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raisedbymoogles) wrote2017-09-26 11:48 pm
raisedbymoogles) wrote2017-09-26 11:48 pm
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Posting this here so I remember how FUCKING RIDICULOUS retail is.
Told this story in an IM conversation with a Triadmate, but I will dump it here too. May it serve as motivation to find ANYTHING OTHER THAN RETAIL when we move.
So at the store I work at, all the prices are kind of stuck on the shelves/walls as appropriate, and we have to print those out ourselves using strategically perforated paper: nine to a page for the big table prices, twenty-one to a page for the little wall prices. So yesterday was Campaign Rollout Day, which meant that there were like three people actually working in-store for most of the day so that everyone else could work from 4-10 shoveling all the new products out on the shelves. (The skull glassware is admittedly pretty cool, but anyway.) So I come in for the early shift this morning to find that oh noes, the late shifters ran out of time to put all the prices out on the new stock so NOTHING is priced! But not to worry, they kindly printed them all out for us so Kind-of-a-Jackass Supervisor Dan and I can get them all sorted in time for opening! :D
…yeah, three problems with that. One: It is a pain in the ass to put out prices that you didn't write down yourself, because you don't know where anything is. Especially after Major Campaign Day wherein EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED. Why they felt the need to rearrange the stationary section is beyond me.
Two: They did not bother to sort out which prices were Wall Prices and which ones were Table Prices and print them out accordionly. Instead they printed the ENTIRE LIST TWICE, in table format and wall format, and left me to sort out which ones were which.
Three: They also left no indication of some of the prices being completely superfluous because THOSE PRODUCTS HADN'T EVEN COME IN YET.
So I spent most of the morning in Gaslight Land, thinking I was going blind or crazy because I COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING. In between climbing over Dan, who apparently had dug out all the prices for the front tables from the aforementioned mess and was happily pricing away while I stumbled about clutching my sheaf of wall prices and mumbling to myself. Not a word from him about "don't worry if you can't find stuff," either.
AND THEN. After the store opened and I was shackled to my till, I decided to sort through the remaining stack of prices re: which ones still needed going out, which ones needed reprinting in a different format, and which ones hadn't come in yet. Which I did for about half an hour until another coworker wanders by going "oh, you know those new products? Yeah, corporate changed their prices overnight so we have to reprint all these."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The moral of the story: preprinting prices, while a nice idea in theory, does not work in practice. Also F U CORPORATE. I pretty much spent the rest of the day mentally in the Nope Rocket.
And that's about it. Next time I'll bitch about the racist products. :D
So at the store I work at, all the prices are kind of stuck on the shelves/walls as appropriate, and we have to print those out ourselves using strategically perforated paper: nine to a page for the big table prices, twenty-one to a page for the little wall prices. So yesterday was Campaign Rollout Day, which meant that there were like three people actually working in-store for most of the day so that everyone else could work from 4-10 shoveling all the new products out on the shelves. (The skull glassware is admittedly pretty cool, but anyway.) So I come in for the early shift this morning to find that oh noes, the late shifters ran out of time to put all the prices out on the new stock so NOTHING is priced! But not to worry, they kindly printed them all out for us so Kind-of-a-Jackass Supervisor Dan and I can get them all sorted in time for opening! :D
…yeah, three problems with that. One: It is a pain in the ass to put out prices that you didn't write down yourself, because you don't know where anything is. Especially after Major Campaign Day wherein EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED. Why they felt the need to rearrange the stationary section is beyond me.
Two: They did not bother to sort out which prices were Wall Prices and which ones were Table Prices and print them out accordionly. Instead they printed the ENTIRE LIST TWICE, in table format and wall format, and left me to sort out which ones were which.
Three: They also left no indication of some of the prices being completely superfluous because THOSE PRODUCTS HADN'T EVEN COME IN YET.
So I spent most of the morning in Gaslight Land, thinking I was going blind or crazy because I COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING. In between climbing over Dan, who apparently had dug out all the prices for the front tables from the aforementioned mess and was happily pricing away while I stumbled about clutching my sheaf of wall prices and mumbling to myself. Not a word from him about "don't worry if you can't find stuff," either.
AND THEN. After the store opened and I was shackled to my till, I decided to sort through the remaining stack of prices re: which ones still needed going out, which ones needed reprinting in a different format, and which ones hadn't come in yet. Which I did for about half an hour until another coworker wanders by going "oh, you know those new products? Yeah, corporate changed their prices overnight so we have to reprint all these."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The moral of the story: preprinting prices, while a nice idea in theory, does not work in practice. Also F U CORPORATE. I pretty much spent the rest of the day mentally in the Nope Rocket.
And that's about it. Next time I'll bitch about the racist products. :D