Bellyaching About Retailers

[aldecaker]

Nice!

 

[cshubhra]

All of that is understood, yes. I'm saying I can't put myself in to the mindset of someone that has a bad retail experience and then has to tell everyone else about it. It's not a "public" situation for me, personally. It just seems like it's all become a group-think, trendy thing to do, moaning about being mistreated.
I'm also not the type of person that would ever send a steak back to the kitchen because it was overcooked, so there is that consideration. I'm a pushover, but at least I'm polite

You rock @tom. I love people like you!

 

[pipesmokingtom]

Pushovers? Are you in customer service?

 

[cshubhra]

That's the last job I would do. Absolutely zero people skills.
Edit - I am a nice person, but with absolute zero people skills, I often appear impolite, etc, etc...

 

[pipesmokingtom]

I'm not really a pushover, I just pick my battles. I'm not going to go back through a drive through because I was shorted a soft taco in my Crunchwrap combo or anything. If a tobacco retailer pooches my order, I'll ask them to fix it. If they don't, they don't and I'll buy somewhere else. That is, unless their sales are so good that it's worth me rolling the dice. In that case, it's game on.

 

[cshubhra]

Way to go!

 

[instymp]

What if your Crunchwrap combo was cold?

 

[pipesmokingtom]

I wouldn't take it back.

 

[warren]

If a restaurant reviewer writes a "bad" or "good" review I parse the review. If he has panned the place because the burger was too greasy (impossible!), the lettuce limp, fries oily, and the pickle too pungent? Hell, I'll be standing at the door for opening time. If he wrote the shakes weren't "hand dipped" and were thin. I probably will avoid the place. Although a greasy burger covers a myriad of sins same as too much pepperoni on a pizza.
If a reviewer likes a restaurant because of the sauce on the steak. I ain't going either. If he raved about the large portions of fresh, savory vegetables well... vegetables are not food! Vegetables are what food eats. A rave review of a "vegan" pizza is simply meaningless prose to me.
So, parse the review, know the reviewer before striking a diner, movie, book, etc off your list.
And,yes! Too much information can indeed be a bad thing, such can easily muddle up the discussion. Too much information can paralyze the decision making process. Often does.
All of that said, including the above responses of mine. I do so enjoy enjoy reading of the misadventures of others with retailers. Entertainment at its best. A window into the writer. And, they oft times make my misadventures pale in importance. So, I read them, each and everyone, for the diversion.

 

[aldecaker]

Did you say too...too much...pepperoni? I feel faint.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

And,yes! Too much information can indeed be a bad thing, such can easily muddle up the discussion. Too much information can paralyze the decision making process. Often does.

I agree with this 100%.
I even get option paralysis at the grocery store, which is why I'm not allowed to shop. If I get sent for one item, it can take me an hour because I just stand there staring at the (too many) choices.
This makes buying tobacco very difficult for me as well.

 

[jefff]

As I age I find life becoming shorter and I no longer sweat the small stuff...or even some of the larger stuff.
I have a shitload of tobacco. If it takes a few days for new stuff to arrive I won't suffer. If a tin is dented, I won't suffer.
Perspective is important.

 

[aldecaker]

Being too old to die young is the most freeing thing that's ever happened to me.

 

[ashdigger]

Penzance is way overrated.

 

[cshubhra]

Too much information can paralyze the decision making process. Often does.

Depends on person - I would rather have all the information I need, and then eliminate the ones which are not important to me. And to avoid "analysis paralysis" - quickly, quickly, quickly.

As I age I find life becoming shorter and I no longer sweat the small stuff...or even some of the larger stuff.
I have a shitload of tobacco. If it takes a few days for new stuff to arrive I won't suffer. If a tin is dented, I won't suffer.
Perspective is important.

That's maturity!

 

[warren]

Some handle aging very well. Me? Not so much until the evening two fingers of port.
Tom: I commend you. I get to store and wonder why? Sometimes I start to wonder why when I'm backing out of the garage to go to the store. I miss my wife. She always knew why. If I make a list, I wonder, where?

 

[jefff]

Warren, I miss your wife and I never met her.

 

[cshubhra]

Tom: I commend you. I get to store and wonder why? Sometimes I start to wonder why when I'm backing out of the garage to go to the store. I miss my wife. She always knew why. If I make a list, I wonder, where?

Warren ... thanks for sharing. I completely empathize - some point we will all go there.

 

[warren]

Thanks Jefff! I was lucky to even be on her list for husband consideration. Still not sure how I made the cut. I like to think she lowered the bar just for me.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

I like to think she lowered the bar just for me.

I feel the same. I think that means we did it right.