Long ago, items that we’d think of as unhealthy today were actually marketed as medicines. What a shameful thing to do! Oh wait, we still do that today. Here’s the ingredient list for Coke’s Vitamin Water: Reverse osmosis water, crystalline fructose, cane sugar, less than 0.5% of: citric acid, magnesiumlactate and calcium Read More…
Findings of new CVS Health study help shape new smoking cessation program for CVS Health colleagues – Drug Store News
CVS tested a smoking-cessation program and found out that if you pay out a reward the participants were more likely to follow through and quit smoking. Kudos to CVS for discovering that if you spend money to offer an incentive to employees for doing something, they are more likely to do it. (Not that Read More…
Target will roll out RFID
Here comes some more technology. Target is going to start using “smart labels” which will actually tell them how much of a certain item is where without having to psychically see it in person. If you have that kind of data on an item, you could actually see it leave the stores Read More…
Sunday Soapbox: Corporate Visits
Everyone who has worked in retail has experienced the joy of having a visit from an executive, whether they be the company CEO, President, or perhaps an Area Vice President, but generally these are the guys who you always know are coming and are expected to spruce up the store for. When I ran Read More…
5 Horrible Things You Learn Working at a Convenience Store
Another great story from Cracked.com, this one is by someone who had the misfortune to work in a convenience store. People often describe my company as “A convenience store with a pharmacy inside” and they’re mostly correct, seeing as how high our prices are. So I can identify with some of these things (especially the Read More…
If Product Packaging Had To Tell The Terrifying Truth
Another great list from cracked.com, showing what would happen if there truly WAS truth in packaging. Anyone else remember the black snakes you lit on fire? Wow those were fun. For about 15 minutes. And now I have to go through my cupboard and fridge to throw out the “I Can’t Believe it’s Read More…
Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Twice, Shame on You Again
I’ve always been amazed at the lengths people will go to in order to scam us somehow. I’ve pretty much seen it all in terms of creativity, but last night I had one that is right up there with the classics. A little background–often times a customer will come up to buy something and Read More…
Birds of A Feather–The Dreiling Saga Concludes
Some “breaking news” today, as Rick Dreiling has finally named his successor as CEO at Dollar General so he can start enjoying his retirement and the millions he collected from Longs when he left, among other places. And to no one’s surprise, it’s someone he knew from Longs, none Read More…
Starbucks employee fired after going off on customer in video posted online
Well, sometimes the customer really IS right and the manager is wrong. Doesn’t happen often, but there are some managers out there who probably shouldn’t be working in customer service. A lot of times situations like this come down to “he said, she said” and the employee usually gets the benefit of the doubt, Read More…
10 Wacky Grooming Products from the 1970s
10 Wacky Grooming Products from the 1970s This list is from Mental Floss. If you lived in the 70’s you will definitely remember all or most of these. I definitely remember selling them all, the Earth Born shampoo made an attractive (and fragrant) endcap but the Lemonup bottles didn’t stack too well. I Read More…