had nearly this exact thing happen. A radio personality encouraged people to try and haggle at stores, and the supermarket I work at had allot of people try. Several people even complained to the store managers that we wern’t being more agreeable. All were told the same thing, our prices are set and we can’t change em. That was a bad month and a half
I worked at a now defunct home improvements store back in the late 80s. Had this one customer looking at a door, and asking me to get a manager so he could ask about a discount. Not because it was damaged or defective in anyway, but because he “didn’t feel like paying that much.” I’ll give him credit for asking politely, and for asking for a manager instead of expecting me to make that call myself, but I think my brain rebooted. I went and got a manager, and then went on my way. I guess the customer didn’t get his discount, because a few minutes later, I was walking past the office and heard the manager laughing and trash-talking a customer who “didn’t feel like paying that much.”
“YOU may leave.”
had nearly this exact thing happen. A radio personality encouraged people to try and haggle at stores, and the supermarket I work at had allot of people try. Several people even complained to the store managers that we wern’t being more agreeable. All were told the same thing, our prices are set and we can’t change em. That was a bad month and a half
I worked at a now defunct home improvements store back in the late 80s. Had this one customer looking at a door, and asking me to get a manager so he could ask about a discount. Not because it was damaged or defective in anyway, but because he “didn’t feel like paying that much.” I’ll give him credit for asking politely, and for asking for a manager instead of expecting me to make that call myself, but I think my brain rebooted. I went and got a manager, and then went on my way. I guess the customer didn’t get his discount, because a few minutes later, I was walking past the office and heard the manager laughing and trash-talking a customer who “didn’t feel like paying that much.”
I remember Ernst and Home Base well, they were my go-tos at the time.
Arbitrary – based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system