Location: les Milles Isles
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Store employees ever give you trouble?
Posted this in the QC sightings thread yesterday (didn't even happen in QC tho, was just posted for the sake of the anecdote)
Anyways, figure maybe should be its own thread?
maybe others can share some stories about store employees giving you crap? I dunno
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(in a WM) recently found a full case of Velocitron deluxe on the pallet - case was already open, but everything was still inside, miraculously
I ganked the Cosmos/Clampdown, put in our shopping cart, and continued shopping (got some clothes for child etc)
after clothes all selected, back to toy section (I went myself before, now bringing kid to check out toys) - coming out the aisle near the pallet, went over & picked up the case to show my wife where I got em from, and THAT is what I shouldn't have done
blue vest old man employee with an RF gun nearby "hey you can't take from those" so I "oh im sorry" put the case down and leave - figure he must be a stock-shelving guy or whatever
at this point "man we better get the f out of here" so up to the self scan - got a lot of clothes in the cart, which are on top of everything - wife goes to hit the can while me & the kid self-scanning
the old man literally chased us down to the self scan with the case in hand "alright, where are they" "what" "the two from in here, they were there before, now they aren't, and YOU had your hands in it"
Buddy (claimed) that if he doesn't have all contents in the box when they putting em on the shelf, that they "have to send the whole case back" - insinuating that me taking two from a case on the pallet, is basically going to "cost them" the entire cases' worth of sales
At that point my two are still buried in the clothes on the cart, so I'm playing a bit dumb because in the first place this guy can f*ck right off, he's scaring my kid and making a scene in the self-scan area in front of literally everyone
At one point he says "what, are they with your wife in the bathroom" and it's like excuse tf out of me?
On the other hand, I have literally no idea what WM policy is, so I'm not particularly comfortable enough with the scenario to argue with him (cause for all I know, maybe it's true)
So without actually rifling through my whole cart, he catches a glimpse of them on the side and goes "there they are, right there" and I pick em out and he takes em back and frigs off
Wife comes back, she's absolutely furious that this guy insinuated she's in on some thievery
"what the f*ckin problem? we are literally taking an item in the store, to the cash, to buy it"
It's pretty close to close, so we go home and I drive right back there the next morning, right through the doors at 7am open
Go to the section, all pallets are gone
Go to the aisle, no Velocitron deluxes
Nearby blue vest girl "good morning can i help u" "yes in fact"
Being selective in what details to reveal, indicate that I saw (case of thing) on the pallets last night, was advised couldn't have em, so back this morning
She indicated everything that was on last night's pallets should be out, and using WM website, she found the SKUs and triangulated the empty pegs they should have been on "hmmm, let me go check on these" and heads off
Meanwhile I check all the toy aisles, in case they got "uploaded" somewhere else, no dice
She comes back "ya I can't find them, maybe come back tomorrow?" - indicate it's a long drive, "where u from" "oh they didn't have these there?" (detail about missing the shortpacked figs in other nearby locations) She graciously offered to take my name & number to call in case they resurface, and I leave (late for work, lol)
Anyways my buddy who lives in that town, I ask him to check it out after work, and he tells me they got 2 Blurrs, 2 BurnOuts, 2 RoadRockets - exactly the ones I wasn't taking
So they put the case out anyways, and somewhere inbetween, the ones I tried to purchase, disappeared
I would later discuss WM policy with another buddy who's a yellow vest at his own (different) WM location, and he told me that blue-vest guy was full of sh*t "everything that's on the floor at all, even on the pallets, is ready to be bought" and said the guy must have just been "power-tripping" at me
So I don't know whether he:
- was planning to buy them himself
- had them destroyed in a fit of rage to spite me
- put the whole case out after I left the following morning, just to make sure I couldn't literally legally buy some product with my money, especially once they took my number so they knew I likely wouldn't be back that day (i don't think the girl was in on it, but maybe there's a picture of me behind the cashes now? lol)
- maybe it's a regional thing and the rules really are different there, compared to other locations
ANYWAYS for like two seconds inbetween, I thought "maybe this is why there's no velocitron anywhere - maybe every time we gank stuff off a pallet, they have to send back the remnants?"
Though my yellow-vest buddy told me that's BS, so it's back to "no, they really are that coveted" I guess
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