Adult Children by Stephen Beals for August 02, 2023

Isn’t retail great?

and unfortunately, not covered by insurance

I have experienced this. Often the person you try to explain something to just can’t figure it out, no matter how simple you try to make it. And if you over simplify things they get angry. No win situation.

They might read the rules if they weren’t just squiggly lines.

You know you’re in for a long shift when dealing with the 1st customer scrambles your brain.

Customer questions that leave one dumb founded!

No, lady, we can’t.

“You won’t take a check? What if I write two checks instead of one?”

When I was working retail, I got asked that. I don’t know how long I looked back dumbfounded. My brain was broken for a while by that one.

We did have our after Christmas sale before Christmas

It was in January, that is before Christmas isn’t it

..standby…rebooting..

Well, the sale happened Dec 26-Jan 1 the previous year, so it was 356 days before this christmas

I have had this happen and sometimes it’s not even a question but just an opinion.

They are before Christmas. It’s just that they happen in January.

Once had a retail customer from Delaware who tried to tell us that since there’s no sales tax in Delaware, he did not have to pay sales tax anywhere including in the shop where I was working in Pennsylvania. Took a good bit of convincing from both staff and other customers that he didn’t have some sort of universal sales tax immunity when he left his home state.

Technically, the Christmas Clearance sales do come before Christmas. It might be the better part of a year before Christmas, but it is before Christmas

Sure we can. Hey Berle get that old expired Christmas stuff from 2005 out here! We got a buyer!!