Your Dumbest Sales Staff Stories
I will start it off - I have 2 tales to recount.
Years ago - Richmond Hill ON - Weston Produce grocery store - Fresh Romaine Lettuce (not romaine hearts in a bar coded bag) on sale.
Cashier picks up the produce bag and is looking at it from all angles and it seems pretty obvious she can't figure out what it is.
She turns to me and says "This is one of those Romanian Lettuces isn't it?"
I reply "It's called a Romaine Lettuce - People in Romania like many in Eastern Europe tend to eat more root vegetables".
This past week - I visit a big box hardware store to pick up some clearance Karcher pressure washer accessories.
I ask the staffer in the department to assist me as the items I am looking for don't seem to be in the pressure washer area.
I hand the staffer printed screen shots from their website showing product/SKU/stock level for her store.
Staffer logs into the PC in her area and types "Karachi Pressure Washer" and of course nothing comes up.
I explained to her that Karachi is a city in Pakistan - the brand we are looking for is Karcher.
I get a blank look from the staffer.
She can't find any of the items - so I ask her to go get help. She disappears.
After 10 mins of waiting I get fed up and go to the Customer Service counter and ask for help.
Staffer walks with me to the pressure washer area, sees nothing of the items that I am looking for and says "I guess we don't have any of the items"
Another staffer happens by and also looks and even goes to the back to check - comes back and says "The online stock levels must be wrong as we don't have the items and if you need more help ask (and he points to the first staff person Ms Karachi Pressure Washer - who by now has come back to her work area) she's the Department Head".
Years ago - Richmond Hill ON - Weston Produce grocery store - Fresh Romaine Lettuce (not romaine hearts in a bar coded bag) on sale.
Cashier picks up the produce bag and is looking at it from all angles and it seems pretty obvious she can't figure out what it is.
She turns to me and says "This is one of those Romanian Lettuces isn't it?"
I reply "It's called a Romaine Lettuce - People in Romania like many in Eastern Europe tend to eat more root vegetables".
This past week - I visit a big box hardware store to pick up some clearance Karcher pressure washer accessories.
I ask the staffer in the department to assist me as the items I am looking for don't seem to be in the pressure washer area.
I hand the staffer printed screen shots from their website showing product/SKU/stock level for her store.
Staffer logs into the PC in her area and types "Karachi Pressure Washer" and of course nothing comes up.
I explained to her that Karachi is a city in Pakistan - the brand we are looking for is Karcher.
I get a blank look from the staffer.
She can't find any of the items - so I ask her to go get help. She disappears.
After 10 mins of waiting I get fed up and go to the Customer Service counter and ask for help.
Staffer walks with me to the pressure washer area, sees nothing of the items that I am looking for and says "I guess we don't have any of the items"
Another staffer happens by and also looks and even goes to the back to check - comes back and says "The online stock levels must be wrong as we don't have the items and if you need more help ask (and he points to the first staff person Ms Karachi Pressure Washer - who by now has come back to her work area) she's the Department Head".
