New Rant · 11:55am Jul 27th, 2015
Alright how many of you work retail, raise your hands or hooves...
Fair amount... alright appendages down. Now how many of you shop at retail stores, raise your- yeah figured that out. So now what do you do when you don't want an item?
Yeah you can guess where this is going huh? I work at a Target, back in toys and electronics, and one thing that we do at the end of the night that most other retail stores do is zone. This means we pull items to the front of the shelves, move stuff in the aisles to where they belong and remove those that don't. This seems all fine and dandy right? Well there's quite a few things that tick me off and it's nothing I can control.
Using an example from last night. I went through an aisle, cleaned it up and removed everything that didn't belong. I come back about 10 minutes later to put a different item away and it looks like a hurricane went through it. I had about 15 minutes to clean it up as best I could before the store closed and I still had about 10 more aisles to do that were just as messy. People. I get it. You don't want to trek halfway across the store to put something back. I wouldn't either. But when you put items at random parts around their aisles it just ticks me off. Take the time to put it back where it belongs if it's only gonna take you 30 seconds more. Treat it like you would treat someone else's house. And if it is your kids doing it, provide a good example and have them put it back where it belongs. Don't let them act like the living tornado(the skylanders section can attest to this)
And before someone tries to claim it's just kids doing this, given that I only provided a toys example, let me say another thing. I worked the rest of the hardlines section(anything not clothes, grocery, or electronics) before I worked back there and I can say with utter certainty that adults do the same damn thing. Anyone who's worked retail, mainly on the sales floor but I've seen it can happen up front at the lanes too, can understand this. It becomes a pain when you have to act like a parent to clean up a mess that an unruly kid(or I guess in some cases adult) made.
One other note? Don't leave flipping frozen, produce, or dairy products on the shelf! Any store that provides these will tell you that if they're left on a shelf we have to dispose of them regardless of how long they were out. We don't know how long its been out so we have to be safe on that. And it becomes annoying because people fail to realize this.
Sorry for the slightly unorganized rage but it was something I felt I had to type, if only to get it off my chest.
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I can sorta understand what you feel bro, I used to work in fast food... I hated working there, but I loved the Wendy's food.