I went to bed last night knowing that I would have hungry cats to face when I woke up. I made a note, “Go Buy Catfood” before I went to bed and put it where I would find it. I went to the grocery store, got a basket, and went straight to get catfood. I got into the line behind a lady that had a stack of coupons, that was okay. I made small talk to the guy behind me, he was buying two big new coolers and beer. I said, “you are going to the beach or the river or some place nice today, aren’t you?” He said, “He was going somplace nice.” The checker was having trouble with the last coupon. It wouldn’t scan. She punched in the numbers. It didn’t work. Several minutes had passed, she started to pick up the little phone to page someone. I said, “Charge her the full price, give me the coupon, and I’ll give her a dollar or two.” The checker looked at me as if I had killed a small, cute animal and said, “I can’t do that.” The guy going to the beach is chuckling. Be advised, I have been known to show my ass but not now. I used a conversational tone, I did not look like a lunatic. Was I out of line?
Last week I bought the wrong catfood. Mrs.Lanelee old them it was all my fault but that is another thread.
It doesn’t sound it to me. Of course, I’m probably not the right one to ask, 'cause I have been known to do worse. I was behind a lady whose coupon has expired and she was tossing a fit and I said something along the lines of “Lady, I’ll give you a freaking dollar, just let it go.” She said it was the principle, not the money…
Trying to use an expired coupon and it is a principle? <boggle> Did she even know the meaning of expired? I rarely use coupons [not too many for fresh fruits, veggies and non junkfood meats…other than store sales on london broil or whatever cut they are flogging that week…sigh] but at least I check the expiration dates
I don’t think you were out of line. Maybe she thought you meant that she should then give you the value of the coupon even though you didn’t buy the item. That would be a no-no.
I wonder why she just didn’t punch it in as usually happens whenever I have a coupon that doesn’t scan. Maybe she didn’t know how to, thus the page.
I think you were being pretty nice if you actually intended to give her a dollar or two or whatever.
Some people are just rule sticklers to the point of insanity. Watch how the average fast food worker reacts when you try to order something other than a combo these days.
People pitch fits over expired coupons all the damned time. It happened on almost a daily basis at a store where I used to work. Okay, so maybe “pitching fits” was not a daily occurrance, but complaining and acting all victimized definitely was. And the pitching fit thing was a regular ongoing thing, usually requiring me to find the manager and have her reason with the person having the huge fit. (Usually the manager gave the person the discount anyway. What a weenie.)
The one that takes the cake, however, was the woman who wanted to return buttons (were were a fabric store) that were from the wrong store. Not only the wrong store, but a brand of buttons that we didn’t carry. We were House of Fabrics. She bought these buttons at Cloth World. When she showed her reciept which had the big “Cloth Word” name at the top, she just got louder and louder and made a big scene. The manager gave her a refund just to shut her up. The manager folded a lot like that. I don’t know if it was store policy but I wish she hadn’t done it. I can’t imagine any reasonable person thinking that a store is “ripping off” a customer because they won’t take returns from another store. That’s bizarre.
Answering the OP: No, you weren’t out of line. The clerk probably couldn’t do what you wanted (rules, anal-retentive boss, fear of anal-retentive bosses and rules, etc. etc.) but you weren’t wrong or an ass for offering. You said it in a good natured tone, after all. If it had been me at the register, I probably would have smiled understandingly and said, “I’m sorry, I’m not allowed to do that.”
Nope. Definetely not out of line. If I was the lady in front of you, I would have taken you up on that offer…I don’t think the cashier has any right to tell her that she can’t charge her full price or the right to tell you that you can’t give the lady in front of you a buck or two.
On the point of expired coupons…we get that all the time. I work for a home inspection company and about a year and a half ago, we were pretty slow…so we gave some coupons to the Realtors and attorneys to give to their clients. Well, we are now doing well and the Realtors and attorneys are still giving coupons out to their clients. These things expired a year ago!
I even had one Realtor black out the expiration date with a marker and give it to her client. When the lady called and scheduled an inspection and said she had a coupon, I said “what’s the expiration date at the bottom?”. Her response “It’s blacked out.” - So, tell me, what was your first clue that you wouldn’t be able to use the coupon? :smack: You want one even better than that? Ok We have, in this past year, also went through a name change. So the name on that coupon doesn’t even match the name of our company!! :wally
I had a (really really old) lady ahead of me in line the other day. She had a handful of candy bars that were 3 for a dollar. They generally are 3 for a dollar. For some reason, she was convinced they were supposed to be 4 for a dollar. She was screaming at the cashier about this, and when a manager came over she got yelled at also. "I AM A REGULAR CUSTOMER
Coupons and stupid folk don’t mix. I work in a liquor store. Weekly we have a coupon in the paper for 20% off any one item, not including sale items, kegs, and domestic beers. At least once a day I have to explain to some illiterate that the coupon is for one item only, and is not to be used on sale items, kegs or domestic beers. Says it right there. And yes, Coors is a domestic beer, it’s made 12 miles away from here, pinhead!
One week, we didnt have the coupon in the paper, just a notice that the arena football team would be in the store, signing autographs and playing catch or something. Old guy brought it in and wanted 20% off his cheap scotch.
“I can’t give you the money off, this isn’t a coupon.”
“I come in here every week and I get the 20% off!!!”
“Yeah but…this isnt a coupon.”
“blah blah blah…”
Called the manager, he told the old man the same thing. Old man said he’ll never shop here again and he’ll call the local BBB. He still bought his cheap scotch. I gave him the non-coupon back.
Once I was waiting in a long line at Fred’s while the little old lady at the front was searching the nether regions of her purse for two pennies. After about five minutes of this, I said aloud, “Does anyone have two pennies?” Everyone in line started tossing pennies toward the counter. None of them hit the little old lady, but a few came close. She picked up two of the pennies, handed them to the cashier, and toddled sweetly on out.
Huh? Do what? If you wish to purchase a coupon from another person…or any other scrap of paper, even if it has the stores name on it…she’s got nothing to do with it. I suppose she could tell you if you do that, she can’t honor it (why, though?), but otherwise it’s not her concern.
As a starving strudent and a confirmed cheapskate (Mr. Toes can vouch for that), I use coupons all the time. I never have any problem trying to use expired coupons because I know what frickin’ day it is! I don’t understand how difficult it is for people to figure that out. I feel sorry for cashiers.
As to the OP, if I were the person using the coupons I would have taken the couple of bucks and gotten out of your way with no problem.
I’m a student not a strudent. Well, I might be a strudent but I don’t know what it means so I can’t tell for sure. They haven’t edumacated me that well yet.
