Air conditioners were a hot selling item yesterday.
Ha. Haha. You'll never in a million gazillion years see what I did there.
Day one we had air conditioners and they all flew off the shelves. Fans, too. I directed more than a hundred customers to the fans and AC units. Day two, the shelves were empty. All except for the smallest fans that only the desperate were willing to purchase because lets face it, the best those things will do is blow the hot air on you.
Don't get me wrong. I am not unsympathetic. But a couple customers ranged from the incredulous to the full on dick-with-butterfly wings.
Some of it is on the coworkers who answered phones and told customers that we had a truck and were expecting air conditioners. All of our store managers made it abundantly clear that they were to stop doing this but it still kept happening.
A lot of customers did not understand that, no, we could not hold a unit for them. It's first come first serve. There was plenty of time to prepare for this heatwave and we had plenty of air conditioners at the beginning of June.
Oh, there were a handful of air conditioners that arrived before the regular inventory truck. We did put those out along with some box fans. And I guess customer heard about this because he came in and said to me,
"But I called four hours ago and they said you had some."
To which I replied, "Yes we did have them four hours ago. But they sold out."
The guy proceeded to swear up and down and he couldn't believe that we sold out of them so fast. I couldn't believe that he expected he was the only customer in the entire region to be sweating balls right now.
And just to be clear, this wasn't just us. All of the stores in town that had an air conditioner for sale had sold them. Most people understood that while I was sorry that we didn't have any left, it was also not my fault. Others made rather stupid comments like,
"Well when I was here yesterday, you had a bunch of them on a pallette. Did you move them?"
Yes, I wanted to say. We moved the economy with them.
Others still insisted we must have some outback. As if there would be any economical advantage in keeping a high commodity item in the back when we could sell it right there and then for a profit. They're air conditoners. There's no street date on them.
Today I'm keeping a tally. I'll let you know how many requests I get.
Ha. Haha. You'll never in a million gazillion years see what I did there.
Day one we had air conditioners and they all flew off the shelves. Fans, too. I directed more than a hundred customers to the fans and AC units. Day two, the shelves were empty. All except for the smallest fans that only the desperate were willing to purchase because lets face it, the best those things will do is blow the hot air on you.
Don't get me wrong. I am not unsympathetic. But a couple customers ranged from the incredulous to the full on dick-with-butterfly wings.
Some of it is on the coworkers who answered phones and told customers that we had a truck and were expecting air conditioners. All of our store managers made it abundantly clear that they were to stop doing this but it still kept happening.
A lot of customers did not understand that, no, we could not hold a unit for them. It's first come first serve. There was plenty of time to prepare for this heatwave and we had plenty of air conditioners at the beginning of June.
Oh, there were a handful of air conditioners that arrived before the regular inventory truck. We did put those out along with some box fans. And I guess customer heard about this because he came in and said to me,
"But I called four hours ago and they said you had some."
To which I replied, "Yes we did have them four hours ago. But they sold out."
The guy proceeded to swear up and down and he couldn't believe that we sold out of them so fast. I couldn't believe that he expected he was the only customer in the entire region to be sweating balls right now.
And just to be clear, this wasn't just us. All of the stores in town that had an air conditioner for sale had sold them. Most people understood that while I was sorry that we didn't have any left, it was also not my fault. Others made rather stupid comments like,
"Well when I was here yesterday, you had a bunch of them on a pallette. Did you move them?"
Yes, I wanted to say. We moved the economy with them.
Others still insisted we must have some outback. As if there would be any economical advantage in keeping a high commodity item in the back when we could sell it right there and then for a profit. They're air conditoners. There's no street date on them.
Today I'm keeping a tally. I'll let you know how many requests I get.
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