Background: I've mentioned this before, but it's important to the story. My store has special labels the department specialists use when they are scanning outs in their departments every Monday. If the item is out on the shelf and not located in backstock, they print this special label, which reads "We apologize. This item is temporarily out of stock" on the bottom. The label gets removed when the product comes back in and is stocked. In furniture, the label goes inside the pull tag holder so it's visible when there are no more tags left for the item.
DUMB:
I learned that some customers will just rip these labels off the pull tag holders and bring them to the cashier like a normal tag, expecting to receive the item.
DUMBERER:
Sometimes the cashier will actually scan the label like it's a regular pull tag! This leads to undescribable fun when the person taking the call enters the number into their scanner, sees that it's not in backstock, asks the cashier what the pull tag says, and the cashier says "Oh, it says out of stock. Does that mean something?"
Sure it does! It means:
I swear to Gord, if I ever get cashier-trained and some cretin brings one of these labels to my register, that person will win the I.P Freleigh Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Blockheadedness, and will earn a commemorative certificate consisting of me writing "I am unbelievably stupid!" on the label and stapling it to the recipient's forehead.
DUMB:
I learned that some customers will just rip these labels off the pull tag holders and bring them to the cashier like a normal tag, expecting to receive the item.
DUMBERER:
Sometimes the cashier will actually scan the label like it's a regular pull tag! This leads to undescribable fun when the person taking the call enters the number into their scanner, sees that it's not in backstock, asks the cashier what the pull tag says, and the cashier says "Oh, it says out of stock. Does that mean something?"
Sure it does! It means:
- The item is not located in the backroom
- We currently do not have any of that item to sell
- The customer is unbelievably stupid for bringing the label to the register
- Believe it or not, you are even stupider for ringing it up
- Because the customer has already paid for an item they will not get, because we don't have it, they will need to inflict themselves on the service desk employees so they can get their money back.
I swear to Gord, if I ever get cashier-trained and some cretin brings one of these labels to my register, that person will win the I.P Freleigh Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Blockheadedness, and will earn a commemorative certificate consisting of me writing "I am unbelievably stupid!" on the label and stapling it to the recipient's forehead.
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