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  • Can I smack these people?

    It seems lately, in the days right before Black Friday, we've been having people grab pull tags for furniture items on the Black Friday 6-hour sale ad, take them home with them, and then come back to the swamp around 9-ish or so on Black Friday, expecting to pick up their furniture item.

    For these items, we make special colored pull tags (shelf labels attached to pieces of construction paper). This is because these items are staged outside behind the store, so when a cashier sees one of these colored tags, they know to tell the customer to drive behind the store to have the item loaded up. Actually, for that morning we do all carryouts behind the store; for anything not on the special sale the cashier calls the backroom and somebody gets the item out of the backroom.

    So by grabbing our pull tags early, they're screwing up our counts, and possibly themselves as well. Sometimes we run completely out of the item before the idiot who took the tag two days early comes in.
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    Maybe too late for some of them now, but maybe you could date the tags (maybe just date the ones you put out for the sale) -- such that, if the tags were taken BEFORE the sale began, don't honor them.
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    • #3
      Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
      It seems lately, in the days right before Black Friday, we've been having people grab pull tags for furniture items on the Black Friday 6-hour sale ad, take them home with them, and then come back to the swamp around 9-ish or so on Black Friday, expecting to pick up their furniture item.
      No you can't smack them, think of the blood stains on your clothing, the shop floor, and the furniture! Oh and you might hurt yourself when you smack them!

      Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
      So by grabbing our pull tags early, they're screwing up our counts, and possibly themselves as well. Sometimes we run completely out of the item before the idiot who took the tag two days early comes in.
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      • #4
        Yes you can, but no you may not. You might break your hand! After all, it's obvious their heads are full of concrete.

        And hey, I like Eric's idea. Try it on your managers. If they don't have the correct color pull tag, they don't get sale price. They pay full price if the item is available. (Of course the hard part will be convincing the managers not to cave, but if they Say REALLY LOUDLY "You want us to let you CHEAT all these HONEST people who came on time" to the SC when they complain, the rest of the customers should take care of the SC's. (esp. those who aren't honest and didn't think of that cheat. That kind hates anyone who thinks of a scam before them)

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        • #5
          I can't wait for BF stories !!!!

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          • #6
            Isn't that what a clue by four is for?
            No risk of injury to you. As for the blood, hey, it is not your job to clean up human bodily fluids.
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            • #7
              Quoth Teskeria View Post
              Yes you can, but no you may not. You might break your hand! After all, it's obvious their heads are full of concrete.
              I can atest to the hand breaking. I broke mine and had to get screws in it (almost had to get plates too, but the doctor said the bone was so hard they didn't know why it broke in the first place). All I did was it it up against another players helmet in high school football in the last drill of the day, one in which "anything goes". Damn it hurt, and I even had to get the screws taken out 15 months later as the bone grew over them causing pain.

              As long as you can smack them without breaking your hand, and causing too much of a mess you have to cleanup - go for it.

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              • #8
                No you can't smack them stupid burns and you might get blisters

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                • #9
                  whoa thats an awesome idea. i ALWAYS get these idiots who take the tickets home and then scream at me because we sold the item anyway and it's not there when they come back a week later.

                  Color coding the tickets for back friday is an amazing idea. aside from ignorance, a lot of people doing that are scammers who know they'll either get the item or probably get some kind of discount for "our" mistake.

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