My store is usually open 24 hours. Except on Sunday we close at midnight, and reopen at 6:00 AM Monday morning. You would think that no one would "need" to do their grocery shopping then.
Well last night I had the closing shift. At 11:58 some guy came in with a shopping cart, and was informed, (not by me, but by the night manager,) that we were closing in two minutes, and in two minutes he would have to check out regardless of if he was done his shopping or not.
My store is very good about kicking customers out when we close, and most customers are corteous enough to check out when I make the 15 and 10 minute announcements.
Of course, this guy was not going to be able to do his weekly grocery shopping in two minutes. He started complaining that we've never closed Sunday nights before, (umm, yes we have, at least for the few years working here, that's been our hours,) and that he "needed" a bunch of stuff. Sorry, it's posted right on our door that we close at midnight. Anyway, him and the night manager got into an argument, and I missed most of what they were saying but got the general gist of it.
The guy ended up storming out when I was leaving. Why do people always wait until so late to go shopping? I know some people have schedules that they can only go shopping late at night, but why can't they do it the other six nights of the week when we're open 24 hours? What really gets me is this guy tried to stay be saying that he's always done his shopping Sunday nights, and that we never close, which is obviously not true, and who knows why he would even try and tell us, the people who always work Sunday nights, that, and what on Earth would make him think there was even a chance we'd believe him. What an idiot.
Well last night I had the closing shift. At 11:58 some guy came in with a shopping cart, and was informed, (not by me, but by the night manager,) that we were closing in two minutes, and in two minutes he would have to check out regardless of if he was done his shopping or not.
My store is very good about kicking customers out when we close, and most customers are corteous enough to check out when I make the 15 and 10 minute announcements.
Of course, this guy was not going to be able to do his weekly grocery shopping in two minutes. He started complaining that we've never closed Sunday nights before, (umm, yes we have, at least for the few years working here, that's been our hours,) and that he "needed" a bunch of stuff. Sorry, it's posted right on our door that we close at midnight. Anyway, him and the night manager got into an argument, and I missed most of what they were saying but got the general gist of it.
The guy ended up storming out when I was leaving. Why do people always wait until so late to go shopping? I know some people have schedules that they can only go shopping late at night, but why can't they do it the other six nights of the week when we're open 24 hours? What really gets me is this guy tried to stay be saying that he's always done his shopping Sunday nights, and that we never close, which is obviously not true, and who knows why he would even try and tell us, the people who always work Sunday nights, that, and what on Earth would make him think there was even a chance we'd believe him. What an idiot.
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