I have done this on multiple occasions. I have also seen something on a shelf and thought ‘oh, that’s kind of cute, let me pick it up - a hood! It has a hood! It has a hood!! Do they have my size??’
There is no surer way to get me to buy something than to attach a hood. I am a sucker for hoods, but then, I sleep with the blanket pulled over my head, so there you go.
But I feel your pain anyway - many a time I have seen something cute, gone in for a closer inspection, and then turned away in disgust at the dog-eared fabric bow/glitter skidmark/sequined pustule/designer name, store name, lame phrase across chest/various other stupid embellishments.
No whoosh. I spent $200 for late delivery of unfashionable items that didn’t fit and I eventually just threw out.
Never ever shop [here](No whoosh. I spent $200 for late delivery of unfashionable items that didn’t fit and I eventually just threw out.). (Possibly NSFW.)
I also hate a lot of the weird embellishment that’s popular these days. No, I would not like a ruffle on my sleeve or down the front. That’s just weird and will make me look like a crazy anenome instead of a normal human being.
I’m still horrified by the “bubble skirt” phenomenon of the past few years. Nobody looks good in it, and it’s so weird to me that I imagine that it derived from someone seeing a skirt caught in some lady’s pantyhose and thinking “hmmm, that’s an idea!” before making their own monstrosity.
ETA: Oh, and Mr./Ms. Retailer: Is it too much to ask to have the lederhosen, fishing boots, bustieres, chainsaws and pogo sticks at least within *sight * of one another?
They’re sleeveless. Ack! I don’t want the office to see my wobbly upper arms, my armpits, and the generous slice of brassiere that the sleeveless dress shows off. If I’m wearing a plus-sized dress, I probably have a pretty substantial bra on, too. And no one wants to see it at my workplace.
What’s the point of a cute summer dress if I have to find a cardigan to go over it?
Sleeves, please. Even little short sleeves would be great. About four more inches, maybe five, of fabric. That’s all I ask for.
Sleeveless. For plus-size. I think that’s stupid.
Also, all those funky pop flavours? How about stocking the diet version? I don’t drink regular pop.
And grocery store–bring back those Pink Lady organic apples! I loved them, and they were good for me, too!
There is a canned/jarred fruits and vegetables aisle. Great idea! Except for canned beans…those are in the soup aisle. Or jarred olives…those are apparantly a condiment/garnish. Sauerkraut? Don’t get me started on sauerkraut, they move it all the time, last time I saw it was in the baking aisle next to the jello pudding :mad:
Next stockboy I find is going to get physically sauerkrauted and battered in pizza dough (since I’m sure that it will next be found in the pizza section).
So you order stuff on spec. That’s nice. How about, if you’ve screwed over lots and lots of your customers with loss in transit between mfr and packager of stuff that they’ve bought, OWNING UP TO IT on your website and offering to make it right instead of papering it over (what fuckup? we know of no fuckup! Look! Shiny new stuff right here!) and waiting for masses of irate customers to email CS a MONTH later asking where the heck their stuff is?
I emailed a couple of your CS people and they were very apologetic and sent me a couple of coupons to make it right, which was nice. BUT the problem is, said stuff on spec is very limited, and they’re always adding new stuff and retiring the old stuff. GAA. So even if I wanted to buy replacement stuff, I’m SOL if they’re outta stock. Given my druthers, I’d rather have my stuff instead of a couple of coupons.
AND they can’t even adjust the order status page to show that my original order is never coming back, not even when the cows come home. No, it’s gonna be perpetually “being packaged”.
Jeebus Christ. Toyota engineers will never look up to you guys as a paragon of efficiency and Getting It Right, believe me. Transparency? Pfft, who needs that?
Yes. And in addition to the stupid Starbucks (in a shopping center where there are THREE, count 'em THREE, REAL coffee places within, what, 25 yards of the entrance to the store) there are also:
Carpet cleaner rentals, with the units staggered around the floor taking up the most possible space
Video tape rental. Yeah guys, heard of DVD’s? Or, here’s a concept, have you heard of the fucking Blockbuster which is, no shit, about 30 feet away from your store? Who the fuck is going to rent a tape at the grocery store, with their fine collection of 25-year old teen movies?
Coinstar machine (with the apparently permanent Out of Order sign)
A BANK, for pete’s sake. Not just an ATM, but a bank. Yeah, that’s where I’m going to go to apply for my home equity line of credit, right there next to the big box of pumpkins and the rack of ugly Hawaiian shirts on clearance.
A fleet of motorized scooters for people who have mobility issues that evidently only surface in the grocery store
Assorted cabinets holding the expensive booze and cigarettes
I don’t know what all else
All of this would be fine, but WHY do they have to put them all right where people are trying to get through with their shopping carts? Obviously it’s a scheme to slow people down so they can buy more crap on impulse, like that pre-used copy of Shiloh for $1.99 that is SUCH A GREAT BUY. For this reason, I absolutely refuse to buy anything in those sections. Ever. Blow me, Albertsons/Lucky.
Tell me about it.
At the store I shop at, there is a bank right across from the end of about four of the checkout lanes. If more than one person is standing at the bank counter, the line is extending into the area where all the people are trying to go by with their bags and shopping carts to the exit.
On Fridays, there is always a line of construction workers at the bank counter waiting to cash their paychecks and they are completely blocking the area where a dozen checkout lanes traffic has to go to exit the store. Smart idea.
Oh, yea. And the ATM is out front just next to the bank so everyone who walks out to their car with groceries can see your bank transaction and bank balance as they walk by.
I also don’t understand the full banking capacity in the grocery store–but those people who stand in line sure get in the way. They run into the large bins present in front of the register lines which makes it hard to navigate carts etc.
At least the pharmacy is at the back of the store.
I also hate that they change the displays around. I used to think it was because the help got bored, but turns out it is Evil Management’s Idea to keep the merchandise “fresh” or something.
Yo, Borders! First, please educate your sales staff. When, (as happened in July), I asked about my Harry Potter order, I should not have been asked if I meant book #6… Also, snark when I can’t find an item, which your computer display so helpfully tells me is “most likely in store-see Juvenile section”, is not appreciated. Also, not being able to check on my Harry Potter order at the register, thereby making me go stand at another counter, is most aggravating.
The one that I’ve been ordering from about once a month for the past 3 or 4 years.
Remember the time I called you for an extra large thin crust for delivery and you asked me for my email address? Remember I said I didn’t want to give it to you?
Remember the next month I called you for an extra large thin crust and you asked me for my email address? And I asked why you wanted it? And you said so that you could email me when the pizza was leaving for delivery and so that you could periodically send me coupons by email? Remember that I said that it sounded like you wanted to spam me. Remember that I said that I was never going to give you my email address and that I wanted you to stop asking for it? Remember when you said that it was not possible to stop asking until there was an email address associated with my phone number in your system? Remember when I said that I liked the arrangement that we had before where I called for a pizza and I got a pizza and you got my money and that was the end of the story and that if you won’t stop asking me for my email address that you should cancel my order and that I would start ordering from somewhere else? And you said OK?
Have you heard from me since? No?
'Cause there’s another place that sells pizza. And they don’t ask me for my email address. And now they get my business.
To be fair, Knocked Up was hilarious, got great reviews, and was probably one of the biggest movie successes of the year – a comedy that had heart and was actually funny, all at the same time.
I’m guessing, but not sure, that tdn needs XXXL boxers, which retail stores don’t stock. Hence paying over the odds for ugly underwear with lousy customer service.
If you consider ‘sizing up’ all of your sizes, then those of us who actually wear a size 0 are going to stop shopping there. Why? Because all your clothes are too goddamn big on me. I’m looking at Old Navy in particular. Why? They used to have plenty of size 0 short pants, which actually fit me. Now they don’t. Now the next time I need a new pair of black slacks, I’m going to have to go someplace else, probably spend more money, and probably still hem them. Stop accommodating “people of large size” at the expense of us small people.
Nope, because A) ‘short’ length pants are really hard to find, and B) sizes have gotten bigger. I have a pair of size 3 shorts, old hand-me-downs from my sister. Same label a few years later, same general style, and when I finally find a small size (go into the Junior’s department of you nearest department store and try to find pants in a size smaller than a six), it’s grown. Plus, if I’m looking for respectable clothes (for work or whatever), I prefer minimal pink sparkliness.
For jeans, I just swallow my pride and get them from the girls’ department. sigh
