"Svend" (svend)
06/21/2016 at 20:28 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
06/21/2016 at 20:28 • Filed to: None | 3
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I just had to confirm it was a full moon.
I work nights in a supermarket and some of the customers this evening are driving me crazy.
We are currently changing our lighting over to more economical tubes and so have cranes, work men and barriers dotted about the place.
Cue customer number one who is standing next to a barrier blocking off an aisle. “Can I get past here?”, me, “no, there’s a barrier. Can I help you with something, and I’ll get it for you?”.
Customer number two (who was standing next to customer number one), “why is there a barrier?”, (me looking over my shoulder at two cranes beeping going up and down, work men passing tubes up and down, cables hanging 15" from the ceiling), me, “we’re having new lighting put in” (stating the blatently obvious) to which he replies “oh, okay”.
One customer asking for goats milk yoghurt, on being told we don’t sell it says “well I can get it from supermarket A, supermarket B and supermarket C”. So I repeated (nicely), “sorry but we don’t sell it here, supermarket A is still open down the road if you wish” (we sell 700 different types, flavours and nationalities of yoghurts, so forgive us for not having the one you want).
And others like it.
AAAAAARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
Sam
> Svend
06/21/2016 at 20:36 |
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I also work nights at supermarkets. It’s worse for me, though, because I don’t actually work at the specific stores, I work for corporate doing resets. This means that a lot of items are eliminated and pretty much everything is moved all over the place (I’m sure your store has been reset at least once, so you probably know my pain).
So people ask me if I can check in the back and I have to tell them that I cannot. When they ask me where X, Y, and Z are, I can honestly tell them I don’t really know, but I can help them look. They probably just think I’m an asshole that doesn’t want to help them, though.
My citroen won't start
> Svend
06/21/2016 at 20:39 |
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Can you come up with weird but polite answers?
-Yes, the aisle is blocked, the chicken breasts have escaped.
-We have some new Lobster Yoghurt, would you like to try that?
Steve in Manhattan
> Svend
06/21/2016 at 20:40 |
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Yoghurt is a food of the weak. Use sour cream, and don’t fuck around.
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Svend
> My citroen won't start
06/21/2016 at 21:02 |
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I try to be polite as possible but when confronted with such stupidity I find it hard to come up with anything witty.
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Svend
> Steve in Manhattan
06/21/2016 at 21:04 |
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I’m not a yoghurt person myself. The Icelandic and Polish yoghurt is quite nice as it’s really thick but I’m not going to shop specifically for it. Just if I see it in passing.
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Steve in Manhattan
> Svend
06/21/2016 at 21:12 |
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I had Greek yoghurt once - it’s sold here - and I was sort of bored.
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Svend
> Steve in Manhattan
06/21/2016 at 21:21 |
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We do Greek and ‘Greek style’ which is made in the U.K., France or Germany to be like Greek yoghurt. It’s okay I guess. It’ not going to set the world on fire though for flavour.
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Svend
> Sam
06/21/2016 at 21:49 |
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Ye’, we get people who issue us with ‘remodulars’, where A moves to B, and B moves to A (why I don’t know, it pi55es me an the customers off).
Then we have next week, chilled readymeals is moving to the fresh meat aisle and fresh meat to chilled readymeals, but in six weeks were getting new fridges. Why they can’t wait till then to do the change I don’t know.
Tonight we had a member of staff swap a chilled promotion end for a fresh meat promotion end and vice versa, tomorrow we will be changing what’ on promotion on the chilled end for a new product on offer, why not do the change tonight as we are moving the ends anyway (we are changing the other ends, just not the four that swapped tonight, mental).
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Sam
> Svend
06/21/2016 at 21:54 |
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One of the big things we do when moving A to B and B to A is to promote different products. People are most likely to buy things at eye level on the shelf and are very likely to impulse buy things which are on the same aisle. When the identical rows move across the store, I have no idea why they do that.
And since we’re an outside company moving everything around, the store employees also dislike us. Stockers really don’t like when they have to learn the new layout.
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Svend
> Sam
06/21/2016 at 22:00 |
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In our company the change is all done by the staff. Take the ice cream and frozen deserts aisle. 19 bays of ice cream witha bay of ice cubes in bay one, then half way through the year it swaps to bay 19 so everything moves back one bay, then later in the year the ice will move back to bay 1 from bay 19 and yep, you guessed right, everything has to move forward one bay. Argh!