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Laws that need to be passed to make retail less miserable: -no price matching -no coupons -get rid of nickles and dimes. -all prices on products include tax, bottle deposits, etc. The price on the shelf is the price it rings up at the till. -legal right to murder anyone who makes the "oh it must be free" joke when something doesn't scan. -all employees are part of a profit share, as calculated by hours worked.
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MB charging deposits without the ability to redeem them is legalized robberyDemon_Corsair posted:You must not buy vegetables. They have some of the worst quality produce out there. I actually see a lot of local stuff that I don't see at the bigger chains, particularly in the summer. Though part of that is how far the supply chain they themselves have slipped down, we are either on a lower priority tier or there is literally not enough good quality food to go around anymore
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Jul 10, 2021 17:21
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ya’ll still got those president’s choice chocolate chunk cookies up there?
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Jul 10, 2021 17:35
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yes though I'd rather eat this chocolate chip cookie dough I made with pc semisweet chocolate chips
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Jul 10, 2021 17:37
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Honestly, ordering groceries online is easy, and oftentimes free if you pick it up yourself. I've been doing the Walmart online grocery shopping thing for over a year because my toddler is a huge rear end in a top hat and won't listen for poo poo. I just keep adding things to the list all week, checkout online when it's time to get groceries, drive to Walmart, they load up my groceries into my car, then I drive home. Takes all of 5 minutes, excluding the driving time. It's almost criminally convenient, and I don't think I'm going back after the pandemic is "over".
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Jul 10, 2021 18:30
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I do online sometimes though there’s always a struggle with the produce they pick out but I’m not going to give them poo poo as they’re probably overworked as hell
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Jul 10, 2021 18:47
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Fashionable Jorts posted:-all prices on products include tax, bottle deposits, etc. The price on the shelf is the price it rings up at the till. I agree with these points particularly, but I will say grocery stores in Canada, as far as I know, all have a policy of making almost every employee part-time no matter what because it exempts them from having to give out dental or medical, so the profit-share would probably be tweaked to be as evil as possible.
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Jul 10, 2021 18:59
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cash crab posted:I agree with these points particularly, but I will say grocery stores in Canada, as far as I know, all have a policy of making almost every employee part-time no matter what because it exempts them from having to give out dental or medical, so the profit-share would probably be tweaked to be as evil as possible. Oh yeah, every place requires you to be full time to get benefits, and they'll schedule you half an hour less every week than is needed to qualify as full time. That would be another law, no full time or part time titles. Everyone is an employee.
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Jul 10, 2021 19:46
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Laws that need to be passed to make retail less miserable: What. No gently caress off
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Jul 10, 2021 19:49
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When cashiers have to argue with customers trying to stack 50 coupons at their till and half of them are expired, don't apply and are being insufferable assholes, it makes being a cashier poo poo.
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Jul 10, 2021 20:03
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Honestly, ordering groceries online is easy, and oftentimes free if you pick it up yourself. i do the same thing at no-frills theres no way im going back to spending a loving hour in no frills with their two checkouts and fentynal addicts with cartfuls of popsicles on cheque day
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Jul 10, 2021 20:03
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we don't need a bunch of bullshit rules to make work less lovely. the vampire corporations will just half-rear end implementing them anyway. just give people a guaranteed minimum income, then raise the minimum wage to $30/h and pay people to deal with the bullshit. any job that isn't worth paying $30/h will stop existing so we wont have to regulate it
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Jul 10, 2021 20:07
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Rutibex posted:we don't need a bunch of bullshit rules to make work less lovely. the vampire corporations will just half-rear end implementing them anyway. Can't wait to be having my 17th siesta of the day because there's never any jobs
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Jul 10, 2021 20:16
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Terror Sweat posted:What. No gently caress off never worked at a grocery store eh?
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Jul 10, 2021 20:16
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30k/year UBI regardless of employment status and make it a protected act for retail workers to tell customers to eat poo poo and gently caress off forever
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Jul 10, 2021 20:18
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every service worker should be allowed one murder per year at their discretion
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Jul 10, 2021 20:22
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Seriously though I'm so glad to have escaped sobeys, that company was sucking my life force away. I worked there ten years, at the end of my time there I was making minimun wage, I started $2 over minimum. There was never any recognition for doing a good job, I even won a value champion award (a regoionally based employee of the year award) and it came with zero actual rewards. Less than a year ago I moved to BC and started working at a new company, inside a year I've gotten 2 promotions and a raise, going from an entry level position to a middle management position overseeing operations at multiple locations. Like even from an profitablity perspective I was clearly capable of doing way more for sobeys, but it's such a unrewarding place to work. That was so ingrained into the corporate culture that there was no means to even recognize good work that was being done at the store level.
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Jul 10, 2021 20:25
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I think getting rid of that forced friendliness that you have to do as a service worker would go a long way towards fixing a lot of poo poo (but not fixing the "this store employs five hundred part timers and three full timers" or "this job doesn't pay enough to live on") edit: Virtual Russian posted:Seriously though I'm so glad to have escaped sobeys, that company was sucking my life force away. I worked there ten years, at the end of my time there I was making minimun wage, I started $2 over minimum. There was never any recognition for doing a good job, I even won a value champion award (a regoionally based employee of the year award) and it came with zero actual rewards. Less than a year ago I moved to BC and started working at a new company, inside a year I've gotten 2 promotions and a raise, going from an entry level position to a middle management position overseeing operations at multiple locations. if sobeys is anything like the grocery stores i've worked for in the past, the only hard work recognition you can get is a lovely supervisor gig where you still get abused by your dozen or so bosses except now you're salaried and working insane unpaid overtime, and by hard work recognition I mean "brown nosing recognition" because generally those sorts of stores will just keep dumping more responsibilities on the actual hard working labour until they burn out and quit while supervision and management bitch about retention issues blatman has issued a correction as of 20:31 on Jul 10, 2021 |
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Jul 10, 2021 20:26
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redbrouw posted:Can't wait to be having my 17th siesta of the day because there's never any jobs good. working all the time is bullshit. we clearly aren't building anything important as a society so why should we bust out asses all the time. lets just take it easy
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Jul 10, 2021 20:42
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The stories of "Oh the post office/DMV(lolmerica jargon)/hydro office is so miserable to deal with" are entirely whingy fuckbuckets pissed that the employees can effectively tell them off and they are too mad to even comprehend it. Getting rid of that would make retail less poo poo, but I'd still never go back from just doing labor work cause people are poo poo and being around them is something I'll avoid the rest of my life.
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Jul 10, 2021 20:44
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“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
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Jul 10, 2021 21:02
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Rutibex posted:we don't need a bunch of bullshit rules to make work less lovely. the vampire corporations will just half-rear end implementing them anyway. True. Actual universal healthcare and not this half-assed crap we have here in Canada, and a high wage will make any job worth it. But until then, being allowed to tell people who want to price match forty different cans of peas that are one cent cheaper down the street to gently caress off would be a blessing and a boost to morale.
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Jul 10, 2021 21:02
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Actually no, I take that back. Abolish the minimum wage. Do whatever. 30k/year UBI for everyone. Make these fuckers bend over backwards to get employees under their roof.
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Jul 10, 2021 21:06
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I would say the technology should be there for automatic price matching, but this is Canada, and they would all be matching to the highest price not the lowest, and then just eat their 0.008% of illicit profits fine down the road.
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Jul 10, 2021 21:07
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Powershift posted:I would say the technology should be there for automatic price matching, but this is Canada, and they would all be matching to the highest price not the lowest, and then just eat their 0.008% of illicit profits fine down the road. Most places struggle to track their own inventory and prices during sales, I'm sure adding interconnectivity of this nature would cause grocery stores to have a country-wide system failure that could never be repaired. Fashionable Jorts has issued a correction as of 21:16 on Jul 10, 2021 |
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Jul 10, 2021 21:12
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Most places struggle to track their own inventory and prices during sales, I'm sure adding interconnectivity of this nature would cause grocery stores would cause a country-wide system failure that could never be repaired. Oh no, how awful! Now we have to nationalize all the grocery stores.
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Jul 10, 2021 21:15
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Most places struggle to track their own inventory and prices during sales, I'm sure adding interconnectivity of this nature would cause grocery stores would cause a country-wide system failure that could never be repaired. Stocktrack can scrape a poo poo ton of stores for prices and inventories. It seems more of a "don't want to" than a "can't"
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Jul 10, 2021 21:16
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prom candy posted:every service worker should be allowed one murder per year at their discretion This and whether or not you used up your murder for the year is confidential.
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Jul 10, 2021 21:42
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Actually no, I take that back. Abolish the minimum wage. Do whatever. Kazinsal posted:Oh no, how awful! Now we have to nationalize all the grocery stores. Lotta good ideas ITT today
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Jul 10, 2021 21:47
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EvilJoven posted:This and whether or not you used up your murder for the year is confidential. And if you don't use up your quota in one calendar year it should just continuously add up imo
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Jul 10, 2021 21:56
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Most places struggle to track their own inventory and prices during sales, I'm sure adding interconnectivity of this nature would cause grocery stores to have a country-wide system failure that could never be repaired. Oh, so I guess its all free, huh?
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Jul 10, 2021 21:57
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shaw still hasn't knocked the non-return fee off my balance despite mailing it back to them like, two weeks ago eat poo poo and die shaw
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Jul 10, 2021 22:13
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Chillyrabbit posted:When cashiers have to argue with customers trying to stack 50 coupons at their till and half of them are expired, don't apply and are being insufferable assholes, it makes being a cashier poo poo. So don't argue, tell the customer to gently caress off, and if the manager overrides you, you get a thousand dollars. I've handed money to people who were holding up the line arguing over a coupon before.
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Jul 10, 2021 22:29
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EvilJoven posted:This and whether or not you used up your murder for the year is confidential. oh absolutely. the point is you want to think twice about whether this barista wants to use their murder on you before you start causing trouble. are they gonna use it if you politely try to get a problem fixed? I doubt it. but if you're a prick about it? maybe!
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Jul 11, 2021 00:17
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prom candy posted:oh absolutely. the point is you want to think twice about whether this barista wants to use their murder on you before you start causing trouble. are they gonna use it if you politely try to get a problem fixed? I doubt it. but if you're a prick about it? maybe! I always check for obvious blood spatter on the apron, makes it more likely they have spent their annual murder allotment already
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Jul 11, 2021 00:20
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the purge: corporate wage slave edition
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Jul 11, 2021 00:21
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every time I go to SuperValu I check for the key lime cookies that they stopped making like 20 years ago 
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Jul 11, 2021 00:24
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tax Methanar at 87.5% and he could provide 50k ubi for 7 people for a year
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Jul 11, 2021 00:25
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it’s been years and I’m still not being able to just walk past cops while baked out of my gourd
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Kazinsal posted:it’s been years and I’m still not being able to just walk past cops while baked out of my gourd makes me laugh tbqh
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