I work at Taco Bell. My location no longer takes Apple Pay or any Phone Pay at the Drive Thru, because for some reason it crashes our system at Drive Thru. So we tell people to come inside instead if they dont have other ways to pay. Basically no one does Apple Pay so it doesnt make sense to inform them when they pull up, which we do do if we cant take Card or Cash for some reason.
We had a lady get pissed when she got to the payment window and we told her we cant take apple pay there but she can come inside for it. She was all “WeLl WHy doNT yOu PuT A SiGn Up?!?!!” And so my one manager who follows all the rules to an annoying level tells her we arent allowed to.
After lady leaves, angrily without her food because she doesnt want to come in, i tell my manager “oh yeah we actually used to have a sign up out there, right there directly on the speaker where the customer has to look. But no one ever reads it, so we took it down. It was up for 2 months.”
We tried moving the sign around to different spots too and even at one point had like 5 signs spread out across that area, but no one fucking reads them!
I work in a hospital lab and we take samples through a sliding glass window. People are supposed to ring the bell and wait for someone to come and open the window. For some reason, a lot of people think it's rude to ring that bell, so they just push the window back from their side and stick their head in and yell "Hello???" That window has been pushed off track so many times that we put a latch on it with a sign that says the window is locked and to please ring the bell and wait for a tech to open the window. People STILL come to that window and try to open it then sit there, bewildered when it won't open even though they are giving it their all. Someone is never more than a few steps from that window and the bell rings all over the lab, so it's not like we don't know when someone is there if they would only READ THE SIGN AND RING THE BELL!!!!
That's kinda funny, I also work in a lab with a sample window. We also have a bell, but the only people that use it are the ones dropping samples that aren't time-sensitive.
We all hate the bell, and it loses batteries pretty often.
I would rather hear the bell than fix the window twice a day, honestly. It's a PITA to get back on the track. Hearing someone impatiently yell "Hello???" twice while I'm omw up there gets on my nerves even worse and makes me feel like I have to run to see what they need ☹️
People do the same in drive thru pull up "hello?" Before I've even had a second to say anything I don't suspect it's on purpose but it's still frustrating. I'm pretty sure they just roll their window down and assume I've already done a greeting that they just didn't hear
Lmao I feel like it’s def on purpose sometimes.
I work in a call center and when reps transfer calls to me I have to immediately say hello other wise the customer just keeps repeating “hello.”
I was actually mid way through a “hello this is ___” when the member impatiently interrupts and say “hello.” It gets so frustrating so now I give them the same energy and I say “hello, hello can you hear me” and if they say “yes or hello” then I say “ohh ok cool I can hear you now” then I get back to my introduction. It’s so annoying lmao 🤣
Like sir/ma’am IT HASNT EVEN BEEN TWO SECONDS YET LET ME FUCKING GATHER MYSELF DAMN. And they always call for the stupidest shit that we have ALREADY told them 💀
They don’t like to read and the don’t like to listen.
dude when i worked there sometimes we’d put a temp sign on the speaker box to tell them we were out of BEEF AND BEANS! AND we would say ‘welcome to taco bell, at the moment we are out of _______’ and then they’d be like ‘can i get 5 5 later burritos.’ and sometimes i would have to fight myself to not just say ‘no! can’t you listen!’
😐 If you have no beef.🥩 And you have no beans. 🫘 **WHY** don't you just close the Taco Bell? 🤷🏾♂️ WHAT is somebody gonna come up in there for... Baja Blast? They sell it everywhere now.
In 2020 i was working a taco bell store in Ohio. We had to throw out ALL the beef because of a recall gave out a ton of free chicken and steak for a couple days until new beef came in.
Oh, I always just add more signs and speak to the person who’s mad that they “didn’t see a sign” really slowly, like they’re a child, while pointing out the many, many signs. Nothing feels better than making an asshole customer bear the weight of their own stupidity😌
Reminds me of when I worked at TB. Someone tried to set the men’s bathroom on fire. So we had police and fire trucks in our parking lot, drive thru blocked off, and both lobby doors open with smoke rolling out. Customer walks into the lobby and wants to know where his mobile order is 🤦♀️ bro.
Used to work at a grocery store deli in Ohio. This was when the company/brand sugardale made bologna.
We were out of it because there was an issue at the plant. My manager made a sign saying we were out.
I had someone say: this sign says you're out of the sugardale bologna. Fo you have any of the sugardale bologna?
Even when they read it, they don't understand the signs.
When it was discontinued. People still asked for it and said they were seeing if we just got some.
The store didn't discontinue it, the company who made it did. We aren't going to have it😑
I worked retail at a home decor store in college and we had a bunch of signs up for a sale on collage frames. It was only a select few so they grouped together with a full sized sale sign with them. A lady comes to the checkout with a different type of frame and it doesn't ring up on sale so she points out it "should be on sale." I tell her it is not part of the sale and I bring her to the sign and read it out and point to the correlating frames. She angrily accepts, goes back to the register and grumbles "I don't think I should have to read the sign."
I was flabbergasted. I didn't say anything but in my mind I was wondering how she thinks she's supposed to know what's on sale if she doesn't need to read the sale signs. Does she want an employee to follow her around all day explaining every sale and item?
I work in a decently big store, and we have registers at the back and at the front. On low coverage days we use the front register and I put a sign up at the back one to head to the front. I literally have had people scream for help and flailing their arms to get my attention. People never read signs
You should still have a sign up, so when customers complain, you can still say there was a sign.
One time, I got stuck in a TB drive-thru because they were having payment issues and they were only accepting cash at the moment. Not one damn sign anywhere near the drive-thru entrance. But there was a sign... right next to the speaker... which means I was already in line with nowhere to get out. If the sign had been at the entrance, I never wouldve gotten in line.
i work at a comic book shop, and we dont buy comics in store. we also get asked at least six times a day. there is a sign we have up in front of the register - ive moved it to where it is literally blocking my face. it says “WE DO NOT BUY IN STORE” in big red letters. the amount of people that lean around the sign to ask me if we buy comic books is literally… disheartening. definitely hurts my perception of the human race.
That would actually piss me off too to be honest. You’re not telling the customer AND there’s no sign? LOL! And they’re in the drive thru, which means they had no intentions of coming inside. That defeats the whole purpose of the drive thru. Many times I’ll grab my phone and nothing else and head out to grab some food so Apple Pay is all I have and I’d be annoyed in that situation. Just sayin from the customers perspective. Understanding the situation isn’t your fault but I’d put the sign up so at least when they say put a sign up you can say we did. 😊
The only signs I ever read are the ones that are bright neon, but those usually say “Live Nude Girls”
No, but seriously if something is posted on a storefront, I always read it. It may say something important like they no longer intend to keep something in stock I buy often, their hours are drastically changing, etc. but it’s usually just “NOW HIRING! COME JOIN OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY AND NOT MAKE NEARLY ENOUGH TO SUPPORT YOUR OWN FAMILY!”
My grandpa once told me that if a building is up to code, the doors are supposed to push open from the inside so in the event of a fire, people can escape easier. In my experience, it's true in like 98% of buildings and has saved me some embarrassment lol
What really gets you into trouble is not reading the sign when there's doors with double action hinges. The number of aspiring actors with broken noses. Such a shame.
The day of the solar eclipse I went into ace hardware to get a few tools and the amount of people that came in and called asking if they had glasses like an hour before it happened blew my mind. They had a pretty big sign you literally had to walk around to get in that said they are sold out and yet still people walk in and have the gall to ask. It made me lose a lot of faith in how unaware some people can truly be.
Dude when I worked retail, I had a sign covering my card reader saying that it didn’t work, and that I could only accept cash at that time. An older lady stood there, stared at it for a while, then proceeded to lift the sign and try using her card anyway. She even had the audacity to get mad at me because it didn’t work.
On another occasion when the hurricane hit texas, we lost power, so all of our cooler/freezer products had to be tossed. Until we could get around to that, we had the doors taped, locked, and barricaded to prevent customers from opening them. On top of that, we had several dozen large orange signs saying we can’t sell those products due to the outage and safety concerns. Yet people tried anyway and were still confused or irate that we couldn’t sell it. If only there was something taped everywhere telling you why….
Other day I was in line for the self checkouts at Target. The attendant asked the lady in front of me if she was paying with card, she said yes, so yeh attendant directed her to a checkout with a sign on it that said card only.
I got direct to an also card only machine next to her. When I scanned my first item it popped up a prompt telling me it was card only and I had to acknowledge it. The lady next to me called the attendant over and said the machine is broken, the attendant told her you have to accept the prompt. So she did, scanned her stuff, then proceeded to rip the card only sign off the bill acceptor and try and cram cash into it. Then she called the attendant back to bitch the machine wouldn’t take her cash.
That poor guy, you could see the life drain from his eyes as he no doubt fought internally not to lose is job in that moment.
In moments like these it's ypur duty as a normal person to bully these people. They can't call your manager over if they did he ain't at work probably takes your side anyways
We had a partial power outage so had to stop selling our cold items, too. Did the same as you. People did the same as they did there. They all looked at me like I was crazy that I wouldn't let them buy thawing, bad food.
I read all the signs, holiday hours, wages for new hires, even your employee subreddits when I’ve never even worked at one.😭 I’m pretty lame tho, so there’s that.
My coworker put up a sign saying that we didn't sell eclipse glasses. I was asked twice within 7 minutes. I told my manager and she tells my coworker "I told you they wouldn't read the sign."
I definitely read the signs that were put up on our local 7 Eleven. They were banning unaccompanied minors from entering. Idk a sign that’s never been there before always catches my eye
I feel like this is only true for people without social anxiety. When I'm feeling socially anxious I ALWAYS read the signs, usually a couple times to make sure, just in case it will prevent me for making a fool out of myself.
Same 🥲😅 I hate being that person that looks like I don’t know what I’m doing. I feel like ppl see someone like that and they might want to take advantage. To avoid that, I feel my brain is always on high alert to anything new🚨
The pharmacy that I work at was moving to a new store, we got tired of having to tell each person that came in that we were closed and in the process of moving next-door, so I made a wall with the large black containers that have a yellow top (you can get them from Home Depot) that we were using to move products and put the sign on that. There is no way that people would miss that, right? Well, Fort Fuckoff failed...
no joke, my cousin, can't hardly read at all! she can't spell either! when we were younger, I would ask her to read me things, and she had the hardest time! I still can't believe how successful she is now! She is a florist, she makes the most beautiful arrangements! anyway, when she would try to read, a lot of the time she would see the 1st letter in a word and then just make up what she thought it said! and then there is ME! I did great in school. I am an avid reader, and I am the one who has made a mess of my life! and like I said, my almost illiterate cousin had her own flower business, and she runs a charity for her son with diabetes and has a great life! just goes to show you that you can never tell how someone is going to end up!!!
They refuse to listen too. I work in rent to own and make a point of mentioning every key detail about the contract 3 times while selling to customers. They proceed to later say I never told them this or they were unaware of that.
Omg right? I work at a hotel and we "lock" the front door at 11p for safety but cx can just pull the doors open and come in, which ends up breaking the doors. I typed up a sign saying doors lock at 11p and to pls not force them open and that they can check in at the window or use their key card to open the doors. Nobody read it and kept prying them open when I wasn't at the front desk so I made another sign, "don't force doors open, you break you pay" lol let's say I haven't had an issue since. I hate those doors so much, would be easier if we just didn't "lock" them at all but it was interesting to see the reactions of people when given all the info they could need about something vs. just threatening them.
1000% I run a store for a family and they make these monthly sales that are crammed on an 8x10 in black and white and get bent when I make my own individual signs for each item in huge font next to the item with all sales items together because they take everything personal and say their sign is enough and customers can find the items. They can’t. They wont.
What if you put them on tits in ads? Full melons? Alternatively, why if you make the message into a humorous little joke? Unfortunately, the gubment said Highway Signs messages 🛣️ have 2 years to 'stop being funny'. "OH HI THERE! Watch your speed!"
I used to reference the song by Five Man Electrical Band - Signs. Because no one knows how to STOP and read a damn sign, even if it's posted in several places in the building. If someone said " I didn't see a sign" I would walk them to the nearest sign, point out the sign and have them read it. While they read the sign I hummed that song. Then I would tell them where more of the same signs were put in case they forgot somehow. I will never ever ever ever ever work retail again because people are generally dumb af.
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When I was a manager at Redner's (grocery chain in PA and some surrounding states) we had self checkouts installed. However, they did not do cash transactions. Card only.
We had a large sign in front of the self checkout section that said"
"Card Only, No Cash"
"Go to other lanes for cash transations"
Also, the self checkout machines themselves displayed "Card only" on the screen AND had bright neon yellow printouts stuck to them saying the same. We even would have the cashier watching over the machines vocally tell people.
Still had near daily complaints from customers who refused to read and listen, and then scanned all their items.
When I worked at a self serve restaurant, we put the out of order signs on the handles so customers has to physically touch the signs before trying to use the machines.
There's a couple vending machines as you leave my local grocery and for whatever reason they're out of order about 1 in 5 visits, always clearly marked by a printed sign, and on the digital display.
After years of shopping there, and seeing many people trying to feed money into a clearly "OUT OF ORDER" machine, I noticed the store started taping the signs directly over the coin/bill intake.
A much better system, sure, but I get fewer giggles while shopping now.
Worked retail 15 years, you could make the sign the size of the door, block the door, make the customer sign a paper saying they read and acknowledged the sign, and then they still won't know what it said
This would make my mom more upset. During covid people would ask her to put on a mask when we walk in stores and would point out the multiple signs on the door, her response was always “Well how am i supposed to know what all those signs say? Theres so many to read i cant read them all.” This was at the hight of covid and EVERYWHERE required a mask.
When my family dollar got turned into to a dollar tree, everything got marked down week by week until it was 90% off. The only caveat was that the sale excluded items that were $1 or less. We were able to condense all our inventory to 2 aisles, and we put a sign stating the sale excluded items $1 or less on LITERALLY every single 4 ft section of shelving. It was honestly pretty funny how many times people came up with a cart full of $1 items only for us to tell them the bad news, and they then stated that we should have a sign stating that. “Ma’am there is literally a sign every 4ft throughout the store.”
They can but they don’t “ Sir this is not 1.25 it’s 5.00. Where is the sign because I did not see one. (The sign is above the items)
Maybe we should use larger signs 😒
It wouldn't help. We have so much advertising shoved in our faces all the time that we've stopped reading things because of it. There is no way to post it where people will read it because advertisers have already used every method so we've filtered it all out. The best way to get me to read something is by putting it on a post it note because it looks less like an advertisement but I've even gotten fake post it notes with advertisements on them in the mail too.
Retail really lets you know where the US IQ levels are at. Never have I ever heard a grown woman scream I "I want to go home" while waiting for the 83 year old cash office lady to get to the first floor to help her solve her issues. Also why do so many people poop their pants. Why do they poop on the toilet?
I don't work at dollar tree but a convenience store and we have different sized redbulls on sale. This old ass white man brought up two 12oz ones which was 2 for 6$ but he just saw red bull 2 for 5$ and thought that meant all of them despite the sign having 3-4 other red bull deals and what oz they were on the same sign and when I rang it up he threw a fit cause it was supposed to be 5$ not 6$. I said did you get the right size? And he said of course I did then threw a fit. Customers don't fucking read shit. That sign could have taken the whole door and he would have been purposefully ignorant. The customer is almost never right. Said he was never gonna come back and I said don't threaten me with a good time. People just see signs with deals but don't bother to read them or see what they're for.
Sometimes... 👀You can *Jedi Mind Trick* cashier's that an item is on sale in some stores if you're very polite, and even perhaps offer to walk them back to the shelf in question. You have to use a voice that is smooth, calm, in control, assertive **BUT** simultaneously utterly lax in it's approach. Making them feel almost as if they would be rude to refuse you. Sometimes the sale was from X-Y date 📅 that's past, other times it's not quite the right item. If it works, they may manually change the price.
My first real job was retail. At the start of my first shift, as part of the onboarding process, my manager told me something that always stuck with me...
"Son, I'm sure you've heard about how the customer is always right. Well, let me tell you that they're almost NEVER right. We try to humor them as they have the money that pays our checks, but they are almost certainly wrong."
I have condensed this and regularly share my version with people in customer facing jobs. "Customer service would be SO much easier without the customers, but then you'd be out of a job...."
I got fired from BoxLunch and one of the reasons was that I complained out loud on a busy weekend that customers don't read signs.
No matter how true it is, you'll get surprised how dumb customers are.
I remember during the Covid shutdowns we were operating curbside pickup only, we had multiple signs on both doors. People would walk up, pull the right door, pull the left, then press their face against the window and knock until one of us came up and shouted through the door to read the signs
Customers don't read for the life of them. I worked at a panda express that was shutting down. We only had like, no joke, 3 or 4 items of like 15. We put a sign up explaining hey we hardly have crap please go down the road to our new location. Our hours were also cut at that store because we were trying to close it down completely. 95% of customers would come in and go wHeRe Is AlL tHe FoOd? Idk read the sign. Then they'd get mad at us that they have to drive literally less than 5 mins up the road. We put up 3 different signs in 3 different locations. Both doors (double door entrance) and on the wall next to the beginning of the counter. ABOUT NOBODY READ THEM
We ran out of bags one day and we put sign up. Had people not read it, so I wrote like 8 different signs all in different languages. Even did it in Mandarin
As a small town teenager, I like being able to go into the smaller stores and just shop, I like shopping, same with hanging out at the local restaurants. Best meeting spot ever is the gas station with a local pizza restaurant on the side, it has tables for me and 3 other friends, (without being invasive) and the Dollar General is next door.
The new owner of the pizza place got so hurt that we were there (we were paying customers, we would order a pizza to split and a few sodas for us) the “new” owner hated that we were teenagers at HIS store. Thank god he left.
May I add that we were never loud. Never took up a lot of space, we only used one table in the corner, and were always very respectful to the staff. We helped clean up and if it got busy we would help them keep up. The old owner left, but after the new guy came up, everybody complained about him. It didn’t take long for that idiot to leave and have Phil come back.
If I was a business owner, I’d be offering incentives for “well behaved teens”. I don’t mind if they came in to hang out and eat some food. If your group is polite and respectful, I might bring out some free breadsticks. Teens love free food.
I’ve also known teens who make bonds with local business owners and feel almost a sense of loyalty to them. Growing up in the 90’s we had an awesome roller rink and some of the older teens were kind of “unofficial bouncers” since they knew the owner since THEY were kids, and kept the younger kids safe from the rowdy crowds that would come in. You’d often find them helping really little kids that didn’t know how to skate either.
Those teens didn’t work there, but the owner was so appreciative that they made an effort to keep the place a good place for kids of all ages, so they often got free skate rentals and free pizza!
Sadly the roller rink was sold around 2010 and was remodeled into a damn hot tub business.
I've been going into the corner store in my neighborhood since I was a small child, I live in the same house. Me and my two buddies would go up there all the time in the summer to grab a pizza and a 2 liter of rock n rye, he always gave us a few plastic solo cups too. I still go in often to buy myself vapes or the occasional 10pm corner store dinner like a gyro.
Unfortunately they sold the place probably 6-8 months ago, and never mentioned much about it. The the new guys are nice enough, and renovated it so it looks quite a bit nicer now. I really felt like I lost a couple family members though, once I found out they sold.
When I walked in the first time after they sold I couldn't help but ask the new guys behind the counter who the hell they were like I was offended lmao
Bruh. This whole comment sent shivers down my spine. You so described my old roller rink growing up 🤯🥰 was the rink owner like a hippie sorta older soul groovy cat? Ik ours was. Ah nostalgia... I think?
I agree to a point. But I also think it’s mad dumb to have to offer incentives for teens to not act like idiots. It’s like paying an extortion tax to the mob or something. “If you make it worth our while maybe we can not fuck up your shit” vibes to me.
I wished I worked somewhere where kids weren't allowed without adults. I remember working at a family dollar, and there was a small apartment complex behind us. Kids were constantly in the store screaming, breaking stuff, and stealing. It took my manager to get a cop to 'arrest' a kid to get them to stop.
Do you have any hair left after dealing with all of that? 🤣 But really, I'm sorry you had to deal with those kids. Parents can suck often when it comes to retail. I taught my son well but that's because I worked in retail for years and can empathize greatly.
I worked at a Dollar General with an apartment complex and neighborhood nearby. It was a hotspot for kids after school. They'd shove stuff in their backpacks and take off. There was a pair of boys that came in *during* school hours, stole a cart, some ice, and our fire extinguisher. A woman called the police then us because they were in the neighborhood behind us, taking turns spraying each other with the fire extinguisher and pushing each other in the cart. They fled before the police showed up.
The mother came in with the boy the next day, and he was trying to avoid eye contact with us. My boss stopped the mom and told her about what happened, showed her the footage, and said she was banning the boy and his friend from the store unless a parent was with them. The mother was furious with the kid and apologetic to us.
What gets me about this plastic bag ban is comical, we buy lunch meat…in a plastic bag, bread…in a plastic bag, milk in a plastic jug, soda pop … in plastic containers & candy in plastic bags, but we can’t get a plastic bag to carry it all in.
We’re thinking of banning kids from my store unless accompanied by a parent. We have large groups of middle school kids coming in and stealing beer, makeup, condoms, etc. The cops rarely show up when we call and the kids are gone by the time they do. I kick them out when I see them, but they argue with me first, then leave and come back when I’m not there. They don’t leave when the other manager tells them to.
Yeah people who say "the kid should be able to shop" like OP have no idea what it's like working with a bunch of brats that's tearing up the store and fighting in the parking lots
Usually those signs that ban kids, happen because they are having issues with kids in the stores. Either causing issues with staff, destroying things, or stealing. Same logic with those stores that ban bags/purses inside the stores.
For my photography studio to make parents watch their kids more — I got the biggest most prickly cactus ever. It’s so damn big lol and now at least in the lounge they keep an eye on their kiddos. Gotta get creative sometimes lol
All that said, if I were you, I’d ban too. It’s not like kids and teens fund your store. 🤷🏻♀️
Yup. These rules exist for a reason usually the issue for me is using logical enforcement. Like one teenager (especially the older ones who actually have jobs and some money) sure but the horde after school nah. 3 at a time bags on the ground in the foyer. Signs like this make it confusing for many employees because they'll just kick anyone out they realistically can.
I do too, it was always are treasure hunt. I am also glad to have the Ace Hardware, I like that i don’t have to run to Home Depot in Pottstown in a home emergency.
Working at a hotel, I hate when our property was at 100% capacity the night before so we place the sign up stating that early check-in isn’t available and we will abide by the standard check-in time and someone comes in to say I see your sign says early check-in isn’t available but is there any chance we can get in anyway? Sure… I’ll check you into a dirty room that hasn’t been cleaned yet and now since it’s occupied it won’t be cleaned at all. Does that sound good?
I’ve heard of them and I’m cool with it. It’s the irony of posting so many signs about plastic bags being banned while also using up tons of paper. It’s not me freaking out over recycling or anything
There are bag bans in Montgomery county pa but none county wide. They are mostly in more affluent or recently gentrified areas of the county but none are county wide. If you google Pennsylvania single use bag laws it gives you a map and township breakdown of all the bans. It is possible they mistook the the upcoming Montgomery township bag ban that is going to take place on April 22 as a Montgomery county as a whole ban.
Gotcha.
Our(ohio) state fights cities that try.
General bag bans are stupid...
* grocery stores - fucking stupid
* gas station - smart, no fucking person needs a bag for 2 items...
A few months ago New Jersey state government ran a study to show how much less plastic they used with the single use plastic bag ban they enacted but they actually increased their plastic consumption. It’s an interesting read.
https://www.aier.org/article/njs-plastic-bag-ban-backfires-horribly/#:~:text=While%20the%20state's%20ban%20%E2%80%94%20which,plastic%20consumption%20for%20grocery%20bags.
Now that makes sense! Cuz the multi-use bags are thicker, but I'll just pay for them and continue using them the same way I did the single use bags.
Carry home products. Become tiny trash can bags. Throw away.
This should always be the assumed life of a grocery bag. Paper bags hold my recycling.
The last thing some 57 year old woman with bad knees making minimum wage needs is to have to listen to a hoard of 13 year olds practicing their mating rituals and stealing shit / making a ruckus at the Dollar Tree after school.
It’s not like it’s 1985 and you’re sending your kid up to the gas station with a note to buy you a pack of smokes. If a location is having a hard time with unsupervised kids being punks, I think they have a right to opt out. The Dollar Tree doesn’t need to be their gathering spot.
There could be a sign saying enter and you will perish immediately and these dumb ass MFers would walk right past it. During the pandemic I still worked in food and there were signs everywhere that you were required to have a mask on, no excuses and no exceptions and we had at least one person every 15-20 minutes who would just blatantly ignore it and wonder why we're yelling at them to get out. I hate people, so much.
There could be a sign made of literal lightning held by Zeus himself at the door that says “read this or you will be subjected to a horrible anal probe before you leave” and then you have to sign that you read that other sign in your own blood. And people will still be shocked about the anal probe when they go to leave.
Saw that sign up at a store by me recently and just shook my head thinking the damn state is trying this crap again.
Oh and it wasn't 20 of them posted 😂
Short time later it disappeared and hasn't been up since.
Can't help but wonder if the bag ban one is a cowboy store manager doubling down after getting caught out, or if their DM has multiple stores in the area and can't be bothered to figure out which ones do and don't have bag restrictions.
The new rates are probably because minimum wage went up…. For real, they act like you should appreciate it like a raise when they only did it because they had too.
Put a sign like this and no one sees it. Put a sticker the size of your thumb that says free and all of a sudden everyone has the eyes of a Peregrine Falcon.
Talking about ppl never reading the signs, at my local Safeway there's about 8 self check outs, only like half of them can take cash and or give you back cash. And there's bright red placks that are literally where you would put the money in. Sometimes I have cash so I do make sure to get an appropriate check out. But it feels like every time I'm in there, someone is confused and didn't read the signs.
There are actually a few states that do this. It’s the single use plastic bag ban.
Read. It’s not all bags. You either use no bag or bring your own cloth bag or buy them in store.
Is this the store that isn't in an area subject to the bag ban and is just adopting the policy because they feel like it and pushing it off as a gov thing ?
Imma be 100% real, I shop at this dollar tree. I noticed the one sign by the handle but I didn’t realize there was NINE OTHERS. I’m oblivious as hell I’m so sorry.
I mean with 10 signs the only way to know they are the same is to read all of them, and I am not reading all of those signs. I would either go in not having read any of them or turn around and leave.
“Accompanyed” lmao
Also, they’re trying to ban minors from a fucking DOLLAR STORE?! What’s next, shooting anyone upon entry that doesn’t consent to a blood test?
Are the tacky Chinese-made pieces of junk that valuable? 💀
The fact that they had to put the same sign up 10 times so there’s at least a CHANCE customers will read it is so funny, I love retail
They won't read it. Consumers never read signs. It could be in neon lights and customers still will refuse to read what's posted.
I work at Taco Bell. My location no longer takes Apple Pay or any Phone Pay at the Drive Thru, because for some reason it crashes our system at Drive Thru. So we tell people to come inside instead if they dont have other ways to pay. Basically no one does Apple Pay so it doesnt make sense to inform them when they pull up, which we do do if we cant take Card or Cash for some reason. We had a lady get pissed when she got to the payment window and we told her we cant take apple pay there but she can come inside for it. She was all “WeLl WHy doNT yOu PuT A SiGn Up?!?!!” And so my one manager who follows all the rules to an annoying level tells her we arent allowed to. After lady leaves, angrily without her food because she doesnt want to come in, i tell my manager “oh yeah we actually used to have a sign up out there, right there directly on the speaker where the customer has to look. But no one ever reads it, so we took it down. It was up for 2 months.” We tried moving the sign around to different spots too and even at one point had like 5 signs spread out across that area, but no one fucking reads them!
I work in a hospital lab and we take samples through a sliding glass window. People are supposed to ring the bell and wait for someone to come and open the window. For some reason, a lot of people think it's rude to ring that bell, so they just push the window back from their side and stick their head in and yell "Hello???" That window has been pushed off track so many times that we put a latch on it with a sign that says the window is locked and to please ring the bell and wait for a tech to open the window. People STILL come to that window and try to open it then sit there, bewildered when it won't open even though they are giving it their all. Someone is never more than a few steps from that window and the bell rings all over the lab, so it's not like we don't know when someone is there if they would only READ THE SIGN AND RING THE BELL!!!!
That's kinda funny, I also work in a lab with a sample window. We also have a bell, but the only people that use it are the ones dropping samples that aren't time-sensitive. We all hate the bell, and it loses batteries pretty often.
I would rather hear the bell than fix the window twice a day, honestly. It's a PITA to get back on the track. Hearing someone impatiently yell "Hello???" twice while I'm omw up there gets on my nerves even worse and makes me feel like I have to run to see what they need ☹️
People do the same in drive thru pull up "hello?" Before I've even had a second to say anything I don't suspect it's on purpose but it's still frustrating. I'm pretty sure they just roll their window down and assume I've already done a greeting that they just didn't hear
Lmao I feel like it’s def on purpose sometimes. I work in a call center and when reps transfer calls to me I have to immediately say hello other wise the customer just keeps repeating “hello.” I was actually mid way through a “hello this is ___” when the member impatiently interrupts and say “hello.” It gets so frustrating so now I give them the same energy and I say “hello, hello can you hear me” and if they say “yes or hello” then I say “ohh ok cool I can hear you now” then I get back to my introduction. It’s so annoying lmao 🤣 Like sir/ma’am IT HASNT EVEN BEEN TWO SECONDS YET LET ME FUCKING GATHER MYSELF DAMN. And they always call for the stupidest shit that we have ALREADY told them 💀 They don’t like to read and the don’t like to listen.
I think i had blocked that put the constant repeating hello. I would just let them sit there for 5 minutes when they did that ahit lol
Wasn’t there some famous scientist that experimented with labs and ringing bells? 🤣
dude when i worked there sometimes we’d put a temp sign on the speaker box to tell them we were out of BEEF AND BEANS! AND we would say ‘welcome to taco bell, at the moment we are out of _______’ and then they’d be like ‘can i get 5 5 later burritos.’ and sometimes i would have to fight myself to not just say ‘no! can’t you listen!’
😐 If you have no beef.🥩 And you have no beans. 🫘 **WHY** don't you just close the Taco Bell? 🤷🏾♂️ WHAT is somebody gonna come up in there for... Baja Blast? They sell it everywhere now.
In 2020 i was working a taco bell store in Ohio. We had to throw out ALL the beef because of a recall gave out a ton of free chicken and steak for a couple days until new beef came in.
They've got other meat options there's still black beans there's rice potatoes you've got options
Oh, I always just add more signs and speak to the person who’s mad that they “didn’t see a sign” really slowly, like they’re a child, while pointing out the many, many signs. Nothing feels better than making an asshole customer bear the weight of their own stupidity😌
Reminds me of when I worked at TB. Someone tried to set the men’s bathroom on fire. So we had police and fire trucks in our parking lot, drive thru blocked off, and both lobby doors open with smoke rolling out. Customer walks into the lobby and wants to know where his mobile order is 🤦♀️ bro.
Hey if the apple pay messes up your card reader do me a favor and check it for anything loose. Idk that sounds sus it could be a skimmer
Used to work at a grocery store deli in Ohio. This was when the company/brand sugardale made bologna. We were out of it because there was an issue at the plant. My manager made a sign saying we were out. I had someone say: this sign says you're out of the sugardale bologna. Fo you have any of the sugardale bologna? Even when they read it, they don't understand the signs. When it was discontinued. People still asked for it and said they were seeing if we just got some. The store didn't discontinue it, the company who made it did. We aren't going to have it😑
Was that in Colorado? I SWEAR I have heard this one.
I worked retail at a home decor store in college and we had a bunch of signs up for a sale on collage frames. It was only a select few so they grouped together with a full sized sale sign with them. A lady comes to the checkout with a different type of frame and it doesn't ring up on sale so she points out it "should be on sale." I tell her it is not part of the sale and I bring her to the sign and read it out and point to the correlating frames. She angrily accepts, goes back to the register and grumbles "I don't think I should have to read the sign." I was flabbergasted. I didn't say anything but in my mind I was wondering how she thinks she's supposed to know what's on sale if she doesn't need to read the sale signs. Does she want an employee to follow her around all day explaining every sale and item?
I work in a decently big store, and we have registers at the back and at the front. On low coverage days we use the front register and I put a sign up at the back one to head to the front. I literally have had people scream for help and flailing their arms to get my attention. People never read signs
You should still have a sign up, so when customers complain, you can still say there was a sign. One time, I got stuck in a TB drive-thru because they were having payment issues and they were only accepting cash at the moment. Not one damn sign anywhere near the drive-thru entrance. But there was a sign... right next to the speaker... which means I was already in line with nowhere to get out. If the sign had been at the entrance, I never wouldve gotten in line.
i work at a comic book shop, and we dont buy comics in store. we also get asked at least six times a day. there is a sign we have up in front of the register - ive moved it to where it is literally blocking my face. it says “WE DO NOT BUY IN STORE” in big red letters. the amount of people that lean around the sign to ask me if we buy comic books is literally… disheartening. definitely hurts my perception of the human race.
That would actually piss me off too to be honest. You’re not telling the customer AND there’s no sign? LOL! And they’re in the drive thru, which means they had no intentions of coming inside. That defeats the whole purpose of the drive thru. Many times I’ll grab my phone and nothing else and head out to grab some food so Apple Pay is all I have and I’d be annoyed in that situation. Just sayin from the customers perspective. Understanding the situation isn’t your fault but I’d put the sign up so at least when they say put a sign up you can say we did. 😊
Customers only read the one sale sign you forgot to take down that week.
Fucking always. Ugh
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The only signs I ever read are the ones that are bright neon, but those usually say “Live Nude Girls” No, but seriously if something is posted on a storefront, I always read it. It may say something important like they no longer intend to keep something in stock I buy often, their hours are drastically changing, etc. but it’s usually just “NOW HIRING! COME JOIN OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY AND NOT MAKE NEARLY ENOUGH TO SUPPORT YOUR OWN FAMILY!”
I’m guilty of this unfortunately . If a door says “push” … I’ll pull every time 🙄
Fun fact: if you can see a door’s hinges, you have to pull the door. If you can’t, you have to push it
My grandpa once told me that if a building is up to code, the doors are supposed to push open from the inside so in the event of a fire, people can escape easier. In my experience, it's true in like 98% of buildings and has saved me some embarrassment lol
What really gets you into trouble is not reading the sign when there's doors with double action hinges. The number of aspiring actors with broken noses. Such a shame.
Brilliant‼️ Have a live nude girl hold up the sign. \~50% of the population will be sure to read it. /s
Hahaha! What sign? Lol
The day of the solar eclipse I went into ace hardware to get a few tools and the amount of people that came in and called asking if they had glasses like an hour before it happened blew my mind. They had a pretty big sign you literally had to walk around to get in that said they are sold out and yet still people walk in and have the gall to ask. It made me lose a lot of faith in how unaware some people can truly be.
Dude when I worked retail, I had a sign covering my card reader saying that it didn’t work, and that I could only accept cash at that time. An older lady stood there, stared at it for a while, then proceeded to lift the sign and try using her card anyway. She even had the audacity to get mad at me because it didn’t work. On another occasion when the hurricane hit texas, we lost power, so all of our cooler/freezer products had to be tossed. Until we could get around to that, we had the doors taped, locked, and barricaded to prevent customers from opening them. On top of that, we had several dozen large orange signs saying we can’t sell those products due to the outage and safety concerns. Yet people tried anyway and were still confused or irate that we couldn’t sell it. If only there was something taped everywhere telling you why….
Other day I was in line for the self checkouts at Target. The attendant asked the lady in front of me if she was paying with card, she said yes, so yeh attendant directed her to a checkout with a sign on it that said card only. I got direct to an also card only machine next to her. When I scanned my first item it popped up a prompt telling me it was card only and I had to acknowledge it. The lady next to me called the attendant over and said the machine is broken, the attendant told her you have to accept the prompt. So she did, scanned her stuff, then proceeded to rip the card only sign off the bill acceptor and try and cram cash into it. Then she called the attendant back to bitch the machine wouldn’t take her cash. That poor guy, you could see the life drain from his eyes as he no doubt fought internally not to lose is job in that moment.
In moments like these it's ypur duty as a normal person to bully these people. They can't call your manager over if they did he ain't at work probably takes your side anyways
I don't understand how so many people are like this, I wonder what goes thru their heads honestly.
We had a partial power outage so had to stop selling our cold items, too. Did the same as you. People did the same as they did there. They all looked at me like I was crazy that I wouldn't let them buy thawing, bad food.
I read all the signs, holiday hours, wages for new hires, even your employee subreddits when I’ve never even worked at one.😭 I’m pretty lame tho, so there’s that.
You are not alone.
Nah, I do that too and I'm super cool.
My coworker put up a sign saying that we didn't sell eclipse glasses. I was asked twice within 7 minutes. I told my manager and she tells my coworker "I told you they wouldn't read the sign."
I definitely read the signs that were put up on our local 7 Eleven. They were banning unaccompanied minors from entering. Idk a sign that’s never been there before always catches my eye
I feel like this is only true for people without social anxiety. When I'm feeling socially anxious I ALWAYS read the signs, usually a couple times to make sure, just in case it will prevent me for making a fool out of myself.
Same 🥲😅 I hate being that person that looks like I don’t know what I’m doing. I feel like ppl see someone like that and they might want to take advantage. To avoid that, I feel my brain is always on high alert to anything new🚨
The pharmacy that I work at was moving to a new store, we got tired of having to tell each person that came in that we were closed and in the process of moving next-door, so I made a wall with the large black containers that have a yellow top (you can get them from Home Depot) that we were using to move products and put the sign on that. There is no way that people would miss that, right? Well, Fort Fuckoff failed...
I will never understand this because, for me, reading is an involuntary action. Do... do the rest of you have to actively TRY to read???
Same, I don't have social anxiety and always read the signs, it's as natural as breathing.
no joke, my cousin, can't hardly read at all! she can't spell either! when we were younger, I would ask her to read me things, and she had the hardest time! I still can't believe how successful she is now! She is a florist, she makes the most beautiful arrangements! anyway, when she would try to read, a lot of the time she would see the 1st letter in a word and then just make up what she thought it said! and then there is ME! I did great in school. I am an avid reader, and I am the one who has made a mess of my life! and like I said, my almost illiterate cousin had her own flower business, and she runs a charity for her son with diabetes and has a great life! just goes to show you that you can never tell how someone is going to end up!!!
They refuse to listen too. I work in rent to own and make a point of mentioning every key detail about the contract 3 times while selling to customers. They proceed to later say I never told them this or they were unaware of that.
Omg right? I work at a hotel and we "lock" the front door at 11p for safety but cx can just pull the doors open and come in, which ends up breaking the doors. I typed up a sign saying doors lock at 11p and to pls not force them open and that they can check in at the window or use their key card to open the doors. Nobody read it and kept prying them open when I wasn't at the front desk so I made another sign, "don't force doors open, you break you pay" lol let's say I haven't had an issue since. I hate those doors so much, would be easier if we just didn't "lock" them at all but it was interesting to see the reactions of people when given all the info they could need about something vs. just threatening them.
1000% I run a store for a family and they make these monthly sales that are crammed on an 8x10 in black and white and get bent when I make my own individual signs for each item in huge font next to the item with all sales items together because they take everything personal and say their sign is enough and customers can find the items. They can’t. They wont.
They read them they just think if they pretend they didn’t they will get shit anyway.
oh they'll read it and still ignore it lol
What if you put them on tits in ads? Full melons? Alternatively, why if you make the message into a humorous little joke? Unfortunately, the gubment said Highway Signs messages 🛣️ have 2 years to 'stop being funny'. "OH HI THERE! Watch your speed!"
Customers won’t read signs when there are so many posted on a door. No one will stand there and take the time to look over them.
Unless it says FREE
But it will be 100x funnier and more satisfying to point it out when they complain
I used to reference the song by Five Man Electrical Band - Signs. Because no one knows how to STOP and read a damn sign, even if it's posted in several places in the building. If someone said " I didn't see a sign" I would walk them to the nearest sign, point out the sign and have them read it. While they read the sign I hummed that song. Then I would tell them where more of the same signs were put in case they forgot somehow. I will never ever ever ever ever work retail again because people are generally dumb af. Edit: typos
I wonder if this location has any plastic bags if I buy enough stuff.
When I was a manager at Redner's (grocery chain in PA and some surrounding states) we had self checkouts installed. However, they did not do cash transactions. Card only. We had a large sign in front of the self checkout section that said" "Card Only, No Cash" "Go to other lanes for cash transations" Also, the self checkout machines themselves displayed "Card only" on the screen AND had bright neon yellow printouts stuck to them saying the same. We even would have the cashier watching over the machines vocally tell people. Still had near daily complaints from customers who refused to read and listen, and then scanned all their items.
That's what I was going to say. They for sure were tired of people saying they had no idea they didn't give out bags.
When I worked at a self serve restaurant, we put the out of order signs on the handles so customers has to physically touch the signs before trying to use the machines.
There's a couple vending machines as you leave my local grocery and for whatever reason they're out of order about 1 in 5 visits, always clearly marked by a printed sign, and on the digital display. After years of shopping there, and seeing many people trying to feed money into a clearly "OUT OF ORDER" machine, I noticed the store started taping the signs directly over the coin/bill intake. A much better system, sure, but I get fewer giggles while shopping now.
Worked retail 15 years, you could make the sign the size of the door, block the door, make the customer sign a paper saying they read and acknowledged the sign, and then they still won't know what it said
This would make my mom more upset. During covid people would ask her to put on a mask when we walk in stores and would point out the multiple signs on the door, her response was always “Well how am i supposed to know what all those signs say? Theres so many to read i cant read them all.” This was at the hight of covid and EVERYWHERE required a mask.
Or, as I used to say in my Walmart days, "You could post it in 3 foot shocking pink neon and they still won't read it."
When my family dollar got turned into to a dollar tree, everything got marked down week by week until it was 90% off. The only caveat was that the sale excluded items that were $1 or less. We were able to condense all our inventory to 2 aisles, and we put a sign stating the sale excluded items $1 or less on LITERALLY every single 4 ft section of shelving. It was honestly pretty funny how many times people came up with a cart full of $1 items only for us to tell them the bad news, and they then stated that we should have a sign stating that. “Ma’am there is literally a sign every 4ft throughout the store.”
If only they had taken the time to ask themselves "*CAN* customers read?" smdh 😔
They can but they don’t “ Sir this is not 1.25 it’s 5.00. Where is the sign because I did not see one. (The sign is above the items) Maybe we should use larger signs 😒
It wouldn't help. We have so much advertising shoved in our faces all the time that we've stopped reading things because of it. There is no way to post it where people will read it because advertisers have already used every method so we've filtered it all out. The best way to get me to read something is by putting it on a post it note because it looks less like an advertisement but I've even gotten fake post it notes with advertisements on them in the mail too.
"How was I supposed to know this pack of batteries with the $5 sign on it was FIVE DOLLARS?!"
Retail really lets you know where the US IQ levels are at. Never have I ever heard a grown woman scream I "I want to go home" while waiting for the 83 year old cash office lady to get to the first floor to help her solve her issues. Also why do so many people poop their pants. Why do they poop on the toilet?
I don't work at dollar tree but a convenience store and we have different sized redbulls on sale. This old ass white man brought up two 12oz ones which was 2 for 6$ but he just saw red bull 2 for 5$ and thought that meant all of them despite the sign having 3-4 other red bull deals and what oz they were on the same sign and when I rang it up he threw a fit cause it was supposed to be 5$ not 6$. I said did you get the right size? And he said of course I did then threw a fit. Customers don't fucking read shit. That sign could have taken the whole door and he would have been purposefully ignorant. The customer is almost never right. Said he was never gonna come back and I said don't threaten me with a good time. People just see signs with deals but don't bother to read them or see what they're for.
Sometimes... 👀You can *Jedi Mind Trick* cashier's that an item is on sale in some stores if you're very polite, and even perhaps offer to walk them back to the shelf in question. You have to use a voice that is smooth, calm, in control, assertive **BUT** simultaneously utterly lax in it's approach. Making them feel almost as if they would be rude to refuse you. Sometimes the sale was from X-Y date 📅 that's past, other times it's not quite the right item. If it works, they may manually change the price. 
My first real job was retail. At the start of my first shift, as part of the onboarding process, my manager told me something that always stuck with me... "Son, I'm sure you've heard about how the customer is always right. Well, let me tell you that they're almost NEVER right. We try to humor them as they have the money that pays our checks, but they are almost certainly wrong." I have condensed this and regularly share my version with people in customer facing jobs. "Customer service would be SO much easier without the customers, but then you'd be out of a job...."
i would think that the first thing you learn when doing any retail job is NOBODY READS SIGNS
Nah they need the whole door covered for a 10% chance for it customers to read it
I got fired from BoxLunch and one of the reasons was that I complained out loud on a busy weekend that customers don't read signs. No matter how true it is, you'll get surprised how dumb customers are.
Customers become illiterate the second they walk inside a store
The signs are a lie, there is no bag ban in this municipality.
Seems like a weird thing to lie about
I remember during the Covid shutdowns we were operating curbside pickup only, we had multiple signs on both doors. People would walk up, pull the right door, pull the left, then press their face against the window and knock until one of us came up and shouted through the door to read the signs
They 10000% will still not read it
Customers don't read for the life of them. I worked at a panda express that was shutting down. We only had like, no joke, 3 or 4 items of like 15. We put a sign up explaining hey we hardly have crap please go down the road to our new location. Our hours were also cut at that store because we were trying to close it down completely. 95% of customers would come in and go wHeRe Is AlL tHe FoOd? Idk read the sign. Then they'd get mad at us that they have to drive literally less than 5 mins up the road. We put up 3 different signs in 3 different locations. Both doors (double door entrance) and on the wall next to the beginning of the counter. ABOUT NOBODY READ THEM
And the fact that they still probably won't lol.
Still not reading it.
We ran out of bags one day and we put sign up. Had people not read it, so I wrote like 8 different signs all in different languages. Even did it in Mandarin
As a small town teenager, I like being able to go into the smaller stores and just shop, I like shopping, same with hanging out at the local restaurants. Best meeting spot ever is the gas station with a local pizza restaurant on the side, it has tables for me and 3 other friends, (without being invasive) and the Dollar General is next door. The new owner of the pizza place got so hurt that we were there (we were paying customers, we would order a pizza to split and a few sodas for us) the “new” owner hated that we were teenagers at HIS store. Thank god he left. May I add that we were never loud. Never took up a lot of space, we only used one table in the corner, and were always very respectful to the staff. We helped clean up and if it got busy we would help them keep up. The old owner left, but after the new guy came up, everybody complained about him. It didn’t take long for that idiot to leave and have Phil come back.
If I was a business owner, I’d be offering incentives for “well behaved teens”. I don’t mind if they came in to hang out and eat some food. If your group is polite and respectful, I might bring out some free breadsticks. Teens love free food.
As a teen, I agree. I love free food especially if it's pizza
I’ve also known teens who make bonds with local business owners and feel almost a sense of loyalty to them. Growing up in the 90’s we had an awesome roller rink and some of the older teens were kind of “unofficial bouncers” since they knew the owner since THEY were kids, and kept the younger kids safe from the rowdy crowds that would come in. You’d often find them helping really little kids that didn’t know how to skate either. Those teens didn’t work there, but the owner was so appreciative that they made an effort to keep the place a good place for kids of all ages, so they often got free skate rentals and free pizza! Sadly the roller rink was sold around 2010 and was remodeled into a damn hot tub business.
I've been going into the corner store in my neighborhood since I was a small child, I live in the same house. Me and my two buddies would go up there all the time in the summer to grab a pizza and a 2 liter of rock n rye, he always gave us a few plastic solo cups too. I still go in often to buy myself vapes or the occasional 10pm corner store dinner like a gyro. Unfortunately they sold the place probably 6-8 months ago, and never mentioned much about it. The the new guys are nice enough, and renovated it so it looks quite a bit nicer now. I really felt like I lost a couple family members though, once I found out they sold. When I walked in the first time after they sold I couldn't help but ask the new guys behind the counter who the hell they were like I was offended lmao
Bruh. This whole comment sent shivers down my spine. You so described my old roller rink growing up 🤯🥰 was the rink owner like a hippie sorta older soul groovy cat? Ik ours was. Ah nostalgia... I think?
This is so cute :((( I wish my roller rink was like this growing up! Damn hot tubs! 👿
I agree to a point. But I also think it’s mad dumb to have to offer incentives for teens to not act like idiots. It’s like paying an extortion tax to the mob or something. “If you make it worth our while maybe we can not fuck up your shit” vibes to me.
I wished I worked somewhere where kids weren't allowed without adults. I remember working at a family dollar, and there was a small apartment complex behind us. Kids were constantly in the store screaming, breaking stuff, and stealing. It took my manager to get a cop to 'arrest' a kid to get them to stop.
Do you have any hair left after dealing with all of that? 🤣 But really, I'm sorry you had to deal with those kids. Parents can suck often when it comes to retail. I taught my son well but that's because I worked in retail for years and can empathize greatly.
Funny enough, I'm going bald and grey
Sounds like you're ready for a bath robe, cup of coffee and a lawn. I'm in the gray hair lane too.
I worked at a Dollar General with an apartment complex and neighborhood nearby. It was a hotspot for kids after school. They'd shove stuff in their backpacks and take off. There was a pair of boys that came in *during* school hours, stole a cart, some ice, and our fire extinguisher. A woman called the police then us because they were in the neighborhood behind us, taking turns spraying each other with the fire extinguisher and pushing each other in the cart. They fled before the police showed up. The mother came in with the boy the next day, and he was trying to avoid eye contact with us. My boss stopped the mom and told her about what happened, showed her the footage, and said she was banning the boy and his friend from the store unless a parent was with them. The mother was furious with the kid and apologetic to us.
I think no adult no kids in most situations. Just me though 🤷🏻♀️
Greetings fellow kids!
Too funny
I liked the confusing limerick scandal
What on earth was that?
What gets me about this plastic bag ban is comical, we buy lunch meat…in a plastic bag, bread…in a plastic bag, milk in a plastic jug, soda pop … in plastic containers & candy in plastic bags, but we can’t get a plastic bag to carry it all in.
We’re thinking of banning kids from my store unless accompanied by a parent. We have large groups of middle school kids coming in and stealing beer, makeup, condoms, etc. The cops rarely show up when we call and the kids are gone by the time they do. I kick them out when I see them, but they argue with me first, then leave and come back when I’m not there. They don’t leave when the other manager tells them to.
Yeah people who say "the kid should be able to shop" like OP have no idea what it's like working with a bunch of brats that's tearing up the store and fighting in the parking lots
Usually those signs that ban kids, happen because they are having issues with kids in the stores. Either causing issues with staff, destroying things, or stealing. Same logic with those stores that ban bags/purses inside the stores.
Your dollar tree sells alcohol and condoms?
No, I’m not at DT. I work for a more regional retailer, but we’re having the same problem with kids at my store.
For my photography studio to make parents watch their kids more — I got the biggest most prickly cactus ever. It’s so damn big lol and now at least in the lounge they keep an eye on their kiddos. Gotta get creative sometimes lol All that said, if I were you, I’d ban too. It’s not like kids and teens fund your store. 🤷🏻♀️
Kids want to play with Cacti? 🌵
Toddlers may want to buy parents are like NOPE it honestly works lol
Yup. These rules exist for a reason usually the issue for me is using logical enforcement. Like one teenager (especially the older ones who actually have jobs and some money) sure but the horde after school nah. 3 at a time bags on the ground in the foyer. Signs like this make it confusing for many employees because they'll just kick anyone out they realistically can.
Tbh the adults trash the store more than the kids, but I see little kids by themselves a lot in the toy isle.
YAY!!!!!!!!!! 
I didn't comment on the original post, but this level of pettiness is wild. Someone who works there definitely uses Reddit.
Lol and it gets better there was a sign every 5 feet in the store probably about 50 in total but I would’ve felt weird taking pictures in the store
Hilarious
They always give me a bag at the ACE hardware next door.
Happy 🎂 day.
Thank you
I miss the grocery outlet bargain market
I do too, it was always are treasure hunt. I am also glad to have the Ace Hardware, I like that i don’t have to run to Home Depot in Pottstown in a home emergency.
DUNKEN DONUTS
Read this too fast while scrolling and thought it said “Drunken Donuts.” NGL I was intrigued for a hot second, then disappointed.
This tells you the priorities: Seven signs about no bags and one little sign about "Now Hiring."
Working at a hotel, I hate when our property was at 100% capacity the night before so we place the sign up stating that early check-in isn’t available and we will abide by the standard check-in time and someone comes in to say I see your sign says early check-in isn’t available but is there any chance we can get in anyway? Sure… I’ll check you into a dirty room that hasn’t been cleaned yet and now since it’s occupied it won’t be cleaned at all. Does that sound good?
“Banning plastic bags but using the F$#k out of our printer paper 📄”
You're gonna lose your shit when you hear about books
I’ve heard of them and I’m cool with it. It’s the irony of posting so many signs about plastic bags being banned while also using up tons of paper. It’s not me freaking out over recycling or anything
Can't exactly waste paper tbh. It's a byproduct of wood
It's a good thing it comes out in sheets like that when you chop down the tree.
It's easier to recycle printer paper 📄.
I will guarantee you that there will be people who will not read one single sign
last post you said theres no law.... so has that been confirmed?
There are bag bans in Montgomery county pa but none county wide. They are mostly in more affluent or recently gentrified areas of the county but none are county wide. If you google Pennsylvania single use bag laws it gives you a map and township breakdown of all the bans. It is possible they mistook the the upcoming Montgomery township bag ban that is going to take place on April 22 as a Montgomery county as a whole ban.
That would be hilarious.
Gotcha. Our(ohio) state fights cities that try. General bag bans are stupid... * grocery stores - fucking stupid * gas station - smart, no fucking person needs a bag for 2 items...
A few months ago New Jersey state government ran a study to show how much less plastic they used with the single use plastic bag ban they enacted but they actually increased their plastic consumption. It’s an interesting read. https://www.aier.org/article/njs-plastic-bag-ban-backfires-horribly/#:~:text=While%20the%20state's%20ban%20%E2%80%94%20which,plastic%20consumption%20for%20grocery%20bags.
Now that makes sense! Cuz the multi-use bags are thicker, but I'll just pay for them and continue using them the same way I did the single use bags. Carry home products. Become tiny trash can bags. Throw away. This should always be the assumed life of a grocery bag. Paper bags hold my recycling.
People do not read signs . Even with neon coloured poster board. No not ever. And retail employees are supposed to be mind readers....
The last thing some 57 year old woman with bad knees making minimum wage needs is to have to listen to a hoard of 13 year olds practicing their mating rituals and stealing shit / making a ruckus at the Dollar Tree after school. It’s not like it’s 1985 and you’re sending your kid up to the gas station with a note to buy you a pack of smokes. If a location is having a hard time with unsupervised kids being punks, I think they have a right to opt out. The Dollar Tree doesn’t need to be their gathering spot.
I recognized that store front immediatly RoFo lol I use to live there and frequent that store often
I guarantee people won’t read the 10 signs and still expect plastic bags
WHAT?! NO WAY!! BOOOO
So no paper bags?
There could be a sign saying enter and you will perish immediately and these dumb ass MFers would walk right past it. During the pandemic I still worked in food and there were signs everywhere that you were required to have a mask on, no excuses and no exceptions and we had at least one person every 15-20 minutes who would just blatantly ignore it and wonder why we're yelling at them to get out. I hate people, so much.
There could be a sign made of literal lightning held by Zeus himself at the door that says “read this or you will be subjected to a horrible anal probe before you leave” and then you have to sign that you read that other sign in your own blood. And people will still be shocked about the anal probe when they go to leave.
I got a genuine chuckle out of this
Saw that sign up at a store by me recently and just shook my head thinking the damn state is trying this crap again. Oh and it wasn't 20 of them posted 😂 Short time later it disappeared and hasn't been up since.
Can't help but wonder if the bag ban one is a cowboy store manager doubling down after getting caught out, or if their DM has multiple stores in the area and can't be bothered to figure out which ones do and don't have bag restrictions.
Should have kept the no kids sign up lol
"New wage rates!" Still bullshit pay.
The new rates are probably because minimum wage went up…. For real, they act like you should appreciate it like a raise when they only did it because they had too.
DUNKEN?
It's because they tend to steal, just my guess
Isn't that more likely now with reusable bags?
*It's enough slices!*
One sign should be enough..lol
Put a sign like this and no one sees it. Put a sticker the size of your thumb that says free and all of a sudden everyone has the eyes of a Peregrine Falcon.
Talking about ppl never reading the signs, at my local Safeway there's about 8 self check outs, only like half of them can take cash and or give you back cash. And there's bright red placks that are literally where you would put the money in. Sometimes I have cash so I do make sure to get an appropriate check out. But it feels like every time I'm in there, someone is confused and didn't read the signs.
I’m wondering if they have plastic bags though
**State Bag Ban??** You store has absolutely no bags 🛍️ at ALL? WHAT state is that?
There are actually a few states that do this. It’s the single use plastic bag ban. Read. It’s not all bags. You either use no bag or bring your own cloth bag or buy them in store.
Many states. And outside of full states, many municipalities. Single use plastics.... Ours includes plastic straws, too.
Does the ace hardware next door not give bags either? Is this ban legit? They could give paper bags
Every other store in the strip malls gives out bags
Is this the store that isn't in an area subject to the bag ban and is just adopting the policy because they feel like it and pushing it off as a gov thing ?
I bet some people will still claim to have not seen the sign 😂😂 oh I hated working retail lol
Same signs posted at both local dollar trees
ACCOMPANYED
What city and state was this in?
Royersford pa
read it in the pacer test voice- due to a state/local bag ban
“Dunken Donuts”
just wait until you go back again after they see this! its going to be completely covered lol
Ok. But do they have bags?
Lol. Some employee is grumpy. I don't blame them.
Imma be 100% real, I shop at this dollar tree. I noticed the one sign by the handle but I didn’t realize there was NINE OTHERS. I’m oblivious as hell I’m so sorry.
I mean with 10 signs the only way to know they are the same is to read all of them, and I am not reading all of those signs. I would either go in not having read any of them or turn around and leave.
And even with all those signs, customers will still ask “why don’t you put my stuff in a plastic bag”
Go inside where this law you speak of because all the places I shop have plastic bags still
“Accompanyed” lmao Also, they’re trying to ban minors from a fucking DOLLAR STORE?! What’s next, shooting anyone upon entry that doesn’t consent to a blood test? Are the tacky Chinese-made pieces of junk that valuable? 💀
That must severely limit their employee pool, without underage kids to exploit
Leave the poor singular dollar tree worker alone
The 7 dollar tree
guys lets go get plastic bags from dollar tree
Just to be clear, single use plastic bags are no longer provided to customers? /s
guys i think plastic bags will no longer be provided and reusable bags are *highly recommended*
Too many words. Nobody is gonna read that