If you don't buy your own paper, I am not giving you any price match

[BowserKoopa1]

Yesterday this idiot and his wife come through my line.
SC: Where are the Sunday papers?
Since I don't know, I ask another cashier and they point them in the right direction. He comes back and starts going through it.
SC: I don't want to buy it. I just want the add out of this one.
Um, yeah you can't take adds out of a paper that is not yours, dumbass. Of course, I don't want to make him mad.
Me: Ok, no problem.
SC: I'm just gonna pull the add out of this paper cuz I don't wanna pay for the paper.
Fucking cheapskate.
So he goes through the whole paper and cannot find the add he is looking for. Then he actually has the nerve to ask this....
SC: Will you still price match on the coffee, even though I don't have the add?
Ok so let me get this straight.... You're too cheap to buy your own dam paper, you mess up another Sunday paper just to get 1 stupid add, and now you expect me to give you the price match? Hell no! Believe it or not, what I did next was not to be mean, but because I'm still fairly new, and I thought they needed the add in order to price match. At the same time, I certainly felt he did not deserve the price match.
Me: I'm sorry, you have to have the add in order for me to do a price match.
Yup, you guessed it, he gave me the look, even though he remained polite and friendly, but you could tell.
They finished their transaction and left, without the coffee. Looks like someone will be having a bad morning without their coffee.
Ok people, you want a price match, bring in your own fucking add and I will be more than happy to give it to you. But don't go through our papers for an add, and then tell us you're not going to buy it. Idiots.

[blas]

Oh my gord, people did that at the gas station all the time. ALWAYS on Sundays, since that's when the paper was overweight with coupons.

People didn't want to buy a paper, so they'd ruffle through it for the beloved Menards ad or the ShitKo ad.

[BowserKoopa1]

Well in my opinion, if they're going to take the cover off and start messing up the paper, then they should pay for it. What next, are they gonna take the wrapper off of a candy bar, take a couple of bites, and then say they don't wanna pay for it?
I actually had someone come through my line when I worked at Target. Her little kid had opened a candy bar, and I told the lady she had to pay for it. Sorry, but if you're too dam lazy to pay attention to your kids and they open food up, you need to pay for it, plain and simple. Yeah she wasn't happy, but that's not my problem.

[blas]

Well, the good news was that we got to write off all the "abused" papers, and generally, there were only a couple, so my parents basically got a free newspaper subscription (I just brought them one or two home every day).

Oh, and since the time machine is fully working right now, let's go back a couple of years before that, when I was a teen working at the grocery store. There were times when parents would hand over a slobbery, beat up banana or a half eaten candy bar, and would try to pass it off as "Teehhehe he was really hungry!" or "Oopsies I didn't see Johnny do that!".

[Kogarashi]

Oh, and since the time machine is fully working right now, let's go back a couple of years before that, when I was a teen working at the grocery store. There were times when parents would hand over a slobbery, beat up banana or a half eaten candy bar, and would try to pass it off as "Teehhehe he was really hungry!" or "Oopsies I didn't see Johnny do that!".

When I'd get those at Wallyworld, I'd just respond with the same level of fake cutsiness, "Oh, no problem. Let me just ring that right up for you!" It was amusing seeing the instant switch to catbutt face on the ones who were trying to get out of paying for something Junior was, in effect, stealing.

[sweetj82]

we take our sunday papers apart at the CD and put all the ads together. For a few weeks we had this lady come up and take every one of the pack of coupons. Last week our o/n cashiers took them all and hid them. Boy o Boy was she pissed.

She ran out the store yeling and screaming. She stopped my manager and bitched thet she knows that we hid the coupons are we are just greedy(we are greddy she took 50 pks of coupons)


My manager said"let me get this right you are mad b/c you cant come in here and get 50pks of coupons for free. We have papers over there that you are welcome to buy."

[Moirae]

Wow. He basically just stole the paper. Since when did stealing become an ok practice?

[blas]

Haha, that woman and the white power vandal from another thread are neck-n-neck for retard of the month. Seriously.

Who the hell admits that they just stole (or the other dude, who carved a swastika into a toilet paper holder)? Who admits they do stuff like that?

[BowserKoopa1]

Wow. He basically just stole the paper. Since when did stealing become an ok practice?

He didn't actually "steal" it, he messed up the paper, put it back together, and then put it back after I told him I wasn't going to give him the price match.
Funny thing is, I think I recall them saying that they looked in their paper for the same add and could not find it. First I'm thinking that if it wasn't in their paper (I don't know if it was the same paper) why would it be in 1 of ours? Second, maybe this add they were looking for never existed and they were just trying to save a couple of bucks.

[MoonCat]

Who the hell admits that they just stole (or the other dude, who carved a swastika into a toilet paper holder)? Who admits they do stuff like that?

EW's and morons do that.

Funny thing is, I think I recall them saying that they looked in their paper for the same add and could not find it. First I'm thinking that if it wasn't in their paper (I don't know if it was the same paper) why would it be in 1 of ours?

It depends on the zoning. Some areas might get a coupon that others don't, depending on what areas the advertiser wants to target.

And the woman trying to take 50 packs of coupons...who wants to bet she got that idea from one of those "extreme couponing" type programs?

[Ironclad Alibi]

SC: I'm just gonna pull the ad out of this paper cuz I don't wanna pay for the paper.
Fucking cheapskate.
So he goes through the whole paper and cannot find the ad he is looking for.

"I'm sorry Sir, I guess someone else stole that ad before you had a chance to."

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I had a woman tell me once that it wasn't stealing because her son was only 6 and therefore could not be charged with a crime.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

who wants to bet she got that idea from one of those "extreme couponing" type programs?

One of those obnoxious programs or articles that's been all over the place since the economy went in the tank three years ago and still hasn't gotten any better.

My company very briefly sold daily newspapers during its "try and fail to be all things to all people" phase. I'm not aware of anybody pulling similar stunts. But if a customer would've pulled a competitor's ad out of one of our Sunday papers and then tried to get a price match with it, we would've cheerfully given it to them.

Because we match any advertised price. Always have, always will.

[PepperElf]

Well in my opinion, if they're going to take the cover off and start messing up the paper, then they should pay for it

yes. Especially if they plan to take the ad OUT of the paper.

[Cerys]

I had a woman tell me once that it wasn't stealing because her son was only 6 and therefore could not be charged with a crime.

'Well, madam, your reference to it as a crime indicates that you know very well that is is stealing.'