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    A few small rants

    "Slowway" is currently running a promotion where all frozen, fountain, and tea sizes are 89 cents. This is posted on the frozen maching, on the fountain machine, on the price sign above the cold beverage area, on both doors, on one of the front windows, on the reader board outside, and (I believe) on a sign by the road. No fewer then 10 times an hour I get one of the following questions:
    -How much are the drinks?
    -Which size is 89 cents?
    -I have x amount of money, what's the biggest size I can get?
    -Oh the drinks are on sale?



    This Wednesday/Thursday we ran a promotion where a customer could buy a dozen cookies for a large number of reward points. The store is decorated (40 balloons, streamers, and no fewer then 50 signs explaining what is going on.) The staff all has been wearing cookie monster shirts, and we have both a cookie monster pinata, and a stuffed cookie monster. We have a partnership with Children's Miracle Network, and as part of our promotion this week, we were collecting donations of cookies for delivery to the local CMN partner hospital. I personally placed 24 signs about this around the store. I have heard the same stupid comments and questions for two days now.
    -Oh, are those cookies free? (NO. They are for PURCHASE.)
    -Oh, did you guys get new uniforms?
    -What's with the cookies?
    -C is for cookie!!!! Hyuck hyuck hyuck
    -I want the points but not the cookies! (*we give donation speal*) Why would I do that?
    -What's with all the cookie/baloons/decorations/signs? (Can you people even READ?)

    I think we have a candy contest in a few weeks. That should fuel another one of these types of posts.
    And why do they keep the employees in a cage? The same reason they keep lions, tigers and bears in a cage, to keep them from culling the herd. -Dark Psion
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    Quoth Company_Slave View Post
    -C is for cookie!!!! Hyuck hyuck hyuck
    Sorry, this one made me LOL. I know, to you it's not funny, especially after the 1,000th time hearing it...in an hour.

    I think some people ask questions just to hear themselves speak...
    "I was only LOOKING, I didn't mean to enter my card's CVV and actually ORDER! REFUND ME RIGHT NOW!!"

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    • #3
      Quoth Company_Slave View Post
      -I have x amount of money, what's the biggest size I can get?
      I..really hate people like this. At the laundromat I actually had someone ask me how much "wash" you get for a quarter. (The dryers are x minutes per quarter. The washers have fixed prices for the whole wash! You can't do partial washes! Idiots!)

      Quoth Company_Slave View Post
      -C is for cookie!!!! Hyuck hyuck hyuck
      I call these people the "Guess that one's FREE!" people. Way back when when my SO worked in retail, he said whenever something didn't scan the first time he'd hear that phrase. Like 100 times per day. And each person thought they were being so original and clever.
      "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

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        Quoth Laund-o-rama Mama View Post
        I call these people the "Guess that one's FREE!" people....And each person thought they were being so original and clever.
        Just like the other hundred thousand people who do this every single day. Argh.
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          In defense though, I tend to enter a store focused on buying a specific item. I've been there before and I'm not reading signage or looking at other products. So when I'm suddenly confronted by cookies and signs in my face, I'll act surprised and wonder what's going on.
          A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)

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          • #6
            Quoth Laund-o-rama Mama View Post
            I call these people the "Guess that one's FREE!" people.
            I had some lamebrain try this one on me. My response, totally deadpan: "This is a library. They're all free." Cue sheepish look.

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