These are all true stories. How do I know that? Because you couldn’t make this sh** up. Man Drops Trou and Flashes Pink Panties at Target In January 2013, 18-year-old Jason Tyler Stuart revealed his cute new thong to aghast shoppers in the women’s section. Witnesses say he made comments about his underwear, presumably Read More…
Category: Retail Humor
The Best Employee Response Ever. This Is Perfect.
This actually is similar to what a co-worker did years ago. But instead of creating “Murray”, he blamed himself. When customers complained “Why are you always out of the ad items here?”, instead of making excuses he just said “I’m sorry. I screwed up. I didn’t order enough. I’m such an idiot.” Next thing Read More…
Some of the Biggest Lies Companies Tell Us
Some of these are downright outrageous and should be illegal. Foot long? Not unless you’re using the metric system. The picture on the box is only accurate if you have a family of midgets. Yeah, that’s pretty close to what you actually get. They didn’t see the irony in this when they painted the Read More…
Hilarious Reviews and Pairing Recommendations for Wine
You need a sense of humor to work in retail, and this guy has it. Best part is that sales have increased, which shows that people appreciate honesty, humor and creativity. We don’t believe that Jeff W. is a wine steward or anything, but it’s clear that he must have some experience drinking wine Read More…
An Interesting Payment Option
From user Rick, seen at a CVS. I’m sure there’s a lot of people who would like to give CVS the finger.
Weird Customer Nicknames
This one is from frisky.com and rings soooo true. I have to admit I had a few customer nicknames as well, although obviously I never wrote them down or used them around anyone. Mine were: The Scarf Lady–a sweet old lady who had Alzheimers and we never knew how she got to Read More…
The Top 5 Craziest Things to Happen at Walmart
These are all pretty amazing, although it’s interesting that this top 5 didn’t include a naked guy walking through Walmart or another naked guy walking through Walmart. Perhaps the fact it happened twice makes it less remarkable than oh, say a guy stabbing his wife to death there. The store staying open after THAT Read More…
The Top Rude Retail Customer Behaviors
Are you an ill-mannered customer? Do associates gather after you leave a store to release their pent-up frustrations about your inappropriate behavior? You probably would not know how irritable some customer interactions could be if you have not been on the employee’s end of those theoretical questions. At least one of these actions provided Read More…
Working On Holidays
The below is from No Help/Not Always Working and rang so true I had to share it. My version usually has been: Customer–Must suck working on (Christmas, 4th of July, etc.) Me–It does, but I get time and a half so it’s not so bad. Voice In My Head–It does, but if I Read More…
Target Called, Your Photos Are Done
As a follow up to the “Walmart Called, Your Photos Are Done” article, here’s some that were actually developed at Target: Does he race barefoot? Two words, mom–Sun. Screen. If that’s a real baby I think that’s child endangerment. Sadly, the way he’s touching the cat is not the worst thing in this photo. There Read More…