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Not very sucky, but mostly ODD!
I used to work at one of the chain pharmacies. This means they had drugs, drinks, cleaning products; all the comforts of home without the home. They also had their own line of EVERYTHING in the store. They even had their own soda (which were gross, they kept them stocked for workers in the breakroom but nobody ever touched them.) I remember this one couple fondly, but to this day I still can't figure them out!
Every Monday morning, this half nice, half not nice couple would come into the store to buy their items (he was the nice, she was the not nice.) On Mondays, if you bought the store brand AND you were over the age of 55, you got a 10% discount, regardless of other sales or discounts. This actually turned out to be a VERY GOOD thing for them, and I'll tell you why. The man would walk in and browse the magazines, paruse the candy aisle, whatever floated his boat. The woman walked in like a lady on a mission. She darted straight toward the cleaning supplies. We kept them WELL STOCKED, just for this lady and the unfortunate victims who needed whatever she tried to clean us out of. Heaven forbid we EVER run out of at least a DOZEN of what she wanted; otherwise we got yelled at and spent an entire hour filling out rainchecks for things that weren't even on sale! She'd return to the registers no more than five minutes later, buggy stocked to overflowing with multiple air fresheners, bleach, detergent, fabric softener, dish washing liquid, glass cleaner, surface cleaner, toilet paper, paper towels, etc, etc. Sometimes she'd just come back for another cart. (Kinda reminded me of Super Market Sweep
) She never spent any LESS than two hundred bucks per visit, EVERY MONDAY, and it was always the same items, with the occasional "luxury" item, like a snack or diabetic candy.
After about two months of seeing them like clockwork the beginning of every week, I finally broke down and asked the husband, "Do you guys own a bed and breakfast or a motel in town?" The husband just smiled and replied, "Believe it or not, no. This all goes in our house."
I was glad he didn't mind the question, because I had been DYING to know, but she had been buying enough cleaning products to keep the WHITE HOUSE spotless for a month EACH TIME! What did she do with all of it? She must have cleaned 24/7 with that much stuff!
So, thinking back on that, I was wondering. Do any of you have any regular customers that do things that are SOOO bizarre you had to just scratch your head and wonder about it? I had several like that. There was rebate guy, who bragged about sending off at the very least a hundred rebate coupons a month, whether he needed the product or not. There was "be prepared" guy, who always came in and bought a truckload of chips every Friday (there was a cheaper grocery store next door.) There was "check my drugs" lady, who forced the pharmacists to dump her pills out on the dirty counter, just so she could count them and make sure they were right. Just some very odd folks. What about you?
Every Monday morning, this half nice, half not nice couple would come into the store to buy their items (he was the nice, she was the not nice.) On Mondays, if you bought the store brand AND you were over the age of 55, you got a 10% discount, regardless of other sales or discounts. This actually turned out to be a VERY GOOD thing for them, and I'll tell you why. The man would walk in and browse the magazines, paruse the candy aisle, whatever floated his boat. The woman walked in like a lady on a mission. She darted straight toward the cleaning supplies. We kept them WELL STOCKED, just for this lady and the unfortunate victims who needed whatever she tried to clean us out of. Heaven forbid we EVER run out of at least a DOZEN of what she wanted; otherwise we got yelled at and spent an entire hour filling out rainchecks for things that weren't even on sale! She'd return to the registers no more than five minutes later, buggy stocked to overflowing with multiple air fresheners, bleach, detergent, fabric softener, dish washing liquid, glass cleaner, surface cleaner, toilet paper, paper towels, etc, etc. Sometimes she'd just come back for another cart. (Kinda reminded me of Super Market Sweep
) She never spent any LESS than two hundred bucks per visit, EVERY MONDAY, and it was always the same items, with the occasional "luxury" item, like a snack or diabetic candy.After about two months of seeing them like clockwork the beginning of every week, I finally broke down and asked the husband, "Do you guys own a bed and breakfast or a motel in town?" The husband just smiled and replied, "Believe it or not, no. This all goes in our house."
I was glad he didn't mind the question, because I had been DYING to know, but she had been buying enough cleaning products to keep the WHITE HOUSE spotless for a month EACH TIME! What did she do with all of it? She must have cleaned 24/7 with that much stuff!So, thinking back on that, I was wondering. Do any of you have any regular customers that do things that are SOOO bizarre you had to just scratch your head and wonder about it? I had several like that. There was rebate guy, who bragged about sending off at the very least a hundred rebate coupons a month, whether he needed the product or not. There was "be prepared" guy, who always came in and bought a truckload of chips every Friday (there was a cheaper grocery store next door.) There was "check my drugs" lady, who forced the pharmacists to dump her pills out on the dirty counter, just so she could count them and make sure they were right. Just some very odd folks. What about you?
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