I’ll be completely honest. When I was first looking to buy a mask (not trusting online stores as I wasn’t sure what I wanted in the first place) for the pandemic, I walked into a pharmacy that had a huge sign right at the front of the store, with arrows pointing in various directions for all the major pandemic-related items one would need.
Yes, I walked right past it to ask a clerk. >.>
But, on the other hand, strategic placement of random stuff at the front of every store’s entrance has desensitized me to such things, knowing that what I most often want is well away from the entrance…
Had this happen when I worked a store closing. Guy whining about how he was supposed to know all sales were final. The liquidator was standing nearby and said “I have 190 signs in this store, you didn’t see a single one of them?” Was amazing.
Not excusing Mister Blue Shirt at all, he is completely in the wrong . . . but I would have made at least one of the signs say “NO RETURNS!” just to trigger as many bells as possible in customers’ heads.
Honestly, this would be one of the best times to give a variation of the “you get NOTHING” scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
“You can’t. You will also get no refund from any other Grumbel’s because all the merchandise here has been taken out of the inventory and given new skus for this liquidation. It’s all there, black and white, clear as crystal! All these signs say “all sales are final”.
If you didn’t actually want it, that’s too bad, so you get NOTHING. You LOSE! Good DAY, sir!”
I’ll be completely honest. When I was first looking to buy a mask (not trusting online stores as I wasn’t sure what I wanted in the first place) for the pandemic, I walked into a pharmacy that had a huge sign right at the front of the store, with arrows pointing in various directions for all the major pandemic-related items one would need.
Yes, I walked right past it to ask a clerk. >.>
But, on the other hand, strategic placement of random stuff at the front of every store’s entrance has desensitized me to such things, knowing that what I most often want is well away from the entrance…
I know that feel TOO well. Sometime when I’m looking for a certain item, I’d ask an employee where it is and they’d lead me back to where I went past.
Had this happen when I worked a store closing. Guy whining about how he was supposed to know all sales were final. The liquidator was standing nearby and said “I have 190 signs in this store, you didn’t see a single one of them?” Was amazing.
Not excusing Mister Blue Shirt at all, he is completely in the wrong . . . but I would have made at least one of the signs say “NO RETURNS!” just to trigger as many bells as possible in customers’ heads.
Honestly, this would be one of the best times to give a variation of the “you get NOTHING” scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
“You can’t. You will also get no refund from any other Grumbel’s because all the merchandise here has been taken out of the inventory and given new skus for this liquidation. It’s all there, black and white, clear as crystal! All these signs say “all sales are final”.
If you didn’t actually want it, that’s too bad, so you get NOTHING. You LOSE! Good DAY, sir!”
“Bravo! Author, author!”