Best Retail story EVERY
it was interesting to see what websites people actually went to..
I am an internet freak... and it amazed me you could do some of these things...
and then make a website about it.
Might explain some of my nightmares these days.
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I work on peoples cars now in a nation wide tire chain. I thought I was free of peoples bull**** ways of living. One porker from texas comes in for oil changes and never cleans out her car. Trash is up to the headrest and spills over into the driver's area. I use three seat covers in that car. One on the seat, and two seperating me from mount st trashpilia. there's a lot of milk jugs, and it freaking reeks.
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From: So-Cal
Its just funny how many people don't know how to turn on a cellphone or make a call. We still have people waiting for a dial tone. Its fun to watch their face light up in shame. We make fun of these people everyday, I wish your cellphone came with a book that you could read to know how to use your phone. Ooo damn isn't that the instruction book? Oops my bad
I used to work for RadioShack back a few years, I loved getting the elderly folk who have had their motoral brick phone for 12 years and want batteries for it.(we sold cell phones ofcourse)
once some lady hired me after work to go connect their new tv and components, i did.. and in the process moved around some **** DVD's, i didn't care.. but she called me the next day apologizing for it and making some excuse that it wasn't theirs.. LOL
I love how 99% of the time the customers are wrong, but 10)% of the time they are pissed at you.. lol.
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From: West Philly, PA!
10% of the time they're pissed at us? Lol closer to 50% in my industry.
If I can help you over the phone, I'm gonna try cause 1) I don't have to drive over there and 2) I won't have to charge you if it is something that could be fixed over the phone. I'm fairly well versed in the various ways a customer can describe a remote that just needs batteries. But the utter refusal to change the batteries, insisting that it's the box or the cable that's messed up, has had many many customers pay $30 for 2 AA batteries
If I can help you over the phone, I'm gonna try cause 1) I don't have to drive over there and 2) I won't have to charge you if it is something that could be fixed over the phone. I'm fairly well versed in the various ways a customer can describe a remote that just needs batteries. But the utter refusal to change the batteries, insisting that it's the box or the cable that's messed up, has had many many customers pay $30 for 2 AA batteries
We had one old man come into our store today, and he had a video that he wanted to play slowly, and show how it would be in real life. So I took the phone to see what video it was and it was 2 girls giving each other a baseball bat south of the Hemisphere. he said to me that he wants to to be in real time because no one can take a bat that size that fast. After it was all said and done and there wasn't anything i could do for him he looked at me and said I'm so embarrassed. Well he wasnt the only one embarrassed.
We also had a bearded lady come into the store today also!!!! she could atleast bleach the shiznit.. GROSS
OH BTW if your mom needs a temp. cell phone do not give her a cell phone with pictures of your wing ding and your various tittay pictures on the gallery, or even your background. Make sure you take the memory card out of the phone and wipe the hand held clean of your info... Mommy may have diapered you but she doesn't want to see your wing ding at full mass.
We also had a bearded lady come into the store today also!!!! she could atleast bleach the shiznit.. GROSS
OH BTW if your mom needs a temp. cell phone do not give her a cell phone with pictures of your wing ding and your various tittay pictures on the gallery, or even your background. Make sure you take the memory card out of the phone and wipe the hand held clean of your info... Mommy may have diapered you but she doesn't want to see your wing ding at full mass.
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I worked at best buy a year ago or so. My store was so tiny that a normal Best Buy's home theater section was probably about the same size as our entire sales floor.
Anyway, I was in the home theater department that also included, car audio, kitchen, and our own little version of Magnolia(had 2 tv's and 6-7 surround systems). Even though my store was so small, with all that area to cover I was barely able to adequately cover my whole section.
One day I was walking rounds around the DLP/wall mount/small LCD isle and I see a guy looking at one of our larger DLP tv's. I walk over and do my whole spiel and this guy is really short with me, not mean just one word answers, yeps and nopes. He finally says "Im still deciding", I tell him if he needs any help to just ask and leave him alone. I walk past the isle a few times and he is still there just staring at the same tv. I make eye contact with him once, thinking he may have a question but he didnt. About 20 min later I walk by again and he is eating a cheeseburger, and drinking a diet coke, watching our TV loop on a HUGE DLP tv from about 3-4 feet from the screen.
I go to ask my Sup if he had talked to the guy yet, and he said "Oh that guy? Yeah he's homeless and comes in a few times a week. As long as he isnt in the way, we just let him hang out."
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I was working the night before, or the night of Hot Import Nights. This African American family comes in to get some subs and amps for their show car. Im talking to this guy, and we end up on the topic of cars. He offers to buy my Integra from me right in the store. This dude pulls out a wad of hundreds, and literally wants my car right then. It was a tad strange to say the least. They finally get their stuff and start to head out, the youngest kid doesnt want to leave (he was probably about 3 years old). The dad walks over, picks his kid up by the foot so the kid is dangling upside down and carries him to the checkout lanes like that. As he passes me he says "Damn kid's harder to catch than a n***er runnin from the cops."
Now Im the whitest kid I know, and while what he said was funny, I didnt know what to do. If I laugh he'll think Im racist, but he said it to be funny so if I dont he may be offended. I half chuckled, and cocked a mild smirk, with a beet red face. The. Most. Awkward. Situation Ive ever been in. More awkward than my gf's roommate and her friend walking in on me ***** deep in my gf, with my pasty white *** poking out of the covers.
Anyway, I was in the home theater department that also included, car audio, kitchen, and our own little version of Magnolia(had 2 tv's and 6-7 surround systems). Even though my store was so small, with all that area to cover I was barely able to adequately cover my whole section.
One day I was walking rounds around the DLP/wall mount/small LCD isle and I see a guy looking at one of our larger DLP tv's. I walk over and do my whole spiel and this guy is really short with me, not mean just one word answers, yeps and nopes. He finally says "Im still deciding", I tell him if he needs any help to just ask and leave him alone. I walk past the isle a few times and he is still there just staring at the same tv. I make eye contact with him once, thinking he may have a question but he didnt. About 20 min later I walk by again and he is eating a cheeseburger, and drinking a diet coke, watching our TV loop on a HUGE DLP tv from about 3-4 feet from the screen.
I go to ask my Sup if he had talked to the guy yet, and he said "Oh that guy? Yeah he's homeless and comes in a few times a week. As long as he isnt in the way, we just let him hang out."
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I was working the night before, or the night of Hot Import Nights. This African American family comes in to get some subs and amps for their show car. Im talking to this guy, and we end up on the topic of cars. He offers to buy my Integra from me right in the store. This dude pulls out a wad of hundreds, and literally wants my car right then. It was a tad strange to say the least. They finally get their stuff and start to head out, the youngest kid doesnt want to leave (he was probably about 3 years old). The dad walks over, picks his kid up by the foot so the kid is dangling upside down and carries him to the checkout lanes like that. As he passes me he says "Damn kid's harder to catch than a n***er runnin from the cops."
Now Im the whitest kid I know, and while what he said was funny, I didnt know what to do. If I laugh he'll think Im racist, but he said it to be funny so if I dont he may be offended. I half chuckled, and cocked a mild smirk, with a beet red face. The. Most. Awkward. Situation Ive ever been in. More awkward than my gf's roommate and her friend walking in on me ***** deep in my gf, with my pasty white *** poking out of the covers.
