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Big4Country
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Some lady had about 10 items replaced for free tonight after her son ran the grocery cart into the curb and flipped it. Shouldn't she have to pay for that herself for being stupid enough to let her son push the cart?


[Edited on July 27, 2009 at 11:59 PM. Reason : .]

7/27/2009 11:41:30 PM

theDuke866
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yes

7/27/2009 11:43:06 PM

Ernie
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These are the dilemmas you face when you're 29, working at a grocery store.

7/27/2009 11:43:10 PM

fredbot3000
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i thought this thread was about tax breaks

7/27/2009 11:43:38 PM

legatic
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it's usually easier to give people what they want so they don't cause a big scene.

but yeah, something that was totally preventable like that shouldn't entitle her to free replacement items

7/27/2009 11:44:50 PM

erice85
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dont forget to tuck that shirt in

7/27/2009 11:44:50 PM

Ragged
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and pull your pants up

7/27/2009 11:54:00 PM

Str8BacardiL
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i thought this was about universal healthcare

7/27/2009 11:59:39 PM

josephlava21
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At whatever point the manager says sorry you will have to buy the replacement items. If it were a small store with foreign owners they would say "you break you buy."

7/27/2009 11:59:45 PM

Spontaneous
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Ideally, in a capitalistic society, nobody should get anything for free. However, with both rich and poor folks getting misappropriated funds from the government, the idea of any moral issues arising from these situations makes little sense to me.

7/28/2009 12:13:53 AM

melanndelyn
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working for a corporate company makes you give people so much they dont deserve.....

ah the restaurant industry is the worst!!

"i dont like this"
.....then you shouldnt have ordered it!!
but they get it for free anyway

7/28/2009 12:18:32 AM

wolfpackgrrr
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She had already left the store and demanded free shit? Bitch

7/28/2009 12:18:38 AM

NCSUWolfy
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its just goodwill from the store

when i was a kid i collected disney statues i would purchase from the mall. one day i bought one and accidently dropped my bag. yes, it was my fault. it was a $7 statue and the store replaced it. they didn't have to, but they did and it made me appreciate a kind gesture.

the "point" at which people should stop getting free shit, is entirely up to the person or company giving said free shit

7/28/2009 12:29:58 AM

beergolftile
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for your free gift

email:

BHObama@whitehouse.gov

7/28/2009 12:31:23 AM

wawebste
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nicely done

7/28/2009 12:34:27 AM

Arab13
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"Shouldn't she have to pay for that herself for being stupid enough to let her son push the cart?"


yes, if you are outside you break your shit too bad

7/28/2009 1:59:19 AM

ThePeter
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I can't believe its not butter

7/28/2009 2:21:15 AM

wolfpackgrrr
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"when i was a kid i collected disney statues i would purchase from the mall. one day i bought one and accidently dropped my bag. yes, it was my fault. it was a $7 statue and the store replaced it. they didn't have to, but they did and it made me appreciate a kind gesture.
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Did you drop it in the store? When I worked retail I might have given someone an exchange if they broke it right there in the store. If they've already left the store all bets are off.

7/28/2009 3:48:01 AM

ajgoff1286
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All the time

7/28/2009 8:47:08 AM

cddweller
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"Ideally, in a capitalistic society, nobody should get anything for free. However, with both rich and poor folks getting misappropriated funds from the government, the idea of any moral issues arising from these situations makes little sense to me."
How very revolutionary of you, darling.

7/28/2009 8:48:33 AM

lewoods
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"Shouldn't she have to pay for that herself for being stupid enough to let her son push the cart?"

Yes. I have dropped yogurts trying to fit them into the trunk on the bike and never even thought about going back inside to get the store to replace them.

Only time I have returned something in unsellable condition is when I bought reduced price meat then saw it was already expired.

7/28/2009 8:50:56 AM

Big4Country
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On the bright side the bottle of laundry detergent broke and made the parying lot smell good.

7/28/2009 12:43:05 PM

djeternal
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it's all about business. forcing her to pay for the items a second time will pretty much ensure that she will not shop at your store again. replacing the items at no cost ensures repeat business, which will pay for those 10 items many times over in the long run.

plus she will tell all of her friends how nice it was that your store replaced the items at no cost, thus bringing more people into the store

[Edited on July 28, 2009 at 12:46 PM. Reason : a]

7/28/2009 12:45:45 PM

BobbyDigital
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^ ding ding.

7/28/2009 12:51:47 PM

MovieGuru23
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exactly, which is why restaurants will pretty much do the same thing if you dont like your food.

7/28/2009 1:43:37 PM

dyne
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welcome to capitalism.

7/28/2009 1:44:41 PM

NCSUWolfy
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why do people talk about capitalism as if its a bad thing

motherfucking commies

7/28/2009 1:47:16 PM

mdozer73
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it is called the 2 and 10 rule:

If you have good service, you typically tell 2 people.
If you experience bad service, you tell 10 people, on average.

It would be more about preserving a relationship with a customer, rather than leaving them armed with a bad experience.

[Edited on July 28, 2009 at 1:48 PM. Reason : the customer is not always right, but they are always the customer]

7/28/2009 1:47:29 PM

casummer
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I THOUGHT THIS WAS ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT

7/28/2009 1:49:29 PM

Jader
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some people take advantage of that though. Like, how you gonna say you didn't like something but you almost finished the whole plate?

7/28/2009 2:34:56 PM

not dnl
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literally clicked this to see if melondylan posted in it

7/28/2009 2:45:43 PM

BigHitSunday
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"These are the dilemmas you face when you're 29, working at a grocery store."


^^nowadays theyll ask you to bite into your steak and make sure that its to your liking before they leave



[Edited on July 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM. Reason : l]

7/28/2009 4:08:28 PM

Spontaneous
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"How very revolutionary of you, darling. "


I'm running under a totalitarian platform in 2020.

7/28/2009 4:17:40 PM

Skack
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"some people take advantage of that though. Like, how you gonna say you didn't like something but you almost finished the whole plate?"


I saw this at Peak City Grill in Apex a while back. Homegirl ate like 2/3 of a fish dinner. When the waiter came she said "The fish does not taste right so just don't charge us for that dinner."

[Edited on July 28, 2009 at 4:20 PM. Reason : l]

7/28/2009 4:20:25 PM

BigHitSunday
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was dey blacks

7/28/2009 4:21:18 PM

TreeTwista10
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One time I was up in upstate New York at some glass gift shop or some shit and this hot ass girl who worked there was pulling down some glass hanging octopus or fish or some shit i was gonna buy as a gift, and she ended up breaking like 50 different glass items...i lol'd

7/28/2009 4:22:39 PM

casummer
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ttt

7/31/2009 3:03:03 PM

richthofen
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It definitely makes good business sense to offer--I think part of it is having the personal accountability to know when to refuse. If my kid flipped the grocery cart over and broke items, I would know it's not the store's responsibility to replace the items for me--either man up and pay for them again, or do without, and know that maybe little Johnny isn't old enough or responsible enough to be pushing the cart. The store's gracious offer should be graciously declined in that instance.

7/31/2009 3:36:35 PM

Big4Country
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^Oh she yelled at him and asked him how was he going to pay for the jelly?

7/31/2009 7:41:36 PM

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