True Story
This morning was my first time back on register for a full shift. As in, not doing anything anything else. No throbacks, no stocking the shelves, no cleaning, no self scan; only register. Last night when I came in to help my coworker watch self scan until we closed, my supervisor told everyone that if we see anyone with more than 2 packs of toilet paper, paper towels, or water to take one away. There was a limit of 2 per customer/household. As there should be right now. So this morning when the morning supervisor came in, the head cashier specifically that always seems to hide in the back and somehow avoids getting out of doing her own job, I asked her about the limits. If there was anything I should know other than those three items that had a limit of 2. Because, as far as I knew, the rule had only been implemented the night before when I was first told about it. Her response? "WHAT?? Don't you go saying that to customers! We're here to make the company money, people can buy as many damn packs of toilet paper as they want! Where the hell did you hear that? Don't you go lying to customers like that!!!" Spoiler - surprise surprise, within the first 15 minutes of the store opening all of the toilet papers were gone. The paper towels followed shortly after and by the end of the hour one brand of waters was completely wiped out. A different supervisor who came in to cover her butt had to make multiple announcements a few hours later telling customers that if they were lucky enough to be buying toilet paper, paper towels, or packs/gallons of water that there was a limit of two per customer and to be respectful and courteous of others during this time. The damn head cashier was more worried about making bucks for our company and refusing to say no to customers because god forbid they hate her (another spoiler, I know of a few customers who already do anyway) than actually taking the steps to make sure people who actually NEEDED this crap had something.
