By ishouldhavebeenbornrich - 14/09/2016 16:28

Today, at work, a man wanted to buy a garden hose which came up on the till as £1.99. He said that it was wrong and that it should be £1.89, so he then demanded that I called someone down to set it right. He held 20 customers up for 15 minutes to get 10p off a garden hose. FML
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False_Stupidity 41

Is it just me or does £1.89 seem incredibly cheap for a garden hose?

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rjh7428 10

I take it you've never worked retail.

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RichardPencil 30

Why did it take 15 minutes to do a simple price check? Your store needs to improve its process for such a routine task.

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yerawizardlizzy 27

Also open up another lane. 20 people waiting for one register is ridiculous.

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RinoaHeartilly 36

Tell him he needs to step to the side so you can ring up other customers while he waits and he'll be next once the price is confirmed.

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Catdragon 40

at this point I would put in the 10p out of my own pocket and sent him on his way. always hate getting the manager involved and wasting valuable time of customers when you could easily solve the problem yourself.

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RinoaHeartilly 36

Why should OP have to give their own money to stop his temper tantrum? That's ridiculous.

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Brandi_Faith 33

Plus, a lot of people don't carry change in their pocket, or have their wallet on them while working.

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Catdragon 40

Ok but put it this way, if you could speed things up and keep the line moving, wouldn't it be better to solve the problem like that? It's only 10p and no matter where you go, there will always be petty people. You can either go against them and inconvenience the other people behind them just trying to get their shopping done or get them out of the way without creating a scene and keeping things moving along. If you can fix the problem yourself, why not?

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Diegoba12 16

because you work hard for your money, no matter how much it is, and do not have to give any away because a certain person is Cheap af.

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MulticoloredSlug 18

I would have given him the 10 cents damn.

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worthypegram1 13

Not saying that that isn't ridiculous of the customer to do? But couldn't you have just adjusted the price 10p?

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RinoaHeartilly 36

You can't just change prices at most places. At least not without manager approval.

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soulreaper12296 28

Lets see how long you keep a job when you change the price of something because you don't want to argue with the customer.

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oj101 33

I work as a cashier. I would've just set him aside, and serve the other customers until the coworkers comes back with the right price.

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clair_brodie 35

For that much of a price difference, why didn't you just change it and save the hassle of a price check?

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polsen4273 8

This site is so ridiculously sensored that they have isolated a particular and very strange part of the population to make comments here. It is no surprise to me that the most reasonable comment on here gets downvoted out of existence.

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Kougeru 12

It's the principle of the matter. Can't blame him.

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Diegoba12 16

How? It never said he is right? For all you know, he is just trying to save 10p and the price was not 1.89 but truly 1.99. People try to be cheap.

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nishialynne 1

I'm sorry op but, it will happen. Customers will do that.

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overthedeepend 7

Am I way out of line in thinking that the bigger problem is that your store is not reading prices correctly?

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Zebediabolical 39

Nope. Around here, if there's four people in a line at a grocery or hardware, they open up a second till. If there were 20 people in front of me and they didn't open up another line, I would set down my items and walk away. Hopefully their competitor values my time and business more.

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brezzyanna 17

How do you know it was the store that read it wrong and not the customer?

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