Biggest Cashier Screw-Ups!

Within a two week span cashiers felt the need to sell me two fiftyfifty eclipses for the price of one and three cases of nugget nectar for the price of two. I don't feel remotely bad about it.

 

Why do people think that because their local store hooks'em up for being loyal, that the rest of us must somehow be deficient as customers because we don't get hook-ups too? These posts annoy the hell out of me. Like it's somehow within my control whether my local store wants to be cool and reward my loyalty. What, spending $50-100 a week there isn't good enough? If I was just a nicer, more loyal customer and dropped $200 a week, then I could start to benefit from the store manager's generosity? Damn me for being such a stingy, unthankful, disloyal asshole.

 

The OP just said he got them for $2.49 and no indication if they were scanned that way or the cashier rang them up manually. If scanned, it wasn't the cashier's screw-up but the person who programmed the system. How many cashiers have you seen who would know [or care] if something has scanned incorrectly. If it was rung up manually from a sticker on the bottle [old school style] then it's the screw-up of the person who marked the bottles. See my comment above about cashiers who know or care. So unless the cashier purposely rang them up for less or completely misread a price sticker, it's not a cashier screw-up and the cashier should not be held responsible. However, what goes around comes around.

 

As long as he's scanning them... I'd just figure "oh, there must be a deal on 120 Minute today! Clearance *wo wo*!" That's not the cashier's fault.

If he keys them in wrong though, I'm gonna tell the guy. Don't want him to lose his job.

But seriously, if he doesn't know that 120 Minute IPA should not be $2.49, he has no place in a store that sells craft beer anyways.

 

I did that when I saw bottles of Fruet for $20.99, I told him that I haven't seen it for under $35 in the area. He said "HOLY FUCK THAT'S WRONG" and asked me if I wanted a bottle for $20.99 anyway, I took him up on the offer. He directly went back and took the tags off the bottles.

 

In before someone assumes that anyone who would correct the cashier is also trying to say that they are better than everyone.

EDIT: Damn

 

But seriously, if he doesn't know that 120 Minute IPA should not be $2.49, he has no place in a store that sells craft beer anyways.[/quote]

So you want cashiers who are knowledgeable and who give a shit to work for minimum wage? And I guess they have to be completely fluent in English as well. Dream on.

 

Yeah, that's the type of result that I was sort of hinting at. Ideally, this is how it should work when pointing out a retail mistake. You definitely saved them much more than the ~$14 discount that they gave you in the end.

 

I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with you because you don't get a discount. I just learned from my mom, to always engage people in conversation, get to know the owners and managers of places you like and refer other people there. I know lots of store owners and bartenders that are very nice that don't give me beers on the house, but I know a couple that occasionally do also. I'm sure there are stores that give others the discount but not me too--I'm not bitter

 

Dammit, these threads are always so entertaining and this one went to shit.

Just for the sake of saving this thing, can we apply a blanket assumption that every poster on here told the manager and the store honored the wrong price? Pretty please. I love these threads.

 

I responded the way I did because the OP titled this thread "Biggest Cashier Screw-Ups!!!" Use of the word "cashier" is significant. The post did not get into any details of the nature of the screw up. It's not barcode screw-ups or scanner screw-ups or the little sticker fell off screw-ups. One would therefore conclude that it is the cashier who screwed up. Consequently it would be the cashier who pay for it. Subsequent posters carried on about barcodes and scanners without a whit of fact.

 

So your the guy who's busy trying to brown nose the cashier/owner while I'm waiting behind you to buy my beer.... Move on!

I kid, I kid.....

Now and again I'll chat someone up at the beer store, but I find that I'm asking for stuff, or info on things they have no damn clue about. No one gives free stuff to a know it all.

 

i find myself doing that too often. Especially asking if really low. Something aint right, beer karma comes back.

 

They sell 120 Minute at friggin Whole Foods and a couple other grocery stores out here. Do you really expect a cashier at a grocery store to know anything about beer? Their job is to scan things, bag them up, and collect your money. Any product knowledge is secondary.

 

I was at the bottle shop the other day and brought a mixed sixer up to the counter. The cashier rang them up just fine and I paid with no issue.
Now, keep in mind this is a bottle shop I frequent regularly. They have a great selection with most of their stock in a cooler, which I like because I've been burned before with beer that's been left at room temperature. IMHO all the beer should be in a cooler unless the shop has a proper cellar.

So back to the story - the clerk had rung up my mixed sixer, which IIRC was:
2 SN Hoptimums
1 Rochefort 10
1 Orval
2 Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye

Pretty good mixed six-pack if you ask me. I drank the Hop Rod Rye's already but I still have the rest in the fridge. Sometimes I get so much beer in there I forget what I have but this thread reminded me so thanks.

Anyhow, I'd already paid for the beer and was chatting with the clerk. He said his wife really liked hoppy beer and that surprised him. I guess that reminded him about how he bought her a bunch of hoppy beer for last year's anniversary and all of a sudden he remembers that yesterday was his anniversary and that's why his wife had been so pissed at him. He had totally forgotten. What a big screw-up!

 

"If they were rung up at $2.49, and he paid, $2.49, then there would be no shortage."

"Your post doesn't make sense. If the scanner read it as the wrong beer, how's that the cashier's fault, and how would that cause a shortage in his/her register?"

Yep. Both correct. No shortage if the cashier rang it up as priced. I didn't think it through, only read it as "I paid less than the beer was worth."

Mea culpa. Everyone on this thread---beer's on me!

 

How much should a bottle of DFH 120 cost? What size was the bottle?

In total dollars, how much of a "deal" did you get?

 

Haha I never do that if there are people waiting. I usually go to bars and stores at weeknights or early in the day, if my schedule allows. This way, I don't feel rushed nor have to wait in lines and can chat with people that want to talk about beer

 

If it's anything like WWS, it goes for around $8-12, depending on the store.

 

12oz....usually around $10 each.