And here comes CVS with yet another in-store service, testing out hearing and optical centers in some stores. A lot of companies have tried optical centers in-store and have had mixed results, so we’ll see how this goes. Hopefully it will do better than their “Beauty 360” experiment that closed after just a few Read More…
Sunday Soapbox–The World Is A Scary Place
The other day I’m in a store and a customer came in with his little boy, around 6 or 7 I’d guess. The kid wandered away from Dad and into the Halloween aisle, and set off one of the sound-activated Halloween monsters. Kid freaks out and starts crying, Dad comes over and consoles him and Read More…
Profound Shower Thoughts
OK, only one of these has to do with retail, but I found this on Reddit and they were too damn funny not to share. #20 is the best of all. And here’s another retail one: Somewhere out there there’s a couple who holds the record for the longest time spent trying to find Read More…
The Answers to 10 Tricky Job Interview Questions
I’ve interviewed for my fair share of jobs and have never been asked any of these, so obviously I haven’t been interviewing for the right jobs. If I was asked how you could weigh a baby elephant without a scale, my smart-ass answer would be “Why would anyone want to?” And I’ve done thousands Read More…
11 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Pepsi
Here’s some fun facts about everybody’s 2nd favorite soda product. Well, at least according to statistics. I did not know that they were the first to use 2-liter bottles, and while salty watermelon flavor might appeal to some, for me it just activated my gag reflex. Iced cucumber? That’s a maybe. One Read More…
10 Ways Shoppers Drive Retail Employees Crazy
None of the ones on this list are new but it was interesting to me that it came from on a survey from Groupon, an internet coupon site. #1 is definitely #1 in my book as well, nothing like complaining to me that we no longer carry your favorite hair gel and “Why did Read More…
16 “As Seen On TV” Items That Might Astound You
In our stores we all have an “As Seen On TV” section, I don’t watch a great deal of TV so haven’t seen too many of these either on TV or in the store, but perhaps I’m not staying up late enough. Because you’d have to be REALLY tired to buy any of these. Read More…
Target Wants To Let Customers Drink Beer and Wine While They Shop
Ok, this is a REALLY bad idea. Customers are bad enough without ALSO being drunk. And if they get drunk and the room starts spinning will it be a Moving Target? Sorry, couldn’t resist. Please, let this not work out. First, boozy Taco Bells, and now… walking-around beers at Target? It is truly Read More…
Man Punches Old Guy Over Costco Samples
So apparently you should be careful when taking free samples at Costco, because someone else might want them all for themself. People are VERY protective of their Nutella. Guy could get 11 years but I think they’ll plea bargain it down to him just giving up his Costco membership card. BURBANK — A 24-year-old Read More…
22 People Who Definitely Didn’t Get The Job
These are absolute classics, and they seem like they could be fakes but I’m pretty sure they’re legit. I was at the Unemployment Department one time interviewing management trainee applicants, as we had listed an ad and the people there set up several interviews for us. One guy came in and gave me his resume and it Read More…