Truck Day Hell: "y’all should do the ‘unpacking’ when the store is closed"
From NovelTAcct, Tales From Retail:
The Setting: Retail Giant on “Truck Day.” The aisles each contain one cart filled to the brim with boxes of product. The aisles are wide enough that two carts can easily fit abreast. It is the cosmetics and skin care section; plastic tubes and plastic bottles line the shelves.
The carts are all parked at the ends of the aisles and shoved up against endcaps specifically to stay out of the way. Again, these aisles are WIDE.
The Cast: M=Me, FG=Fearful Guest.
Me: (monotonously emptying boxes)
FG comes around the corner pushing a cart loaded with washing liquid and Easter supplies. She looks pained. She opines:
FG: “This is the...I don’t know, third? Lane? Where there’s a buggy. There’s buggies in every lane!”
M: “Yes ma’am, today is a delivery day, we’ve got lots of product to unpack!”
FG: (huffs, shaking her head) “Well I keep having to turn my buggy to the SIDE to get down the lanes! I’m afraid I’m going to break something!”
M: “I’m sorry about that, ma’am. We’re all trying to unpack everything as fast as we can.” I move my cart a millimeter closer to the shelves, glancing at the plastic tubes of lotion and face creams. The fuck does she think she’s going to break? A sweat?
FG: “Well y’all should do the ‘unpacking’ when the store is closed. So customerscan get around and BUY things.” (jerks her buggy around my cart with unnecessary force.)
M: Imagines having to come in after 11pm and work a full shift unpacking boxes.
FG: Wanders down the aisle saying something about how the store “Must not want people to buy anything!”
M: Continues emptying the current buggy until it contains all the fucks I give.
I wonder what will happen when she discovers that other customers use the store as well, use buggys, and go down lanes. Mind. Blown.
Posted by: InSecurity | Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 09:46 AM
I have worked many years of retail and putting out product, but as a customer I HATE stores that do their stocking during open hours. I can't see behind the full carts to find what I'm looking for (or the carts blocking the shelves when I'm scanning the aisles trying to find out if I'm even in the right aisle) or needing to brace myself to move them to get to the products I want to buy once I find them because they are behind a stack of product waiting to get put away. Sometimes I do have to just give up and come back another time because of the mess.
Posted by: SS | Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 09:58 AM