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Thank God I go on vacation next week. After this last run, it's making me very happy that I'll soon be thousands of miles away (and getting a new job at a pool and recreation store instead!)
Now it's listed for your convienience:
The Coin Lady
My store not only has rewards cards that are free to sign up with but you can also win special coins at checkout. There's four of them: gold, blue, red, and silver, with silver being the lowest. Customers can save these and use them to save on items in the store or -le gasp- get things free. And unlike coupons they don't expire.
I have one lady pull up and dump 20 of these things onto my belt and ask me to try and see if any of them work. Her ed one gets her the mylar balloon she's bought for free, and a silver coin takes $2 off of her ham purchase. I try one more silver coin, but it doesn't work. I tell her she's done, but she insists I try all 17 of the silver coins.
The Coinstar Guy
We have one of those coin counting machines in the front of the store. Customers pour their change into it, it counts it, they print a voucher and come to us to get the cash. Plain and simple. Until I get called over for help by a man using the machine, claiming that it's not taking any of his coins.
Reason why? His "coins" were numerous can pull tabs and Chuck E. Cheese tokens. His excuse for the tabs? He said a young girl had gone door to door collecting them for a school fundraiser, so he figured they were worth something.
The Epically Failing Scammer
We keep a cart in the front of the store to collect non-perishable food items and general merchandise that customers don't want. Later on someone (usually me) goes around with the cart and puts items back on the shelves. But I had one customer who kept parking her cart next to the backshop cart, then attempted to walk out of the store with the wrong cart. Not once expecting me to catch her because I bagged all of her stuff. And she tried this five times.
How Do You Say That?
We have a new stock of tropical fruit this season, including this one thing called a feijoa. Too bad no one, including me, knows how to say it. We've gone from "fay-hoe-ah" to "fay-huwah-ia" to "feh-joe-la".
That Was Odd....
I had a three-year old in the lane behind me grab my rump. Mom went ape-shit on him, saying that was rude and "don't even think of trying that again until you're 13".
Those 10 years will be the longest in that kid's life.
I Draw The Line There, Gramps
We have Mobile Concierge service when it rains. Simply put, our seniors give us the keys to the car, we go find it in the lot, and pull it up to the curb and help them load their groceries when it rains. One such old fellow climbed in the passenger seat after loading and was very surprised when he learned I wasn't driving him first class to the Bingo hall.
And, Finally....
Just because I'm wearing an orange safety vest and attempting to collect carts from the parking lot does not give you the right to hurtle yours at me and walk away.
Now it's listed for your convienience:
The Coin Lady
My store not only has rewards cards that are free to sign up with but you can also win special coins at checkout. There's four of them: gold, blue, red, and silver, with silver being the lowest. Customers can save these and use them to save on items in the store or -le gasp- get things free. And unlike coupons they don't expire.
I have one lady pull up and dump 20 of these things onto my belt and ask me to try and see if any of them work. Her ed one gets her the mylar balloon she's bought for free, and a silver coin takes $2 off of her ham purchase. I try one more silver coin, but it doesn't work. I tell her she's done, but she insists I try all 17 of the silver coins.
The Coinstar Guy
We have one of those coin counting machines in the front of the store. Customers pour their change into it, it counts it, they print a voucher and come to us to get the cash. Plain and simple. Until I get called over for help by a man using the machine, claiming that it's not taking any of his coins.
Reason why? His "coins" were numerous can pull tabs and Chuck E. Cheese tokens. His excuse for the tabs? He said a young girl had gone door to door collecting them for a school fundraiser, so he figured they were worth something.
The Epically Failing Scammer
We keep a cart in the front of the store to collect non-perishable food items and general merchandise that customers don't want. Later on someone (usually me) goes around with the cart and puts items back on the shelves. But I had one customer who kept parking her cart next to the backshop cart, then attempted to walk out of the store with the wrong cart. Not once expecting me to catch her because I bagged all of her stuff. And she tried this five times.
How Do You Say That?
We have a new stock of tropical fruit this season, including this one thing called a feijoa. Too bad no one, including me, knows how to say it. We've gone from "fay-hoe-ah" to "fay-huwah-ia" to "feh-joe-la".
That Was Odd....
I had a three-year old in the lane behind me grab my rump. Mom went ape-shit on him, saying that was rude and "don't even think of trying that again until you're 13".
Those 10 years will be the longest in that kid's life.
I Draw The Line There, Gramps
We have Mobile Concierge service when it rains. Simply put, our seniors give us the keys to the car, we go find it in the lot, and pull it up to the curb and help them load their groceries when it rains. One such old fellow climbed in the passenger seat after loading and was very surprised when he learned I wasn't driving him first class to the Bingo hall.
And, Finally....
Just because I'm wearing an orange safety vest and attempting to collect carts from the parking lot does not give you the right to hurtle yours at me and walk away.
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