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i dont know how many run ins i have had with customers on and around holidays at the K-Mart back when i was in school .
I had a dude throw a 2 liter bottle of soda at my head because we were out of calling cards. Needless to say i hopped the counter ready to kill him , until the little old lady tripped him with her cane while he ran . i couldnt attack some one who was just owned by a 75 year old lady.
Then i had a guy on christmas Eve that wouldnt leave PD asked him if he needed help ( yes we met at the K-Mart 😈 ) he told her to “F” off he would leave when he was ready. i went up to him took his little greeting card out of his hand and told him he was ready to leave . He tried to get nasty but me and 2 other guys told him we would gladly help him into the parking lot ..he left with no more trouble .
I could go on and on about those nasty people 👿
I saw that on the news. Un-freaking-believable! Two years ago, the local Best Buy had the police break up multiple fist fights and were about ready to clear the entire line. I go out and went out this year as well. I’m always super pleasant, no matter how tired I am, because I’ve worked retail for over 10 years. If I never have to work retail again, I will be VERY happy (even if I do have to deal with idiots on occasion for my job in IT). Most customers were great, but there is always that one person who has to be crappy. I always avoid Best Buy and Walmart (they are located in extremely close proximity to each other).
Like every year, I get up for a local retailer. They have a sale 50% everything in the store that isn’t an artist commission the first hour, 40% the next hour, down to 20% for the rest of the day. Hardly anyone was on the street except for our small line. Everyone was really pleasant, even with the cold wind whipping up, and an employee came out 15 minutes before to offer warmed up Munchkins to anyone who wanted one. When the time came to open, everyone filed in one at a time. I was in and out in 10 minutes (and extremely worth it – I get most of my Breyers this way!). Walked down the street to get some OJ and a bagel, grabbed a slice of ‘breakfast’ pizza for my mom, did a little window shopping (like the Moroccan store with all their lanterns glowing – nicer at night than during the day!). Drove over to a few more stores in and around the mall to mostly just see what I could put on my holiday list for clothes and scouting some stuff for my mom (since she can’t really walk around too much at the moment). Stopped at the orchard for some apple butter for my relatives’ gift baskets and headed home to sleep (I was only running on 3.5 hours… totally my fault). My parents went out and got a new tv at like, 2pm and got the one they were looking for (it was super cheap and it was actually put into the computer system at $100 cheaper than advertized, so they got an even better deal).
I generally have a good experience (except for Staples, because the lines or horribley long, due to all the rebates that need to print), but I think avoiding the two really monster stores here helps. I also enjoy the people watching, as long as I stay out of the fray. You can’t pay me to go near those two stores this weekend!
Taking a life for money. Grrrr…..people are greedy and it sickens me. 😥 I don’t care how good the sale is, someones life and well being is not worth the merchandise! You can never replace a human being or living creature. Never.
I just closed JC Penney this evening, this is my third Black Friday in retail and it still sucks butt. The store looked like a bomb went off, we stayed late trying to put it back together, and it still looks like a bomb went off in spots.
I can’t stand people on a general basis, but the Christmas shopping season just makes my distaste for the human race even worse.
Rusti wrote:I can’t stand people on a general basis, but the Christmas shopping season just makes my distaste for the human race even worse.
heh, I’ve worked retail longer than some of our associates have been alive, I pretty much have NO holiday spirit anymore. Bah Humbug doesn’t even begin to cover it. 😡
My favorite holiday ? mmm, how about Columbus Day, it’s such a non-holiday… no rude customers, no big sales, no hassles….
(sorry all, grouchy after working Thanksgiving and Black Friday )
When I worked in Macy’s it was the same thing…either jump away from the door or be trampled. This was in an extremely well heeled area, too. Money just can’t buy brains:-/
I don’t know what it is about JC Penney’s that makes the customers trash the store that way. I worked for a month as a Christmas temp one year and they regularly tore up the store. 😕
I do most of my shopping online. You couldn’t pay me enough to venture out on Black Friday. People act like animals.
lamortefille wrote:Money just can’t buy brains:-/
lamortefille wrote:People act like animals.
AGREED!!!! (with part of that answer containing a main reason… greed).
lamortefille wrote:I don’t know what it is about JC Penney’s that makes the customers trash the store that way. I worked for a month as a Christmas temp one year and they regularly tore up the store. 😕
Borders was never too bad, but Sears was the same way. I’d regularly have to clean out armloads of clothing every 30-60 minutes at least, then try to scurry and put it all back before the next dressing room run. The worst was when you’d go in and the dressing room would smell like pee and it wasn’t necessarily children. EWWWWWWW! Those were the worst! 😡 We also weren’t allowed to chase after people if they tried to run out with stuff, partly because of reasons like in CA with that Toys ‘R’ Us. You just never know and a shirt is not worth the risk!
I need to mail something at the UPS store today, but it’s right by Best Buy and Walmart. Other than just being wiped out from the last 2 days, I’m waiting for Monday to go there. I always found the nastier people on the Sat. and Sunday following Black Friday at the stores I’d go to. I need to stop at Walmart for some gift wrap stuffs, but I’m going to wait until 1am Monday on my drive home from work. The best time to go. Blessedly free of customers! XD
I’ve never really understood the urge to shop in that sort of atmosphere….they treat it like a competitive sport, and then brag about how they wrestled this or that from someone else. sickening. :puke: :puke: :puke:
I only went to Costco, and hadn’t meant to shop for more than food, but there were too many goodies out there and most of them had the little asterisk on the tag indicating that it wasn’t coming back, so waiting wasn’t a good idea if I wanted it. *sigh*
The atmosphere wasn’t bad though, normal number of customers and it was pretty friendly.
Kyrin
Rusti wrote:I just closed JC Penney this evening, this is my third Black Friday in retail and it still sucks butt. The store looked like a bomb went off, we stayed late trying to put it back together, and it still looks like a bomb went off in spots.
I can’t stand people on a general basis, but the Christmas shopping season just makes my distaste for the human race even worse.
UGH! I used to work there! It was my first job and I endured three long years there along with three unbearable Black Fridays! GAH! At least at Home Depot nobody cares enough about anything here to fight over it! LOL! We have more fighting with contractors on a regular day =)
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I can’t stand people on a general basis, but the Christmas shopping season just makes my distaste for the human race even worse.
UGH! I used to work there! It was my first job and I endured three long years there along with three unbearable Black Fridays! GAH! At least at Home Depot nobody cares enough about anything here to fight over it! LOL! We have more fighting with contractors on a regular day =)
Nobody was fighting over anything that I know of. I didn’t get in to work until 3:30 pm, so most of the crazy was over by then and the picking up began. I opened last year and ended up going home puking my guts up because I wasn’t able to stop moving (I’m sales support, which means I’m out on the floor, and always the first one to get mobbed for help when things are crazy).
I want desperately to have a career job so I can get out of that hole.
We just had midnight madness up here that’s the first Friday in December but it’s NEVER been that bad! As far as I know, no one gets killed.
God, people make me sick. 😡 I would love to hope that they all get what they deserve for killing that guy (the pregnant woman shouldn’t have even BEEN there) but that’s wishful thinking.
Fortunately, all of our customers were relatively well-behaved. e.e One old lady got a little sassy because her check wouldn’t go through (it was for over $400, and her bank was trying to protect her, but she didn’t understand that…), but that’s the only fuss that got kicked up at all.
We did have a few people run when they came through the door, but they were first in line, so they didn’t push anyone or anything. Actually, it was more like a jog. They weren’t like, flat-out bolting. XD I think they wanted RockBand or something. Hmm. I think most people came and left happy. o.o I know I did. 😀 *pets new Blu-ray player*
kitsunelady wrote:Fortunately, all of our customers were relatively well-behaved. e.e One old lady got a little sassy because her check wouldn’t go through (it was for over $400, and her bank was trying to protect her, but she didn’t understand that…), but that’s the only fuss that got kicked up at all.
We did have a few people run when they came through the door, but they were first in line, so they didn’t push anyone or anything. Actually, it was more like a jog. They weren’t like, flat-out bolting. XD I think they wanted RockBand or something. Hmm. I think most people came and left happy. o.o I know I did. 😀 *pets new Blu-ray player*
Yeah, in our neck of the woods things tend to be relatively low key compared to what goes on in more heavily populated, ‘richer’ areas of the country.
We did have one woman come up to the register with one of those stupid mini snowglobes that Penney’s gives out for free at the door in the morning on Black Friday and demand an exchange for one of our $40 ones (for free) because the one she got was entirely too small.
Demanded a manager and everything until another customer in line said: “Lady, they’re all like that, and they’re *free*”
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