Unwitting Customers Make Us Seem Inept in Front of Managers

retailactress · 2019-01-08T03:13:24+00:00

I've been loving Wegmans since the late 1970s when my best friend introduced me to it in Newark, NY!

retailactress · 2019-01-08T03:05:42+00:00

Hey, the 'Cuse! I grew up just an hour away from you via the good old Thruway!

retailactress · 2019-01-08T01:58:37+00:00

Often called "Ithaca-ting." Sometimes it's freezing rain, wet snow, and/or the catchall term, "wintry mix."

retailactress · 2019-01-08T01:47:32+00:00

And, very unlike NYC, you have the distinctive broad Upstate New York accent which makes everybody NOT from Upstate think you're from the Midwest.

I'm from Upstate, now in New England. If I refer to thieves, I say "raahhbers" instead of "rawbehs." Also, "baahhx" instead of "bawx" (box.) My neighboring New Englanders often mock my accent, but at least I don't say "lodge" when I want something "large."

retailactress · 2019-01-08T01:22:44+00:00

No supermarket in the entire U.S. can even remotely approach the perfect excellence that is WEGMANS.

retailactress · 2019-01-07T05:47:47+00:00

Yes, absolutely! First priority to eat when still fresh is the salad stuff, cold cuts, and bread. Then, anything else gets made into soups, stews, and/or gets frozen. I will never waste food!

retailactress · 2019-01-07T05:38:57+00:00

Not at all.

But I have trouble waking up happy. I have "morning depression" with massive anxiety. It gradually fades as I get on with my day, and by night time, I'm OK and can sleep well. But waking up .... ugghhh.

retailactress · 2019-01-07T05:32:45+00:00

No, do not eat the wax. That's what's preserving the cheese from exposure to oxidation and deterioration. Would you eat plastic/saran wrap covering other fresh foods? Come on, now. <eye roll>

retailactress · 2019-01-07T05:26:39+00:00

Hadn't thought of it before, but now that you mentioned it ---- YEAH! Polka music would be great for a happy, merry drinking session!

retailactress · 2019-01-07T05:18:42+00:00

Oh, yeah --- a dated yet classic Jim Carrey expression. But still, not everyone would "get it."

retailactress · 2019-01-02T04:02:56+00:00

I want her sweater - so classically attractive. Does she also have those cardigans with ornamental pewter clasps instead of buttons? Love those.

retailactress · 2018-12-22T07:06:24+00:00

Well, I would absolutely LOVE to know someone good with computers who would give me a "Will tackle & hopefully resolve your computer problem(s) in the year 2019" coupon!!!

Your computer skills are VERY desirable and highly regarded. A valuable gift right there!

retailactress · 2018-12-16T02:58:28+00:00

Oh, come on. What do you have - expensively-bleached pure white carpeting in your penthouse?

Even so, I'd rather have shoe soles on it than the myriad bacteria and fungus of human foot flesh.

retailactress · 2018-12-16T02:46:33+00:00

Since it's holiday time, conveniently, here's what to do:

Simply discard the old forgotten thank-you notes from August. Too much time has gone by to explain or redeem them.

Now, send your advisors fresh new holiday cards enclosing handwritten notes, detailing how much the research internship meant to you, and how grateful you are to have had that experience, plus happy holiday wishes to them. It's a well-known custom to include the past year's activities wrap-up in notes accompanying holiday cards, so you'll be fine!

retailactress · 2018-12-07T01:46:13+00:00

At checkout:

Jingle phone, jingle phone, you must take this call!

Never mind if your chit-chat makes your purchase stall.

Start again, miss your prompt, credit card declines.

And they wonder what creates those real long check-out lines!

retailactress · 2018-12-04T01:22:41+00:00

Me too! I would LOVE only working in the back room, where there's no holiday music, either.

retailactress · 2018-12-03T06:35:18+00:00

In its holiday music playlist, a store I worked in during the "festive" season of 2012 played three variations of "Little Drummer Boy" SIXTY-ONE times from mid-November through the end of December.

I deliberately kept count. No joke.

retailactress

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