Big transactions

[edible_hat]

I had a few of big transactions over the holiday season:

-$90 of energy drinks and bottled water (six guys with a huge truck, when they opened the doors they had a dragster in there)
-just under $200 of cigarettes on new year's day (somewhat drunk guy)
-a dozen Powerades (three very hungover guys on new year's day)
-$40 of microwave chicken rolls.

[Kittish]

For some reason, this brings to mind some of the callers I get where I work.

"I'm one of your best customers!" Look at order history, you've ordered once a year for the past 2 or 3 years.... all for $50 or less (which is pretty close to the smallest amount it's POSSIBLE to spend with us).

"I'm placing a big order!" Lady (or guy), where I work, it's not a big order until it hits the $500 mark, and even those are pretty routine. Your little under $100 order doesn't qualify as 'big'. To be fair, I can see it from your point of view, though, $100 can be a big deal to someone on a limited income. But, if your income is that limited, there are lots better things to spend your money on rather than gourmet mail order food. Like at the grocery store, where your $100 will buy at least 3 times as much actual food as you'll get from us.

Then there are people who call when they're hungry and order everything under the sun, and are just shocked when I tell them their total. Same principle as going to the grocery store, folks, don't call to place an order when you're hungry! Our sales people tend to be pretty good at their jobs, which is talking you the customer into buying more! You don't have to make it so easy for us.

[bainsidhe]

Hah. As college was starting, college students were coming in and buying frozen dinners and energy drinks hand over fist. One pair of guys spent almost $300.00 and so help me, nearly their entire order was energy drinks. Didn't take up as much space as you'd think, since those things can be awfully expensive. But wow. What does that do to your body and what health articles will we be reading about energy drinks in years to come.

[edible_hat]

I had a guy today buy a case of an generic energy drink which we sell for $5 for 3 cans. That's $40 worth. He's a regular and usually buys (and says he drinks) 6 cans a day.

[daleduke17]

One evening I was standing out at the self checkouts chatting with the (very anti-SC) self scan clerk and saw something I had never seen before: two grocery carts being pushed to the checkouts with a tower of 18-pk beers at least four foot taller than the cart itself. Myself and the self-checkout guy motioned them over to the self checks and took the order through so it would be quicker. The total: almost $400.00. I helped the guys out to their vehicle and it was something like a Ford Escort. Luckily there was enough room to store it all in there for them to get back to their apartment. That was probably one hell of a party.

I've seen grocery orders go into the 200-300 dollar range a lot. One time an order hit almost 600 dollars. A lady was getting stuff together to clean a house and move in. She needed EVERYTHING. Mops, buckets, soaps, food, etc. She was very nice about it and apologized about bringing a big order through. I said don't worry about it and we ended up with about three carts of product, plus a cart of the big items (mops and brooms).

Then there was the couple of days I was on a register at the college bookstore. I felt sorry for the first year nursing student who just spent almost 700 dollars in books and needed to come back for more later since we were out of a couple books she needed.

[lizstar]

Working on December 23rd at an upscale grocery store, I had numerous large orders. Orders in the $300-$400 range were common, and over $150 was pretty much the norm. The largest were a $725 order (mostly expensive cuts of meat) and a $650 orders (meat, liquor, and fancy desserts). I worked a 7-hour shift (minus half hour break) and my total sales for the day were close to $19,000.