So this Saturday, December 5th, is going to be crazy busy at the wholesale club for two reasons.
First, a certain former Vice Presidential candidate is coming to the club to autograph copies of her book. The club has imposed certain limitations-- only two books per customer, no personalized signatures, you must have purchased the book at our club and have the receipt, and you must be a club member-- and stated that 1,000 wristbands will be handed out starting two hours before the event (incidentally, that two hour mark will be as soon as we open on Saturday), with wristband holders getting their book signed.
Already I've heard that one of my CWs has relatives from Chicago who are flying in and signing up for membership at our club just to get their books signed. We're going to have the police around tonight at the club to shut down part of the parking lot to help deal with the crowds, since apparently some people are actually planning to camp out so they can be first in line when the doors open to get their wristbands.
The estimates I'm hearing for expected turnout is anywhere from 1,000 to 3,500 people, a number which I'm also guessing includes possible protesters. Either way, this will mean the largest crowd I'll have ever experienced at our store. Ever.
The Impending Suck is because any time you mix a huge crowd of people like that with a limited number of wristbands, the aforementioned limitations on the signings themselves, we're expecting to get people wanting to return their books because they didn't get them signed, and people then asking for a refund on their membership fee, because they only signed up so they could get their books signed.
And that's before you factor in possible protests and any political-related Suck that may rear its ugly head.
As if all that weren't bad enough, the weather forecast is calling for that infamous strange white fallout coming from the sky known as snow. Anyone who's ever worked in retail knows that the merest whisper of that s-word on the weather reports brings out the craziness in people, so we're also expecting to have people coming to the club, looking for ice melt, snow shovels, sleds, cold weather clothes, jackets, gloves, hats, what do you mean you're out of all that, can't you see it's snowing out, how dare you be sold out, I want to talk to your manager, I'm never shopping here again rabble rabble rabble.
First, a certain former Vice Presidential candidate is coming to the club to autograph copies of her book. The club has imposed certain limitations-- only two books per customer, no personalized signatures, you must have purchased the book at our club and have the receipt, and you must be a club member-- and stated that 1,000 wristbands will be handed out starting two hours before the event (incidentally, that two hour mark will be as soon as we open on Saturday), with wristband holders getting their book signed.
Already I've heard that one of my CWs has relatives from Chicago who are flying in and signing up for membership at our club just to get their books signed. We're going to have the police around tonight at the club to shut down part of the parking lot to help deal with the crowds, since apparently some people are actually planning to camp out so they can be first in line when the doors open to get their wristbands.
The estimates I'm hearing for expected turnout is anywhere from 1,000 to 3,500 people, a number which I'm also guessing includes possible protesters. Either way, this will mean the largest crowd I'll have ever experienced at our store. Ever.
The Impending Suck is because any time you mix a huge crowd of people like that with a limited number of wristbands, the aforementioned limitations on the signings themselves, we're expecting to get people wanting to return their books because they didn't get them signed, and people then asking for a refund on their membership fee, because they only signed up so they could get their books signed.
And that's before you factor in possible protests and any political-related Suck that may rear its ugly head.
As if all that weren't bad enough, the weather forecast is calling for that infamous strange white fallout coming from the sky known as snow. Anyone who's ever worked in retail knows that the merest whisper of that s-word on the weather reports brings out the craziness in people, so we're also expecting to have people coming to the club, looking for ice melt, snow shovels, sleds, cold weather clothes, jackets, gloves, hats, what do you mean you're out of all that, can't you see it's snowing out, how dare you be sold out, I want to talk to your manager, I'm never shopping here again rabble rabble rabble.
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