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Meijer has always been open 24 hours and I've been shopping there since it opened a couple decades ago. They've recently changed to this self - checkout only model at night. The grocery I used to work at in the mid 90s was also open 24 hours, hell I used to work front end at night sometimes. Does being trolled by fishmech mean I finally belong?
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I'm most surprised at the "monthly" part of the story. How often do most people buy groceries?
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Nov 4, 2017 19:25
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Snorkzilla posted:Meijer has always been open 24 hours and I've been shopping there since it opened a couple decades ago. They've recently changed to this self - checkout only model at night. The grocery I used to work at in the mid 90s was also open 24 hours, hell I used to work front end at night sometimes. okay and this is a decision made by corporate and not by the employees working in the store at 6am that have to put up with people like you, my friend
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Nov 4, 2017 19:27
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boner confessor posted:having worked in foodservice, it's never helpful to explain policy to customers as a method of explaining why the customer isn't going to get what they want God, if we're talking foodservice even "we don't have the ingredients to make that thing you want that isn't on the menu" or "this is a Thai restaurant, we don't serve pizza" isn't enough for some people
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Nov 4, 2017 19:30
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He didn't have to "put up" with anything. He came to his station three times to reset the kiosk for me and I asked about getting a regular register. He said no and I told him my groceries would need put away since I was leaving. I know in your head you must be dreaming up temper tantrums and a get me your manager bitchfest but believe me I'm not that exciting.
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Nov 4, 2017 19:31
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my husband's store's corporate is giving them shifts before and after they open/close because they're like 'oh the reason you can't get stuff done is because there's customers around' and definitely not because they only give enough hours to schedule 2 or 3 people a shift for a store that's twice the size it used to be, with more customers! just give them more hours so they can have 4 or 5 people a shift! jesus! Snorkzilla posted:He didn't have to "put up" with anything. He came to his station three times to reset the kiosk for me and I asked about getting a regular register. He said no and I told him my groceries would need put away since I was leaving. I know in your head you must be dreaming up temper tantrums and a get me your manager bitchfest but believe me I'm not that exciting. Snorkzilla posted:So I should have stayed ... getting more and more angry 
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Nov 4, 2017 19:33
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Baronjutter posted:I'm most surprised at the "monthly" part of the story. How often do most people buy groceries? depends on how far you live from a grocery store but bimonthly shopping trips aren't uncommon, if it can take close to two hours to get to the store, shop, and go home
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Nov 4, 2017 19:43
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Baronjutter posted:I'm most surprised at the "monthly" part of the story. How often do most people buy groceries? There's a regular supermarket, a Saturday farmers market, a halal grocery, a Thai/Phillippino grocery, and a small gourmet/local goods place within a five block radius of my house, as well as several mini-marts, 711s, drug stores and the like, so I just kinda go whenever I need something 
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Nov 4, 2017 19:52
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The suggestion here is that Snorkzilla doesn't want to deal with the impending frustration of scanning a lot of groceries on a self-scan machine, not that they were furious in the moment itself. You're inventing your own story to be angry about, don't be a prong. Baronjutter posted:I'm most surprised at the "monthly" part of the story. How often do most people buy groceries? I know a lot of people who do one really big shopping trip once a month for big basics and then do more basic day-to-day shopping as it becomes necessary.
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Nov 4, 2017 19:56
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If you have a full cart the scale hits it's maximum and then the entire system goes gently caress.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:04
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His anger is 100% internal.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:05
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The Snoo posted:just give them more hours so they can have 4 or 5 people a shift! jesus! But, benefits and overtime scream the manager. Even when outright losing employees (say to a home improvement warehouse that offers those things), to the point of the department failing. But that's the leads problem not mine he thinks.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:07
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Snorkzilla posted:Meijer has always been open 24 hours and I've been shopping there since it opened a couple decades ago. They've recently changed to this self - checkout only model at night. The grocery I used to work at in the mid 90s was also open 24 hours, hell I used to work front end at night sometimes. So you've been shopping there for 20 years, yet somehow this massive change in how they handle early mornings took you by surprise and you also assume it must have been the same 40 years ago as it was 20 years ago? Sounds like you're lying about at least one thing here, if not several things. Clearly if this is a place you go to frequently you should have known the store usually doesn't have lines open anymore. You're only trolling yourself by continuing to reveal you're an overentitled prick. Snorkzilla posted:He didn't have to "put up" with anything. He came to his station three times to reset the kiosk for me and I asked about getting a regular register. He said no and I told him my groceries would need put away since I was leaving. I know in your head you must be dreaming up temper tantrums and a get me your manager bitchfest but believe me I'm not that exciting. He had to put up with pulling your cart full of groceries you abandoned over to wherever his store chooses to hold them, dude. Magic Hate Ball posted:The suggestion here is that Snorkzilla doesn't want to deal with the impending frustration of scanning a lot of groceries on a self-scan machine, not that they were furious in the moment itself. You're inventing your own story to be angry about, don't be a prong. Dude was so furious about it he came on here at least several hours later to complain about it and attribute it as a cause for retail stores dying dude. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 4, 2017 20:10
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Yup you sure did get me good fishmech.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:12
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fishmech posted:Dude was so furious about it he came on here at least several hours later to complain about it and attribute it as a cause for retail stores dying dude. Weird of him to post a recent retail experience in a thread about retail.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:19
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Weird of him to post a recent retail experience in a thread about retail. That experience being "I had unreasonable demands of the cashier, this is why retail is dying".
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Nov 4, 2017 20:27
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fishmech posted:You're only trolling yourself by continuing to reveal you're an overentitled prick. Almost everybody is in a pressure cooker right now. It's not just retail. People get upset at what is in front of them not the underlying problems that are actually causing them stress. I'm starting to see people blowing up way, way, back into the bowels of a couple supply chains.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:28
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Whoa, a butt load of new posts, retail must’ve imploded. Oh...
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Nov 4, 2017 20:29
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fishmech posted:That experience being "I had unreasonable demands of the cashier, this is why retail is dying". "I would like to shop during business hours, but limited operation due to retail cutbacks made it impractical" woah this guy sounds like a sociopath
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Nov 4, 2017 20:31
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This thread is now reminding me of the retail stories thread, which I stopped following a year or two ago because it was super depressing and I wanted to stop thinking about what my life was like back when I still worked retail for a "living." So please, leave that thread to its devices and talk about more substantive issues than what you should expect at a super market at 6 AM, which is a pretty obvious answer to anyone who's not a mentally ill goony goon goonlord.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:32
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We did have a middle aged lady come into my safeway about once a month at about 3am to do her shopping, she was super ocd, wore disposable gloves and had stuff split into like 30 paper bags and took a couple hours to fill her cart. The scots are shut down over ight though so one of the night crew had to be in the checkstand that whole time. I felt sorry for her, that's pretty debilitating.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:40
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I've done plenty of grocery shopping at the crack of dawn with actual cashier service, but I also come from a community that gets up early to be productive so maybe it's just a difference of work ethic.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:41
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I've done plenty of grocery shopping at the crack of dawn with actual cashier service, but I also come from a community that gets up early to be productive so maybe it's just a difference of work ethic. That was a beautifully crafted goon trap. This thread can't get any worse, so why not.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:49
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Motronic posted:That was a beautifully crafted goon trap. I mean, if you want to lie in bed all morning covered in last night's jizz and ramen dust, that's your call.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:53
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I've done plenty of grocery shopping at the crack of dawn with actual cashier service, but I also come from a community that gets up early to be productive so maybe it's just a difference of work ethic.  Except I think it's massive stimulant abuse in the case of my community.
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Nov 4, 2017 20:55
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Snorkzilla posted:So I should have stayed and what? Spent an hour at that stupid scanner getting more and more angry? I wasn't given any other options so I left. I really don't put up with crap and try to avoid getting my blood pressure up over something I have no control over. An hour to use the self checkout tills? Really? Those things are designed to be idiot proof. If it takes you that long to use them the problem is probably with you. How long did you spend driving to another grocery store, going in, and picking out a whole new grocery shop of goods? I'd wager that easily took longer than the five minutes (at most) that it would have taken to use the self checkout tills. So you managed to both waste your own time, as well as poo poo on some poor minimum wage employee's day, with your little tantrum.
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Nov 4, 2017 21:02
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Snorkzilla posted:Does being trolled by fishmech mean I finally belong?
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JnnyThndrs posted:
I definitely used to go to Foodsco before classes in college and there'd be plenty of people. Maybe it was a farmer town thing - I remember getting up early on schoolnight sleepovers when I was a kid so my friend's mom could take us to the grocery store before dropping us off and it was always a big deal because they had an in-house Mexican bakery that made awesome conchas. But I've also stopped in at the Safeway here to get goodies before a road trip just as early and there was a dedicated cashier, though Snorkzilla said they were shopping at Meijer, which is a midwestern chain so this could just be a regional thing. Magic Hate Ball fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Nov 4, 2017 |
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Nov 4, 2017 21:13
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Magic Hate Ball posted:"I would like to shop during business hours, but limited operation due to retail cutbacks made it impractical" woah this guy sounds like a sociopath The normal business hours of the store are during the day. The poster deliberately avoids the normal business hours because he "doesn't want to be around people". Then he gets mad that when he goes when no one else goes, it's staffed for nobody else to be going, and he refuses to use the self-checkout instead just because. Also it's not "retail cutbacks" it's simple normal retail practice in most of the country - and that's with America being one of the countries that keeps stores open the longest.
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Nov 4, 2017 21:27
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Rated PG-34 posted:Whoa, a butt load of new posts, retail must’ve imploded. I'm watching to see if Sears or JCPenney's will be first to reach $0.
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Nov 4, 2017 21:30
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Horseshoe theory posted:I'm watching to see if Sears or JCPenney's will be first to reach $0.
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Snorkzilla posted:Meijer has always been open 24 hours and I've been shopping there since it opened a couple decades ago. They've recently changed to this self - checkout only model at night. The grocery I used to work at in the mid 90s was also open 24 hours, hell I used to work front end at night sometimes. If you really did work at a grocery store in the past then I don't know how you can possibly not see how dumb you were in this situation and why what you were demanding was extremely unreasonable (and probably even infeasible).
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I don't know how I can make it any more clear that their checkout wasn't working properly. And that the guy who is paid to attend it didn't really want to focus on helping me get through whatever the problem was with the scale. E: this is my last post in the subject, I'm just being argued with by people with low reading comprehension skills or trolls. This is my angry storm out that you've all been hoping actually happened. *swaggers hips while walking out * EdwardSwifferhands fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Nov 4, 2017 |
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Nov 4, 2017 21:51
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Did you buy any corn on the cob?
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Snorkzilla posted:I don't know how I can make it any more clear that their checkout wasn't working properly. And that the guy who is paid to attend it didn't really want to focus on helping me get through whatever the problem was with the scale. So why didn't you switch to another self-checkout machine in the first place? Or you know, brush it off and maybe lift up the weighing table bit to reseat it (something you would know about if you actually did work checkout in the past as you claimed). Anyway looking forward to your next post about how when you tried to walk into the next supermarket over at 4 am on Sunday the cahsier running the line they have open over there yawned too much.
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Crow Jane posted:I'm amazed every time I remember Kmart is still hanging on somehow Ok going to use this as a moment to post something reverent to the topic of retail. 18 Sears and 45 Kmart more stores are being closed early next year. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sears-restructuring/sears-to-close-63-more-u-s-stores-after-holiday-season-idUSKBN1D32HA After 101 years Whirlpool has ceased to supply Sear with its appliances to sell. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/10/24/why-sears-ended-a-century-old-partnership-with-whirlpool/?utm_term=.c9a2698b128b LG Electronics and Samsung are demanding cash up front for delivery of certain goods. Levi jeans have ceased supplying to Sears. LOL Surprise. Apparently the hottest children's toy (wow I'm old) refuses to provide many to Sears due to fears it can't pay. https://www.axios.com/sears-suppliers-revolt-hastening-its-decline-2504915051.html Sears borrowed 100 million in early October with an additional 100 million available if needed. They tapped 40 million of that on October 18 and the remaining 60 million on the 25th for a total of 200 million in October alone. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-sears-third-loan-edward-lampert-20171030-story.html Lastly: Everything and I mean everything is 50% off at Sears and 40% off at Kmart until after Black Friday. As it tries to make some money. http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/01/news/companies/sears-kmart-holiday-sales/index.html
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OhFunny posted:Lastly: Everything and I mean everything is 50% off at Sears and 40% off at Kmart until after Black Friday. As it tries to make some money. What's wrong with making literally everything into a loss leader? 
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quote:Through Thanksgiving weekend, Sears will offer up to 50% off everything and Kmart will offer up to 40% off everything. That “up to” part makes it meaningless unfortunately. Make a single candy bar 2 for 1 and you’re covered.
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I didn't realize how entertaining this thread was, thank you goons.
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