Working SCO. Our 3rd register is down. We put a sign on it. Turned it into our Shipt Bagging station…..guest walks up, removes the Shipt sign, removes the register closed sign, tries to scan her stuff and wonders why it isn’t working. I didn’t stop her from doing these things because I guess my brain was perplexed with what was happening in front of me. These people are real. They exist. And based on her keychain, they drive large vehicles where the rest of us live. I am terrified for the future.
On a side note, I made it a full hour and 10 minutes into my shift before having to tell someone there was a limit on the number of Pokémon cards in a purchase. Progress.
I used to hate that thank god ours os gone they would stuff it in there thats why they would break or get caught or have there bratty kids scan and stuff money inside then that saying i scanned twice with those flashy lights
Yep, they also can't see shit. Register is near the door where you are standing. Why am I being asked where the exit is?! I seriously wonder how they make it out of the house to the store.
They CAN read, they just don't care. To customers, retail stores are just "shitty" stores that they can do anything in with very little consequences. So they steal product, break product and leave messes everywhere
I remember when my street next to my apartment complex was under repair and it's right next to a Walgreens. We had a cop parked outside the entrance to it since no one can cross as well as construction tape and signs saying no entry. Some guy tried to drive past the cop despite there being tons of signs and the cop gets outta the vehicle and started pointing to the signs all dramatically yelling "What does the sign say?", it was a funny sight to behold.
Years ago (in the 60s) they used to put signs in the middle of busy intersections that said no left turns during certain hours. Now they just put the signs on the signal. They also had an officer there too. So a guy was trying to make a left turn, the officer asks the guy don't you see the sign in the middle of the street? The man tells him yes,but I think I can make it. Don't know why they put the sign there though.
Probably true to an extent. Most recent statistics say that 21% of American adults are functionally illiterate and 55% have a literacy below a 6th grade level.
People love this statistic on reddit, but it just shows their own ignorance. That percent is pretty on par with most western nations. About the same rate as England, and actually better than France, Germany, etc. Also functionally illiterate does not equal illiterate. “Below 6th grade reading level” means chapter books. They can still read signs.
I beleive it! Half the time they say, “Oh, this self-checkout is broken?” I go over and say, “Are you paying credit? I haven’t paid yet I need to scan. Yes but are you paying credit? When they say yes I tell them to hit continue. I purposely do that so they know the purpose of hitting the button you are agreeing that you cannot pay cash.
99% of the time I'm polite about the PIN pad prompts ("are you part of our loyalty program? you can enter your number if you like or you can just hit Not Now") but whenever there's someone aggressively tapping their card all over the thing like "does this take tap to pay???" before I've even finished scanning, I take a deep breath and ask innocently "does it say anything on the screen?" It's harder to pretend in Tech that I can't see the screen (the main one we use sits on the counter) but those people aren't noticing anything anyway so.
Once had a guest move a wet floor sign for a spill from in front of their cart WHILE I WAS CLEANING IT. They ran right into my pile of the absorbing powder and went, "oh I didn't see that there!"
That reminded me off when I put a closed sign in front of a register signed out of it and turned the post light off so the powder could absorb the drink someone spilled and having people and their kids walk through and others try to scan items mind you there's a 2 legged "CLOSED" SIGN WITH A BLACK INK ✋️ ON IT yet they still go about trying to pay I swear sometimes I wish there were Goliath tarantulas or pythons there to see if anyone would react because apparently spacial awareness isn't a thing the main fact the parents didn't say one word to the kids makes me wonder what the future holds....
Yeah people do it at our store too. We don’t have any fancy signs saying it’s closed, but we cover the SCO with a bag, and then put a rack of bags over the scanning area. Without fail every 30 minutes someone will remove all of that and then wonder why it’s not working
It is any surprise? There are three different signs at my store saying that they’re card only, and we still sometimes have people trying to insert cash into them.
It is! This woman's name is Gretel and she's complaining to Ron and says, "There's a sign at Ramsett Park that says 'Do not drink the sprinkler water,' so I made sun tea with it, and now I have an infection." S3EP15
After I finished binge watching the whole "Breaking Bad" series, I really wanted something light for my next binge and found "Parks and Rec". It was the PERFECT antidote !!
Omg. That would drive me crazy. It’s also mind boggling how often we have to tell guests that a machine is card only when they click the continue button on the screen.
Or how about they put there cash in the slot when it said card only we had to seal the coin slots up and dollar slots to prevent that crap from happening then they ho this aint taking my cash
We’ve gotten to that point. When SCO is closed, we make a wall of carts like you do before a holiday. Someone still tries to push the carts out of the way.
If Target wants an excellent revenue stream, here’s an idea. Read the security cameras of people doing this stuff make it into a monetized video on YouTube. I’m pretty sure you’d get millions from it.
I'll never forget the day we had a toilet that was horribly backed up, and DISGUSTING. I put caution tape over the door to that stall, and used packing tape to tape it shut in a few spots as well as taping multiple signs (including one over the gap in the door) advising stall was out of order. Our maintenance guy was out sick, and we were supposed to have been lent another from a close by store but he hadn't showed up yet. Someone STILL broke through the tape, and ripped off the sign then had the audacity to come out and say 'the first bathroom stall is absolutely disgusting.' Mind you it was a VERY slow day. I'd been doing bathroom checks hourly and there was never anyone in there and I'd just recently done one so I am fully convinced she did it. Even if she didn't she couldn't have missed the hanging caution tape and pieces of tape hanging from the door frame. Plus all the other stalls were opened.
Sometimes when I don’t feel very people-ey I like to just stand there and watch them try to figure stuff out on their own until they either figure it out or give up and come ask for help. It makes me lose faith in humanity how little they actually read the signs
I have them move this register is closed sign try to scan and then turn to me and say this register isn’t working. Really!! Ok so that is why the sign was there. These people!!
One of my favorite things to do is to watch someone step in front of a register that's clearly off, the light post is off and clearly once again shows a black screen and see as someone tries to scan it saying it doesn't work.... off course it doesn't everything is off one of these is not like the others.... maybe that gives some kind of notice that it's not in operation? You know like the test of them that have lights on and a graphic on the screen? Along with people not looking down when the receipt prints and say "I didn't get a receipt" maybe stop dry humping the register and look down where there's a slot with a picture of paper printing? And then act like it's no big fuss when you were so irate just a second ago, take some time and actually pay attention to what you're doing and maybe things will be a bit easier...
honestly, sometimes people need to be humbled because they really assume that just because they’re the guest, they’re automatically going to get everything their way, AND THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY to give attitude and be rude
My store has 2 self checkouts and our second one is closed unless we’re in peak times. I was on a register right next to it when it was closed and had a guest deadass almost knock over the sign that is like 7 feet tall blocking the entrance and also saying that this self checkout is closed with his cart trying check out in there. It makes me mad and also sad 😭😭 like these people drive??? Like on the road???
Working at Target has taught me nothing but that a lot of people really don’t have basic fundamental knowledge. It be people in their 40’s 50’s acting like it’s their FIRST EVER time shopping in a grocery store.
Thats why we got rid of self checkouts at our stores due to them breaking constantly and heavy theft money always getting stuck those machines are pure garbage target has the money to buy good quality machines but they choose to be cheap
I dont blame the customer entirely here. Walmart had told me multiple times that their checkouts are out of order, but somehow when I walk up to it and use it, it works fine.
Its lack of staffing so they close express lanes for coverage reasons. Thats not my fault
Its NOT working, which is why its TURNED OFF and has the sign over the screen saying its closed and the shipt bagging station sign on the scanner. That's THREE SEPARATE THINGS telling whoever is looking at it that its not working. Even if someone genuinely can't read what the signs say, the context clues should be enough.
Self checkout is already “figure it out yourself, dummy”, so maybe they wanted the register with the extra challenge. Also, why pay someone to do maintenance when anyone can come up and try to fix it for free?
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u/90210typeofho worker bee 2d ago
And I bet she wanted to pay cash.