Here’s a few things I don’t get:
- Three workers, long line of customers, yet only one register is open.
- People who work at stores who don’t say a single word to you, even while they are “helping� you.
- Self-serve check-out (which I use because it is allegedly faster than the normal one) that requires a clerk to come check your credit card or debit card. This has happened at Home Depot and Wal*Mart. If I wanted to deal with clerks (especially if I have to wait for clerks), I wouldn’t use the self serve line.
- The fact that an ad (with a picture and all the requisite details) wasn’t enough to get the sale price on an item, but rather required a good bit of waiting while the guy at the register went somewhere and finally came back and gave me the right price. (Corollary: why in the age of computer the appropriate sale price didn’t come up when the item was scanned is beyond me as well).
- Stores that don’t have stuff from their ads in stock (actually, I do understand the bait-n-switch, but it still annoys me).
Feel free to add your own via comments or by posting a happy holiday shopping story from your own blog (trackback this post and get a link below). Think of it as a holiday shopping linkfest a la the Beltway Traffic Jam
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7 Responses to “Things I Don’t Get (Christmas Shopping Edition)”
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December 22nd, 2024 at 2:27 am
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December 21st, 2024 at 6:38 pm
from the headline, I thought you meant these were things you weren’t going to get as presents this Christmas!
But I also don’t get the lack of clerks at times of day when they know things should be very busy.
December 21st, 2024 at 6:38 pm
Cash Register Blues
Steven Taylor has posted some thing he doesn’t get. I’ll respond to his first item: Three workers, long line of…
December 21st, 2024 at 8:56 pm
Allow me to explain:
* Unions.
* This is GOOD help. I don’t want chatty help. I don’t want to know about their Uncle Jerry’s thyroid condition. With my new connections to the White House, I made this a new policy initiative — no chatty help. It seems to be working. Chalk this up as a victory for Bush.
* You don’t understand. These self-serve checkouts are an invitation to shoplift. Apparently you didn’t get the point.
* Well, when the picture is something your three year old colored, I would double check it too.
* Three Words — The Great Cabbage Patch Riots of ’82.
‘Nuf said.
December 21st, 2024 at 9:33 pm
I don’t do holidays, etc. so, I’ll submit someone else’s stuff that had me laughin’ literally for whole minutes, I mean whole actual minutes of laughter.
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