Here I am to regale you with anecdotes about my unbelievably fulfilling job in a liquor store.
It is the habit of many people to leave thier carts directly in front of the counter upon leaving the store. What the hell makes people think this is OK to do? Do you go grocery shopping and just leave the cart in the checkout isle? People just think that a big 'ol cart right in front of the counter won't inconvenience everyone behind them in line. They're too important to waste thier time returning the cart to where they got it, 5 FEET AWAY!!
Another thing I hate is when people come into the store and ask for some bottle of wine that, "I think starts with an 'R', and I think it was red........ or wait maybe it started with 'T', and it was a (somethingunintelligable)." Then, when you try your hardest to jog thier memory by showing them several possiblities, thay get angry because you can't read thier mind. "Don't you know about wines? You work in a liquor store!" Just get some Boone's Farm and shut the hell up!
Being in a central location, and being a liquor store, I see my share of drunks and wine-os. It pisses me off when the regulars, who buy the cheapest beer (wine, booze) in the store, get mad because they've bought out our entire supply of whatever it is they drink. Then when they come in for the second or third time in a day, and we've run out, they want the next cheapest item for the price of the cheapest one. For example, one particular beer we carry is called Jaguar. It comes in a 24oz. can, and sells for 95 cents. We generally order 2 cases of it per week. There is 1 person, who for the most part, buys all of it. I've never tasted it, because I'm sure it's nasty, but it has high alcohol content. About mid-week, she had bought almost all of it. On her third visit to the store this day, we had finally run out of Jaguar. She got very angry that we were out, because she had told us earlier THAT DAY, that we seemed to be out. I guess it didn't dawn on me to call the distributor and make an emergency order of the cheapest beer they carry. So, she got the next cheapest beer, at 99 cents a can, and insisted I only charge her 95 cents. I wonder if there are places that this actually works.
On the topic of pricing........a lot of times I hear people say, "Well, I got this here before for such and such a price, so I think you should only charge me that amount." People who say this should just be smacked around. Some people used to go to a Mobil station and pay 80 cents for a gallon of gas........you think that's what you're going to pay now?
We have a lot of boxes at the liquor store. We use them for packaging orders, moving product.....whatever. Often, people will ask for some boxes for moving or what-have-you. Of course, I'm usually happy to oblige, as long as we're not running too low on what we need for ourselves. What pisses me off, to no end, is when people take out the cardboard inserts and just toss them back in the stack of boxes, or leave them lying on the floor. When I do people this favor (most of the time, for non-paying customers), I don't do it because I want to create extra work for myself. These people are already getting something for free, albeit something of little value. Don't make me clean up after you in addition. I would love to find the jackasses who don't want to dispose of the boxes after they've used them, and they leave them outside the store at night, labelled "Kitchen", "Bedroom", or "Bath".
