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Are my retail robins about adventures in bra fitting too NSFW for y'all? just wanna check before I submit.
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Bras are fine. Everyone likes boobs!
~J
[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.
Top Text: “THE LOCATION OF THE CHEESE-NIPS IS BEYOND MORTAL COMPREHENSION”
Bottom Text: “AND OTHER FUN AND EXCITING ADVENTURES IN GO-BACKS”]
In an effort to escape the hell that is the check-outs, I managed to slip away and do go-backs for 90 minutes on Monday. I learned some fun and interesting things. First of all, if we even stock Cheese-Nips at all (which I suspect we don’t), they are not located with the rest of the crackers, or anywhere on the cereal aisle. They might have been with the chips and pretzels, because for some strange reason, those are on a different aisle. I really don’t know who designed the layout of this store. The toothpick dispensers are located down the aisle from the toothpicks, rather than with the toothpicks. The 12-ounce cans of Frebreeze are not located next to the 19-ounce cans of the exact same product for reasons that completely mystify me. There are a variety of store-brand housewares hanging off the ends of aisles and the only way to find them is to walk the length of the store until you find the correct aisle. I couldn’t put back a jar of olive oil, because despite knowing where the olive oil is, we don’t appear to even sell that brand. The fact that it says “all-natural” on it gives it an 80% chance of being in the health food section, but I couldn’t find it there either. Speaking of which, there’s a selection of organic peanut butter in the health section, but if you go look at the non-organic stuff, there’s organic options mixed in. They’ve also got stuff in the health section whose packaging gives no indication of it being any different than the regular stuff.
Also, there’s several pallets of soda stacked on top of each other (in the bakery of all places). They’re packaged so that customers can simply take a bottle and go. However, I wonder if they’ve been cycling through them or only refilling the top level. The soda on the bottom may have been there for months.
The worst part is the fact that the woeful lack of training (a completely different rant) means that half the courtesy clerks don’t know where stuff goes. So just because something is in the basket for a particular aisle doesn’t mean it actually goes there. Or maybe that’s the fact that there’s no rhyme or reason to the store layout.
PS. I have no idea if the image uploaded. Tumblr is being stupid
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I got my first job in retail a couple months ago, and I haven't been trained for anything other than till. Everyone hired with me has gotten more training, and people hired after me too. Should I ask about it? Or should I just wait?
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Ask for more training! Being trained in multiple areas is good because you’ll be considered for more hours, and It’ll show your superiors that you’re proactive about your job which is good for consideration regarding promotions. Hope it works out!
~J
[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.
Top Text: “SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT FOR MONDAY MORNING”
Bottom Text: “AREN’T YOU CLOSED ON MONDAY MORNING?”]
my particular store is actually an optician franchise and it requires appointments to be made for customers for the eye exam. We are also open from 9 to 6 everyday, in an area where most stores open later on Monday.
So I understand the confusion and that people just want to be sure, but after the millionth time of having a customer ask if we’re even open then after we’ve already scheduled an appointment makes it increasingly hard to bite back a comment along the lines of “why would I waste both your time and mine by scheduling an appointment outside of our business hours.”
