Fuck Yeah Retail Robin

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Who else welcomes customers as they enter when at the main register, and all they get is "Gimme/I need two packs of [insert brand] cigarettes"?

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u know that feeling when corporate lets u know your store is closing and now u have 3 weeks until ur jobless :))))))))))

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Are my retail robins about adventures in bra fitting too NSFW for y'all? just wanna check before I submit.

Bras are fine. Everyone likes boobs!~J

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[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right. Top Text: “THE LOCATION OF THE CHEESE-NIPS IS BEYOND MORTAL COMPREHENSION” Bottom Text: “AND OTHER FUN AND EXCITING ADVENTURES IN GO-BACKS”]

In an effort to escape the hell that is the check-outs, I managed to slip away and do go-backs for 90 minutes on Monday. I learned some fun and interesting things. First of all, if we even stock Cheese-Nips at all (which I suspect we don't), they are not located with the rest of the crackers, or anywhere on the cereal aisle. They might have been with the chips and pretzels, because for some strange reason, those are on a different aisle. I really don't know who designed the layout of this store. The toothpick dispensers are located down the aisle from the toothpicks, rather than with the toothpicks. The 12-ounce cans of Frebreeze are not located next to the 19-ounce cans of the exact same product for reasons that completely mystify me. There are a variety of store-brand housewares hanging off the ends of aisles and the only way to find them is to walk the length of the store until you find the correct aisle. I couldn't put back a jar of olive oil, because despite knowing where the olive oil is, we don't appear to even sell that brand. The fact that it says "all-natural" on it gives it an 80% chance of being in the health food section, but I couldn't find it there either. Speaking of which, there's a selection of organic peanut butter in the health section, but if you go look at the non-organic stuff, there's organic options mixed in. They've also got stuff in the health section whose packaging gives no indication of it being any different than the regular stuff.

Also, there's several pallets of soda stacked on top of each other (in the bakery of all places). They're packaged so that customers can simply take a bottle and go. However, I wonder if they've been cycling through them or only refilling the top level. The soda on the bottom may have been there for months.

The worst part is the fact that the woeful lack of training (a completely different rant) means that half the courtesy clerks don't know where stuff goes. So just because something is in the basket for a particular aisle doesn't mean it actually goes there. Or maybe that's the fact that there's no rhyme or reason to the store layout.

PS. I have no idea if the image uploaded. Tumblr is being stupid

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Why do my bosses expect me to be able to answer customer questions when the only training I've received is on safety and the best way to say yes? It took me over a month to learn where the bathrooms are.

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Customers keep marveling at how big my store is. This is a source of endless confusion to me, because of the five stores in a three-mile radius I've frequented in the 20 years I've lived here, this is the second-smallest.

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I got my first job in retail a couple months ago, and I haven't been trained for anything other than till. Everyone hired with me has gotten more training, and people hired after me too. Should I ask about it? Or should I just wait?

Ask for more training! Being trained in multiple areas is good because you’ll be considered for more hours, and It’ll show your superiors that you’re proactive about your job which is good for consideration regarding promotions. Hope it works out!~J

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[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right. Top Text: “SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT FOR MONDAY MORNING” Bottom Text: “AREN'T YOU CLOSED ON MONDAY MORNING?”] my particular store is actually an optician franchise and it requires appointments to be made for customers for the eye exam. We are also open from 9 to 6 everyday, in an area where most stores open later on Monday. So I understand the confusion and that people just want to be sure, but after the millionth time of having a customer ask if we're even open then after we've already scheduled an appointment makes it increasingly hard to bite back a comment along the lines of "why would I waste both your time and mine by scheduling an appointment outside of our business hours."

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I’m working earlier and this guy comes in and seems anxious. We usually wait until people need help to ask, but he comes over and tells me, “I’m cosplaying Bowser and need spiked wristbands.” I immediately start heading towards the jewelry / accessories and try to strike up some friendly conversation

 I respond, “Ah, cool. You doing NonCon at all?” remembering that our local convention is this coming weekend.

He looks at me super seriously and replies, “no, my friends and I are going go-karting downstairs and we’re all dressed up as Mario Kart characters.”

Retail, although very rarely, has its perks.

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Jic case you thought I was lying

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Sometimes, the world is so full of beauty…

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Noice!

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I work on a clothing store and yesterday we were open ( yes, we opened on January 1st ) and I was in charge of closing down a section with Adidas stuff. I've lost count of how many times I folded the same jackets over and over again because costumers would take them off the table, see it for about two seconds and then literally just throw them again on the table. It is frustating as well and you done the first half of your section, start doing the other half and notice the first half is already a mess because costumers just grab stuff, mess it up and put it on the wrong places.

If you are a costumer going to just about any retail store, please, PLEASE, take under consideration that the employees spend hours trying to keep the store tidy. Off course you can grab a jacket and try it on or something like that but in the end put it where you found it. Don't go to another section and put the jacket there, or put it in the same section only on a totally different place. 

Oh, and why do people tend to leave empty Starbucks cups on retail stores ? Please ... just no.

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Every customer this holiday season: “ummmm……hiiiiiiiii…….do you guys have any hatchimals??? ..?????…??…..???????????”

Every retail employee this holiday season:

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Once in a great while, I encounter a child who really restores my faith in humanity. The child is polite, calm and says please and thank you.

Those times, I track down their parent and tell them what a wonderful, polite child they have and tell them how impressed I am with their manners.

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[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right. Top Text: “Customer opens raw meat on sell by date.” Bottom Text: “Wonders why it smells bad.”]

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[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right. Top Text: “I'LL RUN YOU OUT OF BUSINESS.” Bottom Text: “THEN YOU'LL BE SORRY.”]

For reference, I work at a relatively small store in a national pet supply chain.

Thankfully this one didn't involve me directly, I was doing a task nearby and overheard. A customer was getting sassy with one of our new hires (fortunately I think he was just transfered from another store, so not a true newbie), ranting about how he was so displeased and upset at our terrible service, how when a customer has feedback the company really should value it, and now this terrible behavior on our part will continue and drive all our customers away and when they shut down the store and hand out the pink slips we'll all be sorry.

Because we don't carry the kind of parakeet food he wants.

First, buddy, there are people who spend more on dog food in a day (myself included, actually) than you would spend on bird food in a year. Second, the fuck makes you think we're going to be here that long? I'm already looking for summer camp gigs, this is no one's long-term career choice.

Step off buddy, you're not that important. 

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[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right. Top Text: “We're playing sales battleship.” Bottom Text: “On Pearl Harbor day.”]

Since I work a sales based job, the store will oftentimes come up with little games to encourage employees to generate higher sales, or credit card apps.

The object of sales Battleship was pretty simple, store was split into 2 teams, when you make a sale of $100+ you got to give a number for the game. The team with the most ships sank won, and everyone on the team gets a small prize. 

Fun enough game (the employees did get into it), except today is Pearl Harbor day. So. Maybe in poor taste. 

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[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right. Top Text: “WOULD YOU LIKE TO DONATE TO A HOMELESS PET?” Bottom Text: “I HAVE ONE AT HOME.”]

My store partners with a local animal shelter and all the PIN pads ask if customers would like to donate. We're supposed to ask verbally too, and while we can bypass the donation screen we're not really supposed to. And without fail, the most common response is either "not today" or "I already have one of those" and the first one, fine, okay, you're not obligated, but the second one.... 

First of all, if you have a homeless pet it's not frigging homeless is it, it has a home, it lives in your home, that's not homeless. Second, what kind of excuse is that? I get it, pets are expensive, you feel you've done your moral duty taking one in when you didn't have to, but that's such a snide answer? Just condescending and "I've done my job, I don't have to care anymore" like??? And they're almost always snide older ladies, and so often they also have this attitude that the expenses of an animal are a personal imposition on them that they shouldn't have to deal with, and that just goes against every philosophy I have, but I can't say that so I just gotta smile and get them out the door as quick as I can.