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Dear assh.. "customer",
While I may only be a lowlife bookshop employee, you can trust me on several issues.
Like when you ask "do you have such and such book" and I say "no, sorry". Take my word for it. I usually don't hide books just to get a kick out of your saddened face. When you insist that I check "the screen" (people don't seem to get that it is in fact the hardisk/hd etc which stores programs and info, not the screen) and yet again the answer is "no", don't then ask me to "try looking in the back-room". Why do I know that XX-book is not in? Because its my job to know you stupid fuck!
When you have found a book on the new arrival table, don't automatically assume that the book is on sale and/or can be found in paperback. The publishers and "the union of book-stores" have an agreement that XX-book has to stay at retail price for so and so long before we, the stores can lower the price, and the publishers will also wait for at least a year if not more before making a paperback version. They and us wanna actually earn some money, strange, eh?
Don't complain about the price to the cashiers, its not out "fault" and we don't deserve snarky comments, especially when you have no problem paying with a 1000 NKR note (That's roughly $180 or £100) and I can see a BMW/Audi/Mercedes-Benz keyring dangling nonchalant from your pinky!
Guess what? Threatening to "go to ours competitors" isn't going to change shit. Shall I tell you why? Simply, they have the exact same prices as us! Perhaps they stock a few other titles than we do, and we stock books they don't have, but prices on 99% of the books are the same! Every time you storm out, I imagine the embarrassment on your face when you find out that "the other store" has the same book at the same price. Ha fucking ha!
Yes, over time bookshops unfortunately do take in other merchandise than books. Things like notebooks, postcards, gift-cards, pens, pencils, office articles and the likes. Sometimes the store-manager or some other douchbag will have taken in random junk like party-hats, stickers, teddy's, jigsaw puzzles and various other obscure items which the regional/corporate paper-pushers have decided can make us an extra kroner or two, but there -is- a limit to what you can expect us to have.
And don't give me that "I've always bought it here, you had it befooore". Shall I tell you why we don't have it any more? It's because each store, before the company almost went bankrupt, ordered tons of small items, papers and oddities that technically isn't a part of our inventory. That combined with corporate over-expanding nearly shut down a company with a 110 year history.
But why should you care about that..? Just as long as we specially order whatever obscure non-book item you want. Sorry, its not gonna happen.
This. is. a. bookshop. You want oddities? Go to "Chlas Olson", they have all the random shit you can just about imagine. Pester them. If you want books, I'll help.
I'll come back to more specific and fun stories, but for now, thanks for reading
While I may only be a lowlife bookshop employee, you can trust me on several issues.
Like when you ask "do you have such and such book" and I say "no, sorry". Take my word for it. I usually don't hide books just to get a kick out of your saddened face. When you insist that I check "the screen" (people don't seem to get that it is in fact the hardisk/hd etc which stores programs and info, not the screen) and yet again the answer is "no", don't then ask me to "try looking in the back-room". Why do I know that XX-book is not in? Because its my job to know you stupid fuck!
When you have found a book on the new arrival table, don't automatically assume that the book is on sale and/or can be found in paperback. The publishers and "the union of book-stores" have an agreement that XX-book has to stay at retail price for so and so long before we, the stores can lower the price, and the publishers will also wait for at least a year if not more before making a paperback version. They and us wanna actually earn some money, strange, eh?
Don't complain about the price to the cashiers, its not out "fault" and we don't deserve snarky comments, especially when you have no problem paying with a 1000 NKR note (That's roughly $180 or £100) and I can see a BMW/Audi/Mercedes-Benz keyring dangling nonchalant from your pinky!
Guess what? Threatening to "go to ours competitors" isn't going to change shit. Shall I tell you why? Simply, they have the exact same prices as us! Perhaps they stock a few other titles than we do, and we stock books they don't have, but prices on 99% of the books are the same! Every time you storm out, I imagine the embarrassment on your face when you find out that "the other store" has the same book at the same price. Ha fucking ha!
Yes, over time bookshops unfortunately do take in other merchandise than books. Things like notebooks, postcards, gift-cards, pens, pencils, office articles and the likes. Sometimes the store-manager or some other douchbag will have taken in random junk like party-hats, stickers, teddy's, jigsaw puzzles and various other obscure items which the regional/corporate paper-pushers have decided can make us an extra kroner or two, but there -is- a limit to what you can expect us to have.
And don't give me that "I've always bought it here, you had it befooore". Shall I tell you why we don't have it any more? It's because each store, before the company almost went bankrupt, ordered tons of small items, papers and oddities that technically isn't a part of our inventory. That combined with corporate over-expanding nearly shut down a company with a 110 year history.
But why should you care about that..? Just as long as we specially order whatever obscure non-book item you want. Sorry, its not gonna happen.
This. is. a. bookshop. You want oddities? Go to "Chlas Olson", they have all the random shit you can just about imagine. Pester them. If you want books, I'll help.
I'll come back to more specific and fun stories, but for now, thanks for reading
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