I am still new here, but I guess that I must be the only person who thinks that the claim that the poster Dangerosa makes sounds like the whole cloth fabrication of a particularly immature 7th grader who is trying desperately to impress their classmates with dashing, daring, (even "danger"ous?) tales of the tomfool with a precocious (and ignorantly misplaced) social conscience.
I would be astonished if any otherwise mentally competent adult actually engaged in such hollow, petty activity even once while drunk with arrogant self-righteousness, but if someone engaged in said behaviour on a regular basis, I would have no choice but to pity them for their shallow, empty life.
For the record, I have never set foot in a Hobby Lobby in my life, but I don’t think that automatically makes me morally superior to the tens of thousands of people who work (or shop) there, even if it is not a choice I myself would make.
People really do stuff like that. Remember that smug asshole who protested Chick-fil-a by ordering a cup of water at the drive through and posting a video of himself on YouTube harassing the poor employee who took the order? He thought that people would cheer him on too.
I was recently told by an acquaintance of mine that she never goes into the store I work at because “It’s owned by people who don’t worship Jesus, the only true god.”
I am a store cashier, and as far as I am concerned, there is NO excuse for this behavior. The mechanics of shopping are simple: You take the items you want to buy to the cashier and pay for them. I don’t understand people who bring everything and everything to the register and decide then and there what they want to buy, leaving a cart fill of items. They’ll put 14 of something into their cart and then decide they don’t want them. Those things don’t magically go back on the shelves.
And as for people who dump things all around the register area: There is NO justification for that behavior.
We have to hire extra people to return items to the shelves and straighten the shelves. And who pays for that. Customers, with higher prices to pay those people’s salaries, and extra time waiting at the register because the cashiers are off doing returns.
Self fulfilling prophecy really. Studies find the more time people wait to check out the more they will reconsider purchases and remove items. It’s something like the 15 second mark people start thinking about if they really need something. The most effective strategy retailers have to combat this is to have more cashiers to decrease wait time. If your store is sending cashiers off to return items they are making the problem worse.
That is so weird, and the complete opposite of how I shop. I don’t put ANYTHING in my cart unless I am CERTAIN I want to buy it. Waiting in line, I am far more likely to remember something I forgot to get, and go racing off to ADD to my purchases.
There is a cute little cafe in town, opened by one of my former fitness instructors. It was a little pricey, but the food was good and fresh and tasty. I ate there about three times in about four months, followed them on Facebook, and was generally rooting for the small mom and pop to succeed.
Then they posted on Facebook, through their cafe’s page, that no one should get the flu vaccine because of Big Pharma and that vaccines in general were a big scam. That did it for me.
Ah yes what you really want in the place serving you food, the flu. It’s like when the Papa John’s guy came out and said pizza’s would all cost something like .35 more if they had to provide health insurance. I was thinking 'um okay, I'd gladly pay an extra .35 to know the people making my food have access to health care.’