People always read and interpret signs the way they want.
I have this infamous story of when I was a teen at the grocery store, and the store thought it would be a fabulous idea to offer these deals for several weeks, a different 4 items every week. For instance, one week, the four items would be a loaf of bread for like 18 cents, a 12 pack of Coke for $1.99, butter for 75 cents, a large bag of Doritos for $1, etc etc.
Anyway, the coupons were printed by the local newspaper. And, the writing was so small, people thought they could just have AS MANY of the 4 products as they wanted. Even though it only said one of each per customer.
That didn't stop managers from over-riding. People had carts overflowing in 12 packs of Coke and bags of Doritos and loaves of bread.
If that wasn't tacky enough, there were entire families who would all grab a cart each, and everyone got a cart full of what they wanted. One person who was paranoid but still wanted to get his way, kept changing his coat and coming back over and over for more stuff.
This was back in '03 or '04....and before extreme couponing was popular, so I have literally NO idea what these people all did with entire houses full of Coke and Doritos.
I have this infamous story of when I was a teen at the grocery store, and the store thought it would be a fabulous idea to offer these deals for several weeks, a different 4 items every week. For instance, one week, the four items would be a loaf of bread for like 18 cents, a 12 pack of Coke for $1.99, butter for 75 cents, a large bag of Doritos for $1, etc etc.
Anyway, the coupons were printed by the local newspaper. And, the writing was so small, people thought they could just have AS MANY of the 4 products as they wanted. Even though it only said one of each per customer.
That didn't stop managers from over-riding. People had carts overflowing in 12 packs of Coke and bags of Doritos and loaves of bread.
If that wasn't tacky enough, there were entire families who would all grab a cart each, and everyone got a cart full of what they wanted. One person who was paranoid but still wanted to get his way, kept changing his coat and coming back over and over for more stuff.
This was back in '03 or '04....and before extreme couponing was popular, so I have literally NO idea what these people all did with entire houses full of Coke and Doritos.
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