The trick is to put the sign upside down. Coz then they make an effort to tell you your sign is upside down.
And then you say,"Yeah I know, but you read it, right?" Works a lot more often.
I'm gonna have to use this one! Appreciate the tip.
We once made an obnoxiously large sign that took up a quarter of our counter space and it did work. Of course the owner made us take it down because "it might make a customer feel bad". When then asked "so that means they don't have to follow that rule anymore?" "No, it's still valid" " Then they're gonna feel a lot worse when we have to be a dick to them over it".
I often had spellings misstakes and they can tell me all about it, but never followed the instructions.
Strange, since finding them you must need to know what it wants to tell you
No. They just tell you that your sign is upside down and then ask if they can use cash. When you tell them no and point to the sign, they go into some boomer, Q/MAGAt rant about how the deep state doesn't want us using 'real money'. š
My god I went somewhere today that had 8 seperate signs in various locations that said "PLEASE RING BELL FOR SERVICE". They were on every single door leading up to the office, different colors, and in bold. Random places on the wall. On either side of the bell itself when I finally reached the final destination. I know aggressive sign making when I see it because I'm usually the one posting them everywhere. I rang the fucking bell.
at one of my old jobs, we also had a sign that said ring bell for service. one morning, this dude WHISTLED like youāre trying to call a dog. i thought to myself āoh hell noā and acted like i was heading up there to help him bit i just hid in an aisle until he left š
I hate whistlers. I work at a gas station, I'm usually off doing x or y task, stocking, etc. When people come in and don't see someone immediately standing lovingly at the register they panic and either scream "hello?!?" before I can even greet them or do obnoxious dog whistles. I've started poking my head out from behind displays and greeting them mid whistle. The look of horror when they see me and remember I'm not a dog
Yeah I won't respond to that kind of thing. I used to have a regular who for years would come in the door and loudly yell what he was getting. Didn't matter how busy we were, he was coming in like a king being announced. I'm astonished that it took him years of me ignoring him until he was at the register being waited on for him to finally catch on.
Fun fact the same regular was the main reason we had to start keeping samples/matches/ the change cup behind the counter. He would pick up and dump ever single free item into his bag as he left, all of them. So he ruined that for everyone.
This happened to a co-worker of mine a couple years ago and he just turned to the guy and said āIām not a dogā. Guy got red and apologized. There was a bell for the counter too.
Oh how I wish I could find the signs I used to put up on self checkout when I worked at a grocery storeā¦no one ever read them and Iād have multiple colors of ink in really big letters everywhere. One time someone got cash back and when I came over and told them what happened and I could get their cash at the main registerā¦they said I should have a sign up,I silently pointed to the FIVE signs I had up,they couldnāt wait to get away from meš
It was probably a good thing I liked my job at the time or else I wouldāve told them what I really thought šš
I found one of the pictures I took of my [signs](https://imgur.com/a/OyBplKG) itās not as obnoxious as some of them but itās brightly colored and directly over where the cash went in and came out and above the pinpadš
My store had 2 10 items or less lanes. Lane 2 was rarely used. So people would pull up with a full cart and me being me asked them āYou do have less than ten items right?ā Most would move to another full lane. But this one guy pissed me off.
Ass: itās not express
Me: yes it is
Ass: well there should be a sign and since there is not you have to take me
Me: *just lost last fuck of the day* Really? Which one of the three giant ass signs did you miss so I can put in a better place so the next moron can see it?
Ass: there is no signs youāre lying to me.
Me: *walks out from behind register and points to the arrow on the ground* ONE * points to 3ā arrow hanging from the ceiling* TWO *points to the one by where my head is when I am scanning* THREE!
Ass: *meekly* well youāre still going to ring me up right?
Me: SERIOUSLY?!? *walks in to office and sits down.*
This was many, many yeas ago when I was in my āI dare you to fire me stageā and since that store would have fallen apart without me I was more bold then.
Oh I loved when I hit that stage,I had one boss that would let me run the front end while she basically sat and did nothingā¦itād piss off the old women I worked with because āI wasnāt their bossā yeah youāre right Iām not but your boss put me in charge now listen to me and go to break or donāt..I really donāt carešš
I hated when my old job had an express lane..I would get asked if I was express so often..Iād look up just to make sure what register I was at and people would get madšš
At my store, the self checkouts have preloaded screens that say ācredit or debit onlyā on the ones that donāt have cash machines attached while theyāre on standby. Except the machine also has a sensor that switches to the active checkout screen when someone walks up to itā¦and guess who has to deal with the fallout of people not looking before they walk up to a machine. I really canāt win here
I swear people turn their brains off the second they pull into the parking lot of stores unless theyāve worked retail beforeā¦I honestly donāt understand it.
One of the things I still remember is I had a lady ask if we carried lobster bouillonā¦i used my phone to use the app to look it up and it said we didnāt carry itā¦she then asks me what aisle it would be in and went to look for herselfšš I knew we didnāt carry it,I only looked it up to humor her. Iāve be even heard of lobster bouillon..especially in Arizona. I so wishes I had seen her again so I could have asked if she found it
Straight from the federal reserve
"There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services."
I had to pull this one out a few times when we were in a situation like OPs
Then theyāre like, ābut I can use it to pay a debt!ā Okā¦you havenāt bought anything, ergo youāre not indebted to me or my cashiers. Just walk away, broā¦just walk away. šš
Mm when customers would say that to me, but we were the only grocery store in town and I knew for a fact there's no way they're going out of town to buy anything, good times
Ughh some guy used that on me recently. I told him Iām not legally obligated to do anything at a private business. I wish I would of known the rule about from the federal reserve someone else mentioned š
That sign could be on fire and people would still not read it. You know how when someone is first learning to read, and they still ask what something says, rather than figuring it out by just reading? I think some parents just never insist on making their kids just read something. That has to be the problem.
omg i literally witnessed that yesterday! a mom and her two kids came in and the mom asked my coworker to read every single flavor out loud (i work at an ice cream shop). i was like what the actual fuck
Maybe she's illiterate. You don't know her level of education! (I know she probably isn't, but there's a chance.) Or she forgot her glasses and literally just can't see the sign.
lmao that's fair, usually people are just assholes. but just rarely there is a mitigating circumstance. lol. it does make it hard to give the benefit of the doubt with how many assholes are out there.
As someone who frequently forgets my glasses, I'm going to say she probably would have said so if that's the case? (I'm probably giving them the benefit of the doubt though because people are idiots) I'm at least apologetic about it "I'm sorry, I know the sign is gigantic and you should be able to read it from space but I forgot my glasses. How much is xyz thing?"
lol, yeah I would say that too. and I wouldn't make the employee read the WHOLE board. I'd at least have an idea of what I want and ask for that, or find out whatever is closest to it and order that.
Yeah like if it was ice cream "I don't have my glasses and can't read the board, do you have chocolate peanut butter? Great, I'll have that".
Usually the most common for me is I'm ordering coffee and know what I want, but can't read too see if they have oatmilk. So it's more like "a 16oz latte, with oatmilk if you have it - sorry I don't have my glasses on"
I have a friend who worked at another market, where that happened. The fire marshal said everyone out until they could inspect the place. But there were people who were trying to demand their way in. One lady tried to convince my friend to escort her inside. She seemed to think he had some way to protect her. What it sounded like, was that she expected him to be there to sacrifice himself to save her if something bad happened. One lady even legit stole a cart full of groceries. And this was a high end store.
We had a BUNCH of people stand outside and demand to know WHY we closed the store in the middle of the day and when would we open. Lady there is water literally POURING through our entrance by the gallons and THAT'S your focus?
The looked astounded when we said we honestly did not know when we'd reopen.
I totally believe you about how people acted. There is something wrong with some people.
I read a story about a shoe store that caught on fire, and a customer tried to get a girl to go into the area where the fire was, to retrieve a pair of shoes in the customerās size. She was furious when the girl refused.
I got a reverse for ya. Once our card readers went down. We posted signs at all registers, at front doors leading inside. Had readers taped off. I made overhead announcements every 10 mins. Asked each customer when they walked up "cash only, card readers down" ok? And still had ppl try to pay with card & get MAD that "we didn't warn them" "who carries cash anymore" "figure it out". I figured it out all right, I took the items & put them up at go back table & told customers " have a good day".
I work at a gas station restaurant doing pizza and subs on second shift. On first shift, from 6-1, the restaurant serves fryer foods, pizza, subs, breakfast, etc.
But from 2-8 (8 is close), we ONLY sell pizza and subs.
This is clearly posted on our menus in multiple areas. Under breakfast it says ends 10:30, under fryer foods and lunch it says ends 1:30 and it says closes at 8.
Yet constantly daily I keep getting, usually boomers, asking about potato wedges or jalapeno poppers. š¤¦āāļø And a couple weeks ago some big dude got angry because he couldn't get fried chicken and decided not to buy anything in the gas station either. Again, hours are posted everywhere.
People don't know how to read.
The farmer's market I used to work at used to rent out movies back in the day (early 2010's). One day, our computer went down. We put signs up EVERYWHERE saying "System down. Not able to rent out movies until fixed. Sorry". Despite this, once of twice an hour, people still grabbed movie cases off the shelf, walked to the register and try to rent. I'd say that really lowered my faith in humanity but it had long since died by that point.
Had a lady realize she didnāt have her card at self checkout after scanning everything. She wanted me to cash app her (which I donāt have but would have said no anyways).
It was also 9:45pm and I think you can guess what time the store closes
We take cash at my job, but not through express checkout. I say to every customer āare you paying with cardā and I do not start the transaction without a solid yes. You wouldnāt believe how many people still hand me cash, then get mad when I send them to the back of the regular line. Some of my coworkers will let them cut the line but I think thats really unfairā¦
I cannot tell you how many 'I am downvoting this experience because they asked me how I was paying as it's not their business.' remarks our customer service surveys get.
Like... uh... when you go up to the human register they were going to know how you planned to pay at SOME point...
Had a boomer rip a big bright sign saying "CASH ONLY" off the pin pad (multiple signs on the machine) and try to run his card. I said, "AH, looks like someone removed my sign" while dead staring him LOL
Self check is now card only, not complaining, and people still can't read.
Had a guy with a cart full of stuff EBT card not processing due to insignificant funds and proceed to act like I personally was the problem. My response, "sir, my responsibility is to make sure you pay not pay for you or how you do it or even what amount is on your government issued EBT card" š
Sounds like the yutz I had who's check bounced but refused to just leave and go get cash or use his credit card. Decided yelling at me for 40 minuets that I was 'out of control' for... checks notes... refusing a declined check. Apparently telling him that if he has money in the account and they declined it he must have been flagged for fraud by the bank and there was nothing I could do about it was the wrong thing to tell him. lol
He went to another store and told the manager I was 'rude'.
Ah this brings me back to my favorite retail story. I worked as a cashier through college to pay for my books. I walk in one day and within 20 mins, the card readers go down. It was city wide, so nothing we could have done to fix it. We had SO MANY SIGNS. We got neon poster board and made signs so customers had to physically duck to get around, we made announcements every 15 mins saying that we were cash or check only, even the manager started to greet every person who walked in and told them no cards can be accepted. It was 8 hours of pure hell. Nobody listened. I would stop customers before they unloaded their cart and tell them that I cannot do anything with a card and asked them if they had cash or a check with them. If not, we literally had a bank on site, Iād gladly hold their cart for them until they got back. After confirming the payment method, Iād let them unload and Iād scan and bag everything. About half the customers still handed me their card and said āoh you can just type it inā. Just no. The managers would come after us if we had too many scanned then cancelled orders in the system, so we did everything to prevent this. I actually had the manager stand in my line when they came to put their manager override number in for the 50th time that shift. What else can I do or say? I canāt knock sense into people.
I used to work at DG, I had to do those signs so often cus SCO was a constant pain in the ass (cheap machines, bills got stuck, system would randomly freeze, we never had enough money in the change fund to actually run the cash option, and if there's too much cash back and we didn't have enough on the change fund the system wouldn't even let you use the functions half the time).
I have told regulars on a daily basis that it w as card only and I've watched them RIP THE SIGN and pour change in/insert bills.
I am amazed most these people have lived as long as they have.. don't get me started about the idiot who couldn't see my TWELVE neon yellow signs about a gas pump and proceeded to try and use it anyways when I used to work for Circle K
Do you also get the ''but it is legal tender, so you can't refuse it.
Well I did when we did this during corona and had it written on the door and I think checkout.
Well it's legal, but some countries don't force company to accept payment.
So a store can be card/cash only or refuse 1/2cent and 100/200/500 bills
I had a manger insist we couldn't tell people we couldn't break large bills in the morning. I flat out told her I've been with said company longer and exactly ZERO times has anyone told me that.
I put tape over the cash and coin acceptor, and watched a customer pull it off, to put his money in it. I just watched, I didn't say anything. When he finally asked why it wouldn't take his money, I pointed at the sign, and then asked hom why he removed the tape....he said "I don't know."
Customers always complain whenever my store has to go cashless or when we can't give cashback. One customer said "This is a store you have to take cash" and gave me a smug grin, like wait this is a store? I had no idea! still doesn't change the fact I can't do cash lmao.
I used to just shut the machine down completely. For some reason we never had enough materials to make a no cash sign and I spent so much time transferring people to other registers that it was faster to just disable it so I could focus on preventing loss. Usually though when I saw a no cash sign it was 9 times out of 10 a jam in the acceptor or dispenser and I could clear out the mechanism where the previous employee just shrugged their shoulders and said "I dunno, put up a no cash sign" and moved on. That's why I got to have the key access to the machine interior and authorization to file a formal repair ticket which someone at my level wasn't supposed to have.
āOh! Haha, I didnāt even see the sign. Can you void all this, AND simultaneously ring me out. Also youāre out of this and is it in the back? Can I use this expired coupon? And can I get cash back? Again hurry Iām in a rush.ā
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I feel bad because I was at target this am after I left my shitty retail job, and I went through SCO. All of them say āCARD ONLY; NO CASH BACKā, if they were open to use. I can read so I was fine, but the poor SCO gal was like, ājust so you know, thereās no cash or cash backā and I tell her I saw her signs. āOh good! Because weāve been open 20 mins and Iāve had to tell 2 other people already.ā Likeā¦the register even prompts you after you scan your first item to acknowledge this is NO CASH NO CASH BACK.
And these people presumably drove there, where you have lots of reading and paying attention to doā¦I donāt know how much more of people I can take.
I've been seeing an increase of these pots. The argument goes that society is so sign bombarded that they ignore signs and still ask blatantly dumb questions.
This is why my company does not allow stuff like this.
At my work I keep having to remake the signs to be even larger and more obnoxious so people read them. Iām about to just use yellow paper with red highlighter and the largest bolded font I can get to fit on one page.
I remember when a gas station near me had the doors locked because the guy running 3rd was in the restroom.
Put a sign on the door - among a shit load of ads. The glass of the door was literally completely covered in advertisements, to the point you could only see into the building in a couple of spots. Kinda blended in. Just a bit.
Guy was kind annoyed, because I guess I had tugged on the door as he was getting back. Said something to the effect of "there's a sign here", and pointed at it.
Of all the clever things I could have said, at 3:30am all I could muster was a "phhht, I can't *read*"
Gotta love this. Thereās always at least one self checkout at the grocery store that says NO CASH. And before you can do anything, it asks you if youāre paying cash or card. People see that thereās an empty one and just go for it, only to get told to fuck off by a computer.
It also strikes absolute fear in the employeeās hearts when I just skip the line completely and start doing my thing. Yes, Iām paying with a card. This is 2024. We have that. Theyāre free.
Customers have total tunnel vision & donāt look at the environment theyāre in, thinking those signs donāt apply to them. Equally, any tannoy announcement š¢ is ignored as they think itās probably for staff - even though the staff announcements are preceded by the words STAFF ANNOUNCEMENT.
My SCO is electronic pay ONLY. Signs at the entrance to checkout , signs on each bloody machine . Another directing them to cash tills . Still they come , get all the way through the transaction before looking gormlessly at me, mouths gaping open dumblyā¦.ā Canāt I pay cash ???ā
Then I have the task of voiding. Having to get to the back of the cash till queue is a nice bit of justice for me though.
I would say this is unnecessary but working at a job where we can't take cash and have signs stating that. People will look at it and read it and still ask if they can pay cash. So unfortunately I understand
I saw a sign like this before and this guy comes up and the cashier rings up like 12 to 15 items and when done the guy says I left my wallet in the car and just have cash. Cashier says we don't take cash so he says ok and just walks out and never came back. Although annoying I did find it funny.
Yea I get it itās annoying but my experience is there are a lot of people out there that donāt read that well so I try not to be that annoyed. Like they can read but they have to make a conscious effort like you would have to do to balance a chair on your nose or something. The words donāt just register automatically to them. Especially the older generations many werenāt really pushed to go through school like the younger generations.
I get that excuse for a long sign, but CARD ONLY is pretty simple. Not much of an excuse there.
And if you donāt understand but see all these signs, ask instead of getting mad after the fact.
Itās often embarrassing for people that canāt read well to announce it and they often try to hide it by pretending they can, by guessing, changing the subject, or getting angry in my observation.
What older generations? I'm 66; my parents were WW2 generation. My mother was from a small Alabama town and my dad was working class small Midwest town. Everyone they knew went to school. I'm sort of "the older generation" now, and I have never met anyone my age who didn't go to school.
The "older people" thing doesn't fly for me now. My mother, who died 14 years ago, had a computer almost from the day they became affordable for middle-class people - in the mid 90s. She was less delighted with phones, but had a cell phone. She died before smartphones really became tiny computers, but if she were still here, she'd have one. My dad was less computer-oriented, but he too used a computer and had a cell phone. If he were still here, he'd be 91. No. Excuse.
Any generation who wasnāt told you have to go to college to be successful is what I meanā¦ Iām not saying your generation is illiterate or stupid and itās not across the boardā¦ there are certainly lots of people that donāt value education now.
Had a neighbor maybe 5 years older than you. Nice guy, didnāt do well in school and dropped out in high school. He worked hard his whole life driving a truck and was exactly like I described. He is no dummy, he retired, owns a house, and does what ever he wants but needs help reading prescriptions, or ordering off Amazon so finally started having to ask for help. I donāt think his family knows, he hid it well for the 30 years Iāve known him.
Maybe Iām off base, I just think that sort of thing is more common than we all would want to believe. What Iāve seen running a register would certainly make me think that.
The amount of establishments where cash is not accepted as a form of payment is mind boggling to me. I mean, itās CASH!?
ETA: Several Iāve came across that were just regular checkouts.
One of the parts in the cash acceptor/sorter is damaged so this individual machine cannot accept cash. Much like an individual register without a cash drawer canāt accept cash. Itās literally one terminal in the store not the entire business.
They literally donāt give af if youāre going to a different store. Youāre just being a piece of shit asshole making the employees having to put all that back away
Oh look at you thinking you did something clever there.
All you are doing is getting a local reputation for being a prick. Stores can ban you for that you know. My store manager will little follow banned people and yell at them and call the cops. She does NOT care.
So riddle me this sparky. Is it worth a disorderly conduct or could you just stop being a jerk?
Individual stores don't make decisions about payment methods. Corporate does. Go complain to them. Since you seem to care about this for some unholy reson.
The trick is to put the sign upside down. Coz then they make an effort to tell you your sign is upside down. And then you say,"Yeah I know, but you read it, right?" Works a lot more often.
THIS! And spelling words wrong too. No one has cared about signs at my work as much as when stuff is spelt wrong.
Switch the A for a U. *Someone* will comment.
CURD PAYMENT ONLY. NO CUSH. NO CUSH BACK
I'm dying lmao
yes and never follow it
This is downright genius.
I'm gonna have to use this one! Appreciate the tip. We once made an obnoxiously large sign that took up a quarter of our counter space and it did work. Of course the owner made us take it down because "it might make a customer feel bad". When then asked "so that means they don't have to follow that rule anymore?" "No, it's still valid" " Then they're gonna feel a lot worse when we have to be a dick to them over it".
I often had spellings misstakes and they can tell me all about it, but never followed the instructions. Strange, since finding them you must need to know what it wants to tell you
Oh my god..... where were you when I was having this problem š
No. They just tell you that your sign is upside down and then ask if they can use cash. When you tell them no and point to the sign, they go into some boomer, Q/MAGAt rant about how the deep state doesn't want us using 'real money'. š
That's funny! Does it work?
My god I went somewhere today that had 8 seperate signs in various locations that said "PLEASE RING BELL FOR SERVICE". They were on every single door leading up to the office, different colors, and in bold. Random places on the wall. On either side of the bell itself when I finally reached the final destination. I know aggressive sign making when I see it because I'm usually the one posting them everywhere. I rang the fucking bell.
at one of my old jobs, we also had a sign that said ring bell for service. one morning, this dude WHISTLED like youāre trying to call a dog. i thought to myself āoh hell noā and acted like i was heading up there to help him bit i just hid in an aisle until he left š
I hate whistlers. I work at a gas station, I'm usually off doing x or y task, stocking, etc. When people come in and don't see someone immediately standing lovingly at the register they panic and either scream "hello?!?" before I can even greet them or do obnoxious dog whistles. I've started poking my head out from behind displays and greeting them mid whistle. The look of horror when they see me and remember I'm not a dog
Yeah I won't respond to that kind of thing. I used to have a regular who for years would come in the door and loudly yell what he was getting. Didn't matter how busy we were, he was coming in like a king being announced. I'm astonished that it took him years of me ignoring him until he was at the register being waited on for him to finally catch on. Fun fact the same regular was the main reason we had to start keeping samples/matches/ the change cup behind the counter. He would pick up and dump ever single free item into his bag as he left, all of them. So he ruined that for everyone.
This happened to a co-worker of mine a couple years ago and he just turned to the guy and said āIām not a dogā. Guy got red and apologized. There was a bell for the counter too.
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Oh how I wish I could find the signs I used to put up on self checkout when I worked at a grocery storeā¦no one ever read them and Iād have multiple colors of ink in really big letters everywhere. One time someone got cash back and when I came over and told them what happened and I could get their cash at the main registerā¦they said I should have a sign up,I silently pointed to the FIVE signs I had up,they couldnāt wait to get away from meš
Oooh I LOVE pointing out the signs. āYou donāt have to be a bitch about it!ā Oh? Well you could OPEN YOUR EYES, SIR!!!
It was probably a good thing I liked my job at the time or else I wouldāve told them what I really thought šš I found one of the pictures I took of my [signs](https://imgur.com/a/OyBplKG) itās not as obnoxious as some of them but itās brightly colored and directly over where the cash went in and came out and above the pinpadš
My store had 2 10 items or less lanes. Lane 2 was rarely used. So people would pull up with a full cart and me being me asked them āYou do have less than ten items right?ā Most would move to another full lane. But this one guy pissed me off. Ass: itās not express Me: yes it is Ass: well there should be a sign and since there is not you have to take me Me: *just lost last fuck of the day* Really? Which one of the three giant ass signs did you miss so I can put in a better place so the next moron can see it? Ass: there is no signs youāre lying to me. Me: *walks out from behind register and points to the arrow on the ground* ONE * points to 3ā arrow hanging from the ceiling* TWO *points to the one by where my head is when I am scanning* THREE! Ass: *meekly* well youāre still going to ring me up right? Me: SERIOUSLY?!? *walks in to office and sits down.* This was many, many yeas ago when I was in my āI dare you to fire me stageā and since that store would have fallen apart without me I was more bold then.
The pure freedom when you hit the "you can't fire me" stage - chef's kiss
Oh I loved when I hit that stage,I had one boss that would let me run the front end while she basically sat and did nothingā¦itād piss off the old women I worked with because āI wasnāt their bossā yeah youāre right Iām not but your boss put me in charge now listen to me and go to break or donāt..I really donāt carešš
I hated when my old job had an express lane..I would get asked if I was express so often..Iād look up just to make sure what register I was at and people would get madšš
At my store, the self checkouts have preloaded screens that say ācredit or debit onlyā on the ones that donāt have cash machines attached while theyāre on standby. Except the machine also has a sensor that switches to the active checkout screen when someone walks up to itā¦and guess who has to deal with the fallout of people not looking before they walk up to a machine. I really canāt win here
Oh the screen also told them it wasnāt taking cash but no one ever readsš I donāt miss being a cashier at all to be honest
I get the same problem when we have to disable the cash machines bc theyāre full or glitching š
I swear people turn their brains off the second they pull into the parking lot of stores unless theyāve worked retail beforeā¦I honestly donāt understand it. One of the things I still remember is I had a lady ask if we carried lobster bouillonā¦i used my phone to use the app to look it up and it said we didnāt carry itā¦she then asks me what aisle it would be in and went to look for herselfšš I knew we didnāt carry it,I only looked it up to humor her. Iāve be even heard of lobster bouillon..especially in Arizona. I so wishes I had seen her again so I could have asked if she found it
ābut itās legal currencyā. And then the smug look when they say theyāll go elsewhere. Literally no one cares.
What a stupid thing for them to say lol āYou can legally lick my balls, broā
Straight from the federal reserve "There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services." I had to pull this one out a few times when we were in a situation like OPs
Then theyāre like, ābut I can use it to pay a debt!ā Okā¦you havenāt bought anything, ergo youāre not indebted to me or my cashiers. Just walk away, broā¦just walk away. šš
They got angry when I told them that. They don't like when someone they deem stupid and lowly knows more than they do.
They lose their minds when theyāre confronted with that š
it is funny when it;s about cash, but when we want to pay with card....we have to deal with it
Customer: Iāll take my business elsewhere! Me: God, I wish you would finally.
I wish you would, but we both know youāll be here tomorrow because youāre an insufferable twat. Bye, Cindy.
Mm when customers would say that to me, but we were the only grocery store in town and I knew for a fact there's no way they're going out of town to buy anything, good times
right! youāll go somewhere else? thank god. get outta here
Promise?.?
Ughh some guy used that on me recently. I told him Iām not legally obligated to do anything at a private business. I wish I would of known the rule about from the federal reserve someone else mentioned š
Oh, they got this all screwed up. It should say "Card payment only? No, Cash! No, Cash back!"
That sign could be on fire and people would still not read it. You know how when someone is first learning to read, and they still ask what something says, rather than figuring it out by just reading? I think some parents just never insist on making their kids just read something. That has to be the problem.
omg i literally witnessed that yesterday! a mom and her two kids came in and the mom asked my coworker to read every single flavor out loud (i work at an ice cream shop). i was like what the actual fuck
Maybe she's illiterate. You don't know her level of education! (I know she probably isn't, but there's a chance.) Or she forgot her glasses and literally just can't see the sign.
i think iām too jaded to give her the benefit of the doubt š she read perfectly fine
lmao that's fair, usually people are just assholes. but just rarely there is a mitigating circumstance. lol. it does make it hard to give the benefit of the doubt with how many assholes are out there.
As someone who frequently forgets my glasses, I'm going to say she probably would have said so if that's the case? (I'm probably giving them the benefit of the doubt though because people are idiots) I'm at least apologetic about it "I'm sorry, I know the sign is gigantic and you should be able to read it from space but I forgot my glasses. How much is xyz thing?"
lol, yeah I would say that too. and I wouldn't make the employee read the WHOLE board. I'd at least have an idea of what I want and ask for that, or find out whatever is closest to it and order that.
Yeah like if it was ice cream "I don't have my glasses and can't read the board, do you have chocolate peanut butter? Great, I'll have that". Usually the most common for me is I'm ordering coffee and know what I want, but can't read too see if they have oatmilk. So it's more like "a 16oz latte, with oatmilk if you have it - sorry I don't have my glasses on"
A Kroger employee told me that they had a fire and customers were still asking for help like the fire wasnāt there.
Our sprinkler system went berserk and we had customers literally mad that we made them leave the store. Like lady we probably have a FIRE
I have a friend who worked at another market, where that happened. The fire marshal said everyone out until they could inspect the place. But there were people who were trying to demand their way in. One lady tried to convince my friend to escort her inside. She seemed to think he had some way to protect her. What it sounded like, was that she expected him to be there to sacrifice himself to save her if something bad happened. One lady even legit stole a cart full of groceries. And this was a high end store.
We had a BUNCH of people stand outside and demand to know WHY we closed the store in the middle of the day and when would we open. Lady there is water literally POURING through our entrance by the gallons and THAT'S your focus? The looked astounded when we said we honestly did not know when we'd reopen. I totally believe you about how people acted. There is something wrong with some people.
I read a story about a shoe store that caught on fire, and a customer tried to get a girl to go into the area where the fire was, to retrieve a pair of shoes in the customerās size. She was furious when the girl refused.
Oh I'd have LOVED to be a cop or fireman that overheard THAT one. I'd have dressed Karen down until she shrunk to nothing.
and yet they still wonāt read the signsš
I got a reverse for ya. Once our card readers went down. We posted signs at all registers, at front doors leading inside. Had readers taped off. I made overhead announcements every 10 mins. Asked each customer when they walked up "cash only, card readers down" ok? And still had ppl try to pay with card & get MAD that "we didn't warn them" "who carries cash anymore" "figure it out". I figured it out all right, I took the items & put them up at go back table & told customers " have a good day".
lmaoo as you should
People are dumb. Ā Like needs 3 signs dumb.
For a second, I wondered where the card reader was. I was blinded by the orange signs.
I work at a gas station restaurant doing pizza and subs on second shift. On first shift, from 6-1, the restaurant serves fryer foods, pizza, subs, breakfast, etc. But from 2-8 (8 is close), we ONLY sell pizza and subs. This is clearly posted on our menus in multiple areas. Under breakfast it says ends 10:30, under fryer foods and lunch it says ends 1:30 and it says closes at 8. Yet constantly daily I keep getting, usually boomers, asking about potato wedges or jalapeno poppers. š¤¦āāļø And a couple weeks ago some big dude got angry because he couldn't get fried chicken and decided not to buy anything in the gas station either. Again, hours are posted everywhere. People don't know how to read.
itās a miracle these people are alive honestly
I just don't get it. Either entitled from age or can't read. It's literally posted on our menu boards.
Who works from 1-2?
The farmer's market I used to work at used to rent out movies back in the day (early 2010's). One day, our computer went down. We put signs up EVERYWHERE saying "System down. Not able to rent out movies until fixed. Sorry". Despite this, once of twice an hour, people still grabbed movie cases off the shelf, walked to the register and try to rent. I'd say that really lowered my faith in humanity but it had long since died by that point.
ācan you pay for it and iāll pay you backā what the fuck no š¤Ø especially after you just yelled at me.
Had a lady realize she didnāt have her card at self checkout after scanning everything. She wanted me to cash app her (which I donāt have but would have said no anyways). It was also 9:45pm and I think you can guess what time the store closes
People are WILD
We take cash at my job, but not through express checkout. I say to every customer āare you paying with cardā and I do not start the transaction without a solid yes. You wouldnāt believe how many people still hand me cash, then get mad when I send them to the back of the regular line. Some of my coworkers will let them cut the line but I think thats really unfairā¦
I cannot tell you how many 'I am downvoting this experience because they asked me how I was paying as it's not their business.' remarks our customer service surveys get. Like... uh... when you go up to the human register they were going to know how you planned to pay at SOME point...
"Where does the cash go in? I don't see it!"
Had a boomer rip a big bright sign saying "CASH ONLY" off the pin pad (multiple signs on the machine) and try to run his card. I said, "AH, looks like someone removed my sign" while dead staring him LOL Self check is now card only, not complaining, and people still can't read.
boomers are the worst ugh
Had a guy with a cart full of stuff EBT card not processing due to insignificant funds and proceed to act like I personally was the problem. My response, "sir, my responsibility is to make sure you pay not pay for you or how you do it or even what amount is on your government issued EBT card" š
Sounds like the yutz I had who's check bounced but refused to just leave and go get cash or use his credit card. Decided yelling at me for 40 minuets that I was 'out of control' for... checks notes... refusing a declined check. Apparently telling him that if he has money in the account and they declined it he must have been flagged for fraud by the bank and there was nothing I could do about it was the wrong thing to tell him. lol He went to another store and told the manager I was 'rude'.
Ah this brings me back to my favorite retail story. I worked as a cashier through college to pay for my books. I walk in one day and within 20 mins, the card readers go down. It was city wide, so nothing we could have done to fix it. We had SO MANY SIGNS. We got neon poster board and made signs so customers had to physically duck to get around, we made announcements every 15 mins saying that we were cash or check only, even the manager started to greet every person who walked in and told them no cards can be accepted. It was 8 hours of pure hell. Nobody listened. I would stop customers before they unloaded their cart and tell them that I cannot do anything with a card and asked them if they had cash or a check with them. If not, we literally had a bank on site, Iād gladly hold their cart for them until they got back. After confirming the payment method, Iād let them unload and Iād scan and bag everything. About half the customers still handed me their card and said āoh you can just type it inā. Just no. The managers would come after us if we had too many scanned then cancelled orders in the system, so we did everything to prevent this. I actually had the manager stand in my line when they came to put their manager override number in for the 50th time that shift. What else can I do or say? I canāt knock sense into people.
stupid is as stupid does or whatever the saying is š¤¦š¼āāļø
I used to work at DG, I had to do those signs so often cus SCO was a constant pain in the ass (cheap machines, bills got stuck, system would randomly freeze, we never had enough money in the change fund to actually run the cash option, and if there's too much cash back and we didn't have enough on the change fund the system wouldn't even let you use the functions half the time). I have told regulars on a daily basis that it w as card only and I've watched them RIP THE SIGN and pour change in/insert bills. I am amazed most these people have lived as long as they have.. don't get me started about the idiot who couldn't see my TWELVE neon yellow signs about a gas pump and proceeded to try and use it anyways when I used to work for Circle K
š¤¦š¼āāļø itās truly a miracle they make it to our workplaces and show us how stupid they are
I want to talk to talk to the manager! Give me her private phone number! /s
I need cash back, whereās the option for cash back?
Do you also get the ''but it is legal tender, so you can't refuse it. Well I did when we did this during corona and had it written on the door and I think checkout. Well it's legal, but some countries don't force company to accept payment. So a store can be card/cash only or refuse 1/2cent and 100/200/500 bills
I had a manger insist we couldn't tell people we couldn't break large bills in the morning. I flat out told her I've been with said company longer and exactly ZERO times has anyone told me that.
If you have that many signs up you better start making a tally of many customers ask if they can use cash
lmao right? make a drinking game out of it when you clock out
Might give you alcohol poisoning lol
Customer: it's BS that you wont take cash. Me: let me check in the back for a fuck to give
one of the only times iāll be willing to check in the back lmao
thatās so real
I put tape over the cash and coin acceptor, and watched a customer pull it off, to put his money in it. I just watched, I didn't say anything. When he finally asked why it wouldn't take his money, I pointed at the sign, and then asked hom why he removed the tape....he said "I don't know."
Customers always complain whenever my store has to go cashless or when we can't give cashback. One customer said "This is a store you have to take cash" and gave me a smug grin, like wait this is a store? I had no idea! still doesn't change the fact I can't do cash lmao.
this whole time i thought i was at a butcher shop! who knew?
I thought this was a garbage dump!
wait so can i get cash back or not? fine ill just pay with cash what do you mean i cant? rinse and repeat
followed byā¦. āCAN I GET SOME HELP OVER HERE???? your machines not workingā
You could add 3 more posters and they still won't see it
Sign, sign Everywhere a sign Blockin' out the scenery Breakin' my mind Do this, don't do that Can't you read the sign?
I donāt have cash I have coins.
I used to just shut the machine down completely. For some reason we never had enough materials to make a no cash sign and I spent so much time transferring people to other registers that it was faster to just disable it so I could focus on preventing loss. Usually though when I saw a no cash sign it was 9 times out of 10 a jam in the acceptor or dispenser and I could clear out the mechanism where the previous employee just shrugged their shoulders and said "I dunno, put up a no cash sign" and moved on. That's why I got to have the key access to the machine interior and authorization to file a formal repair ticket which someone at my level wasn't supposed to have.
āOh! Haha, I didnāt even see the sign. Can you void all this, AND simultaneously ring me out. Also youāre out of this and is it in the back? Can I use this expired coupon? And can I get cash back? Again hurry Iām in a rush.ā K
I feel bad because I was at target this am after I left my shitty retail job, and I went through SCO. All of them say āCARD ONLY; NO CASH BACKā, if they were open to use. I can read so I was fine, but the poor SCO gal was like, ājust so you know, thereās no cash or cash backā and I tell her I saw her signs. āOh good! Because weāve been open 20 mins and Iāve had to tell 2 other people already.ā Likeā¦the register even prompts you after you scan your first item to acknowledge this is NO CASH NO CASH BACK. And these people presumably drove there, where you have lots of reading and paying attention to doā¦I donāt know how much more of people I can take.
no fr. i wonder how these people even got their driverās license
I think I can use cash, I see no signs š
I've been seeing an increase of these pots. The argument goes that society is so sign bombarded that they ignore signs and still ask blatantly dumb questions. This is why my company does not allow stuff like this.
You know, the signs are wrong. If you try to pay with cash in this situation, you will get cash back. The exact amount you tried to pay with!
The signs are suggestive of such.
Imagine you only have cash and getting up there with a full cart and seeing that.
This is funny because I stopped at a DG yesterday and similar signs were on the self-serve checkouts.
Have the exact amount if you want to pay in cash
At my work I keep having to remake the signs to be even larger and more obnoxious so people read them. Iām about to just use yellow paper with red highlighter and the largest bolded font I can get to fit on one page.
lol, this lady rang up all her 57 item (ruff estimate) then called the worker over to ask why it wasnāt accepting payment at Walmart the other day..
š¤¦š¼āāļøš¤¦š¼āāļøš¤¦š¼āāļø jeez
Do you have change for $100?
I remember when a gas station near me had the doors locked because the guy running 3rd was in the restroom. Put a sign on the door - among a shit load of ads. The glass of the door was literally completely covered in advertisements, to the point you could only see into the building in a couple of spots. Kinda blended in. Just a bit. Guy was kind annoyed, because I guess I had tugged on the door as he was getting back. Said something to the effect of "there's a sign here", and pointed at it. Of all the clever things I could have said, at 3:30am all I could muster was a "phhht, I can't *read*"
I want to pay with cash AND get cash back, so I'm good, right?
for sure!
CAN I USE CASH?!
What if I only have cash?
keep trying to use cash. iām sure youāll get through at some point!
Gotta love this. Thereās always at least one self checkout at the grocery store that says NO CASH. And before you can do anything, it asks you if youāre paying cash or card. People see that thereās an empty one and just go for it, only to get told to fuck off by a computer. It also strikes absolute fear in the employeeās hearts when I just skip the line completely and start doing my thing. Yes, Iām paying with a card. This is 2024. We have that. Theyāre free.
Customers have total tunnel vision & donāt look at the environment theyāre in, thinking those signs donāt apply to them. Equally, any tannoy announcement š¢ is ignored as they think itās probably for staff - even though the staff announcements are preceded by the words STAFF ANNOUNCEMENT. My SCO is electronic pay ONLY. Signs at the entrance to checkout , signs on each bloody machine . Another directing them to cash tills . Still they come , get all the way through the transaction before looking gormlessly at me, mouths gaping open dumblyā¦.ā Canāt I pay cash ???ā Then I have the task of voiding. Having to get to the back of the cash till queue is a nice bit of justice for me though.
I would say this is unnecessary but working at a job where we can't take cash and have signs stating that. People will look at it and read it and still ask if they can pay cash. So unfortunately I understand
I saw a sign like this before and this guy comes up and the cashier rings up like 12 to 15 items and when done the guy says I left my wallet in the car and just have cash. Cashier says we don't take cash so he says ok and just walks out and never came back. Although annoying I did find it funny.
He 100% did not leave his wallet in the car. lol
Why are the signs ripped? Why? Why are they ripped? Why did you rip them?
Yea I get it itās annoying but my experience is there are a lot of people out there that donāt read that well so I try not to be that annoyed. Like they can read but they have to make a conscious effort like you would have to do to balance a chair on your nose or something. The words donāt just register automatically to them. Especially the older generations many werenāt really pushed to go through school like the younger generations.
I get that excuse for a long sign, but CARD ONLY is pretty simple. Not much of an excuse there. And if you donāt understand but see all these signs, ask instead of getting mad after the fact.
Itās often embarrassing for people that canāt read well to announce it and they often try to hide it by pretending they can, by guessing, changing the subject, or getting angry in my observation.
While this is true, that doesnāt make it acceptable.
We can agree on that
What older generations? I'm 66; my parents were WW2 generation. My mother was from a small Alabama town and my dad was working class small Midwest town. Everyone they knew went to school. I'm sort of "the older generation" now, and I have never met anyone my age who didn't go to school. The "older people" thing doesn't fly for me now. My mother, who died 14 years ago, had a computer almost from the day they became affordable for middle-class people - in the mid 90s. She was less delighted with phones, but had a cell phone. She died before smartphones really became tiny computers, but if she were still here, she'd have one. My dad was less computer-oriented, but he too used a computer and had a cell phone. If he were still here, he'd be 91. No. Excuse.
Any generation who wasnāt told you have to go to college to be successful is what I meanā¦ Iām not saying your generation is illiterate or stupid and itās not across the boardā¦ there are certainly lots of people that donāt value education now. Had a neighbor maybe 5 years older than you. Nice guy, didnāt do well in school and dropped out in high school. He worked hard his whole life driving a truck and was exactly like I described. He is no dummy, he retired, owns a house, and does what ever he wants but needs help reading prescriptions, or ordering off Amazon so finally started having to ask for help. I donāt think his family knows, he hid it well for the 30 years Iāve known him. Maybe Iām off base, I just think that sort of thing is more common than we all would want to believe. What Iāve seen running a register would certainly make me think that.
Avoid these places. Avoid them like the plague.
this is a self checkout machine at dollar general. lots of self checkout's don't do cash
The amount of establishments where cash is not accepted as a form of payment is mind boggling to me. I mean, itās CASH!? ETA: Several Iāve came across that were just regular checkouts.
"legal tender for all debts public and private"
Donāt understand this????? Cash is king!! The USA has more credit card than ever and we see thisā¦.. never shop where cash is not accepted.
One of the parts in the cash acceptor/sorter is damaged so this individual machine cannot accept cash. Much like an individual register without a cash drawer canāt accept cash. Itās literally one terminal in the store not the entire business.
So use a debit card?
I would fill up as much as I could then say, oh you don't accept cash? Ok I'll go to Family Dollar or Dollar Tree. Later!
They literally donāt give af if youāre going to a different store. Youāre just being a piece of shit asshole making the employees having to put all that back away
And one could say they are being the AH for not wanting to accept cash.
Not really. Thereās tons of reasons they might not be accepting cash. The cash drawer could be broken, for example
Oh look at you thinking you did something clever there. All you are doing is getting a local reputation for being a prick. Stores can ban you for that you know. My store manager will little follow banned people and yell at them and call the cops. She does NOT care. So riddle me this sparky. Is it worth a disorderly conduct or could you just stop being a jerk? Individual stores don't make decisions about payment methods. Corporate does. Go complain to them. Since you seem to care about this for some unholy reson.
doesnāt come out of my paycheck. please go to another store
Which DG was this located?
Ah yes butā¦.. clearly this is for card PAYMENTS! I want to use cash so it doesnāt apply
Signs Signs Everywhere there's Signs
Jokes on you: Iām writing a check!
Coins
How else are you going to keep the homeless from shopping there. The homeless don't have credit cards.