Just quit while you’re ahead

The past few days have been uneventful, so I didn’t write because there wasn’t much to say. However, today was a different story.

First of all, I worked at 6am. What fucking crackhead schedules me at 6am I don’t know, but I didn’t appreciate it.

I had everyone under the sun ask for Rita, a girl who is a month younger than me. She usually works these early shifts. Well, she was on vacation, so yours truly had to work her shift. Whoopee. So I had customers looking for her, and I told them where she was. This one guy brought in a candy and it was kinda cool.

It’s one of those kinds of candies (which I didn’t discover was hard) but it has an American Flag in the middle, and red, white and blue candy.

American Flag Candy

I had this one lady come in my line with her grandkids. After I am done ringing up her order, she goes, “Why is it so cold?” And I tell her I was fine. She goes “No, why is it cold in the dairy/produce section?” I did my best not to laugh at her. Like it’s going to be cold, you know, when you open up a fridge and you feel the cold air, it’s the same effect in the dairy/ produce sections. Of course it’s going to be cold, how do you expect the food not to spoil? Duh. It’s like having an open refrigerator 24/7. Idiot.

Then I was doing returns, when this lady came up to me asking for a container with a plastic lid other than what was in the aisle near us. Assuming she wanted Tupperware or something to that extent, I pointed her to the bake aisle. She walks away, and then asks another coworker about coolers, saying it was like $4 for one somewhere else and thought it was too much. Then later, I see her walk out with detergent. Uh, ok lady sure whatever?!

So later on, I had this lady come in my line, and we were talking about the new employee discount cards. Apparently her husband works for Stop and Shop. So then she says, “My husband doesn’t let me shop anywhere else.” And I go “Really?” And she says “Yea, I mean I’m being loyal to the store.” And I go “Well, Stop and Shop doesn’t pay me enough to shop here.” She says “What do you mean?” What other grocery store pays better?” I go “I’m not working here the rest of my life.” And she goes off on a tangent.

I’m like, that’s not even it. I’m sorry that despite the fact Stop and Shop is cheaper than Shaw’s, I still shop other places that are cheaper than Stop and Shop, for example, Price Rite. I can get the Naan bread $1.59 at Price Rite rather than Stop and Shop at $2.99. If Stop and Shop paid me more maybe I can buy their overpriced Naan bread, but I’m sorry I have bills to pay? If I can save money shopping somewhere else, then I have money for more important things. I only buy Stop and Shop products if it’s on sale or cheaper or I desperately need it. How fucking stupid are you? I save money and I can care less if I’m “loyal” to my store. Stop and Shop owes me, so fuck them.  You can’t get everything at Price Rite so obviously we wouldn’t lose shoppers they just wouldn’t buy certain things if they don’t need to for more money. I’ve been sending customers elsewhere if I know there are sales are cheaper than ours because of the recession. I rather have a customer come back for things they can get here than watch them overpay and stress over money. The lady didn’t get it. It had nothing to do either with me getting paid better somewhere else, I’m just saying I don’t need to buy overpriced stuff if I don’t need to. It’s called being frugal, if the bitch had any concept of that meaning.

Keep buying your overpriced stuff, I don’t want to hear it that you couldn’t pay a car payment because you refused to save money elsewhere. And the husband is an idiot too.