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We are having a major sale on [Well-Known Brand] soup these days. I think it's 49 cents a can. So suddenly people in my little mid-sized city have turned into preppers ... 
I had two or three customers today who each bought no less than 48 cans of soup. Which is fine, although our stupid and antiquated system won't let me type in "48@" and then scan a can ... not without a supervisor's OK. And most of the supervisors were frantically trying to control the line. No, I have to pick up one can of soup and scan-gun it 24 times ... (Most people were buying 24 cans each of two different kinds of soup ... 24 cans of tomato and 24 of chicken noodle, for example). None of that, of course, is the fault of the customer.
However.
When they buy that much, they bring the cans in the cardboard "case" that the soup arrived in. Makes it easy: just pick up the "case" and put it in your buggy. Now, the "case" has only the bottom (of course) and very low sides to it. It is not by any means a box.
Then there was this guy:
"Can you wrap this for me?"
Me: "Um ... what?"
Slightly Sucky Customer: "Can you wrap this for me?" He waved at the two cases of soup on his buggy.
Me: *thinks: "What part of our name reads [Major Home Improvement/Hardware Store that has shrink-wrap equipment for products]??"
Me: *says* "No sir, I don't think we can."
SSC: "Well, but the cases come shrink-wrapped, don't they? Can I get two of those?"
So I call over a supervisor to ask. No, we can't wrap it in any way, shape or form. Yes, they probably do come shrink-wrapped but the shrink-wrap is removed as soon as the cases arrive.
Now, this last part might not have been true; it might have been that the supervisor just wanted to get rid of the SSC. In which case I am solidly behind her.
SSC looked sour and his responses after that were curt, but he paid and left. With his unwrapped cases.
Seriously, if you're going to buy in quantities like that, why don't you invest $7 in one of those big plastic bins? They hold a lot of stuff and they are easy to maneuver around and you don't have to worry about stuff falling out of them (well, not unless you've REALLY overloaded them).
I had two or three customers today who each bought no less than 48 cans of soup. Which is fine, although our stupid and antiquated system won't let me type in "48@" and then scan a can ... not without a supervisor's OK. And most of the supervisors were frantically trying to control the line. No, I have to pick up one can of soup and scan-gun it 24 times ... (Most people were buying 24 cans each of two different kinds of soup ... 24 cans of tomato and 24 of chicken noodle, for example). None of that, of course, is the fault of the customer.
However.
When they buy that much, they bring the cans in the cardboard "case" that the soup arrived in. Makes it easy: just pick up the "case" and put it in your buggy. Now, the "case" has only the bottom (of course) and very low sides to it. It is not by any means a box.
Then there was this guy:
"Can you wrap this for me?"
Me: "Um ... what?"
Slightly Sucky Customer: "Can you wrap this for me?" He waved at the two cases of soup on his buggy.
Me: *thinks: "What part of our name reads [Major Home Improvement/Hardware Store that has shrink-wrap equipment for products]??"
Me: *says* "No sir, I don't think we can."
SSC: "Well, but the cases come shrink-wrapped, don't they? Can I get two of those?"
So I call over a supervisor to ask. No, we can't wrap it in any way, shape or form. Yes, they probably do come shrink-wrapped but the shrink-wrap is removed as soon as the cases arrive.
Now, this last part might not have been true; it might have been that the supervisor just wanted to get rid of the SSC. In which case I am solidly behind her.
SSC looked sour and his responses after that were curt, but he paid and left. With his unwrapped cases.
Seriously, if you're going to buy in quantities like that, why don't you invest $7 in one of those big plastic bins? They hold a lot of stuff and they are easy to maneuver around and you don't have to worry about stuff falling out of them (well, not unless you've REALLY overloaded them).
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