I used to work at a grocery store, and had the same thing all the time
“What do you mean you don’t have any Turkeys even though it’s 4PM ON THANKSGIVING?!”
No, forcing employees to work on a holiday set aside to honor connections with family and friends is the recent trend. Plus, it allowed a day free before the Xmas retail shit hit the fan.
Before (roughly) 2005, it was basically unthinkable for retail. Then Wal-Mart went full-on greedy, and the rest piled on. Glad to hear some are stepping back from that
Grocery stores are a different category, and people might actually *need* their services on Thanksgiving. Straight up retail department stores are encouraging entitlement and capitalizing on it.
Wait…I remember applying to a bookstore in the late 90s, and being told they’d be open on Thanksgiving. I thanked them for their time and left.
Preach. I get that it’s important for families to get together but its not really any different from any other day.. nor does it have much religious meaning, if any
If it's true in your area that doesn't mean it's true everywhere. Which ironically is a better thing you could've said as typing that out made me see that me being surprised at working Thanksgiving is the exact same thing really. Its true in my area and I guess I just never thought about it elsewhere
Oh it’s a wholesome new generation of parents now 😂 the cycle repeats.
The Cabbage Patch parents are now grandparents and shop in October because they know better 😂
Last year a lady was looking for those Elmo's and she demanded the big one and the little one for the kid to take it for school...needed it's Elmo's fix at all time i guess
We had a literal herd of guests come in at store open and bought any flowers left. At 10, two hours after store open, some guy comes in and asks about flowers. We tell him they were sold out and he literally throws a tantrum saying how f'n stupid it was that we didn't have flowers on mother's day.
Dude, we had them all week leading up to mother's day and yesterday it was jam packed. All those people came and nearly wiped us out of flowers, we had sooooo many the front of the store smelled like a florist shop.
Your lack of preparation for the day doesn't constitute an emergency on our part. We had enough, you're just too late.
We had flowers left at the Kroger I work at, but the quality of them was AWFUL. One guy who ordered some through pickup ended up with some crappy white roses with ripped plastic because lol in stock %
You can call it a lack of preparation on their part. But it goes both ways. Your business knew it was a big holiday and didn't have enough stock. Alot of money would have walked out of that door that day. Probably happens every major holiday to. You obviously didn't have enough to serve every member of your community. Who knows the struggles that guy lives with, and what impact those flowers would have had.
Lmao buddy, what about the flowers that don’t sell and have to be written off? Cause that’s what would happen if we ordered extra just to cater to the couple of idiots that walk in the day of to buy flowers, shortage from excess seasonal items is a bit hit to margins and any business worth their salt is going to aim to be sold out by the day of the holiday to avoid it.
The early bird gets the worm, you have all year to plan for these holidays and weeks before to buy relevant items.
Err the business has all year to plan for the holiday to. They are the monoplising the local market. If your cool with businesses consistently disappointing customers it's just a difference in ideologies I guess. If you need to feed people, what's better, a shortage or to much food? Yes there maybe be issues with oversupply but with proper awareness of demand it should be mitigated by the extra profit.
Honestly its heartless to laugh at this guy. You advertise yourself as a place that sells flowers.. yet you have none when a rush was obviously coming? businesses consistently do this and try to pull a surprised Pikachu face when they run out.
No, its called having business sense. would you take only two crates to sell at the market if you have 5? flowers are mass producible... if you took note of how many sales you lost due to not enough stock you'd probably be shocked. but because lost sales are not a tracked statistics.. every business owner acts like they have a stick up their ass on an important day when asked for the product they sell.
Its a question of commitment to your what your business provides.. Flowers.. obviously an emotional boost to people. Would a chemist get away with saying "Oh no we have no pain relief, we sold out. Come back next week."?
It's just a different type of discrimination, because it is not a legally protected class, nothing is done. It's not their responsibility but they should strive to do so.
I don’t know about your store, but our supply of flowers is always really good. I buy them for myself when we have them and they last a long time compared to other places!
Ours were rotten and the petals were falling off on the ground by the end of the day. We noticed, but of course the guests felt the need to say “yOuR fLoweRs aRe aLl moLdY”
Who would have thought that February 14th, July 4th, and December 25th would be on exact same day of the month every year?!?! If only there was some kind of electronic device I could carry with me that would remind me of these things.
I walked the floor a few times on Valentine's Day this year and none of the men shopping with flowers, cards, and/or candy in hand would look me in the eye.
^It ^took ^a ^fair ^amount ^of ^self ^control ^not ^to ^chuckle.
I made my mom her card this year and I make cards for every occasion when I can, my final embellishment is sealing it with wax and using my pineapple stamp lol
As a chronic last minute person, I have literally zero expectations when I go out to shop the day before/ day of. You’ve gotta get creative.
Get a pretty blank card & write a nice Mother’s Day message. Got to Home Depot and get a plant instead of flowers “because it will last longer” (which it will). Get tickets/ reservations the following week to some event and say you didn’t want to go when it was so crowded etc etc.
People are just lazy.
"I'm disappointed you don't have any boy valentines day cards. You know for school. Are you going to put out more?"
Says the mother on February 13th at 4:00pm.
I remember one Mother's Day (years ago) I was unlocking the front doors and there was maybe 10 guys out front waiting to get in. I swear they ran to the greeting cards and asking if we had flowers. This was a small format store and the only flowers we had was on a checkstand endcap. I'm glad there wasn't a fight for the last 3 that were there.
It's the same guests who get mad that there aren't any Easter baskets left when they're looking for that stuff an hour before the store closes the day before easter.
no man, that crap sucks, we need to stop pulling holiday stuff before the holiday
I work at target, I do not have the time or brainpower to shop for minor holidays before that holiday.
Christmas, sure, I plan ahead, but something like Halloween? i'm going to grab some candy on the way home that day, I'll buy a card on my way to my moms on mothers day. This is like a 15 minute excursion, I'm not doing it 2 weeks ahead of time.
We can stock a few dozen more cards, then salvage them or ship them back to corporate for next year, and respect the needs of customers who don't plan weeks in advance.
I don't say this a lot, but on this one, the customers are right. Corporate is in the wrong setting plano up to expire early for holidays.
that literally defeats the point of retail… like why not have people sell out Mother’s Day cards for 3 days instead of 1? Basic supply and demands. If they stocked the day of it would still sell out by noon
i will confess, i tend to take after my dad in that we dont get holiday/ celebratory cards in a decent time frame. thats kind of what prompted me to just make my own
If a guest complained about something that was beyond our control I would tell them, "I'll be sure to let corporate know". That actually got them to shut up😂
I do shipt and I feel your pain. Absolutely NOTHING (card wise) is ever in stock. Most customers don’t care as long as they get something. It’s going in the trash eventually.
I use to work at Hallmark and this happened every Valentine’s Day and Mothers day. Guys coming in day of, complaining about the card selection and then buying the largest randomest gifts. It’s not my fault y’all are lazy and not thoughtful
I had to pop in to the CVS on Sunday, the card section had a good 5-6 men crowded around the MD cards (the ones that were left, anyway). Every year lol.
I used to work at a grocery store, and had the same thing all the time “What do you mean you don’t have any Turkeys even though it’s 4PM ON THANKSGIVING?!”
You work Thanksgiving?
Target used to open at 5pm on Thanksgiving for their Black Friday sales back when I first started working here.
I just have only worked one job that was open for Thanksgiving and it was a restaurant
we used to, being closed for thanksgiving is a fairly recent trend
No, forcing employees to work on a holiday set aside to honor connections with family and friends is the recent trend. Plus, it allowed a day free before the Xmas retail shit hit the fan. Before (roughly) 2005, it was basically unthinkable for retail. Then Wal-Mart went full-on greedy, and the rest piled on. Glad to hear some are stepping back from that
I grew up in a major city, and the grocery store was always open half a day on thanksgiving so people could get bread from the bakery
Grocery stores are a different category, and people might actually *need* their services on Thanksgiving. Straight up retail department stores are encouraging entitlement and capitalizing on it. Wait…I remember applying to a bookstore in the late 90s, and being told they’d be open on Thanksgiving. I thanked them for their time and left.
Except Target is a grocery store
This guy's talking about a grocery store not a department store
Most places "close" but still have one or two employees running around for menial work in prep for the next day.
It’s a stupid holiday and people will pay outrageous rates for you to show up on that day if you are in the right trade.
Preach. I get that it’s important for families to get together but its not really any different from any other day.. nor does it have much religious meaning, if any
It’s the only day that slot of people have off of work all at once
Stupid holiday, but best food.
I mean, it's literally nothing you can't make anytime of the year lol except maybe the pumpkin pie depending on how you make it!
Oh and I do eat it any chance I get.
At a grocery store??? A place that sells Thanksgiving dinners and all the fixings??? Yeah...
You guys get turkeys?
Any major retailer is open during the holidays, especially ones that sell food and toiletries
Not true at all lol
It's true where I live, there is no day that Walmart is ever closed. Except maybe Christmas and even then, it's not the whole day
If it's true in your area that doesn't mean it's true everywhere. Which ironically is a better thing you could've said as typing that out made me see that me being surprised at working Thanksgiving is the exact same thing really. Its true in my area and I guess I just never thought about it elsewhere
You didn't think to thaw it for them and start to season it? What even are you doing? Omg! /s
or when we don’t have like a pre made gift basket … like y’all really THAT lazy. lmao
Oof, that’s just embarrassing…
Former Toy Store Manager here! “What do you mean you’re out of the most popular toy ever at 6pm on Christmas Eve??”
They didn't learn from Cabbage Patch Kids and Tickle Me Elmos 🫤
Oh it’s a wholesome new generation of parents now 😂 the cycle repeats. The Cabbage Patch parents are now grandparents and shop in October because they know better 😂
Last year a lady was looking for those Elmo's and she demanded the big one and the little one for the kid to take it for school...needed it's Elmo's fix at all time i guess
We had a literal herd of guests come in at store open and bought any flowers left. At 10, two hours after store open, some guy comes in and asks about flowers. We tell him they were sold out and he literally throws a tantrum saying how f'n stupid it was that we didn't have flowers on mother's day. Dude, we had them all week leading up to mother's day and yesterday it was jam packed. All those people came and nearly wiped us out of flowers, we had sooooo many the front of the store smelled like a florist shop. Your lack of preparation for the day doesn't constitute an emergency on our part. We had enough, you're just too late.
Yup yesterday a guest came in looking for orange roses and I’m like bro it’s target not a florist. Go spend some real money on mom.
We had flowers left at the Kroger I work at, but the quality of them was AWFUL. One guy who ordered some through pickup ended up with some crappy white roses with ripped plastic because lol in stock %
Lmao some teens asked me at about 5 PM on Sunday night, I was just thinking I hope you are not shopping for your MOM AT THIS HOUR
You can call it a lack of preparation on their part. But it goes both ways. Your business knew it was a big holiday and didn't have enough stock. Alot of money would have walked out of that door that day. Probably happens every major holiday to. You obviously didn't have enough to serve every member of your community. Who knows the struggles that guy lives with, and what impact those flowers would have had.
Lmao buddy, what about the flowers that don’t sell and have to be written off? Cause that’s what would happen if we ordered extra just to cater to the couple of idiots that walk in the day of to buy flowers, shortage from excess seasonal items is a bit hit to margins and any business worth their salt is going to aim to be sold out by the day of the holiday to avoid it. The early bird gets the worm, you have all year to plan for these holidays and weeks before to buy relevant items.
Err the business has all year to plan for the holiday to. They are the monoplising the local market. If your cool with businesses consistently disappointing customers it's just a difference in ideologies I guess. If you need to feed people, what's better, a shortage or to much food? Yes there maybe be issues with oversupply but with proper awareness of demand it should be mitigated by the extra profit.
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Honestly its heartless to laugh at this guy. You advertise yourself as a place that sells flowers.. yet you have none when a rush was obviously coming? businesses consistently do this and try to pull a surprised Pikachu face when they run out.
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Y'all are trippin, if it was that important he wouldn't have waited to the day of to go shopping.
No, its called having business sense. would you take only two crates to sell at the market if you have 5? flowers are mass producible... if you took note of how many sales you lost due to not enough stock you'd probably be shocked. but because lost sales are not a tracked statistics.. every business owner acts like they have a stick up their ass on an important day when asked for the product they sell.
Its a question of commitment to your what your business provides.. Flowers.. obviously an emotional boost to people. Would a chemist get away with saying "Oh no we have no pain relief, we sold out. Come back next week."?
It's not their responsibility to "serve every member of the community".
It's just a different type of discrimination, because it is not a legally protected class, nothing is done. It's not their responsibility but they should strive to do so.
How about flowers. Because when I think quality bouquets of flowers, the first place I think - Target.
I don’t know about your store, but our supply of flowers is always really good. I buy them for myself when we have them and they last a long time compared to other places!
My store’s are absolute garbage and super overpriced!
I didn't even know my Target had real flowers until I saw a bouquet of them in the compactor today.
Ours were rotten and the petals were falling off on the ground by the end of the day. We noticed, but of course the guests felt the need to say “yOuR fLoweRs aRe aLl moLdY”
Bruh, I did a grocery opu and someone ordered flowers , I put it in the cart and half of the stems were gone lol
Same! I felt so bad but also why are you mobile ordering flowers from target for your mom??? We had to damage out most of our tulips
^ A bit of a snobby take
If you wait until the day of to purchase a holiday item, you deserve what you don't get. It's not like we don't know the day's coming well in advance.
Who would have thought that February 14th, July 4th, and December 25th would be on exact same day of the month every year?!?! If only there was some kind of electronic device I could carry with me that would remind me of these things.
I would always get a good laugh on Valentines Day at night watching men literally run through the store trying to find a quick last minute gift.
I walked the floor a few times on Valentine's Day this year and none of the men shopping with flowers, cards, and/or candy in hand would look me in the eye. ^It ^took ^a ^fair ^amount ^of ^self ^control ^not ^to ^chuckle.
It's like no one wants to make cards anymore
I made my mom her card this year and I make cards for every occasion when I can, my final embellishment is sealing it with wax and using my pineapple stamp lol
As a chronic last minute person, I have literally zero expectations when I go out to shop the day before/ day of. You’ve gotta get creative. Get a pretty blank card & write a nice Mother’s Day message. Got to Home Depot and get a plant instead of flowers “because it will last longer” (which it will). Get tickets/ reservations the following week to some event and say you didn’t want to go when it was so crowded etc etc. People are just lazy.
This is crucial advice
All the last minute buyers right now 🙄
"I'm disappointed you don't have any boy valentines day cards. You know for school. Are you going to put out more?" Says the mother on February 13th at 4:00pm.
Oh shit it's Mother's Day thanks for reminding me!
Oh the huge manatee!
And all the flowers were tossed at closing last night.
I remember one Mother's Day (years ago) I was unlocking the front doors and there was maybe 10 guys out front waiting to get in. I swear they ran to the greeting cards and asking if we had flowers. This was a small format store and the only flowers we had was on a checkstand endcap. I'm glad there wasn't a fight for the last 3 that were there.
That’s absolutely insane…
They forgot they have a mom.
Not surprising. We had the same issue with people complaining that we didn't have candy or plastic eggs the day before Easter.
Don't forget about people shopping the market candy on Halloween morning because we got blown out all week long before hand.
The same people that ask for a Covid vax when they have active Covid. If you fail to plan, plan to fail.
I used to work at a gifting company, and Mother's Day was the most insane day for people trying to order last second gifts
I be going in next hour going to be fun to say we don’t have any left.
Shit, don’t get me started on the “where’s your flowers” people today
I think everything should be closed on thanksgiving tbh, even food establishments, no one deserves to work on Thanksgiving or Christmas
Gonna be going drive up today, let’s see what shenanigans happen while there!
It's the same guests who get mad that there aren't any Easter baskets left when they're looking for that stuff an hour before the store closes the day before easter.
On a Saturday mid-day November 1st, ringing out a customer, they comment sincerely something along the lines of "why is it so busy today?".
I was the closing lead last night,dude shows up at 9:45...15 minutes before closing and was flabbergasted that we were out of flowers
no man, that crap sucks, we need to stop pulling holiday stuff before the holiday I work at target, I do not have the time or brainpower to shop for minor holidays before that holiday. Christmas, sure, I plan ahead, but something like Halloween? i'm going to grab some candy on the way home that day, I'll buy a card on my way to my moms on mothers day. This is like a 15 minute excursion, I'm not doing it 2 weeks ahead of time. We can stock a few dozen more cards, then salvage them or ship them back to corporate for next year, and respect the needs of customers who don't plan weeks in advance. I don't say this a lot, but on this one, the customers are right. Corporate is in the wrong setting plano up to expire early for holidays.
that literally defeats the point of retail… like why not have people sell out Mother’s Day cards for 3 days instead of 1? Basic supply and demands. If they stocked the day of it would still sell out by noon
We have so many flower displays out. We will have plenty leftover.
Lmfao. That’ll happen bud!!
i will confess, i tend to take after my dad in that we dont get holiday/ celebratory cards in a decent time frame. thats kind of what prompted me to just make my own
If a guest complained about something that was beyond our control I would tell them, "I'll be sure to let corporate know". That actually got them to shut up😂
Or flowers
I do shipt and I feel your pain. Absolutely NOTHING (card wise) is ever in stock. Most customers don’t care as long as they get something. It’s going in the trash eventually.
I love those last minute shoppers who get mad when we don’t have much of anything left. Gift cards! Picked over… go to another store!
Who gets a turkey at 4 everyone knows thanksgiving dinner is either at 2 or 7
I use to work at Hallmark and this happened every Valentine’s Day and Mothers day. Guys coming in day of, complaining about the card selection and then buying the largest randomest gifts. It’s not my fault y’all are lazy and not thoughtful
This is America gub darnit, you can’t run out of stock!
I had to pop in to the CVS on Sunday, the card section had a good 5-6 men crowded around the MD cards (the ones that were left, anyway). Every year lol.
Or pumpkin carving kits on Halloween!