I work for a store that is known to give things for free if they ring up wrong. So, a few people really look hard at the prices so they get stuff for free.
Well, we caught on to this and to make it easier for the people working there, we offer a huge, flat screen […]
Last week (as mentioned in a previous post) we had a ‘10% off everything’ sale, so naturally it was busy, now, a postal worker asked me if we had a film in stock, some guy standing behind him (who looked like he had no concept of ’selflessness’) starts making a noise about how the postal […]
A customer brings a compact DVD box up to my colleague with the intent of buying it. I go out back to retrieve the DVD player to come back to find the customer asking my colleague whether it plays DVD’s and VHS videos. My colleague calmly explained that being a DVD player it only plays […]
Today is one of those days, I’m sure the majority of store clerks know what I mean, it’s one of those days when 90 percent of your customers buy single small items and pay using large denomination notes.
Well, as I said, today is one of those days for me, but what is really getting my […]
At work we were holding a ‘ten percent off everything’ sale in celebration of the Christmas season, as if the giant sign located mid-store isn’t helpful enough, within 5 minutes of the sale coming into effect, a customer walks up to me with a DVD box set and simply asks, ‘is this included in the […]
I had a customer bring me two dvd’s that were in our ‘bogof’ range, one priced at £14.99 and one priced at £19.99, after running them through the till the total sum was £19.99.
The customer started to complain because she wanted the £19.99 dvd for free, not the £14.99, it took 5 long minutes to […]
It was early in the morning and this event pretty much set the tome for the rest of the day. A gentleman approaches and begins to explain that he brought a double CD for Christmas. He then began to explain how the second CD wouldn’t work despite trying it in various CD players around his […]
Well, in my work we sell envelopes, large one’s small ones, well, yesterday this old woman came into work with a box of chocolates, she wanted to send it to someone and wanted to see our range of envelopes (now, she’s actually a recurring customer, so why she was asking I don’t know) so I […]
Though it’s technically wrong, I was in another store, kneeling on the floor comparing two different products when one woman walks up to me and begins quizing me upon the products because she ‘cant see the one she needs’, if the fact I wasn’t wearing that store’s bright green uniform didn’t clue her in to […]
One thursday night, on the run up to Christmas (we stayed open late on Thursdays) an old lady came into store and was served by one of my colleagues, now he’s the politest guy you could meet, now, this old lady buys some of our gift vouchers, my colleague, being the nice guy he is, […]
