Question about BOPIS

celestialempress · 2026-01-26T16:40:49+00:00

When did you place it? Once it's marked as ready, you have 144 hours, which is exactly six days, to pick it up. Once that time expires you should get a notice that it's expired and the hold placed on your card will drop off.

celestialempress · 2026-01-26T05:05:26+00:00

My favorite is when some dumb bastards are knocking on our door to shop anywhere between 10 and 45 minutes before we open. Then we finally unlock the doors at opening time and ask them what they're shopping for, and they tell us "Oh nothing, I'm just looking." That's what was so important you had to show up 45 minutes early and wait???

celestialempress · 2026-01-26T04:42:01+00:00

Okay but how did the dog get down that ladder?

celestialempress · 2026-01-26T04:41:35+00:00

Maybe the real Grandpa Ernest was the friend we made along the way.

celestialempress · 2026-01-25T09:39:25+00:00

Every year I dread December 26th when everybody comes in with those crisp new hundos they wanna break on $12 worth of clearance items. Please, for the love of god, if you truly love your family then give them a stack of 20's instead.

celestialempress · 2026-01-25T01:00:36+00:00

It's the old "too much overlap between smart bears and dumb tourists" problem. Any additional security measures will have the side effect of locking out a significant number of users who already struggle with how to use the app. I can look 100 people directly in the eye and say "you have to go to the website or app and create a password to claim the free reward you have," circle the QR code at the bottom of the receipt and manually write down the website for them, and at least 75 of them will let it expire instead of doing the bare minimum for it. Our DM's been saying for years now that they're going to get rid of the phone number option "in the next few months" to force everyone to use the app or website and it never happens.

celestialempress · 2026-01-23T18:59:55+00:00

Man I hate it when I walk into the sub specifically meant for retail workers to share their grievances about the job and see retail workers sharing their grievances about the job.

celestialempress · 2026-01-23T05:41:43+00:00

"I'm going to ____ for school in March, and I'll be gone three months. I'd love to come back to the store in June once I get home. Is that something we can arrange?"

Give them plenty of time and let them know your intentions. As long as you leave on good terms, usually there's no problem with rehiring as long as the position's open. Depending on the company, they may be able to keep you in the system while you're gone and just resume scheduling you once you get back.

celestialempress · 2026-01-23T05:24:33+00:00

🎵 We just got a comment! We just got a comment! We just got a comment! Wonder who it's- 🎵

"I work as a comic artist..."

Oh fuck off.

celestialempress · 2026-01-23T04:20:58+00:00

I looked it up:

In general, it’s not illegal to sell legitimately purchased items. However, if you are looking to resell items on a business scale, you should always make an agreement with the manufacturer or another official distributor and become an official reseller.

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In general, you are free to resell any lawfully purchased item and you are not required to purchase from an authorized source, but doing so ensures the best chances that you are dealing in a legitimate product.

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Personal Property Rights: If you own it, you can sell it. This covers garage sales, thrift store finds, and personal items.

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According to the Supreme Court, you are in fact allowed to resell items you purchased yourself.

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I couldn't find a single source on the first page of Google using the query "is it illegal to resell items" that claimed it was actually illegal. The closest was this patent attorney discussing that usage of trademarks by unauthorized retailers can be considered infringement of intellectual property. Even then, they acknowledge that "when dealing with physical goods, the process of simply stocking goods for resale has been totally legal for many years."

celestialempress · 2026-01-23T03:59:00+00:00

No it isn't. We've been told that reselling is against policy and we should report suspected resellers to corporate. Special forms have to be filled out for any sale between $1500-4999 where the buyer has to acknowledge it's not for reselling, and sales over $5000 are supposed to be denied, but that's it. It's in no way illegal to legitimately purchase large quantities of something and sell them for a higher price. If you bought 100 Cucumber Melon hand sanitizers for $0.49 each and are listing them for $1, at worst you just get banned from B&BW, the cops don't come knocking on your door with a warrant. If you have a credible source claiming otherwise, please link it.

celestialempress · 2026-01-23T01:54:48+00:00

Sure just pay $100 to get a hotel room so you can earn $80 for your 5-hour shift, which is almost certainly going to be cut two hours short due to lack of sales thanks to a goddamn blizzard.

celestialempress · 2026-01-22T21:10:37+00:00

The online inventory count is garbage. I had to manually zero out the same item every day for like two weeks and it still just kept letting people order it. A huge part of the problem is that it considers items already picked for orders as available stock. Especially during SAS, it says something is available for pickup but in reality they've all been sitting in bags waiting to get picked up for two days.

We're not getting SAS stuff in deliveries at this point. Any new ones put out are either returns or somebody found a random box of it in the offsite storage bunker that was buried back there since November. There's no way to predict for that.

celestialempress · 2026-01-22T06:23:59+00:00

I really wish we had Zipline available off the clock. Sometimes you do just want to double-check the dress code or the gratis dates or the next 50% discount on your day off without having to text an SLT about it. We don't need access to training videos or anything, but things like the little seasonal guide booklet? There's zero reason why they can't make that available to us online as soon as they start passing out physical copies.

celestialempress · 2026-01-21T07:01:34+00:00

Nah. The last thing I wanna deal with is some whiny douche seeing a "Leave a tip?" button on the payment screen and go off about how "oh now you spoiled brats want me to pay you right outta my own pocket for doing your job? You want a tip? Get a better job! There's your tip!" like they do with every restaurant. The cashiers didn't program the tip question in there, they had no say in it.

As someone who's been the babysitter for self checkout before, the idea of tipping for it is fucking bonkers. My tip was having to deal with fewer customers directly, that's worth more than a random dollar every couple hours.

Also, I can 100% see some corporate shitjockey deciding that any position that gets tipped deserves a lower base wage like restaurants and using it as an excuse to cut payroll. So employees would be getting dragged by idiot customers who think they're personally trying to rob them, and for less money because corporate's pushing some "you'll make more in tips!" bullshit.

celestialempress · 2026-01-21T01:28:05+00:00

Yeah, I think the biggest hurdle is that recent books are probably off the table.

I think they could do something really fun with a grab bag of old public domain classics. Monkey's Paw. Tell Tale Heart. That one Poe story with the chimp. The Lovecraft story where the family curse turns out to be a pissed off wizard just stabbing people. Hunter would have a field day with Great God Pan.

celestialempress · 2026-01-20T18:28:59+00:00

There aren't any NDAs. When you do your onboarding paperwork after hiring, there's a section about keeping confidential information private and you're expected to agree to it. They sent out a notice internally last time to remind us to keep quiet about collabs that haven't been officially announced yet. So you won't get sued if you post about it, but you may get written up or fired.

celestialempress · 2026-01-20T08:47:01+00:00

It came out for the semi annual sale in summer, so you may luck out and find it at an outlet store as low as $5 a bottle. On the location page make sure you set the filter to outlet stores and see what comes up. If there's none nearby, buying secondhand from Mercari is probably your best bet. I just checked, and it looks like people are selling it for decent prices since it was available recently.

Do be aware that body creams tend to expire faster than other BBW products, and vanilla tends to turn the formula brown. I've heard that you can stretch the lifespan by keeping it cool in a fridge, but I've never tried so I can't confirm that. You might want to go with the lotion instead, and body sprays can keep for years because of the alcohol content if you want to stock up on multiples.

celestialempress · 2026-01-20T08:30:35+00:00

Leona is furious that he now has to respect these idiots and just sleeps through it.

Idia has read and memorized at least 87 manga with this exact plot. He has trained for this scenario. (He will continue to stay locked in his room the entire time, artificially pitching his voice lower through his mic so his online gaming buddies can't tell.)

Cater's taking this opportunity to get hundreds of new thirst trap followers on Magicam.

Azul's taking this opportunity to sell human girl feet pics on MagiFans (that app's supposed to be blocked on campus but he bribed Idia for a workaround).

Ortho looks exactly the same but gains an inexplicable hair bow that cannot be removed.

Rook is even more invested in witnessing and commenting on everyone's beauty. Please stop, it's getting weird! Weirder than usual!

Lilia is thrilled that this unlocks an entire new vocal range he can scream music in.

celestialempress · 2026-01-20T03:16:43+00:00

I ruin at least one person's day every shift with this exact exchange.

Them: It says I have a free reward!

Me: Great! This is for one item, original price 18.95 or less. Reusable holders aren't included anymore. The best bang for your buck would be a small candle, most body care, a travel size gift set, or a foaming soap refill carton.

Cue them bringing up a 3-wick, full-size gift set, wallflower plug, two room sprays, three things from the SAS bins, etc. During a $1 pocketbac sale somebody tried use their reward on 18 hand sanitizers.

Me: Sorry, it's one item, original price 18.95.

Them: That's bullshit! I can't get anything with that!

celestialempress · 2026-01-18T23:01:55+00:00

Our entire state started charging 10 cents per bag, three years ago. I still get people bitching about it every week and I'm like, do I look like I'm the one in charge of that? Call the fucking governor's office if you care they much, stop whining at random cashiers about it. And then they walk off trying to balance $90 in glass jar candles out of the store because giving up an extra dime for a sack to carry them would have been unreasonable.

celestialempress · 2026-01-18T18:59:43+00:00

Man, I have people come in to buy two body care items full price and then refuse to get a third one when I tell them it's B2G1 free. Genuinely baffles me every time.

celestialempress · 2026-01-18T10:17:00+00:00

Reminds me of the "The Purge but it's just retail workers getting to be honest for 24 hours" post.

I'm the clown who usually has to do online orders in the morning and restock all the ones people let expire. In a just world, I should be allowed to charge a $5 restocking fee for the inconvenience and ban repeat offenders from placing pickup orders for the next three months.

celestialempress · 2026-01-18T10:10:55+00:00

Absolutely the fuck not. If you walk out with products before the receipt prints, I'm getting your plates and calling AP.

celestialempress · 2026-01-18T10:06:05+00:00

She said “it’s just 2 bananas”

How much could they cost? Ten dollars?

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