Retail Stories

[LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow]

Because dammit General needs more diversity in thread posters so I'm gonna break my "I left" temporarily to randomly put out a thread.

 

In this thread you tell and discuss stories you've experienced in retail. Either working or as a customer (or otherwise?). If you see a story that you can see the other side of (for instance an employee posts about an annoying customer and you can see why the customer may have done what they did), or you have something that relates to it, feel free to quote to further discussion and such.

Just be civil please.

 

*vanishes*

[Delibirb]

I work in a hotel arcade (tickets, prizes, no pacman or galaga). One day, an older man comes up to the prize counter/register and asks for a bag to hold his grandson's tickets in. I politely inform him we presently don't have any bags in the arcade, but the store literally right out one of the doors to the arcade will have several sizes. He asks again to confirm "You don't have any bags back there?" I check again under by register but as I already knew, we don't have any. His response: "OK, well I'm gonna go up and talk to a manager then because this is bullshit." As he walks away, just before turning behind a game, he turns around and asks my name. I tell him and he says "[General Heinous], you're an a******." And walks out. At this point I'm laughing, though not very loudly.

 

The great part comes when I call my manager to tell them an idiot is going to be coming up to complain about no bags, and he tells me he forgot we had some bags and to come up and grab some. Well, the office is behind the gift shop, where this man is presumably asking for a manager, or at least a bag. (Mind you this is not the store I directed him to, and in fact is on another floor.) I inconspicuously sneak into the back grab the bags (Which are tiny, like the kind fast food places put single cookies in). When I come out of the office, he's still there, so I hand him a bag, and in my best Retail Mode Voice, ask "Did you still need a bag, sir?" As I hand him the tiny cookie bag. It was glorious.

 

I have entirely too many more tales from the arcade, but I won't get into them all. Not yet, anyway.