And here is what bad customer service can cause:
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Memories of the Mall
BASTARDS or not -
it wouldn't be a mall
nor a complete shopping experience
without BEER:
OK - more beer...
but not just before we drive there - come on!
...let us depart from this place!
Friday, November 11, 2011
Consumerism At Its Best - Or At Best!
Ty Bearius?
And you've got to listen to The Bear!
And to this too:
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Now This Is A Painful Shopping Experience!
But, quite frankly, this is what you get to feel like doing, numerous times over, on any given shopping experience - and most especially if you work there, are having a shitty day and get pissed off (again) by the wrong co-worker/so-called manager on duty or D.C. (disrespectful customer) with grubby hands that may walk in from the grimy streets at any given time...
So many deserve this treatment so bad -
it's not even funny!
Saturday, September 10, 2011
It`s Saturday, September 10th - HOW CAN YOU BE THINKING ABOUT SHOPPING?!?
One day removed from
the 10th Anniversary
of the tragedy
that marked
the ``Notties``
(THE 2000`s)
- AND YOU WANT TO
SHOP `TIL YOU DROP
Whether you`re in Europe
feeling somewhat unconcerned
and sought to buy new furniture at Como
in bulk at Metro
or tons of cheap stuff at Billa
Or you`re in America,
feeling enough time has passed
and enough water under the bridge
(as they say - but who are ``they`` really...)
and feel like Linen Chest luxury
Sobey`s GMO food
and other chemical-filled goodies
at a myriad other places...
Well, pause for a second now
And think
of those who have died
on that day
and ever since...
They`re not buying anything anymore.
Then resume your shopping spree -
if you have the heart for it,
of course.
Sempre Por O Melhor
+++
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Retail Detail
Feeling like you're being passed up for any infinitesimal tiny bit of pseudo-promotion in thy field? You must be in the retail industry!
You must be a RETAIL DETAIL! (Which is still better than being a mere retail ITEM, mind you; one that gets manhandled, thrown to a corner, trampled upon, discounted before winding up, dejected, in a heap pile - but that is an entirely different story!)
Everyone is replaceable (e.g. expendable) in the whole frigging chain - everyone! From the littlest associate to the wretched CEO...!
And all are accountable too - of course!
I just paused the other day and observed the surroundings' cast of characters - and, boy, are they all characters indeed...!
Associate Fifi riding down the main store aisle on a shopping cart like an overgrown child, going "wheeeeeeeee" all the way (giving the patrons' kids the wrongest of examples in the process...!)
Supervisor-For-Hire Ralphie spending all her time chatting on the sales floor (with a customer - an intimate acquaintance type of customer - AND another supervisor, less-than-super...) while others are slaving away... Both of the are thus giving the wrongest of examples too; even wronger than Ralphie's direct underling, Fifi... As if Ralphie is not doing it supremely well enough with her customized mobile-desk-on-a-cart (a small removable shelf attached to a shopping cart so that Madame can write on it, keep her crap and never have to clean it up! Indeed, she just leaves all sorts of junk in the bottom of said cart which is then always stationed in everyone's way in the backstore; this when all other associates are told to never leave a single cart around in the backstore. Her cart has the shelf permanently attached to it, too - so it will never be removed and made accessible to customers ever again. And to add insult to injury, she herself would point out the others' carts, in her "quality" of (considerably-less-than-super) supervisor, even though any other cart forgotten backstage was without an attached shelf on top of it - and much less crap in it too! The only such cart ever left back there is indeed HERS! With the blessing of the other less-than-super supervisor - and the actual management as well. These peeps never believed in leading by example, obviously. But I am digressing right now...)
Associate Jo-Anne - always allowed to talk to as many customers as she wants and possibly can within the limited number of hours that she gets each and every week to do so - while being paid to do some kind of work, of course.
Associate Carlatt - never asked to come in earlier than she does, never asked to stay a minute extra - NEVER bothered with menial tasks such as "facing" or "defacing" or whatever it is that they want (who knows, anymore...!!!)
Associate Abe - hand-picked to replace a jerk, when the company policy is supposed to be all about "growing and promoting from within"... Ralphie was also brought in that way, of course...
All these peeps, and probably more waiting in the wings, can and will bypass the honest worker without much ambition that merely does what he is told, helps out where he is needed and is, in effect, by doing so... a mere retail detail.
:-\
You must be a RETAIL DETAIL! (Which is still better than being a mere retail ITEM, mind you; one that gets manhandled, thrown to a corner, trampled upon, discounted before winding up, dejected, in a heap pile - but that is an entirely different story!)
Everyone is replaceable (e.g. expendable) in the whole frigging chain - everyone! From the littlest associate to the wretched CEO...!
And all are accountable too - of course!
I just paused the other day and observed the surroundings' cast of characters - and, boy, are they all characters indeed...!
Associate Fifi riding down the main store aisle on a shopping cart like an overgrown child, going "wheeeeeeeee" all the way (giving the patrons' kids the wrongest of examples in the process...!)
Supervisor-For-Hire Ralphie spending all her time chatting on the sales floor (with a customer - an intimate acquaintance type of customer - AND another supervisor, less-than-super...) while others are slaving away... Both of the are thus giving the wrongest of examples too; even wronger than Ralphie's direct underling, Fifi... As if Ralphie is not doing it supremely well enough with her customized mobile-desk-on-a-cart (a small removable shelf attached to a shopping cart so that Madame can write on it, keep her crap and never have to clean it up! Indeed, she just leaves all sorts of junk in the bottom of said cart which is then always stationed in everyone's way in the backstore; this when all other associates are told to never leave a single cart around in the backstore. Her cart has the shelf permanently attached to it, too - so it will never be removed and made accessible to customers ever again. And to add insult to injury, she herself would point out the others' carts, in her "quality" of (considerably-less-than-super) supervisor, even though any other cart forgotten backstage was without an attached shelf on top of it - and much less crap in it too! The only such cart ever left back there is indeed HERS! With the blessing of the other less-than-super supervisor - and the actual management as well. These peeps never believed in leading by example, obviously. But I am digressing right now...)
Associate Jo-Anne - always allowed to talk to as many customers as she wants and possibly can within the limited number of hours that she gets each and every week to do so - while being paid to do some kind of work, of course.
Associate Carlatt - never asked to come in earlier than she does, never asked to stay a minute extra - NEVER bothered with menial tasks such as "facing" or "defacing" or whatever it is that they want (who knows, anymore...!!!)
Associate Abe - hand-picked to replace a jerk, when the company policy is supposed to be all about "growing and promoting from within"... Ralphie was also brought in that way, of course...
All these peeps, and probably more waiting in the wings, can and will bypass the honest worker without much ambition that merely does what he is told, helps out where he is needed and is, in effect, by doing so... a mere retail detail.
:-\
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Those Are The Customers I Know...
I Know... Those Are The Customers I Loathe!!
(Parody of a song by the equally... ah... challenged - that's the word - Kids In The Hall; they also hung out at the mall and store when they were not stuck in the hall - I bet!!!)
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE!
Vandals and shoplifters
They sure don't respect the store
They've come nonetheless since the opening
We'll probably let them come for more...?!?
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE!
Retirees who got nothing else to do
And preening teens skipping classes
They keep on pestering you
My God they have got no class!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I ABHOR!
Constant flocks of immigrants
who do not know either of the official languages
Problem is they feel right at home -
our cashiers are all like them!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I DETEST!
The damnable bargain chasers
they think prices are negociable
This damn place is a retail store
Not a damn flea market!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I CAN'T STAND!
Defacers and vagabonds -
all they want is to make a mess
They want our store to resemble their pigsty so much
that they stay from noon until six!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE!
Those are the customers he knows, he knows
These are the customers HE LOATHES
These are the customers he loathes, he loathes
These are the customers HE LOATHES!
Some of them have cash on them
others simply don't
All of them want things to be dirt cheap
all of them are blasted wretches!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE!
Et les voici
And here they are:
And since we are all in a musical mood - take it away, disgruntled employees numbers 48 through 62...! (This is another instant classic that somehow incorporates Wal-Mart and K-Mart as well!)
Meanwhile on the lowest stage of them all...
Cash flow is flowing at a very slow pace, that is why, you know - everything else has to be *fastly* done and dealt with, but not the cash flow - that has to be SLOW.
And then there is not enough to go around... ugh!
And all that money saved goes to a good cause...
And then - such is their reward
:~/
Nota Bene: well, then - since the days of G.T. seem to be numbered, one will explore, next, the whereabouts of the great seller's bear reportedly extinct circa 1999. And, up next, on the very next post on this very blog, a detailed blow-by-blow account of what exactly transpired in that Triple Threat -no treat- match when Marvelous Wally took on The Big K and É-Coeur-Ant... not in the UFCW but in the ISW - Inter Species Wrestling! A true Canadian organization; hence the presence of the two official languages!
Stay Tuned for that one, ffffolks!
;)
(Parody of a song by the equally... ah... challenged - that's the word - Kids In The Hall; they also hung out at the mall and store when they were not stuck in the hall - I bet!!!)
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE!
Vandals and shoplifters
They sure don't respect the store
They've come nonetheless since the opening
We'll probably let them come for more...?!?
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE!
Retirees who got nothing else to do
And preening teens skipping classes
They keep on pestering you
My God they have got no class!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I ABHOR!
Constant flocks of immigrants
who do not know either of the official languages
Problem is they feel right at home -
our cashiers are all like them!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I DETEST!
The damnable bargain chasers
they think prices are negociable
This damn place is a retail store
Not a damn flea market!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I CAN'T STAND!
Defacers and vagabonds -
all they want is to make a mess
They want our store to resemble their pigsty so much
that they stay from noon until six!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE!
Those are the customers he knows, he knows
These are the customers HE LOATHES
These are the customers he loathes, he loathes
These are the customers HE LOATHES!
Some of them have cash on them
others simply don't
All of them want things to be dirt cheap
all of them are blasted wretches!
Those are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE
These are the customers I know, I know
These are the customers I LOATHE!
Et les voici
And here they are:
And since we are all in a musical mood - take it away, disgruntled employees numbers 48 through 62...! (This is another instant classic that somehow incorporates Wal-Mart and K-Mart as well!)
Meanwhile on the lowest stage of them all...
Cash flow is flowing at a very slow pace, that is why, you know - everything else has to be *fastly* done and dealt with, but not the cash flow - that has to be SLOW.
And then there is not enough to go around... ugh!
And all that money saved goes to a good cause...
And then - such is their reward
:~/
Nota Bene: well, then - since the days of G.T. seem to be numbered, one will explore, next, the whereabouts of the great seller's bear reportedly extinct circa 1999. And, up next, on the very next post on this very blog, a detailed blow-by-blow account of what exactly transpired in that Triple Threat -no treat- match when Marvelous Wally took on The Big K and É-Coeur-Ant... not in the UFCW but in the ISW - Inter Species Wrestling! A true Canadian organization; hence the presence of the two official languages!
Stay Tuned for that one, ffffolks!
;)
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