Thread: Attention SHoppers ~ FYI

When your out shopping., the clerk who is ringing you up does NOT care about your life., so please, stop feeling the need to tell the clerk your personal business.
Especially nowadays with so many stores cutting back on hours, one clerk is now doing the work of two sometimes three. The clerk has things to do!!!!!!!!!!!! They do not have time to stand there and listen to your stories! They don't care that you have to go to the dentist., they don't care that your buying this or that for your POS good fo nothin' son, they don't care that you hate your boss, they don't want to know that your grandbaby is datin' some loser,. They really don't want to hear about it!
A quick, polite, transaction is all they want.
Hello, Find everything ok? Yes.
Excellent, that'll be $8.16.
Did you want that on your debt or credit? Debt, please.Ok, Please enter your PIN. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
Would you like a bag? No.
Thank you very much, Here's your receipt, Have a good weekend. You too, thanks. You're welcome, thanks again.
THATS IT!
That should be all thats ever said, unless you didn't find what you were looking for and in that case, the clerk will help you find it, and they don't want to hear a story of why you want it!
They want to provide customer service., but that does NOT entail being your friend or your counselor.

THEY DON'T CARE!
LEAVE THEM ALONE!
CARRY ON WITH YOUR BUSINESS!
MOVE ALONG!

No, just sick of fricken' story-time.
Its not story-time!
I'm sick of it when customers do it to me & I'm sick of being in line behind someone who feels thats its story-time & goes on & on to the clerk about crap NO ONE CARES about!
If you feel the need to tell someone your stories, then either find a friend or get a therapist.

I would so much rather get in the line of a friendly check out person than the ones who look/act like their drawers are crawling where they dont need to be. Even if I have the short, sweet, and to the point conversation you think we should stick to, when it is in a nice tone, it makes my day easier. Im sure the clerk is appreciative when I am nice back, too.

Sounds like you work at most stores I go to. It's sad things have gotten to this point.

You know what? I had rather have a clerk who is nice enough to care than someone like we got yesterday who was short, snippy and threw our groceries down the belt.

I was nice enough to call her manager on my way home(thanks to the phone # on the receipt) and let him know Mary Lou was stressing out, and maybe should be sent on break, I even told him I wasnt trying to be mean. Evidentally I wasnt the only one to say something because he said it had already been taken care of.

Originally Posted by Quaker_Parrots

You know what? I had rather have a clerk who is nice enough to care than someone like we got yesterday who was short, snippy and threw our groceries down the belt.

I was nice enough to call her manager on my way home(thanks to the phone # on the receipt) and let him know Mary Lou was stressing out, and maybe should be sent on break, I even told him I wasnt trying to be mean. Evidentally I wasnt the only one to say something because he said it had already been taken care of.

because this is a horrible way to feel about your customers , they are the ones who keep you in your job , if you treat them the way your attitude suggests , i d steer clear of any store you worked at . and you d be out of a job stat. you ought to thank God you have the opportuntiy to make someones day a little brighter and share the joy of being able to go out into the world and do your own thing, there are others out there suffering and that you would even think this way shows that your heart is not where it should be. im not perfect and i dont profess to ms goodie two shoes , and i do a lot of stupid things and probley will keep doing stupid things its in our nature, but i try to treat everyone with love and kindness , now matter how i feel , becasuse that one time you act or say or do something mean to another could mean making that one person hurt them self or others, we see it so many times in the news. ive worked for years in walmart and sometimes ive been sick inside with grief , but i always tried to make others i worked with at least a little happier than when i met them even if it ment taking that time to chat or share their stories with them . cause i remember how it feels to have some one treat me like dirt, and i dont ever want to make some one else feel that way . i cant alway succeed but at least i try.
may be you ought to look for another job out of the public sector if you feel that way, but what ever you do please try and step back and see what is making you feel like that and realize that your attudude is going to make you sick in your own heart and who knows that stranger you snub may be the angel that judges you

I am proud of my customer service skills, I am from the old school, where you greet eveyone with a hello and give the same level of sevice to eveyone. I have gotten awards, perks, bonuses for my customer service. This has absolutely nothing to do with customer service it has to do with story-time.
People always come in and say your so nice, your always so friendly., Perhaps I'm too nice, so people feel the need to tell me these personal details., I just don't get it.
The customer service you get from most places these days is horrendous, I have to agree. Maybe thats why when they come to my store and I smile & greet them, they think I am there friend, because no one ever does that anymore.
Friendly chit chat is one thing.
Gosh I sure am glad its Friday! Yay, I hear that. Have a Good-Weekend.
That is proper behavior!
I hope you have a good weekend. Well I probably won't because my good for nothin' son and his crack head girlfriend are droppin' my grandbabies off, probably won't even leave no formula or diapers for'em.
That is NOT proper behavior!
When people tell me things like that, I just stare at them with a blank look on my face for about 5 seconds and then say Thank You., Have a good day.
WHAT THE F AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY TO THAT!?!?!?!?

I have never gone to a store and told the clerk anything about my personal life, because I know that they really don't give a rats ass. HATE TO BREAK IT TO YA., but THEY DON'T!!!!!!
You would feel sick and disgusted if you had to hear some of the stories that I am forced to listen to., meanwhile, there is a line of customers who also have better things to do than listen to your crap. Sick, sick stories., stories that fricken give me nightmares., yet just because I work where you shop, you feel the need to tell me this?!?
So next time just stick to the business at hand. Think about the customers behind you, for once think about someone other than yourself.. I know its hard., but you are not the most important person out there.


Do YOU go to stores and tell the clerk your business?
Why?
Do you think they care?
Thats all I'm sayin' Think before you start blabbing on about your babies daddy or some bullsh!t.

If you smile at me, ask if I found what I needed and say "Thank you, come again', that is all I need. I say 'Hi' when I get up to the register, then usually nothing else until the cashier says thanks, then I say, 'you too, have a good day' or something similar as I'm grabbing my bags to go. I don't need chit chat and I'm sure the cashier doesn't either. Not to mention the people who are in line behind me.

You can be friendly/nice without all that unnecessary crap.

Growing up in small town this hardly ever happened tho, it usually went like this...
Hiday! How's your grandma doing today?
dunno.
She ever get her tomatas planted?
dunno
I seen your grandpa at the feed store yesterday
don't care
did your son git to go to the game on friday?
dunno....
How's your husband?
dunno

I HATED that crap. Made me shop in another town where people didn't know me, lol!
If you wanna chit chat, call me on the phone, come visit etc.