Adult Children by Stephen Beals for October 29, 2023

Get’em Tabby!!

Cost will go way up when it falls and smashes her foot!

Gotta love Tabby!

Now we will have to charge you the restocking fee.

This strip is reminding me more and more of the one called “Retail” that shut down a few years ago. Can’t remember the artist/creator, but it had lots of behind-the-scenes drama, too.

HA! I’m guessing this will be pinned up and put in a lot of stores!

Obviously the customer isn’t bright enough to know that most stores also have the item’s barcode on the shelving sticker as well. I found that out many, many, many years ago (before it was a standard practice) when I went to buy an item which was on sale – it was on a shelf beside a virtually identical item (which had a different barcode and wasn’t on sale) and someone had placed one of the non-sale items with the sale items – which, of course, I grabbed as I didn’t realize there was a difference. It was when I went to pay for it that I found out it wasn’t the sale item and I was told about comparing the barcodes. To make matters worse, the barcode on the shelving sticker was next to impossible to read without a magnifying glass!

In my dad’s store my mom had a similar experience with a woman who wanted the sale price on a coat that didn’t belong on the sale rack. The woman said, “I can make you sell it to me for that price.” My mom, in a gentle tone of voice, said, “How?”

“The customer is always right!”… In matters of taste, yes, but rarely about anything else.

Nothing is obvious to some customers…..

name is Karen, right??