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I've worked in two grocery stores. The first one featured some very odd locals, the most notable was "Mary". Mary is a 90 year old lady with dementia and one hell of a mean streak. She has one set of clothes, which is a yellow raincoat, a fisherman's hat, and white and red polka-dot shorts. She has been thrown out of every other grocery store in town, leaving our No Frills as the only place she was allowed to shop. She would frequently dismantle displays searching for the ripest fruit, peeling open bananas and oranges to see if they were good, and leaving the rest in a mountain of spoiled garbage we weren't even allowed to put on the reduced rack. She would also do this to packaged goods, ripping open cookie trays and leaving them behind on the shelves. And she would always forget where everything was, and scream at us for rotating our shelves, which we did about once every five months. The two worst items to handle were corn bins or bananas. Bananas go ripe super fast in grocery stores, due to the way they are shipped in trucks where they sweat like crazy in their boxes. For whatever reason, the people who wanted green bananas and those who wanted ripe bananas always came on the wrong days and chewed us out for having the wrong type of bananas. Just buy some and leave them out for a day and they'll be yellow idiots. Corn is an absolute mess, since we sold it in bulk, and there is nothing people love more than husking cobs in the middle of the store, and then complaining about how the bin looks like poo poo with all the leaves and hair everywhere. These bins also sweat like crazy because they come wrapped in plastic, making the bottom of the bin a swamp of rotting corn cobs in smelly water. I have picked corn so I actually know how to identify a whole cob without husking it, it's quite simple. Just feel the tip and see if it fills out the husk. Doesn't seem to translate to customers though. Other crazy stories: Our shop is off of the highway, and during the fall, hundreds of asian tourists come over to watch the leaves turn, and we happen to be a stopover for the bus drivers to take a break. So I have on more than one occasion tried to explain to tourists that no, agave syrup is not authentic Canadian Maple Syrup. (And my god do grocery stores do a markup on syrup prices). The other store I worked at was down in Guelph and was right in the middle of the Italian community, and I swear our store owner was pressured by the mob. Every so often an old man or lady who was pretty clearly connected would come into the store, and the owner would bend over backwards to fudge the numbers and mark down prices just for them, and the few non-italian employees in the store just made ourselves scarce while business happened. At this store there was also another man obsessed with Bananas, but he would only buy singles in bunches, which he demanded he get from the reduced racks. I actually caught him peeling off bananas from bunches and then demanding we bag them up to sell reduced, so I pulled over my manager, and boop, problem was pushed away because the guy was connected, and store owner bent the rules.
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Jun 13, 2017 23:22
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Rutibex posted:what kind of mobster is so broke they can't afford a normal bunch of bananas? i guess crime really doesn't pay I think it has less to do with money and more to do with being picky and getting away with it.
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Jun 14, 2017 00:43
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Sid Vicious posted:What store in Guelph was it that's where I live and I don't really remember any grocery stores in the Italian area but then again I just think of the ward when I think of Italian areas so idk was it Angelinos? It was the No Frills across from the campus and like a billion people with Italian names worked there. In my department there were maybe three of us who had Anglo names
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Jun 14, 2017 00:53
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Sid Vicious posted:Oh gently caress yeah I'm retarded it's loving called Domenics NoFrills I should've known. I go there for reduced meat sometimes but it's always really busy with really white trash people shopping and they don't have any manners and I hate it. Is the pizza shop run by the friendly Indian couple still in the plaza? They were always super nice when I'd go there on my lunch break.
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Jun 14, 2017 00:57
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There was the one time we had a stalker come into our store who had an obsession with one of the teenagers on cash. It got so bad that when he was spotted she'd get sent to the break room while we tried to get rid of him and straight up told him to gently caress off when he started asking why she wasn't there. Creepy forty year old fat gently caress would probably start going on about "ehebophilia" if anyone outright accused him.
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Jun 14, 2017 01:03
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They are grown up, they're just self entitled baby boomer fuckoffs. During my time in retail I never had problems with young people. Teenagers I expect to be annoying, but people in their 20s were the most agreeable and patient I found. Whenever I shop I don't give the workers any grief because I know they've already had at least three fifty-seventy year olds tell them off for a hit out of their control.
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Jun 14, 2017 23:52
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I'm beginning to feel like working in a grocery store is a death sentence on a resume. Unless you're one of the lifers who somehow survives long enough to get a manager's position, a grocery store experience is worth less than nothing if you want to branch out into other job fields. The only people who will look at your resume will be other grocery stores because they know they can treat you like poo poo.
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Aug 17, 2017 21:43
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Yawgmoth posted:It's slightly better than a huge gap in your employment, but yeah trying to use retail experience for anything is poo poo since most people doing interviews have never had to even consider that retail employees are real people. It doesn't help that I'm also getting a larger work gap due to my poo poo credentials. After I quit my last job since I moved closer to school, I had enough saved up that I made it through the school year on savings. Not to sat I didn't go job hunting during this time but nobody wants a grocery clerk. So my gap gets larger.
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Aug 17, 2017 22:03
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iajanus posted:
The bookstore coles? Or is this a food chain in the states?
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Aug 23, 2017 07:24
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super sweet best pal posted:Who the hell pays more than $20 for shoes? Easy there Sam Vimes. Wouldn't want your cardboard soles to wear out just yet.
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Aug 24, 2017 05:19
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