Interesting experience with ammo checkout girl.

Back when you could still buy .22 ammunition a friend noticed that K-Mart had cartons on sale. His wife was going to town and he asked her if she would pick him up a carton.

When she got home he asked her if she had got the .22s?

She said yes, but they're still out in the car, I can't lift them.

She had got a case of cartons for the price of one carton. I guess the female clerk helped to get them in the car.
 
I've had the same problems as you fellas at wally world and all the sporting good type stores but I've never had the problem at a feed store. Like someone else already mentioned these folks seem to teach their employees about the products that they sell.
 
True story:

A local fast food establishment/chain advertised they sold iced tea by the gallon. I went in and asked the girl at the counter for a gallon of sweet iced tea.

"We don't sell iced tea by the gallon sir."

Me: "Well what do you have?"

"We have half gallons."

Me: "I'll take two half gallons then."

At this point I was biting a hole in my lip to keep from laughing but the guy behind me lost it.
 
Around here, beer comes in two sizes of cans. 12 ounce and "tall boys", 16 ounces. I used to enjoy going to the drive-up window of the liquor store and asking for a pint of Budweiser.

They'd take about two steps, and realize they MUST HAVE misheard me, and come back and say, "A pint of what?"

Once I was gonna send my daughter a CARE package. No Chick Fil A in Puerto Rico. So I ordered three dozen chicken nuggets (freeze 'em, send 'em in a cooler with dry ice). It confused the girl. She had no trouble when I changed the order to three 12-packs, but three dozen puzzled her.
 
A few years ago I was at the Price Club, before it became Costco, and was paying for a new Computer. I wrote a check and handed it to the checker, a young girl. Let's say it was for $1,200.79 which I wrote and on the lower amount wrote One Thousand two hundred and seventy-nine cents. The checker told me that the check was incorrect. She didn't like the seventy-nine cents. Amazing. I should have asked for a supervisor but was so angry I just left the computer in the basket and left the store.
 
kozmic said:
She's probably headed back to one of those high falootin' Ivy League schools after Labor Day.
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Sounds more like a recent high school graduate trying to get a place of her own.

She'd better plan on having at least two roommates, because she may not advance too quickly on that gig.
 
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um, guys?
i worked minimum wage jobs when i was a kid. i worked hard n did the best i could.
a sales gal can try hard but if no one bothers to train her, mistakes will be made that are no fault of hers.
 
When I was a young engineer I did a lot of survey and layout work for various construction companies. I did this on the weekend days usually with a friend as my rod man. We had a job that required the cuts to be measured and marked in "10ths" of a foot. This is a common engineering measurement system. We arrived at the job site and found that we had left the elevation rod at my home. I didn't want to drive 50 miles there and back so went to a large hardware store to see if I could find a flexible tape measure graduated in "10ths". I was amazed to find exactly what I needed. I took it up to the cashier who was young and not blonde. As she rang it up I casually pulled out the tape. I faked horror that it had been graduated wrong in that it wasn't in inches. She was equally horrified that her store would have a product that wasn't right. She said that I should take it back and get one that was right. I laughed and tried to explain to her that it was OK, that this was just another way to measure one foot. She argued with me that, "no, a foot has to have 12 inches in it." I said that it was OK with me that I was only measuring by feet anyway so 10 or 12 "inches" didn't mean anything to me and I would take this tape measure. She insisted on giving me 20% off. I finally shut up and took the discount and walked out shaking my head. ....

BTW, I still have that 'Engineer's Tape Measure'. I usually get a chuckle every time I pick it up.
 
The lady of the house will no longer allow me to grocery shop, even supervised. Fast food restaurants are also on my "no fly" list unless I get out and go in. Absolutely no drive-thru. I can go to Sam's if I promise to check out at the tobacco counter where the same clerk has worked for the past five years. She permits me to go to LGS's, restaurant supply stores and specialty computer stores. It's not that she cares where I go or what I do. It's after being together for over 28 years she is acutely aware that I don't deal well with stupidity. To add insult to injury, our lead contractor on several remodeling projects will ask me to go along on supply runs to be big box home improvement stores just so he'll have a fresh story to recount. hardcase60
 
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Speaking of Speed-strips... I went int o one of my favorite LGS's one day. It's a pretty old shop. Well-established. Spent way too much money there. And they know me. Two young guys AND one of the old-timers did NOT know what a speed-strip was. LOL.
 
italiansport said:
I was inline at the grocery store the other day and the lady in front of me was paying in cash. One of the coins she handed the cashier was a very nice indian head cent. The cashier refused to take it so I rose to the occasion and gave the lady a shiney new penny for her old one.
Both her and the cashier were clueless.
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I tried to pay for a purchase with a US two dollar bill and the clerk refused to accept it! The person she called said that there was no such thing a two dollar bill. I took it back and pulled out two ones and they were happy. I just wish I had two dollar coins!
 
Speaking of Speed Strips.

They are made by Bianchi, in two sizes - 38 and 44.

Tuff Products QUICKSTRIPS come in 22, but not SPEEDSTRIPS.

Sounds less like a case of "dumb clerk", and more like "dumb customer asking for the wrong product".

Next time you're in a gun store, try asking to see a S&W Python, or a Ruger Detective Special, and see what the clerk says.
 
About 10 years ago I need some ammo for target practice and as I was out of primers decided to by a box of ammo.

Went into this WM and found a young (18 or so) girl working in the sporting goods department. As everything is locked up tighter than gold at Fort Knox I asked her if she had a key and she said yes I work in this department.

Told her I need some .44 magnum ammo, so she walked back to the locked cases and stared in the shotgun shells and started working her way along the case. All the ammo was by caliber sizes with smaller to larger in order. Figured the store would close before she got into .44 size I told her go down to the last case and I would point them out to her.

She gave me a funny look and did what I said. She then pulled out the ammo went to register and said what are you going to shoot them out of (she was reading from a prompt on the register) I asked her why and her answer was if your shooting them out of a handgun I need to see your permit, if your shooting them out of a rifle I can sell them without a permit. :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Being Sportsman's Warehouse, she may work in another department and not know anything about ammo. She may be an expert on salmon flies, or back packing.
 
30-30remchester said:
I had a somewhat similar situation a decade ago. I went into a hardware store in Leadville, Colo. and found a carton of Remington 22 short hollow points. Each box was priced at $1.35 and there were ten in the carton. When I went to pay for the carton, I was told the price was $1.35 plus tax. I explained till I was blue in the face that they were $1.35 each for a total of $13.50. I was told that the price was $1.35 and I could either buy them at that price or put them back.
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I had this exact same situation happen to me at a little hardware store in Enumclaw, Wa. many years ago. I tried really hard to convince the cashier, who was a teenage girl, that EACH of the 10 small boxes in the brick was a buck and change. She would not be talked into it though, and I did end up buying that brick for under $2. It was the last ammo place before the shooting pit out at Greenwater. What are you gonna do?
 
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