Haven't posted my tales of awe inspiring sucktitude from the Dollar Admiral so I figured since I have a rare day off, I would share some goodies.
1)I'll never understand the mentality of people willing to wait in the parking lot for almost FIFTEEN minutes for a store to open and then stand at the door for 5 minutes doing the pee-pee dance thinking I'll open early for them. (I can understand if there was a giant sale going on or the debut of the hot new toy but this was just a regular day)
BZZZZZ! Wrong. Corporate is VERY strict about that, you do not open the doors until the lights turn on which is 8am. No amount of staring at me or tugging on the doors will get me to open them up. My newest form of torture for those people is to count cigarettes (the cigarette case is 5 feet from the door) and ignore them.
2)Ahhh trick or treat day, when most people spazz out because they waited until the last minute to buy candy only to discover that we don't have a big selection left because well, most people plan ahead.
And can't forget about pumpkin carving kits. Every store in town (even Awful Mart) sold out of those a week earlier but that sure didn't stop people from biting my head off because we were sold out on October 30th!!!11!!!!
3)We recently had a 3 day sale from hell. We had 12 packs of pepsi on sale 3/$8 and cans of Libby's vegetables 3/$1. We were sold out of the vegetables by 1pm on the first day of the sale. Cue the old ladies throwing giant hissy fits and acting like I just pushed them down, kicked their cat and switched out their metamucil with saw dust.
We even offered to sell our brand of vegetable 3/$1...NOPE, gotta have Libby's!!!! *shakes fist* Nevermind that they were probably canned in the same factory just different labels slapped on them
And with the pepsi, you'd think I was Hitler when I wouldn't let people substitute Coke, Dr. Pepper, etc for the Pepsi price. The ad CLEARLY states Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew & Diet Mt. Dew and we weren't sold out!
4)Dollar Admiral has a bizarre program where when seasonal merchandised is clearanced to the point of sending it back to corporate, the items will ring up a penny. *trumpets* CUE THE PENNY HUNTERS!!
This tale takes place in our apparel area. Apparel with a yellow dot or a white dot on the tag were pennied out. I was given plenty of advance notice about it so I spent a LOT of time getting the area ready so when the day came it was easy for me to pull all the penny merchandise off the shelves.
Penny hunters come in RIGHT AWAY at opening on the day it was pennied out. If I had a mustache that day I would have been cackling with glee while wringing my hands and twirling my mustache when they dash back to the apparel area only to find NO PENNY ITEMS. Then walk out of the store dejected when they realize they wasted over an hour trashing my apparel only to get NOTHING.
My only hope is that they tried to speed 10 miles down the road to the next Dollar Admiral only to discover that store is the best managed store in the district. That store manager hasn't had an accidental penny sale in over TWO YEARS, she's a merchandising machine!
5)Clearance sales bring out the idiots and entitled. As some of you may know, we recently had a 3 day sale on our clearance merchandise (an extra 50% off of the already low clearance price). We sold a lot of stuff but once again had people who would bring up a cart full of crap and then hold up the line forever while unloading it one by one and demanding the cashier scan it first to make sure it rang up 50% off or I DON'T WANT IT!!!111!!!!!
As some of my customers know, I'm pretty liberal with the clearance area and if something is there and not ringing up 50% off, I'll still do the 50% off IF THEY ARE NICE ABOUT IT. But if you're going to hold up a line of customers with your outrageous demands about crap that wouldn't sell at regular price, then it's my turn to 'Stick it to Da Man' and say no to the 50% off.
The end!
1)I'll never understand the mentality of people willing to wait in the parking lot for almost FIFTEEN minutes for a store to open and then stand at the door for 5 minutes doing the pee-pee dance thinking I'll open early for them. (I can understand if there was a giant sale going on or the debut of the hot new toy but this was just a regular day)
BZZZZZ! Wrong. Corporate is VERY strict about that, you do not open the doors until the lights turn on which is 8am. No amount of staring at me or tugging on the doors will get me to open them up. My newest form of torture for those people is to count cigarettes (the cigarette case is 5 feet from the door) and ignore them.
2)Ahhh trick or treat day, when most people spazz out because they waited until the last minute to buy candy only to discover that we don't have a big selection left because well, most people plan ahead.
And can't forget about pumpkin carving kits. Every store in town (even Awful Mart) sold out of those a week earlier but that sure didn't stop people from biting my head off because we were sold out on October 30th!!!11!!!!
3)We recently had a 3 day sale from hell. We had 12 packs of pepsi on sale 3/$8 and cans of Libby's vegetables 3/$1. We were sold out of the vegetables by 1pm on the first day of the sale. Cue the old ladies throwing giant hissy fits and acting like I just pushed them down, kicked their cat and switched out their metamucil with saw dust.
We even offered to sell our brand of vegetable 3/$1...NOPE, gotta have Libby's!!!! *shakes fist* Nevermind that they were probably canned in the same factory just different labels slapped on them
And with the pepsi, you'd think I was Hitler when I wouldn't let people substitute Coke, Dr. Pepper, etc for the Pepsi price. The ad CLEARLY states Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew & Diet Mt. Dew and we weren't sold out!
4)Dollar Admiral has a bizarre program where when seasonal merchandised is clearanced to the point of sending it back to corporate, the items will ring up a penny. *trumpets* CUE THE PENNY HUNTERS!!
This tale takes place in our apparel area. Apparel with a yellow dot or a white dot on the tag were pennied out. I was given plenty of advance notice about it so I spent a LOT of time getting the area ready so when the day came it was easy for me to pull all the penny merchandise off the shelves.
Penny hunters come in RIGHT AWAY at opening on the day it was pennied out. If I had a mustache that day I would have been cackling with glee while wringing my hands and twirling my mustache when they dash back to the apparel area only to find NO PENNY ITEMS. Then walk out of the store dejected when they realize they wasted over an hour trashing my apparel only to get NOTHING.
My only hope is that they tried to speed 10 miles down the road to the next Dollar Admiral only to discover that store is the best managed store in the district. That store manager hasn't had an accidental penny sale in over TWO YEARS, she's a merchandising machine!
5)Clearance sales bring out the idiots and entitled. As some of you may know, we recently had a 3 day sale on our clearance merchandise (an extra 50% off of the already low clearance price). We sold a lot of stuff but once again had people who would bring up a cart full of crap and then hold up the line forever while unloading it one by one and demanding the cashier scan it first to make sure it rang up 50% off or I DON'T WANT IT!!!111!!!!!
As some of my customers know, I'm pretty liberal with the clearance area and if something is there and not ringing up 50% off, I'll still do the 50% off IF THEY ARE NICE ABOUT IT. But if you're going to hold up a line of customers with your outrageous demands about crap that wouldn't sell at regular price, then it's my turn to 'Stick it to Da Man' and say no to the 50% off.
The end!
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