My mom and I were in the supermarket, buying stuff. We were waiting in line and there were some people in line ahead of us with a little girl about 2 or 3. While they were waiting they gave the girl a bag with 4 candies in it to keep her quiet. Anyway, by the time they came up to the register there was only one candy left in the bag. These people actually tried to get away with paying for just the one candy. The girl told them she couldn't do that because she needed to charge them for all of the candies. The guy actually said "but she ate all the other candies!" So if she eats the candies they don't have to pay for them? In the end, the cashier took the candy and the people left without paying for any of them. I think someone should have gone and gotten 3 of those candies and weighed them with the 4th one and charged them, and then just given them the one. Why should their kid eat 3 candies and nobody pays for them?
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Oh my wow. Reminds me of a grocery store story.
I had a couple with a small child, they gave the kid a banana, and then at the checkout, presented me the banana peel and said "Ring us up for one banana". Um, no. Bananas are charged per pound. I just rang up the peel by its weight and suffered the loss.
People did it constantly with apples, grapes, oranges, bananas........
That's what those toddler treats are for. They go in the diaper bag. Hell, even a ziplock bag of Cheerios or something. Something you already brought from HOME.You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth
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If I were ever to give my children something at the store to eat to distract them, it would either be food I brought from home, or food with an accompanying barcode (not per-pound food) so that I know I'm not cheating the store.
But then, I'm just honest like that.
I've had customers come up with half-eaten grapes or apples and ask me to ring them up. I usually find something else of equivalent weight and weigh that too. Or weigh the banana peel but rest part of my hand on the scale."Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
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im begining to think that per pound items should have a per piece eaten before purchase price as well.
(Example- Bananas- 75 cents a pound. Eat Two while you shop? get charged 10 cents per peel. Candy 2 ducks a pound. Eat 4 while you shop? I don't know arent those candys like half an ounce so.... 7 cents per piece?)
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Damn, by that logic, I'm just gonna start eating all my meals at the supermarket! Then I won't have to pay for anything!
Does that work in restaurants, too?
-Here's your check, I'll take it whenever you're ready.
-What? I have to pay for my meal? But I already ate it!!!I don't go in for ancient wisdom
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It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"
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Quoth BookstoreEscapee View Post-What? I have to pay for my meal? But I already ate it!!!Unseen but seeing
oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
3rd shift needs love, too
RIP, mo bhrionglóid
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Quoth mariamousie1 View PostWhy should their kid eat 3 candies and nobody pays for them?
Quoth BookstoreEscapee View PostDamn, by that logic, I'm just gonna start eating all my meals at the supermarket! Then I won't have
In the real world, my old deli counter's scale was within a long arm's reach of customers. The number of times I was tempted to collect fingers...... they would reach up to the pile that I was weighing and take a handful off the top and stuff it in their greedy maws! Not just stealing, unsanitary stealing!Last edited by sms001; 10-11-2007, 07:58 PM.
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Quoth Lace Neil Singer View PostIf I get the half eaten apple/banana/pear/etc, I just force the parents to wait while the supervisor goes and gets another one for me to weigh. The supervisors also will go find the largest fruit they can possibly find. XD
Oh, and hope a bigger one comes in every day or so.Unseen but seeing
oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
3rd shift needs love, too
RIP, mo bhrionglóid
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