Retail Work Stories - Blog Posts

Dear Valued Customer...

Why did you leave a can of Campbell's Condensed Vegetable Soup in aisle 5 among the flour. Just why.

Dear Valued Customer...

Why did you put a 4-pack of ginger beer on the bottom shelf of aisle 6 with the almonds. I'm just confused.

The Watermelon Incident

At work yesterday, 5 minutes into the start of my shift, my produce manager had me and another produce employee clean up some sticky stuff on the floor from a watermelon, and we also had to dig through the big watermelon bin to find the crushed one. It wasn't pretty.

One of the cashiers working Deli told me that the sticky puddle had been there since the morning, and no one cleaned it up since then. Me and the other employee needed to use a whole stack of paper towels and like 4 regular towels to clean up all the watermelon goop.

And it was supposed to be my grocery shift...

Dear Valued Customer...

Why were you shopping for cabbages 5 minutes after closing. Why was it so important that you couldn't wait until the next day.

I just have questions.

Critter Counter-Measures (or CCM for short)

Not pictured are 4 more carts of chips and bread, and the 2 floor managers, one of the senior cashiers, and another diary/grocery employee brought in to LITERALLY TAKE AISLE 1 APART to try to find The Critters because my boss is too cheap to buy an exterminator.

Dear Valued Customer...

Why did you put a can of sweet baby corn in with the apples.

Just why.

I'm not mad. Just disappointed.

Work Stories: The Critters

So, at my workplace, we've had a, um, critter problem for a few months now. It started with Produce just having to put some of the grape tomatoes in the cooler for the night to everyone having to put all the extra bread in giant basins for the night and Produce having to put almost EVERYTHING in the walk-in cooler.

One my coworkers that has been there for a while, (10+ years i think) says that the critters have already won, but we're just delaying the inevitable, and one of my managers for my Produce closing shift has joked about staying all night long with an air rifle.

This is the same manager who had to make some DIY protection for the bread shelves because we don't own them apparently?

Anyways, I will provide updates on the critters, and I hope that this doesn't become a permanent thing.