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Post by bluegoatwoods on Oct 2, 2017 19:55:38 GMT -5
Here's another thing that we consumers are getting tired of: you make a purchase of just a few small items at a store and the cashier rolls out a receipt that's about the size of some ancient Egyptian government/priests papyrus document.
We don't care if it'll get us 10% off (Saturday only, selected purchases) on items that we won't be coming back looking for anyway by going to www.personalinfocollectors.com and taking their 'brief' survey.
We know it won't be brief. And we know that you'll lure us toward one site after another and before we know it you'll know what we're thinking before we know what we're thinking. We also know that, in the end, we won't save any real money.
I've taken to asking the cashier to just throw the darned thing away about half the time these days. And I'm going to make it 100% of the time, I think. I'm drowning in receipts.
It was a bit more bearable back when a receipt was about 1 1/2 in wide and only more than 2 1/2 in long when the purchase was quite large. But these days the receipt is a good deal larger than the paper change when you've bought only a couple of items.
Why? Because it's loaded with advertisements or incitements to get yourself tangled up in their stupid marketing ploys. It's annoying.
Related: Fast food joints! Quit making your drive through cashiers ask us if we want to try your (insanely stupid) "Jollee-Jumpee Valu-Pak. Or any other similar garbage.
They don't want to say it and we don't want to hear it. And we don't want to answer stupid questions like that.
We want to tell them what we want to order. This isn't hard to understand. And that's all your employees really want from us anyway. So leave everyone alone and let us just get our order placed.
Fools!
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Post by eclark5483 on Oct 2, 2017 21:35:00 GMT -5
RE: FAST FOOD....It's called UP SELLING, and it can really make a difference in profitability.
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Post by niz76 on Oct 2, 2017 23:32:21 GMT -5
My biggest pet peeve is when they ask for my phone number at AutoZone or whatever when I'm just buying a can of spray paint or something. I aint exactly buying a warranty for it lol. Don't ask for my phone number!
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Post by milly on Oct 3, 2017 4:49:02 GMT -5
When you walk to the till with your purchase's and they "ask anything else sir"
A new one with my insurance company. The usual how much is it worth, but the new one what did you pay for it.
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Post by bluegoatwoods on Oct 3, 2017 7:45:32 GMT -5
RE: FAST FOOD....It's called UP SELLING, and it can really make a difference in profitability. Yeah.....I figured it probably does boost revenues. I still hate it, though. |
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Post by eclark5483 on Oct 3, 2017 13:14:40 GMT -5
When you wait at a line in the grocery store for someone who had alot of shit in their cart and you get up to the counter with your shit and the clerk asks "did you find everything OK?"..
What, really? Like I stood in line here for what seems to be a 1/2 hour, and you're asking me if I found everything? Wow, if I DIDN'T find everything, do you really think I'd wait in a long line?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 13:37:49 GMT -5
triggered
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Post by bluegoatwoods on Oct 3, 2017 14:09:04 GMT -5
Here's another one. Staff who are forced to answer the phone with something like,
"We're having a great day here at XYZ Company! How can I have the pleasure of helping you?"
I actually have heard crap very much like that. Once again they don't want to say it and we don't want to hear it.
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Post by ThaiGyro on Oct 5, 2017 4:10:10 GMT -5
bluegoatwoods...I very much agree with your peev! I quit taking receipts many years ago. We don't even get paper here in Thailand at the ATM.
Up-selling and other techniques are the marketing way of attempting to capitalize data trends, or forcing products down your gullet until you give in. I have watched for many years...living the down side now. The newer generations...actually believe...that the data they collect is good! In fact, your generations do not understand reality! Really! Case in point: Just looked at a new TIG unit that had nice numbers.
Online, I trust nothing! In person, I saw reasonable quality, but then read details. Translating Mandarin Chinese, I read "Duty Cycle- 100%"...on a home version of a TIG/MMA portable? Not even Miller/Hobart/Everlast/Lincoln can put up that.
My personal experience is quite opposite. I do not believe in anything that I cannot touch. Never been screwed by hands on sales.
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Post by geoffh on Oct 8, 2017 9:15:18 GMT -5
Nice spot to rant,microsoft told me to upgrade to Windows 10,cost me nothing but time and trouble my links don.t work,everything leads to Amazon,very frustrating I.ll have to get my son in law to sort this pos puter back to how I like it.Grass always looks greener in the distance  geoff |
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Post by Natey on Oct 8, 2017 12:00:19 GMT -5
Haha, In the Bay Area, they make you pay for a bag (or bring your own) for your groceries because they don't want to waste resources.
*Hands me a 10foot long receipt for 3 items*
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Post by Natey on Oct 8, 2017 12:14:10 GMT -5
The other day I was at the (locally owned, independent) pet store and handed them my card to pay. "Credit card, please" I said.
"We only take Debit/ATM cards. Whats your passcode?"
'No,I want to use it as a credit card'
"Our system is only set up for ATM cards."
"But I've been coming here for years and never had this issue"
"We have a new computer and we only plan on setting it up to accept ATM cards"
Wow, I guess I'm forced to go to Pet Pals then. Good luck and LATES.
...And I haven't been back. Screw that crap.
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Post by bluegoatwoods on Oct 8, 2017 23:14:04 GMT -5
Nice spot to rant,microsoft told me to upgrade to Windows 10,cost me nothing but time and trouble my links don.t work,everything leads to Amazon,very frustrating I.ll have to get my son in law to sort this pos puter back to how I like it.Grass always looks greener in the distance  geoff Oh, man.......that 'Windows 10' thing was quite a snafu, wasn't it? I remember the pop-ups coercing me to download the windows 10 upgrade. I really didn't want to do it because I'd been unhappy with some versions of Windows before, yet Windows 7 seemed to work pretty good. But they kept pestering me and I figured I'd have to give it a go sooner or later anyway. So I accepted their download. That would have been fine (maybe) except the stupid program wouldn't install. It would simply stop and do nothing. Kinda like Windows 95. I tried to load it 3 or 4 times. Never got anywhere. The shortcut is still on my desktop. But if it's active at all, then I think they'd want me to pay money now. I think the free upgrade ended some time ago. But this one actually worked out pretty well for me. I didn't want it. I only accepted it because they were all but begging and likely will start forcing sooner or later. But the didn't seem to be able to deliver, leaving me exactly where I want to be. Where I started. Related: I heard a story once about a helicopter training flight out there in the neighborhood of Seattle. Everything was going fine until a fuse blew and the helicopter lost all of it's instrumentation. The instructor told the student pilot, "It's not the end of the world. If I can pinpoint our location now, then I can get us back to the airport". So he brought the helicopter in to hover near a tall office building and he had the student write, "Where are we?" on a piece of cardboard and had him hold it up for the people in the offices to see. The people in the building got their own cardboard and held it up for these guys to see. It said, "You are in a helicopter". The instructor waved a 'thank you' and flew straight back to the airport. The student asked him, "How in the world did you figure out our location from a lame answer like that?" "You see...they gave us an answer that was totally true, but completely useless... ...so I knew it had to be Microsoft". |
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Post by ThaiGyro on Oct 9, 2017 8:11:28 GMT -5
Haha, In the Bay Area, they make you pay for a bag (or bring your own) for your groceries because they don't want to waste resources. *Hands me a 10foot long receipt for 3 items* Hey Natey! Lived half my life in the SF area. Gave up credit cards because of the bank rip-offs, cards and mortgage...beyond ridiculous. Trader Joe's, Whole foods, both good at one point, in their own food genre. Ended up where I belonged, buying produce out in Brentwood, directly from growers. Fish from the boats...Why use credit? MY debit was rejected by AVIS and HERTZ last time in Oakland. Even with high level status. Was told that they no longer "accepted" debits. Really? What kind of discount for paying cash, I asked? None! I called their "Preferred Customer" desk... Ten minutes later, the AVIS manager was delivering a nice ride...first day free! Quiet, but not easy. I recall the Trader Joe's in Emeryville, CA showing me a receipt as you describe. Long enough to create a short curtain. I laughed and rolled them into the TP roll at the worst wallet shrinking coffee house in the world...BarStucks.  |
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Post by AtariGuy on Oct 12, 2017 19:34:18 GMT -5
I dont carry plastic anymore. I have a prepay card i sit on for my online purchases. Them interweb thieves wanna steal that? Its only got 13 cents on it.
Not too long ago, wife and i stopped by a burger joint - kind of a high end place - and they tried to do a social media pitch marketing scheme. Hashtag burger selfie something or another - win a free meal - one winner each week - blah blah you get the drift. Wife does that bookface thing (i lost the login for mine last december). She tried to follow along with the hashtag whatever stuff, started getting friend requests and messages - marketing crap - all hours of the day and night from data miners that hit that burger selfie stuff. Took 2 weeks to straighten that crap out.
Oh, and i tried to pay the bill with cash. Did you know some places refuse cash now? Wife left her bank card in her purse at home. I had to leave her there while i went to the nearby inconvenience store (they take cash) to buy a prepaid card to go back and pay my bill with. cost me $7.50 extra cuz i had to pay the damn card's activation and service fees.
So thats my online purchasing card now. I load just enough to complete the purchase. And a yearly reservice fee...
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