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Cheap Little Flashlights
Can't believe I almost forgot this one.
I work at a knife store, but it's not like we just sell knives. There's also picnic baskets, kitchen utensils, etcetera. And last Christmas, we sold really, really cheap tiny flashlights. They'd run out, like, the second time you used them. They really were not the kind of thing you'd spend money for.
But whoever it is who designs the Christmas flyers decided to put a little coupon for them in. I suppose the idea was that people buying actual purchases would also buy a flashlight on spur-of-the-moment, just like the candy next to the lines in drugstores. It didn't work out that way, though. Instead, this would happen a lot.
SC: Idiots whom evolution has overlooked
M:
M: What would you like today sir/ma'am?
SC: *slams flashlight down on counter*
M:
Okay. *starts to ring it up*
SC: WAIT! I have a coupon!
M: Oh. Okay.
Now, this may not seem particularly sucky, but keep in mind that this is Christmas. There are huge, huge lines of fed-up people who just want to get home and eat their figgy pudding or whatever. People who are actually trying to BUY SOMETHING. We had tons of people leave because they did not want to wait until all the idiots had bought their little stocking stuffers, but the idiots seemed to have all the time in the world. So many people just bought a flashlight with that damn coupon and that was it. We made almost no profit from those flashlights. I honestly think that because of them we lost money. Plus ringing up countless little tiny things just wasted time.
Has anything similar happened to anyone here?
I work at a knife store, but it's not like we just sell knives. There's also picnic baskets, kitchen utensils, etcetera. And last Christmas, we sold really, really cheap tiny flashlights. They'd run out, like, the second time you used them. They really were not the kind of thing you'd spend money for.
But whoever it is who designs the Christmas flyers decided to put a little coupon for them in. I suppose the idea was that people buying actual purchases would also buy a flashlight on spur-of-the-moment, just like the candy next to the lines in drugstores. It didn't work out that way, though. Instead, this would happen a lot.
SC: Idiots whom evolution has overlooked
M:
M: What would you like today sir/ma'am?
SC: *slams flashlight down on counter*
M:
Okay. *starts to ring it up*SC: WAIT! I have a coupon!
M: Oh. Okay.
Now, this may not seem particularly sucky, but keep in mind that this is Christmas. There are huge, huge lines of fed-up people who just want to get home and eat their figgy pudding or whatever. People who are actually trying to BUY SOMETHING. We had tons of people leave because they did not want to wait until all the idiots had bought their little stocking stuffers, but the idiots seemed to have all the time in the world. So many people just bought a flashlight with that damn coupon and that was it. We made almost no profit from those flashlights. I honestly think that because of them we lost money. Plus ringing up countless little tiny things just wasted time.
Has anything similar happened to anyone here?
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