Cheap Royalty
A woman in our store broke a collection piece from one of our Fairy lines. It is about $25.00 or so. Maybe more. Anyway, a co-worker saw it happen and watched as the woman began to tuck the broken fairy behind a few of the other fairies. Said co-worker approached the woman and said "Can I help you with that?" "Well I suppose I have to buy it now!" she answered in a huff. "No actually we don't apply that policy here, but we do ask that a customer tell us when a piece is broken so that we can replace it with a new one, rather than display a broken one."
We got a phone call from security that we had a shop lifter in our store, and that she was being followed by plain clothes security. The woman had already stole from four other stores, and they were going to confront her when she left our store. She was pushing an empty stroller, and even knocked over one of our displays. She wandered around the store and I think even bought some $5.00 ornament. When she left she was confronted and searched. Even though she was being watched by us, she had managed to steal from us too. What did she steal? The baby Jesus from a nativity scene.
A man bought a $315.00 item from me and I offered to gift wrap it for him, as he was giving it to his mother for a Christmas gift, but would have to leave it at her house that night because he was returning to California early in the morning. (ok, that and he was really really cute. I mean a drop dead hottie. But I digress...) A woman heard me offer this service and proceeded to ask me to wrap a $6.00 ornament for her. I explained that we don't even have a box for that item. She was insistent that I would be able to find a spare one and that if I could offer the service to the man then I could offer it to her. I had to agree to do it, so I spent close to ten minutes hunting for a box and wrapping a gift the size of a golf ball. The really funny part is that the bow was bigger than the box and it came out looking rather silly. I didn't do it on purpose, but again, as mentioned in an earlier blog, we hand make these bows and they really only come in one size. She wasn't thrilled, but what could she say?
Cheap people both annoy and entertain me.
We got a phone call from security that we had a shop lifter in our store, and that she was being followed by plain clothes security. The woman had already stole from four other stores, and they were going to confront her when she left our store. She was pushing an empty stroller, and even knocked over one of our displays. She wandered around the store and I think even bought some $5.00 ornament. When she left she was confronted and searched. Even though she was being watched by us, she had managed to steal from us too. What did she steal? The baby Jesus from a nativity scene.
A man bought a $315.00 item from me and I offered to gift wrap it for him, as he was giving it to his mother for a Christmas gift, but would have to leave it at her house that night because he was returning to California early in the morning. (ok, that and he was really really cute. I mean a drop dead hottie. But I digress...) A woman heard me offer this service and proceeded to ask me to wrap a $6.00 ornament for her. I explained that we don't even have a box for that item. She was insistent that I would be able to find a spare one and that if I could offer the service to the man then I could offer it to her. I had to agree to do it, so I spent close to ten minutes hunting for a box and wrapping a gift the size of a golf ball. The really funny part is that the bow was bigger than the box and it came out looking rather silly. I didn't do it on purpose, but again, as mentioned in an earlier blog, we hand make these bows and they really only come in one size. She wasn't thrilled, but what could she say?
Cheap people both annoy and entertain me.
posted by Cindy at 12:04 AM
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