Horrible Customers: The Retailing

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SIDS Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

This really fat woman comes in once a week and orders a personal cheese pizza with garlic butter crust and she is just always so miserable and one day one of the new peeps forgot the garlic butter crust and she lost it on me and I wanted to say I don't think you need any more butter in your diet but instead I just had it fixed for her because that's my job.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 23:53

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SIDS Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

Arcsquad12 posted:

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.

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?

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 00:48

SIDS Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

Kelp Me! posted:

Is it pronounced Gelf or Gwelf or Goo-elf

Gwelf

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 00:50

SIDS Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

Arcsquad12 posted:

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

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.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 00:55

SIDS Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

Arcsquad12 posted:

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.

I think so I work at a different pizza store run by a friendly Indian couple near the Metro so there are at least two pizza shops owned by friendly Indian couples. Weird choice but I guess it does better business for cheaper than Indian food.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 00:58

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