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Surviving Retail Webcomic by Chuck Egan
A Comic Stip About Surviving the Hell That is Retail
The other week, there were these small trash cans that were used to hold flowers during the Mother’s Day sale. After the sale, they basically stacked the cans and brought them back to the department to sell.
The stench trapped in the stack made my eyes water.
okay, seriously… eww.
Eww, indeed. Especially when you can’t be sure what the customers have done to the cloth…that they weren’t intended to do.
For one example, the wash cloth (unpurchased) that was used as a hankie…and put back on the shelf.
And, the occasional piece of random cloth that had absorbed…*something*. (Good luck guessing at what it might have been. Better yet, that’s what a HazMat bag is for.)
And, I don’t even care to think about what the woman used…who built a moat of merchandise around herself, dropped her pants and…ahem…created a public restroom on the sales floor.
Sometimes, I just want to create a new kind of store. The customers can look at the stuff from the outside, slide their credit card into a slot, pick and choose via a control panel and pick it up through a slot. No touching/opening/inspecting/trashing/littering/accessing the unpurchased merchandise. Oh, yea…no returns, either.
Call it…oh…Vending Machine Depo. Order. I do feel a need for total order over the pure chaos that exists, now.
Sounds like a Japanese street vending machine, jup. Maybe some returns though, but like Internet or mail order…