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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On January 29 2011 19:01 555 wrote: I have never been a cashier, so I would like to know why a cashier would even care about extreme couponing. I mean you still get paid the same and you still work the same amount of hours right? You're ignoring the factor of effort and how those hours are worked. I test video-games, I get paid the same as another Q&A Tester. We work the same hours, we're doing the same job, but we're testing a game at two different stages. Mine's on the final beta stages, he's in pre-alpha. I do nothing but play the game. He has to write crash reports and do regressions. Same pay. Same hours. Same game. Different amount of work. As a cashier, you can either spend a good 20 minutes swiping coupons or you can get another line of customers, speed through their groceries in 10 minute and have the other 10 minutes sitting around. | ||
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SpoR
United States1542 Posts
On January 29 2011 14:25 sharkeyanti wrote: it ends up holding up the line for quite a long time, and you ALWAYS have to call the manager to approve this that or whatever. And then something goes wrong, and coupon-obsessor must have every last drop of savings, down to bag credit (which is like 5 cents). It's not bad for small checkouts, but big ones are just retarted I don't understand how she can combine all those coupons. Don't most coupons say 'can not be combined with any other offers' or something along those lines. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On January 29 2011 19:42 SpoR wrote: I don't understand how she can combine all those coupons. Don't most coupons say 'can not be combined with any other offers' or something along those lines. On January 29 2011 18:49 BlackJack wrote: You can double a manufacturer's coupon with a manager's coupon. One is a discount from the grocery store and the other is from the company that made the product. | ||
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Deja Thoris
South Africa646 Posts
On January 29 2011 19:01 555 wrote: I have never been a cashier, so I would like to know why a cashier would even care about extreme couponing. I mean you still get paid the same and you still work the same amount of hours right? I'd guess its more stressful with the couponing. Your queue isn't moving which gives you pressure (lets face it - a fast queue is inherently more satifying, it makes you feel like you are making progress in your work) Then theres having some hawkeyed couponer making sure you did really giver her 5c off the tampons and so on. I think its an aspect of the job thats less plesant. | ||
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SpoR
United States1542 Posts
k but aren't most coupons just like some cents off maybe up to a dollar or buy one get one free type of thing? It literally doesn't make sense how she could get a 230$ total down to 7 bucks. What store is this anyways, I've never seen a store where they wear that uniform. I'm calling shenanigans. Look at the closeup when she first starts loading the items on the belt, its 2 things of ice cream, 4 things of grape juice, bunch of campbells soups, some boxes of crackers or something. Then there is even a screenshot at 0:21 showing that even if they were doubled she'd still be paying well over half the cost of the items. Just that shit alone is going to be over 7$ with your reasoning PS- I just made this ![[image loading]](http://images1.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/5473654/If-I-buy-2-items-with-a-buy-one-get-one-free-coupon-plus-a-managers-coupon-to-double-it-Did-I-just-d.jpg?imageSize=Medium&generatorName=Philosoraptor) | ||
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Oleo
Netherlands280 Posts
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Hynda
Sweden2226 Posts
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Manimal_pro
Romania991 Posts
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Hynda
Sweden2226 Posts
On January 29 2011 20:32 Manimal_pro wrote: Alot of people at uni, being a cashier is a flexible job that fits really well with studies. It's also a pretty neat first time job since you acatually get to interact with other people. I would have taken it over my first job any day. I don't see the issue. whats up with all the cashiers on tl, this is embarassing | ||
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Bergys
Sweden337 Posts
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Manimal_pro
Romania991 Posts
On January 29 2011 20:36 Hynda wrote: Alot of people at uni, being a cashier is a flexible job that fits really well with studies. It's also a pretty neat first time job since you acatually get to interact with other people. I would have taken it over my first job any day. I don't see the issue. in romania university students go for internships at big companies not some crappy job :| | ||
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Hynda
Sweden2226 Posts
On January 29 2011 20:47 Bergys wrote: What's up with these ridiculous coupons? Why would they ever use a coupon-system that is so flawed that you can actually purchase stuff for free/gain money from doing it? I don't if it's like this in many countries but in sweden we have more like buy 2 for the price of 1 etc. So you can never actually get something for free, just for a reduced price. Maybe I've just never come across these kind of coupons. You could do a video like this easily in Sweden all you needed was a shit ton of cash. Because the only way to get those things is to spend money at the store. So you could buy stuff for say 1000 kr and get the 50kr free next time. so you want to get a 2000kr down to like 50kr all you need to do is buy shit for. 39k and voila you got enough discount to make a film and put it on youtube. | ||
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vek
Australia936 Posts
On January 29 2011 20:47 Bergys wrote: What's up with these ridiculous coupons? Why would they ever use a coupon-system that is so flawed that you can actually purchase stuff for free/gain money from doing it? I don't if it's like this in many countries but in sweden we have more like buy 2 for the price of 1 etc. So you can never actually get something for free, just for a reduced price. Maybe I've just never come across these kind of coupons. Same for me in Australia... Pretty much every coupon states you can't use it in conjunction with any other coupons, offers or random sales no matter what. There is also usually a limit of 1 coupon per person. So unless you line up the family or go to different registers you aren't going to get very far. Seems like the system in the US is completely retarded. | ||
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ondik
Czech Republic2908 Posts
On January 29 2011 20:52 Manimal_pro wrote: in romania university students go for internships at big companies not some crappy job :| wow, that makes me wanna go to study to Romania! | ||
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teh_longinator
Canada725 Posts
On January 29 2011 13:45 Dalguno wrote: In a redneck town that I lived, there were brownies posted to be for sale for 99 cents, or four for $3.99. .99x4=$3.96 You lose money when you buy four. Tim hortons does this with their breakfast wraps. One for 1.99 or 2 for 4 lol. You pay them .02 for the convenience of having them screw up twice the amount of order lol | ||
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sammler
United Kingdom381 Posts
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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
On January 29 2011 20:52 Manimal_pro wrote: in romania university students go for internships at big companies not some crappy job :| Intenrships don't start until your third year, how are you going to pay for stuff until then? Not to mention that most internships don't pay all that well. You seem to be confusing study related work with free time related work. | ||
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Sentenal
United States12398 Posts
On January 29 2011 20:00 SpoR wrote: k but aren't most coupons just like some cents off maybe up to a dollar or buy one get one free type of thing? It literally doesn't make sense how she could get a 230$ total down to 7 bucks. What store is this anyways, I've never seen a store where they wear that uniform. I'm calling shenanigans. Look at the closeup when she first starts loading the items on the belt, its 2 things of ice cream, 4 things of grape juice, bunch of campbells soups, some boxes of crackers or something. Then there is even a screenshot at 0:21 showing that even if they were doubled she'd still be paying well over half the cost of the items. Just that shit alone is going to be over 7$ with your reasoning PS- I just made this Stores normally have different rules with coupons, and limits on doubling. Like for example, they could only double coupons of $1 or less. Buy-one-get-one coupons normally don't double either (they will actually say 'do not double' on the coupon itself). The coupons SHOULDN'T exceed the value of the time, and if at the end of the order you have a negative balance, odds are you have taken a coupon that you shouldn't have. Also, a way the computer system works, is it will just check to see if the item for the coupon is in the order or not. It won't check if the customer has already used a coupon for a specific item. So the cashier has to try and make a mental note of every single coupon, which in the end is impossible. People also try to use expired coupons (which still ring up as valid in many cases), which also requires the cashier to check the date on every single coupon. Its basically a combination of all these things as to why people can save so much on coupons. edit: I can't believe I used my 2000th post on this >_> | ||
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TrainFX
United States469 Posts
That's what I'm doing and so should everyone else if they can. | ||
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