DON'T
BRING THAT IN THIS STORE!!
I entered
our local Wal-Mart the other day with my usual carry bag in hand. The tag
detector went off and after the loud (and embarrassing) "ding, ding" was
over, a voice announced loudly from a speaker that:
"There
is something wrong with some item you are bringing into the store."
I first
felt guilt and wondered what it was I was unknowingly trying to smuggle
into the store. Then, I stopped and really started thinking about it. I
wanted to march right up the the speaker and shout:
"There
is nothing WRONG with any item I am bringing into the store. The problem
is that there must be something wrong with the security system!" I didn't
do that but it irritated me to realize that something like that has to
be the customers fault. It is a deficiency in the tag detection system
and not a problem with "some item".
At
least the announcement could have said something more friendly like, "
You have set off the alarm system with something in your possession. Please
ask someone to assist you so it won't activate on your way out." or, something
to that effect. The idea is to make us feel that anytime that thing goes
into alarm it is because of something being wrong that we are responsible
for.
I have
always hated those things anyway. Years ago I found a whole sheet of those
little tags in a parking lot. One day I put one on a friend's shoe just
to watch the fun. Don't try that now days - they might keep the shoe. -
Stephen B. - Casa Grande AZ
"INCONVENIECE
STORE" SHOPPING
When
you go to a convenience store to buy a money order for an
out
of town bill you wish to pay, notice the following:
Most
convenience stores don't sell envelopes.
Most
convenience stores don't sell stamps.
(Unless
they are in a machine for about a dollar each!)
Most
convenience stores don't have a mail box within a half mile.
(Seems
to me it would be more convenient to go to the post office.)
Since
the above posting, a visitor to Sanford Quest sent this comment:
"I
just bought a money order to pay a utility bill in Harnette County.
I was
using a money order to pay it by mail.
My
husband saw my car and drove into the parking lot. He explained to me that
he paid the bill the day before and that I wouldn't need to mail the money
order. I walked back into the store to get my money back. That's when I
learned that they did not cash money orders. Not even their own! Not even
when you bought it five minutes earlier. How could it be bad? How could
it be a risk to the store to cash it? "I just wanted you to know that I
too have had money order problems at convenience stores. The only solution
we could think of was to send it to the utility company and ask them to
credit it toward next months bill." S.T. - Lillington NC
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