Tom in NM
09-20-2009, 12:24 AM
I don't watch TV, but I do check out the NEWS on the internet, did I miss the memo on the End of Western Civilization and the World As We Know It?
For the last week, every time I have gone to the store ( 3 times ), they have made mistakes on ringing up the sale (twice in their favor and once in mine).
I usually cook at home, but have been real busy, so I have gone out to eat 4 times. From McDonalds and Dion's, to two different restaurants, they all messed up the orders - badly. McDonalds and one of the restaurants messed up the fixes. One of the restaurants even argued that that was what I had ordered, despite the fact that it was not what was on the order pad ( I had ordered Salmon, they brought a Burrito; "Its good, are you sure you don't want it?").
Two ice cream places I usually go to were out of the four flavors I like. And a stop at Sonic for a banana split provided a banana-less split (like I would not notice?!)
Today at Home Depot I picked up a hose connector, about a $1.50 on the shelf, $465 at the register. A rescan took it down to $175. I took back two hose connectors that I bought at Lowes on Friday, one would not work and the other broke - the computer would not authorize a return on an item not in the system even though I had the receipt and they were on the shelves. It took the store manager and 45 minutes to refund my $2.37.
The only commercial transaction I had this week that didn't get screwed up was a purchase from the Apple Store.
And I won't go into all the stupid and some very sad things that I saw people doing.
So did I miss the memo? Is it like this all over the country or world?
Tom
For the last week, every time I have gone to the store ( 3 times ), they have made mistakes on ringing up the sale (twice in their favor and once in mine).
I usually cook at home, but have been real busy, so I have gone out to eat 4 times. From McDonalds and Dion's, to two different restaurants, they all messed up the orders - badly. McDonalds and one of the restaurants messed up the fixes. One of the restaurants even argued that that was what I had ordered, despite the fact that it was not what was on the order pad ( I had ordered Salmon, they brought a Burrito; "Its good, are you sure you don't want it?").
Two ice cream places I usually go to were out of the four flavors I like. And a stop at Sonic for a banana split provided a banana-less split (like I would not notice?!)
Today at Home Depot I picked up a hose connector, about a $1.50 on the shelf, $465 at the register. A rescan took it down to $175. I took back two hose connectors that I bought at Lowes on Friday, one would not work and the other broke - the computer would not authorize a return on an item not in the system even though I had the receipt and they were on the shelves. It took the store manager and 45 minutes to refund my $2.37.
The only commercial transaction I had this week that didn't get screwed up was a purchase from the Apple Store.
And I won't go into all the stupid and some very sad things that I saw people doing.
So did I miss the memo? Is it like this all over the country or world?
Tom