Liar, liar, pants on fire

[Zinjadu]

Reading another thread made me remember this from yesterday.

Young woman comes up with her groceries, including a paper mushroom bag. Since we started selling bulk criminis and portobellos (both more expensive than button, portobellos a lot more $) as well as white button shrooms, I always look in the bag to see what the customer has. Nobody has ever said anything until her. I'd barely started to open the bag when she said: I just have mushrooms.

I continued to open the bag and looked in. What did I see, you ask? Two portobellos nestled in with some white buttons. I pulled the portobellos out to weigh them up separately and she said: Oh, I don't know how those got in there.

*Of course you don't - they just jumped in, from one shelf up and three feet to the right. *

I just gave her 'the look' until she turned red. Afterwards I wondered if I should've called management over and let them deal with her. . . oh well, at least I caught her attempted scam.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I never understand this petty scamming thing people do. I mean, really. How much money are you saving? 30 cents? Their self respect is worth the difference of a half a pound of different mushroom types?

Yikes.

[Talon]

Perhaps they're trying to save up enough loose change to buy a new conscience?

[blas]

It just goes to show that customers always assume that WE are the dumb ones.

[bigjimaz]

portobello's sell here for $8/lb. Button for near $2/lb. The difference was probably closer to $3 - $4 if the prices are near the same here as where Zinjadu is.

By the way Zijadu, would you please try to keep the snow up your way. We're supposed to get 6" of it this weekend.

[Amethyst Hunter]

By the way Zijadu, would you please try to keep the snow up your way. We're supposed to get 6" of it this weekend.

GIVE IT TO ME! GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEE!! I'm trapped in SW Florida with no @#$!@#%#$%#$!%ing air conditioning and I MISS snow!!

[BookstoreEscapee]

Maybe they just popped up in there while she was finishing the rest of her shopping. You know how mushrooms are - they just pop up like, well, mushrooms! Ya know, you go to bed and your lawn is perfectly clear, and the next morning... mushrooms! That bag would be nice and dark. They do like that.

[AFpheonix]

I'm sure they just waited for her cart to go by and flung themselves off the shelf screaming "SANCTUARY!"

[IlovemyGeek]

I can't wait to go back up north. Fl is freaking hot!

[Jack7957]

If it wasn't for the red face, I'd think that maybe she did not realize they needed to be seperate. My wife has done the same thing with apples, mixing them in the bag, not realizing they have different PLU's.

[Becks]

I'm sure they just waited for her cart to go by and flung themselves off the shelf screaming "SANCTUARY!"

I wish I'd come up with that...



Back on topic, sort of...where I work, cashiers can't look in the bags. They can only ask the customers what's in it and how many of said item are there. (Ex. doughnuts)