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    A few weeks ago I started working the Sunday evening shift. There's one SC who seems to do the same thing every week.

    -quickly choose I item (usually a drink) and put it on the counter
    -say "there's more" and do four or five laps of the store (not slow enough to steal anything, and I keep an eye on him anyway)
    -stand in front of the porno magazines for a few minutes (the ones that are sealed in opaque bags, with just the masthead showing)
    -grab a pack of gum
    -pay for the gum and the drink
    -leave

    Weird. Also it means that there's 5-10 minutes that I can't do any of the little jobs I'm supposed to do when there are no customers about.

  • #2
    Sounds like some of my ex SCs (minus the porno part, we didn't sell magazines).

    It was like clockwork. They'd walk in, ask for a pack of ciggs, then do a lap to the beer cooler, set down a 6 pack, then go grab some chips and soda, then go back and find some motor oil or fuel additive....

    It was so annoying because all their crap was in the way of any other customers who knew what they wanted and just wanted to get out of there.
    You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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    • #3
      I've been known to do something like this at my local QT, but only at, like, 3 in the morning, and only when I can't hold all the stuff I want. So I'll stash the drinks to one side of the counter, and tell the cashier that I still need a minute to finish picking up stuff. I hope I'm not being sucky?
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      • #4
        Quoth Sorianna View Post
        I've been known to do something like this at my local QT, but only at, like, 3 in the morning, and only when I can't hold all the stuff I want. So I'll stash the drinks to one side of the counter, and tell the cashier that I still need a minute to finish picking up stuff. I hope I'm not being sucky?
        Nah, that doesn't sound sucky to me. You sound like the three people who would use the baskets provided at one store I used to work at.

        My SC only buys the drink and gum, and spends 5-10 minutes just wandering around the store and staring at bags with porn in them.

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        • #5
          Yeah, that staring-at-porn thing is kinda weird, especially when he can't even see anything. I guess he's just trying to figure out if he's going to buy it? But he never does...

          Well, I'm glad I'm not being sucky. I'm always worried that I'm offending someone. And I'd use baskets, but they don't have them there, and I like to stock up on the Fuze drink. They're so tasty.
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          • #6
            I hate that. They stand there with something, pull a wallet out and then get indignant when I start to ring them up. *If you're not done don't stand there like you are!*

            Today one of my regulars did that. He's standing at the counter with a bottle of wine and a handful of bills and then complained he wasn't finished yet. I told him, "You're standing there with a bottle of wine with your money out and I'm supposed to know you aren't done?" We laughed about it but he recognized his error.

            "You'd feel a Hell of a lot better if you'd just rip into the occasional customer."
            ~Clerks

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