Now this pisses me off

[candyshopgirl]

So I am watching extreme couponing right now, and I'm pissed. First off this girl took 8 hours shopping at kmart. Okay thats fine but what pisses me off, this girl had to split her shit into 50 different transactions and she was at the register for 4 hours. And to top it all off she kept the poor cashier two hours past closing(til midnight) and she finally had to be thrown out of the store cause they couldnt stay open anymore. She was bitching cause she didnt get to finish. WTF
First off that poor cashier, I would REFUSED to stay 2 hours later and second off how dare she tie up all the registers.... The stores need to get together and figure out how to stop this shit.

[XCashier]

I like coupons as much as the next person, but even that goes beyond mere and straight into territory.

Too bad people can't be sentenced to work in customer service after doing something like that; dealing with asshats like themselves should drive the point home nicely.

[Pixilated]

There's absolutely no reason any business should accept this kind of nonsense. The only reason it is accepted is the "Customer is always right" crap that corporations are constantly espousing -- because the suits who push that attitude aren't the ones who have to deal with it.

[Slayer]

I haven't seen that episode yet, but omg That's horrible!

Granted, I'm sure it was overdone for the sake of TV (like how some stores seem empty), but yeah, staying 2 hours later is pretty inconsiderate. I agree with you with having refused to stay. Probably won't have worked against me, but I would have tried. 50 transactions?! I get embarrassed when I need to ask for /two/ transactions

I don't know if she would have spent that much time on her "regular" shopping trips, but I'm still at the "omg! that's crazy stage". Sooo much time.

[pitmonkey]

How do you shop in a kmart for 8 hrs? There's not enough in there to spend 2 hrs.

[zzapp the witch]

I watched some of those shows, and while I envy the gal that figured out how to use her Safeway card to roll over the cost of toilet paper so that she technically never has to "pay" for another one again, it strikes me that this is just another type of hoarding.

I mean, look at their storage rooms! Sure its organized, but damn, one gal had stuff lined up under her kids beds, and she had enough stuff to last her for YEARS!

I'm just too damn lazy to go to those lengths, yeah it would be nice to pay attention to sales and coupons and have my purchase total be half of what it would otherwise be, but what I see some of these people do is nuts.

Plus I can't justify buying generic salted peanuts that are on sale for half the price of the brand I like, because I don't want stuff that tastes like crap.

I guess if I filled my cabinets with cheap food that I don't want, I'd lose weight.....so there is that.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

There's absolutely no reason any business should accept this kind of nonsense. The only reason it is accepted is the "Customer is always right" crap that corporations are constantly espousing -- because the suits who push that attitude aren't the ones who have to deal with it.

In this case, it was likely done for the free TV publicity.

[AyreBiskits]

i've tried to do the whole coupon thing but i like tasty food more than i like cheap food. i don't know any stores around where i live that would even have coupon deals like you see on those shows. and what's the point of buying a hundred bottles of something like salad dressing for pennies when it will just go bad before you use even 1/4 of it. that's just a waste.

[Sparky]

I've watched Extreme Couponing. I've watched Hoarders. They're eerily similar.

I don't watch the show, just checked it out once or twice and quit watching because I couldn't stand it. If I remember right, one of those women said she spends eight hours a day hunting for coupons? Isn't there something more constructive she could be doing?

Come on! This is just another form of OCD. And then they end up with rooms full of stuff -- more food than the family can possibly eat before it spoils and enough other supplies for a hotel. If they did this once a year that would be one thing, but they do it all the time? Crazy.

[QASlave]

The stores could care less. They still get their money, it's the manufacturer who pays the coupon plus a handling fee (something like 7 cents for each coupon).

As for staying open two hours later, that's just spineless store management.

[RealUnimportant]

The stores could care less. They still get their money, it's the manufacturer who pays the coupon plus a handling fee (something like 7 cents for each coupon).

As for staying open two hours later, that's just spineless store management.

Rarely do the manufacturer payouts to the store match the discounts offered to the customer, and even if they do there's the lost sales from not being able to serve anyone else. There's no way this store made anything but a loss on this transaction, and I doubt that the publicity they gained from accepting this kind of customer will help their bottom line!

What boggles my mind even further is the amount of time the customers spend on saving such small amounts - how little do they value their own time? Unless the total discount on the sales was over $100, that means they're wasting up to the equivalent of a day's work, and for what? Stockpiles of crap they'll never use because it expires before they get to it...

[JambaBamba]

I mean, look at their storage rooms! Sure its organized, but damn, one gal had stuff lined up under her kids beds, and she had enough stuff to last her for YEARS!

When I catch the shows (I can't really stand reality tv so I never watch for long) I just think "In case of zombie apocalypse, their house is the house I'm raiding". Too bad that most of them seem to live outside my state

[PepperElf]

I don't mind being extra careful with coupons or being frugal

but when you make others suffer for your organization ... that's where it gets abusive

[Grape The Cat]

Damn, it's messed up that they made the poor worker stay until midnight because of these selfish gits.You know I look for sales, I cut out coupons, but it would never occur to me to do half the stuff that the "extreme" people do. I've seen these people talking about clearing off shelves, and it seems so greedy to me.

[taxguykarl]

Granted, I'm sure it was overdone for the sake of TV (like how some stores seem empty), but yeah, staying 2 hours later is pretty inconsiderate.

The show producers would have to make some kind of arrangement with the SM to even bring their cameras, let alone stay for 2 hours past closing. If I stayed a half-hour after closing time at my mega-tax chain, the TM would be on the phone asking what's going on.

what's the point of buying a hundred bottles of something like salad dressing for pennies when it will just go bad before you use even 1/4 of it. that's just a waste.

If they were donating some of their loot to area food pantries that wouldn't be so bad....I can't recall seeing anyone on that show doing that.

What boggles my mind even further is the amount of time the customers spend on saving such small amounts - how little do they value their own time? Unless the total discount on the sales was over $100, that means they're wasting up to the equivalent of a day's work, and for what? Stockpiles of crap they'll never use because it expires before they get to it...

My best guess is that these couponers never worked outside the home; thus, they never put a price on their time.