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Back To The Grind
It’s somewhat fun for a week to be back at old Shop N’ Save. You get to say hello to those you worked with and kid around like old times. Yet work still has it’s pangs of misery like the aching feet and the customers.
Speaking of the customers…
Over the summer you’ll read many stories about the obsessive-compulsive, green point savy customers that come through my line. Already on my frist day I had a customer give me an undermining remark. As I shut the drawer, I almost forgot about her $4.00 change. Silly me! I gave it to her along with the receipt and asked her if she wanted the extra add that printed out. With Shop N’ Save, we have the green points system where you get 10 points for every dollar you spend. Soon you accumulate about 500 and spend them on something to get a dollar off. If you’re one of those collectable people who find extra enjoyment in saving up Betty Crocker points, you’ll wait till you gave about 200,000 points at the ripe at of 70 (when you started collecting the point when you were 20) and you can go on a trip somewhere in the Caribbean. There is a whole catalog chuck-full of the stuff you can trade your points in for. Because of this system there is another machine that prints out a second receipt listing your point balance and so on. Lately they have been printing out two or three ads to give customers to shove in their purses and wallets to later throw away when they get home. Thinking I could save the woman some time, I asked her if she wanted the additional ad. She remarked “Yes, I like to read things over, to check everything again” as she looked up at me with an untrusting eye. I must look stupid, I guess.
Yet my main pet peeve of the day was caused by a person I know from here, someone I know pretty well. Yet when she came into the store, gently smiled at me like she sees me everyday and not once in 3 months, and makes her way through the store. Figuring from occurrences in the past, I predicted a “blow-off” and that she wouldn’t come through my line. Unless you have never worked in a grocery store or anywhere for that matter, you know that it’s always an added treat to see someone you know and not another stranger off the street. Of course, this woman went through another line rather than mine, which was no shorter than the other. The only thing I could figure was that she has an issue with someone knowing how much she spends on groceries or she just doesn’t trust. I mean, come on, why not have your groceries checked out by someone who could easily rip you off rather than an old veteran of the grocery store who surely knows what she is doing? Ug. Life goes on.
But in the scheme of things, work is good! Aside from the crazy customers who tell you about their 401K as you check out their bread and butter, being back to work to get a dime or two isn’t bad. Oh, how I have missed income.
Now it’s time to relax before a run for the night and to chill around on the beautiful evening!
Speaking of the customers…
Over the summer you’ll read many stories about the obsessive-compulsive, green point savy customers that come through my line. Already on my frist day I had a customer give me an undermining remark. As I shut the drawer, I almost forgot about her $4.00 change. Silly me! I gave it to her along with the receipt and asked her if she wanted the extra add that printed out. With Shop N’ Save, we have the green points system where you get 10 points for every dollar you spend. Soon you accumulate about 500 and spend them on something to get a dollar off. If you’re one of those collectable people who find extra enjoyment in saving up Betty Crocker points, you’ll wait till you gave about 200,000 points at the ripe at of 70 (when you started collecting the point when you were 20) and you can go on a trip somewhere in the Caribbean. There is a whole catalog chuck-full of the stuff you can trade your points in for. Because of this system there is another machine that prints out a second receipt listing your point balance and so on. Lately they have been printing out two or three ads to give customers to shove in their purses and wallets to later throw away when they get home. Thinking I could save the woman some time, I asked her if she wanted the additional ad. She remarked “Yes, I like to read things over, to check everything again” as she looked up at me with an untrusting eye. I must look stupid, I guess.
Yet my main pet peeve of the day was caused by a person I know from here, someone I know pretty well. Yet when she came into the store, gently smiled at me like she sees me everyday and not once in 3 months, and makes her way through the store. Figuring from occurrences in the past, I predicted a “blow-off” and that she wouldn’t come through my line. Unless you have never worked in a grocery store or anywhere for that matter, you know that it’s always an added treat to see someone you know and not another stranger off the street. Of course, this woman went through another line rather than mine, which was no shorter than the other. The only thing I could figure was that she has an issue with someone knowing how much she spends on groceries or she just doesn’t trust. I mean, come on, why not have your groceries checked out by someone who could easily rip you off rather than an old veteran of the grocery store who surely knows what she is doing? Ug. Life goes on.
But in the scheme of things, work is good! Aside from the crazy customers who tell you about their 401K as you check out their bread and butter, being back to work to get a dime or two isn’t bad. Oh, how I have missed income.
Now it’s time to relax before a run for the night and to chill around on the beautiful evening!
posted by Lindsay K. at 2:29 PM
2 Comments:
I have so got to come to your store someday and suprise you. I'd stand in your line, even if it went around the produce aisle. :)
I would have to come to shop n' save to, if only to meet you once. Of course then again you have no clue who I would be, other then my listening to Good Charlotte.
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