#retail psa

[deelovesbooks]

hey guys another psa for y'all. If you are buying someone an article of clothing don't pick something and call it an "aspirational size" bc that is a dick move and the retail worker is now killing you with their mind lasers

[acecream-boy]

Pandemic Retail PSA *CRACKS KNUCKLES*

1. Wait your goddamn turn in line. And stop crowding other people. There's lines on the floor for a reason. Stand there. Always follow the arrows on the floor in the Isles. No one will fine you, but even other customers, like me, will heavily judge you.

2. Stop and always make sure your mask is on properly BEFORE you enter the store. We've been doing this for almost 10 months people. AND IF YOU HAVE A MEDICAL REASON AND CANNOT WEAR A MASK, YOU STILL SHOULD. We are seeing how covid is affecting people with preexisting conditions. If you have a respitory issue, just IMAGINE how badly a disease that effects your breathing will do to you. Inhalers are WORTH IT. And if retailers and denists and nurses with Asthma have to do it for 8+ hrs, the least you can do is wear it the 10 minutes you spend in a store. Or have a family member or friend or someone in your church group go to the store to buy things for you. I know it's hard, as someone with asthma I can sympathize. But covid sounds ONE MILLION TIMES WORSE than using an inhaler every couple of hours.

3. If a retail worker hands you a complimentary mask, you take it dimwit. Regardless if they will or won't deny you service.

4. Stop licking your bills! Disgusting before 2020, over borderline dangerous now. They make tip moisturizing balm if you lack oil in your finger tips.

5. Don't come in and play lottery for HOURS. Get your lottery if you have to, and don't come back that day. Especially if it's like 2 dollars worth of winnings.

6. If there's a coffee area. Use a napkin or wash/sanitize your hands. Also, STOP BRINGING IN REUSABLE MUGS. Regardless if the state or location has a ban on it. They carry bacteria and you as the customer have no access to wash and sanitize it.

7. STOP PUTTING YOUR HEAD AROUND OR THROUGH THE SLOT OF PROTECTIVE GLASS. IT DEFEATS THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING EMPLOYEES.

8. Do not touch food on a hot plate if you do not 100% intend to buy it. If it doesn't even pass in a kids cafeteria, then you sure as hell shouldn't do it here in a store. You touch it or damage it, you buy it? Capeshe?

9. If you are making an employee go OUT OF THEIR WAY to help you. Do NOT apologise for being "inconvient". Not only does it anger retail workers on the inside in general. But also, if you were going to apologise ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN SOWWYS. Maybe consider NOT making the employee go outta their way if you're gonna feel bad about it and just apologise the WHOLE time. SOWWYS mean nothing. They're just words. Use your actions and act accordingly.

And FINALLY, 10. Be nice. Be kind. Be considerate. A lot of people working right now are short staffed and just as afraid of catching this virus. I shouldn't have to say this, but PLEASE DON'T BE A DICK. Not only will the employee have the possibility to deny service, but you're just making an ass of yourself. And other people notice it too.

Ps.

If any of you don't work retail and you see a customer not following the rules. Or are being a dick. Please SPEAK OUT. GET HUFFY WITH THEM. SHAME THEM FOR BEING SO INCONSIDERATE. Retail workers go through enough and sometimes we can't say jackshit. So please, be nice. Speak out. And follow the rules 🖤

Anyone wants to add on to these "unspoken" new rules, feel free to. Even I, a retailer, would like an opportunity to learn how to behave accordingly. We are all not perfect. But in this time of economic and pandemic crisis, ww have to be better. To be more. We need to be considerate of the people we demand a service from, and not dehumanize them or put them in danger. We are essential to society, without us working the whole system will crash. We are also afraid though, for our families and ourselves. Some of us have NO CHOICE BUT TO WORK right now either. So please, follow the "unspoken rules" as best as you can. And please, no one likes a Karen 🖤

[cappacinocurse]

PSA: If you break a glass object in a store, DO NOT try to kick it under a shelf to hide it. Tell an employee so we can clean it up. I get that it's embarrassing to break stuff, but shit happens. Like, at least at my store, we won't even make you pay for it. (This might be different at other places, especially art stores or places selling expensive glass) We need you to let the staff know though so we can clean it up and it's no longer a danger to both staff and customers.

[retail-truestory]

Please stop cutting in front of people, around blockades or caution tape, or coming through the other end of the register lanes. If an announcement is made saying or we personally tell you where the line for checkout is, PROCEED TO THE LINE FOR CHECKOUT. If you don't know where the line is ask someone POLITELY and then proceed to the line for checkout. The line, signs, blockades, and caution tape all exist for a reason. This has been a Retail PSA.

[b0kunoanime]

This is a thought prompted by that Target Halloween PSA I reblogged.

Aside from those dumb sticky lizards and eyeballs, like, don’t just go into a store and wreck it. Don’t be that guy. If you pull something off a shelf and decide you don’t want it, just take it to the cashier -- they will willingly take it because you handing it over means they don’t have to scour the store for it when it’s not where it’s supposed to be but their inventory says they’re supposed to have one on hand.

Don’t leave stuff in a mess on the shelf. Just take it back to the cashiers. Don’t throw the dollar bin items at the ceiling to stick them there. Don’t let the balloons out. Don’t open packages? And I don’t mean as a shoplifter but I’ve just seen people open stuff to see what’s in it and then rather than taking it to the cashier to tape up because...that’s the polite thing to do if you really decide not to buy it, they leave it making it easier FOR shoplifters, leaving the employee in charge of that aisle now responsible for that loss and your mess.

Like, in general, don’t be a dick in a public store you morons

EDIT: Oh and don’t let your kids do it either, like, teach your kids not to just pull stuff off shelves and wreck stuff and if they do drag something around the store keeping them entertained, don’t just shove it somewhere when it’s time to checkout -- TAKE IT TO THE EMPLOYEES, you will LITERALLY MAKE THEIR JOB EASIER AND IT COSTS YOU NOTHING YOU ARE ALREADY ON YOUR WAY TO THE REGISTERS ANYWAY

[retail-truestory]

If you have to explain what the item is you’re looking for, there’s a very likely chance the store doesn’t carry it.

[retail-truestory]

My store is closing. We just found out last week. Which, on it's own is just SO much fun, but it makes customers even better than usual. We sell overstock items so they're at a lower price than other stores to begin with, but now the whole store is 10-30% off which has some people purchase crazy, some thieving crazy, and even still some people angry that our deals aren't better. I had one person ask me yesterday when exactly we were closing for good. She goes, "So that's why these sales suck."

First off let me start by apologizing how long it took to get to this ask even cause I know it was WAY before this damn virus panic and I can’t even imagine how many stores are probably closing for good during and after all this.

I’m sorry to hear about your store closing and I really hope you’re able to find something better after all this is said and done.

Now that that’s said... CUSTOMERS! JUST. CHILL. Believe it or not the answer is so fricking simple. You don’t like the closing sales? Then you have not one but two options! You can either buy some stuff when you’re in the store and wait until the prices decrease more and the sales “suck less” to more items OR, and I know this is going to sound shocking, you can not buy stuff at that store!

[retail-truestory]

Customers, if I ask you a yes or no question, the answer out of your mouth had better damn well be YES OR NO. No short answer, no third option, YES OR NO. You do not need to spout irrelevant information at me. I will ASK YOU for the specific information that I need WHEN I need it. Half the problems I have at my job stem from people NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION THAT THEY ARE ASKED or otherwise not following instructions.

This applies to every customer service job! If you want us to help you don’t give any roundabout answers that bring us back to square one. Yes or no means yes or no.

Also customers, if you could answer without the annoying, irritable, or duh tones then it’ll make us not only more willing to help you and that much easier to get our job done but it’ll make the whole process go a hell of a lot faster!