i had the good inch thing before..it seems to mean a little more than an inch..sometimes they say solid inch. my advice to customer would be figure out what you want before you leave the house
my least favorite people are the drunk ones, one christmas eve i had some yahoos all loaded up looking for a bonein beef crown roast. after giving them the price for 3 whole bi ribs, they decided not too go for it. another favorite is a customer TELLING you that someone cut something special for them or they always get an item at your store, that you either dont sell or dont cut. bonus points for those who say the other cutter did it for them or they got it the previous day( when you were working) and being the only cutter in the dept. yesterday some pajama wearing welfare woman wanted me to markdown a few boxes of butter quarters becase the boxes were beat up. i think i seriously hate people.
got to be creative if its a cute lady asking for skirt steak tell her you got a big long one and it could be free. if they say "chicken" and I get that one sometimes turn around and say "who are you calling chicken?" sometimes I get people coming to me and say "beef liver" I say "huh? yes I love beef"
you know whats really annoying if you have a self serve case you would know what I mean when everything is IN the case already and they are still asking for it and where it is you kind of want to say "Look ia m here to cut the meat not do your shopping your got to do that part and look for it" i get alot of people who want me to come and out and find everything for them when its kind of right in front of them. I even asked for a shopping list once and starting plucking all the meat items out of the case and put it in their buggy and then directed them to the stock manager for everything else. That probably wasn't very nice of me but i got them what they wanted.
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got to be creative if its a cute lady asking for skirt steak tell her you got a big long one and it could be free. if they say "chicken" and I get that one sometimes turn around and say "who are you calling chicken?" sometimes I get people coming to me and say "beef liver" I say "huh? yes I love beef"
last year, had a woman call on thanks givin morin' and ask how long it would take to defrost a turkey (she just took out of the frezer) in the mircowave.
this happened today. guy I never seen before asks me to cut exactly 10 new york strips for him but they can't be more than 25 dollars total and not less than 24 dollars at 7.99 per lb. thats a little tricky. he is standing there going "come on man don't you remember me? .. you gave me a good deal last time." i am like "uh uh sir I never seen you before in my life. but nice try"
Thanks for the reply Joe. Yes, we have limited and seasonal selections of similar products. Usually frozen or smoked. I guess the comedy for the team was the lady's delivery in her inquiry. Our store is in the center of east end Louisville, what could be described as the "snootiest" community in the suburbs. I figured the laughs would be limited. Some of these folks, are those "Barbie Dolls" that will try to boil an egg in a micro wave! The ignorance can be staggering. May God bless us all. MRB
this happened today. guy I never seen before asks me to cut exactly 10 new york strips for him but they can't be more than 25 dollars total and not less than 24 dollars at 7.99 per lb. thats a little tricky. he is standing there going "come on man don't you remember me? .. you gave me a good deal last time." i am like "uh uh sir I never seen you before in my life. but nice try"
Ida of gave him a deal above cost a sale is a sale"......as long as ur making something
can't let people take advantage of me expecially when they want to be dishonest. now if he wanted to buy a whole strip I would have gave him a good price but he was just asking for basically two family packs..i got those in the case. i ll cut more if you don't like the ones in the case but you get them for that price.
had some strip prims. in the case this week at $4.99lb cause the warehouse was hung on them. lady come up today and said she saw them at another store and asked if i had them. i told her i did and walked her over to them. there runnin bout $60, she said she could not afford a whole one so i told her i would half it (to be nice). then she said"i want 13 steaks, and make sure there not thin." i said mame theres no way unless there thin she then said' just forget it and walked off" you try to help people out but they always one of them like that out there
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I got asked today what I was baking, something smelled good....I was facing the lunchmeat counter that is around the corner from both my dept & deli/bakery....while I had a bloody coat on...that was a classic question.....I told him that I was not baking anything, he said are you sure?.....OMG what an idiot!!!!
this aint really a question but today a had a few people annoy the **** outta me want stuff outta the service case and when i give it to them then they say owe i wanted it wrapped seperated ....like piss off its 2 beef tenderloins in vest in some sandwich bags..lol...i had a bout 5 poeple today do that now i started asking every one how they want it wrapped