When I came into the toy store today I was greeted with a power outage. We were running on back up power, as was most of our strip. Back up power will give us working registers and about every other light in the store. Bathrooms are completely dark and the electronic flushing toilets DON'T FLUSH! (WTF). The electric company was up the strip from us working to get it fixed, but we had to open with the power as is.
Cut to me, maybe an hour after opening walking down the main aisle of our store.
SC: EXCUSE ME!
Stops in my tracks
Me: Yes?
SC: (In a smart tone) You guys going to be turning the rest of the lights on SOMETIME TODAY?
Me: Actually it's an outage for most of the strip and it's completely beyond our control.
SC: (looks upset that she asked a retarded question) OHHH I thought you were just trying to save money or something!
Not entirely a SC, but at least she realized her mistake.
Also I was on register today (groan) and we offer a free loyalty card. Basically you get coupons, daily deals, shopping passes, and for every 150 you spend you get 5 sent to you. I understand that some people really don't shop my store a lot and have a valid point not signing up, but if you were spending 320 dollars and you were guaranteed to get a 10 dollar certificate to spend in my store, wouldn't you take the extra 30 seconds to sign up for the FREE card? I know it's a toy store, but who alive doesn't want 10 free dollars to spend on whatever they want in a toy store? The majority of people I explain this to who have a large transaction and no card will sign up on the spot. Not SCdude!
Me: (tries looking for a card under his phone #) Didn't find your loyalty card under that number, do you have one with us?
SCdude: Nope don't think so
Me: Well (speil) and it takes just 30 seconds for me to sign you up
SCdude: Nah
Me: ಠ_ಠ You...don't want to take 30 seconds to get 10 free dollars to spend here?
SCdude: Nope
Me: REALLY?!
SCdude: Uh huh
Me: (spys next customer in line) Hey do you have the rewards card?
Lady: Yes
Me: Give it to me so I can give you this guy's points, it's too big a transaction to waste and he doesn't want them!
Lady: SURE! (Thanks SCdude profusely)
SCdude: Uhhhhh huh, yep
SO at least I could take lemons and make lemonade. I would have just given the points to myself but we can't do that. I mean come on, this guy was buying a ride on toy for a kid that was obviously young enough to still want stuff from our store. He didn't look like the type to be all "omg I don't want you to have my personal information"...you know, since he had no problem giving me his phone number and all.
Cut to me, maybe an hour after opening walking down the main aisle of our store.
SC: EXCUSE ME!
Stops in my tracks
Me: Yes?
SC: (In a smart tone) You guys going to be turning the rest of the lights on SOMETIME TODAY?
Me: Actually it's an outage for most of the strip and it's completely beyond our control.
SC: (looks upset that she asked a retarded question) OHHH I thought you were just trying to save money or something!
Not entirely a SC, but at least she realized her mistake.
Also I was on register today (groan) and we offer a free loyalty card. Basically you get coupons, daily deals, shopping passes, and for every 150 you spend you get 5 sent to you. I understand that some people really don't shop my store a lot and have a valid point not signing up, but if you were spending 320 dollars and you were guaranteed to get a 10 dollar certificate to spend in my store, wouldn't you take the extra 30 seconds to sign up for the FREE card? I know it's a toy store, but who alive doesn't want 10 free dollars to spend on whatever they want in a toy store? The majority of people I explain this to who have a large transaction and no card will sign up on the spot. Not SCdude!
Me: (tries looking for a card under his phone #) Didn't find your loyalty card under that number, do you have one with us?
SCdude: Nope don't think so
Me: Well (speil) and it takes just 30 seconds for me to sign you up
SCdude: Nah
Me: ಠ_ಠ You...don't want to take 30 seconds to get 10 free dollars to spend here?
SCdude: Nope
Me: REALLY?!
SCdude: Uh huh
Me: (spys next customer in line) Hey do you have the rewards card?
Lady: Yes
Me: Give it to me so I can give you this guy's points, it's too big a transaction to waste and he doesn't want them!
Lady: SURE! (Thanks SCdude profusely)
SCdude: Uhhhhh huh, yep
SO at least I could take lemons and make lemonade. I would have just given the points to myself but we can't do that. I mean come on, this guy was buying a ride on toy for a kid that was obviously young enough to still want stuff from our store. He didn't look like the type to be all "omg I don't want you to have my personal information"...you know, since he had no problem giving me his phone number and all.
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