That is seriously annoying as hell, and half the time even the employees don’t know where stuff is now.
True, very true.
Oh, there’s some vague pattern/logic to the overall layout, but unless you can figure it out yeah, you’re lost even if you are an employee. Certainly no one person knows the exact location of everything, which is why managers and the store director will frequently ask the stock people where things are - the stockers are the most likely to know for their particular area.
I think everybody has adult coloring books now. I was just at Barnes and Noble and they had a couple of tables of them, so that might be easy, and it’s something someone might need to use to de-stress if they’ve used the first two items you mentioned.
Or they’re testing how good a colorer they are with their hands cuffed behind their back and a condom over their…well, I’m not sure what.
Back when I was a teenage Target cashier, a pre-teen boy ran up to his mother, panic-stricken, and said, “We have to call the police! There’s a man in the store, and he’s going to rob a bank!”
His mother asked him, “What makes you think he’s going to rob a bank?” and the boy replied, “HE’S BUYING PANTYHOSE!”
Mom answered, “He’s not going to rob a bank. His wife probably sent him to the store.”
(or maybe he was doing homebrew?)
I’ve bought ladies pantyhose at the dollar store for winemaking. Once the cashier pointed out that I had two different sizes (queen is a size?). I replied, “grandma is pretty out of it mentally, she won’t even notice”, and got a nasty look.
The correct answer to this question is, “In this store we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!”
A customer once told me “Put everything in one bag and don’t make it too heavy.” I so wanted to say “Okay, I’ll break the laws of physics just for you.”
On Friday a customer in the next line asked “Is it okay if I reach over and grab these double A’s?”*
*He was talking batteries, you pervert. But I did want to say “those, yes; these, no” with appropriate hand motions.
One of the pharmacy trade magazines has a humor column. A while back, they printed a story from a pharmacist who did some relief work at an independent corner drugstore in a rural area, and a farmer came in and bought two big boxes of the old-fashioned belted maxi-pads. He said they were the best oil filters he’d ever used on his old tractor.
And yes, “queen size” is still used for plus-sized pantyhose.
I’m glad to know there actually is a use for knee-high pantyhose because they are shit at their intended use. Damn things always fell down around my ankles whenever I tried to wear them.
Reminds me of my years selling health insurance. I neither want or need to know your medical history (hence my not asking any questions about it) especially not all the gory details. At best I would want to know how much medical care you need, in very general terms such as number of prescriptions, do you go to the doctor regularly and such. I’m not a doctor, I’m just selling the insurance plan.
You can also fill them with kitty litter and then put them in shoes to absorb foot odor from in the shoes.
Remove them when putting on the shoes. Professional driver, closed course. Do not attempt.