the most is that these people are allowed to have things like money and driver's licenses.

[ShinyGreenApple]

I had two guys come in late one night and asked if we carry porn.

I work in a grocery store.

They swore up and down that someone in [MyTown] had told them to come to my store because we carried porn, and since we don't, did I know where they could get some? Made my night

I've also been asked for cell phone chargers and telephones.

[raideo]

Route-44 milkshake, we can't ring one up, we don't have equipment to make one, people are diehard about getting one.

Even if we could make it I would refuse to sell that much ice-cream to a single person in the grounds that there are enough morbidly obese people in this country.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Route-44 milkshake, we can't ring one up, we don't have equipment to make one, people are diehard about getting one.

What is a Route-44 milkshake? Sounds large...

[Listerfiend]

I've been asked twice if my store carries cigarettes (a craft store). I've also been asked if we carry gongs (wtf?).

This one, though, takes the cake: (m=e, i=idiot)

I- Do you have karate-chopping wood?
M- *puts customer on hold for the purpose of LAUGHING MY ASS OFF*
M- What are the specifications of karate-chopping wood????
I- *In the background I could hear what sounded like an 8-year-old boy telling his mom--"it's for karate! duh! the kind you break and chop!"* It's the kind you break--you know.
M- Well, the only kinds of wood we carry are carving blocks and balsa.
I- Hmm... Balsa's that really soft stuff, isn't it? That wouldn't work...
M- *I really wanted to tell her, well your kid's not going to be able to chop through the real thing, I'm sure--balsa's probably up your alley...*
M- Ma'am, here's what you're going to do. You're going to contact your kid's instructor, ask them about it, and head to a hardware store.
I- Oh--I didn't think of going to a hardware store!
M-