If the store has a price matching policy the last one is fair. I have started to see some electronic goods stores have online pricetags that checks price matching websites and lowers prices to match… Not sure how well that works
The last place I worked retail was using an inventory tracking program in command prompt that polled and updated once per day at closing. You could sell through standing inventory and the system would still show how many you had started the day with. If you really had to know how many of something you had on hand, it required either polling each register’s sales data individually or temporarily closing them to fake daily closure to run a report on a SKU. It was not unheard of to waste an hour checking to see if the store or any others nearby had a single item for a single customer at a national chain.
Can you check the back?
Are there any sales today?
I shop here all the time!
Is there a senior citizen discount?
Well _____ has it cheaper!
I always ask “I presume you only have what’s on display but in case I’m wrong, do you have any other stuff”? (Mostly when I’m buying new shoes or a shirt, that’s pretty hard to find in my size). If they say they don’t, they don’t. Why would they lie to me, their purpose in the shop is to sell stuff.
There are people who genuinely think the only reason they’re not getting what they want is because they’re not being enough of a hassle. It’s never that what they were asking for was incomprehensible or physically impossible, it’s that they didn’t kick and scream loud enough.
I used to work in an electronics place, and we had a guy who came in once who wanted a specific camera at a very specific price. As in, he came in and flat-out said “I want this and I will give you exactly this amount for it.” The price he had in mind was about $10 below our cost, which we told him, and he absolutely refused to budge on it, and also wouldn’t just leave. Me and the manager literally had to show him the thing on the cashier screen that showed our cost and stuff and the managers was like “If we sell you this, it’s like we’re paying you $10 to take this camera from us.”
He eventually left without it, but it took forever.
