I was at smart and final some months ago and the barcode on my steaks wouldn't scan. I told the cashier to just enter it manually and he said, "Not for what they pay me." And put it in my bag for free.
I went to Spirit Halloween last year and I found a cool long sleeve shirt with mushrooms on it. It was like $30 but I wanted it. The girl at the register said "oh. Oh no. Oh this isn't supposed to be out these shouldn't be in stock" or something, and said "well I will give it to you for ... $5?" I said sold! 🤣
My only time at a spirit Halloween I bought a sword and was gonna buy a cool DnD tin full of cherry candies but the lady checking me out scanned the sword then put it and the candies in a bag and when I went to double check if she got it as well she just told me to have a great day.
I once found a top that I liked for £22. It was the only one left on the shelf but had a small hole near the tag (looked as if the machine had missed some stitching).
I took it to the checkout and asked if they had any more because this one has a hole. The woman said no this is the last one.. I'll let you have it for £2.
My store's policy is that the cashier asks what sounds fair and charges them for that, since finding the price tag is more effort than it's worth most of the time.
My store director will give it away for free if she's on the floor, since it's our mistake and she's authorized to do that. I make a point of asking her how much I should charge the customer if she's within shouting distance, even if there's a different manager closer. I like giving things away when I have the opportunity.
I remember when Hastings was open and they always asked if I found everything I needed. The rental DVD section in our store always has things out of place and there was usually something you couldn't find.
Ingles made it worse. In that store, if it doesn't ring up right, you actually do get the first one free. The rest are scanned at the corrected price. This worked in my favor once buying a $30 can of baby formula that didn't ring up right. My kid ate free for like 2 days!
Baby formula is so incredibly expensive. I called around a few months ago trying to track down a very specific formula and no one local had it. Wasn’t my kid but I know how to pull strings. Ended up finding it and securing a case. Sooooooo expensive, I think it was $60 a container x6 yoinks
My dad would make that joke a lot and I would be absolutely mortified 😭 I always apologized to the cashier because I know for a fact that had heard that wayyyyy too many times. They were always polite but still I found it annoying so I can't imagine how they felt
I work in a convenience store/deli, and I get people saying that they should get discounts. "For how many I bought I should/Since I had to wait for the coffee I should get-" My dude, I don't even get a discount. You are about to get double charged if you keep it up!
🤣 when I worked at a convenience store my last year of high school, we were allowed free fountain drinks and coffee. But I took whatever the fuck I wanted lmao. And I would only give free stuff to first responders, I would tell them just get a bunch of fountain drinks because those cost next to nothing.
Also one time there was a bitch customer trying to buy beer but I had to ID them. She threw a fit, so I said sorry systems are down I can’t finish this transaction 🤪
I'm rather honest with my customers. Mind, I get free coffee, but I dont drink it, so if I get a stray first responder, fire-fighter or local officer, I usually let them go for a cup, basically just saying it's mine, since I'd otherwise not make use of it. Only major issue here is that we have to I.D. everyone for cigarettes, regardless if you look like you are 12, or look like you have a week to live before turning to dust. So I get quite a few people who like to give me a hard time over it.
I used to GET OFF on just staring down people that made the obvious jokes. The best was when they'd follow up with "that was a joke" and I'd get to hit them with the Han Solo "I know."
Yup. I got the added “more like dollar twenty-five tree” as well when I worked at Dollar Tree. Ya I fucking know inflation ruins everything. 3 other people have made that joke this shift.
As someone who was a vegetarian for a long time.
"Did you know vegetarian is an old Indian word for bad hunter? Heeheehoohoo"
Made me wanna go cannibal right then and there.
I got so many brownie points as a server because I carded all the women. I loved when a woman would come in with her daughter, I’d ask for ID and the mom would ask “mine too? Haha” not expecting me to say yes. As I get older, it is a little ego boost to get carded.
As a 38-year-old man, I take it as a compliment when I get carded, even though I know it's probably meaningless. At the very least, it usually means they aren't sure if I'm over 35... so that's something.
One of my first managers was extremely chivalrous with every little old lady he could. I worked there 5 years and only saw one person draw the line with him.
I don't know how much that has to do with skin colour? In my experience as a cashier, older women in general tend to like it if we happen to be chatting and I ask for their ID for alcohol, some don't but it's never skin colour that would indicate it
I was thinking the same thing. I worked with the elderly for years, and almost all older women beam uncontrollably if you insinuate in any way that they're young. It's pretty universal. I don't know why skin color has to go into every conversation about everything all the time, but here we are.
When I was a table busser, it was me asking, "can I get anything out of your way?" and them responding, "you can get this!" hands me their unpaid check
Some people are just trying to make pleasant small talk and you are essentially an npc so not really much that can happen that will warrant varying replies. Seems more like you just hate your job and would prefer to suffer in silence. I’d much rather hear an over used cliche than a Karen.
That's part of it too, like it's also just kinda tacky to all for free stuff at a place with almost 0 incentive to ever just give something away for free. Turns into one of those "do I come to your place of work and 'jokingly' ask you for free stuff?" kind of feelings
You don't understand why it would be annoying as fuck to have everyone use the same joke constantly on you when a piece of your equipment fails and you have to take special action to get it to work so you can complete your task and not get fired for failing to properly check someone out?
Oh you’re definitely right actually! I think I was conflating the two tbh. Both do have the propensity to change your state of being though for the worse tho
When I was a cashier my store told us that discounts $50 and under I could give out without manager approval to keep people happy. Sometimes people would make that joke and I always found it hilarious to say “no”, manually ring in the item and give them like 10% off their entire order. Their disappointment and change to being elated was so fucking funny to me. I didn’t give a shit since it was a job in college and a huge retailer so id hand out discounts like candy.
My friend came in once just to say hi and i was like “that was nice of you to break up my day, here is 75% off everything” lol. I miss not giving a shit
Unfortunately that was a college job for beer money. I since got my degree and work in an entirely different industry. If i ever am between jobs and am a cashier I will be right back to not giving a shit lol
My best friend worked at a pizza place and my mom called in for an order, two large pizzas or the like, should have been like $20 dollars or more. She went, "ok, thanks Ms. (my last name) your total is $2.89" and hung up. I wasn't even living at home, I was away at college, but she still gave my parents the hook up.
College roommate worked at a pizza place. All I had to do was text message him “pizza please”. And when he got home there would be the largest sized pizza (like mega family size) and the same size box of garlic parm twists. Soooo much food. Depending on how my friends were I’d invite them over to get some. My roommates manager didn’t give a shit lol.
My friend was in a relationship with the manager, which is why she didn't get in trouble. In HS we went by the shop to see when she was off so we could plan when to go bowling, she said give me 5 mins, went to the back and came out 5 mins later and said we can go. Apparently head is enough to get you let go early for the night when you are dating the manager.
That actually happened to me once in a big way. I bought a giant filet to make for a group of people in a mountain town Safeway which was custom cut at the meat dept. well I guess they mislabeled it or something, and I was sweating because I realized it was like a $100+ piece of meat. I was chopping it up with the cashier and she made some attempts to scan and finally bagged it with the rest of the groceries we were buying for the weekend. Once we left I thought the total was kinda low so I looked at the receipt and saw she never rang the meat up.
Lmao. That's right up there with the ol restaurant saying. Waiter asks "did you enjoy your meal?". Customer: "oh as you can see I HATED IT!" (pan down to an empty plate) Everyone: loud fake laughs
When I was a cashier I used to do this all the time. Hey you were nice to me, you’re getting a $5 off coupon added to your groceries. That coupon is expired? I didn’t see that. You’re about to put back something you can’t afford? Looks like you’re getting it half price. Once they gave me over ride codes people were getting discounts left and right. I just wished I could’ve tacked on a dollar for the asshole customers 🤷🏻♂️
i love charging customers for the cheapest version of their when they're kind. like $5 per kilo apples are now the $1.49 per kilo ones!
when people mention to me that they have a budget (like they ask me to stop at $100) or they're using a food payment card, i always put any of their weighable items slightly off the scale so it's significantly cheaper. times are hard, i don't care if the store loses a couple dollars when those few dollars could really benefit someone
I once went shopping very cautiously, because my purse had been stolen and I didn't have much cash. The cards were not yet replaced. I was counting and watching, and the clerk could clearly see the stress on my face, so he asked how was my day going. I told him about the theft, and - never breaking eye contact - he picked up the next two items and put them in my bag without ringing them in. I looked surprised but didn't want to draw attention to what he was doing. We chatted a bit more, and he did slip several more items into my bag before running the total. I thanked him so genuinely. That was 20 years ago and I'll never forget his kindness.
Hahaha way back when Covid was very rampant, I tried just buying 1 leg of king crab, as a treat for my cat. It was over $50!!! I laughed and told him to take his hand off the scale. He took ahis hand off and said yeah that’s the price, which is why it wasn’t in the counter and had to go in the back to get one. I was like fuck that just give me an imitation crab leg.
During grad school, I was a waiter at this fancy Italian restaurant and the kitchen staff would complain about having to pour the brewed coffee and take out the pre-prepped desserts for the waiters. So the owner said from now on, the waiters have to pour the coffee and get the desserts themselves for their tables. Ok, hey young couple who are obviously on a first date, want some free coffee and a slice of cheesecake? Here you go! Hey, little old ladies who come here once a month, want some free coffee? Here you go! Hey dad who's taking out his two little girls for a fancy dinner, how about I give your kids a slice of cake on the house! I gave away so much free coffee and cheesecake that year.
That's what I did many years back at a gaming store. Polite kid that I can see is counting his saved cash? Ah, whoops, a promotional discount card somehow landed on my register. Cool customer that treated us like people? I'd always give them a heads up on new trade-ins or arrivals I knew they were looking for and sometimes slip a discount as well. For cooler customers I'd utilize my personal 'hold' drawer at times to place a used game they wanted but couldn't buy at the moment. I'd for sure in all situations stress this isn't something I can do all the time. My manager was insanely laid back though and really didn't care lol.
I used to be a cashier. If I accepted an expired coupon, they'd try to make me pay for what they lost. We had to search the trash if any coupon was missing.
When I was a kid, in our town we a store named Jiffy. We knew a lady that was a cashier and she said the owner told her if she couldn't overcharge people enough to pay her wages, he didn't need her. I was young I don't remember any details about how long she worked there or anything like, but my dad has repeated that story a few times.
Back when Target actually let customer service employees hand out gift cards without manager approval, I'd hand those things out like candy to any decently kind customer that had an issue. I'd get a lot of "is that ok?" And my response was always "yeah, doesn't come out of my paycheck"
This is what happens when you pay your cashiers shit pay. Pay shit pay, get shit work. I know grocery margins are tight, but when the cost of goods has gone up 30 to 50%, the profit when up at least a little. Why should the cashier spend even a moment beyond what they're obliged to do when they get absolutely zero reward or recognition? The "wow, thank you!" from a customer is likely more than they get from their management.
FAFO for stores, because honestly something like this just happened at a restaurant I was at last night. Golden Corral and I was getting takeout boxes and the lady just straight up didn't even weigh one of my boxes to add to the total. I went to hand it to her after she weighed my first 2 boxes and she just waved me off and told me not to worry about it. If you've been to a Golden Corral anytime in the last few years, you can tell this place is run like every other chain store/restaurant. Looks like they're always running a skeleton crew, and I'd be surprised if they're getting paid a lot.
I had Whole Foods make a custom cake for a coworker's birthday. Took it up to the self checkout and it wouldn't scan. Let the guy know and he told me "Well they've left me up here alone so I can't go back and check the price. You can just take it." It was not a cheap cake and I was so nervous leaving with it but my cheap ass company wouldn't buy the cake and I was paying for it myself so I really appreciated that guy.
I remember one time I was trying to scan a set of nice dinnerware for a lady. Since this was a supermarket, she had other shopping too. No barcode? Hmm. There weren’t any security tags either which it should have had. She wouldn’t have been able to remove it so looks like it was missed. Fairs, accidents happen and what not.
I asked her if she remembered what the price was. Quick as a wink she said £5. It most definitely was not but you know what? Fuck it.
I couldn’t be arsed to call anyone over and I had a whole herd of impatient customers waiting to be served behind her. So I just let her have it.
Out of curiosity, I went to have a look at the price during my lunch break. It was £52.80 exactly lol
Ive never once checked if people were telling the truth when they tell me somethings the wrong price. As long as the difference is under 10 dollars ill change it without question
Yea generally this was the stance I took as well. But we often had quite incredible sales on seasonal items so sometimes you could get an absolute steal on xyz. But whilst I had my suspicions, it wasn’t worth it to double check in that moment in time. Especially not since I was on minimum wage and it was a busy afternoon.
Don’t get me wrong though, I had my fair share of chancers and I happily called their bluff. But this lady was fairly pleasant and if you were even half decent to me, I was happy to go above and beyond. In this case, I did the opposite so as to ensure it worked out in her favour
I once had a cashier at my local grocery store give me some items for free because I "had to wait" while someone was delaying the line in front of me. I don't remember exactly what happened, but the "wait" was probably shorter than the average line at the store. It was nice, but totally unnecessary lol
Got an entire season of The Simpsons for free at Walmart this way. Literally zero words were spoken about it and my boyfriend and I just high fived in the car lol.
The amount of free hot food I've gotten at my local grocery store because the sticker printer from the deli keeps smudging the barcode. They might try two or three times, but if it doesn't scan by them they just put in the bag. I'd say 1 in 4 times I get at least one container/bag of free food.
I hit up Walmart or Safeway an hour before close and they just load my box up and call t the $5 special. I've gone home with 3 pounds of chicken strips for $5.
When my wife and I first moved in together we did a walmart run at like 1am for random stuff for our place. Half the items wouldn't ring up and the cashier looked at the guy in charge and he just put up 2 fingers. Every time. $2 for about 6 or 7 items that were well over $20 each. That was a great night.
I took some meat back to a store bc when I opened it it smelled funky and my social anxiety was dreading the return but I walked in and told a random worker and they said “just go pick out another one that’s kinda close in price, you can have it.”
I couldn’t find the exact thing so they gave me a pack of hamburgers and a pack of ground beef. Just walked right out with no problem lol
Good. I love it. If millions fight back in small ways we can hurt big corporations. Don’t wanna let people use the bathroom or have basic human treatment? Cool. Take every opportunity you can to cost them in other ways until they realize that well paid and happy employees do a better job.
When I was a cashier, if it wouldn't scan and I couldn't fix the problem myself, I wasn't going to waste people's time waiting for someone else to come over and fix it.
Going way back. My first job was in one of those discount clothing chains. Near Xmas some lady racked up 200, which was like 40-50 items. Clearly doing her best for Xmas that she could.
My till jams up. Whole sale voids. All scanning gone. But it’s all packed up.
I’m just like “go, don’t thank me, go” 😂 under 18 so earning less than minimum wage. Even then I knew, fuck this shit.
We need more employees like this everywhere! Shiiii at this point it's extortion. Especially when you consider the products are ass when you finally take them home. Lol
Used to work at a grocery store and would give away free shit all the time for one reason or another, often because it was crazy busy and it was faster to skip a few items that I had to enter manually but sometimes I was just being lazy
Had a similar experience this afternoon at the self checkout. I picked up some dog treats because they were on sale, but it scanned full price at the register, I wasn't prepared for that. Called the lady over, and she said "here you go, we'll just make it half off." She was very sweet but I'm sure she also didn't want to walk all the way to put the item back!
Sometimes when cashiering, if something wouldn't scan, I'd make the beep sound with my mouth and stick it in the bag. Always enjoyed the confused laughter from customers.
I worked at a local party supply store and they were trash. Like really trash. The manager expected me to know everything about the store with no training. Everything was priced with a sticker, except the things that weren't, and apparently we were just supposed to know what those cost. So I did. If it didn't have a sticker, I asked the customer what they thought seemed fair. Sometimes I'd take a little off of that. You think $5? Let's settle on $3, then. Made a dad's day when he made the "There's no price, it must be free" joke, and I just kind of rolled with it. Free? Yeah, alright. It was only like $10 worth of merchandise, but that place sucked. Only place I ever quit without giving 2 weeks' notice. Went out of business later. Good.
I used to work at a smoker friendly, huge cigarrate/cigar chain. The amount of times people would notice something didn't scan and would let me know was alot... and every time I would look at them and be like..." no it did" with a smile or wink.. and sometimes they just wouldn't get it and be like no you forgot to scan it. Like bitch if it beeped I don't give a fuck take your free shit, this place drives me crazy and I work 6 days a week for 12 hours a day. LET ME SAVE YOU MONEY ON YOUR CANCER STICKS.
Literally just reading a number off the sticker and typing it into a box.
Bullshit jobs should be making enough to live off, but this isn't helping the accusations that people are just lazy now.
Edit : I meant jobs doing bullshit. The low paid, entry level positions that get treated like shit by these corporations. They should be making enough to live off of because they're essential to literally every business functioning.
People are jaded. One emergency away from bankruptcy working for minimum wage for a corporation who would pay them less to do more if they could. I don’t think it’s laziness.
its not a question of being lazy. its a question of the employer paying miserable wages to workers, you cant expect them to be loyal when you disrespect them like that
I guess your working conditions are better than we have here in the USA. Last person I would ever blame for making their job a little easier is a grocery store worker here in the USA
Honestly, can't fault u/CXDFlames for having a work ethic. Good thing for them to question other people's efforts to a point. But honestly, turn that drive and focus inward. You'll find people that half ass their job anywhere you go.
That said, yeah congrats on maybe not having the dirtiest version of these or maybe you haven't done it long to get used yet lol. But like someone else said, minimum wage, minimum effort. Don't agree with basically stealing from the company, but I'm empathetic to why
When I visited Tennessee I ran into so many people who were absolutely fed up with their terrible low paying dead end jobs. I went to a grocery store and the lady behind the counter spent the whole time pitching about how terrible the job was and how incompetent her boss was, then she proceeded to put stickers on my lunch meat and cheese for things that cost way less then what I bought. I went to Bojangles for the first time, and the cashier had a literal mental breakdown and was crying behind the counter while fighting with her manager, who was yelling at her (she was pregnant) while being surrounded by angry customers. I sat there absolutely mind blown at what I was seeing until I got my cold chicken 30 minutes later.. People are fed up, low pay, shitty hours, customers are getting more demanding and less polite, managers are on power trips, none of these people make enough money to put up with the bullshit they are forced to deal with.
Sounds like if they were sufficiently compensated it wouldn't be a problem. Sure, you're allowed to underpay but then you're accepting shit like this happening.
That's the complete opposite of what the other users said, they said that even bullshit jobs should get you enough to live and while the sad reality is different and companies are exploiting their workers, the OP practice is not the right way to solve this.
They could've worded it differently I absolutely agree but sometimes you gotta let that mistake slip and address the topic of the discussion to keep it going instead of derailing it by arguing with each other, unrelated to the topic.
They could've said it the way I usually say it, no matter what kind of job you do, if you're working 6+ hours a day, you should be able to get paid a living wage that should enable you to have a somewhat comfortable live.
Usually this discussion is between some rich folks and the working class tho and it's easy to argue against the rich folks because if they think burger flipping for 6+ hours a day shouldn't be making a living wage, they can flip the burgers themselves but none of those rich f*cks wants to do that.
Why would they give a shit if corporate made more money? You think they had out shares and bonuses to check out staff? There's a difference between being lazy and actively not giving a shit.
You are being downvoted because you called an impoverished person pathetic for apathetic behavior, not because people disagree they should be paid more.
People shouldn't be working two jobs and still need to be on welfare just to survive.
If you're being paid minimum wage, you should give the bare minimum your job requires and nothing more. The minimum of your job description in this case does include scanning every item.
See you just don't get it, you say you do but you dont. You're still sitting here and expecting a minimum wage worker to go above and beyond for what? Accolades? A 3% raise on $7.25 that doesn't even match inflation?
You are still blaming the minimum wage worker and not the million/billion dollar system that gives zero fucks about the individual.
This comes down to respect and it goes both ways not just one. If corporate doesn't respect the individual, why should the individual respect corporate?
And again, why hold the individual to a higher standard than corporate?
A free steak for a family that might make 100k(being generous for my area) a year is better for the world then $2 in profit for a billion dollar company.
That doesn't change that when the worker gets caught doing it, and fires them with cause with no chance of getting something back they're losing what little income they have.
Their job description is to scan every item being sold. It's not going above and beyond to charge a customer for something that doesn't scan, that's the job
Hawking their credit cards and membership bullshit is extra.
Corporations paying workers 7$/h is disgusting. Doing the bare minimum your job requires is completely reasonable. They can't fire you for doing the bare minimum. Not scanning things is less than the bare minimum and not holding up your end of the deal regardless of how shit the deal is.
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u/pizzaduh 4d ago
I was at smart and final some months ago and the barcode on my steaks wouldn't scan. I told the cashier to just enter it manually and he said, "Not for what they pay me." And put it in my bag for free.