Ridiculous!

[Department stores *sigh*]

So a lady walks up to me as im standing by the Coke machines on our front end and starts "chatting" it up with me...

SC: Why dont you carry Pepsi products!?
Me: We do, its at the back of the store with the coke stuff ma'am.
SC: NO! I want bottled Pepsi and you only have Coke machines. How dare you only carry one option!
Me: Im pretty sure most places only carry one or the other as far as vending machines go...
SC: Its ridiculous!! You people should be ashamed to only endorse one company *walks off grumbling*

As I'm shrugging the lady off another woman comes up to me from the other side and with a smirk on her face and says "How dare you" And laughs with me about the first lady.

[AnaKhouri]

How does she ever survive in restaurants? Every restaurant I've ever been in carries one or the other, rarely both. I think it must be in the contract they sign.

[csquared]

Good thing she does not live down here in Atlanta.

[Midorikawa]

Bet you $20 she's a Coke drinker and just wanted to complain about something.

...Then again, I'm bad at this betting thing, so how about $5 instead? I stand to lose less. :-P

[TheSHAD0W]

"Ridiculus!" -waves wand-

-Sucky Customer's wig falls off showing bald head, SC turns bright red and runs away-

[Mr Hero]

"Ridiculus!" -waves wand-

-Sucky Customer's wig falls off showing bald head, SC turns bright red and runs away-

Haha this was the first thing I thought of too.

[Zoom]

Coke, no Pepsi!

[EricKei]

Good thing she does not live down here in Atlanta.

...Or NOLA.

Some friends of mine were part of a huge (successful) boycott that got the Aid of Rite to carry Coke down here. When they first moved in, AofR was Pepsi-only --- let me put it this way: the few restaurants here that only stock Pepsi drinks tend to sell a LOT of tea and Dr Pepper (which is bottled by both Pepsi and Coke here, so they don't count)... I think they lasted maybe two months before AofR caved, and begged Pepsi to let them out of the exclusivity deal.

The workers hated the lack of Coke (went to buy them at the groceries nearby)

The managers hated not carrying Cokes and (presumably) petitioned the brass

The boycotters -- to be fair -- did pull a SC gambit or two, tho. I know of at least a few who would go there, shop until they had a half-full basket (nothing perishable like milk or icecream), and then go up to the service desk and ask where the Cokes were. Upon being told 'Pepsi Only', they said "Oh.", and walked out sans basket...

[vstorevigilante]

We only had Coke at the Evil Empire, and therefore only the bars owned by the same company... Hershey? I don't even remember. But no smarties or anything, only coffee crisp. Anyway, "I'll have a large pepsi." "Coke okay?" (which came out as one word after being there for so long, it's an automatic response) was usually met with, "Yep, fine." But there were those golden times that, "Wait, you don't have Pepsi? WHY NOT? " came in to play. "I'm sorry, want some bottled water instead?" A few times people actually complained that we only had Dasani and not Evian!