If you’re really good at customer service (i.e. manipulation), you’ll say the price just went up 10% this morning, but you’ll get a discount of the same amount, because you’re such a great pal. Basically just the normal price, but it feels nicer.
I see you subscribe to the Amazon sales policy.
Others might call it straight-up lying, deception or even misleading. Calling it “Amazon sales policy” just makes it sound nicer.
I'd call it fraud myself. But retailers have been doing this shit for forever. But the thing is that people love this shit.
JCPenny almost went under when they stopped deceptive pricing tactics like 20 years ago and just offered a really low price.
Shit, I worked at a major sports and outdoors retailer and we had tags that said "Everyday Low Price." Items tagged with that would never go on sale because they were loss leaders (just barely above wholesale to get people to buy overpriced accessories).
I had customers with the items in their cart ask me if it was on sale, I told them it was the lowest price they were going to find and even price checked other retailers whose sale price was higher than ours, and they put it back every time.
People are really fucking stupid.
Similarly, the short-lived competitor to the ¼-pounder was the ⅓-pounder, but people complained it was smaller, so corp cancelled it nearly immediately.
People are really really fucking stupid.
What's the male equivalent of a Karen?
The pejorative use of the name "Dick" has been around for quite some time.
"Male Karen" is the term I hear the most. Karenism transcends genders.
In another time, I would shit all over the neighbor, but considering the times, I don’t blame him at all…
Pretty sure the issue was that they were rude to OP when they were attempting to get a discount, not that they asked for a discount in the first place.
I don't get why you'd call the manager to try to negotiate anything... Dude made a joke, all you had to do was make a snarky quip back while you were scanning his shit in.
Imagine if he asked how you were, would you call your doctor and ask for a checkup?
i was ok doing the discount but i had no idea of which margins there are on the cashier because usually i'm on the back doing IT, not the cashier - so the call
It's not always a joke and you can never tell who is going to make their entitlement your problem.
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