Okay some people have some misconceptions about coupons... Yes you buy stuff you don't need a lot of the time, cause they give you money to buy it(we have a stockpile of items like Toothpaste, razors, shampoo, toilet paper etc). My mom coupon shops cause she needs too, and she buys stuff on sale, with coupons. You'll find it really hard to go to store pick out what you want, then try to use coupons. So my family eats/drinks etc what was on sale, there is very little "picky" shopping going on.
Also, the reason walgreens and cvs have coupon shoppers is because of the "reward dollars". You can shop at walgreens and CVS for 100% free after your intitial 20$ or so.(You just need to return every week or so I believe and spend your rewards money, make sure you get more)
Yes it is time consuming, but your allowed to switch lines... and as for the cashier, sorry, but that's what you get paid to do.
And I've never seen a bill like that lady had, that's crazy. My mom usually gets like 55-60% off her bill(her best bill was 78% off from a total of 174$, she saved it and it's on the fridge), which saves around 70-100$ on average shopping trip, well worth the time investment of about 2 hours total(preparation and shopping trip, that's a good 40$ an hour of work. Walgreens and CVS my mom shops 100% free, but that's different.
Also, if your experienced coupon shopping it's really fast and easy, of course the manager is going to get called up, half the coupons they give out they don't even work right or don't know what their supposed to do.
On January 29 2011 14:06 Mikilatov wrote: I randomly caught this show the other day on 'extreme couponing'. It's pretty amazing. The work these people put into this is massive, but it actually works, haha.
Woman turns $230 grocery bill into a $7 grocery bill, just by using coupons.
Oh man, I really REALLY hated people like that when I used to work in a grocery store.
Why? that's a pretty retarded opinion to have.
If you've ever had to ring up customers using coupons you'd understand. It's a headache to have to fiddle with all the coupons and all the special codes and god forbid one doesn't scan right a manager has to get called.
I mean I'm all for saving money, but that doesn't mean it's not frustrating for the cashier.
So youre telling us youre such a good person that you would rather spend an extra $220 than make someone's ridiculously easy job a little difficult?
The job is usually not ridiculously easy. Have you been a cashier in a supermarket?
Usually it is not although i think it varies greatly depending on the location. I have seen places where the cashiers are sitting on stools and taking their time. However the employee owned place where I worked was exactly the opposite - a lot of very hardworking cashiers and baggers because the pay was just so good.
What's with all the people flaming the cashiers? This thread was half a page of awesome and then it turned to utter shit.
Anyone who has ever worked in any job ever should be able to relate to a cashier's plight. There's something annoying in every job, especially ones where you deal directly with the public.
My first job was at a pizza place. Some days I'd work in back handling the phone, which consumed 100% of my time on the days I did it, and other days I'd work at the register. The following things annoyed me:
1. People who call you and then poll everyone on what they want. Calls came in fast enough that people would get a busy signal a few times and call someplace else.
2. People who came in back with their dirty dishes and handed them to me. First of all I'm clearly busy, second you don't belong in back, third we would bus your table anyway. By coming in back with your dirty dishes you're telling us to drop what you're doing and bus your table now for no reason.
I know this has little to do with coupons, but there is a lot of stuff to any job that causes people an unnecessary hassle. I'm sure the vast majority of people's first jobs weren't the start of their career, so you probably have had a job where there was some pain in the ass thing you can relate to the cashier's plight here, and while you still have the right to save $200 off of coupons the least you could do is not harass the employee over an extra 15 cents. You aren't losing 100% of your savings, but if a little bit is going to be a major pain let it slide. Be reasonable people.
Is it just me or does that say Retail Box. I have seen something like this before on e-bay selling an X-Box Box. Are you even getting the SSD in this sale?
It's a question of what money is worth to you. Is money worth the extra time it takes to finish the checkout? Is $200+ worth 30 minutes of your life, combined with the time it takes to mine the coupons? Coupons don't count themselves; that takes time and effort. Time you could be spending doing anything else.
In terms of being courteous to others, is money worth the time you're taking out of other people's day? Is it worth it to you to take 30 minutes of time away from other people?
It takes me roughly ten hours to earn $200. I'd gladly take .5 hours to save $200. I'd gladly take .5 of your hours to save $200, since you are irrelevant to me. That said, I don't use coupons, I always forget about them. I have also worked in a grocery store and agree that these people are annoying as shit.
I'd like to add to this point. If you can't handle people massing coupons at the register, why are you even a cashier?
Some food for thought to those cashier QQers.
So basically any time anything that's part of your job description annoys you you should switch jobs because you aren't cut out for it? You are advising us all not to have any jobs...
It's OKAY to get somewhat frustrated by the occasional annoying thing at work... and it's okay to mention how it's annoying (especially to people who might not realize at a glance why it's annoying). On the other hand it would be wrong to completely overdo it and go crazy about how amazingly frustratingly annoying it is to someone who most obviously deals with crap 10x more difficult/annoying on a daily basis. This thread does not constitute one of those situations.
Anyone saying cashiers should stop 'qq'ing needs to put themselves into that position before they judge.
If I get a cashier position, I'll remember to come back and post here about how much I don't care if customers want to mass coupons. I don't have problems or get stressed like other people do when they have to put up with shit. I just don't care and I can't see where anyone who complains or hates the job so much is coming from. I've worked in positions similar, but I don't see how scanning a bunch of coupons can be so stressful. Of course, shit happens and maybe a coupon requires manager consent, but why is it such a nuisance? Is this the same trait being exhibited by people who feel the need to rocket themselves out of the turn lane when they feel they're holding up the line of cars behind them because they have to call the manager or other persons with assistance in scanning coupons then start worrying like hell about the other customers behind them in line. Another problem is SO MANY LANES being underutilized even during peak shopping hours.
10x more crap on a daily basis than other jobs? I think not. It doesn't take customers to have to deal with crap.
Also, how the fuck can coupons eliminated 90% of the bill. What kind of damn coupons is she using? Buy 1 get over 9000 free? Jesus.
yea come back after you work an 8 hour shift on sunday as a cashier.
I used to do this full time for like 7 years when I was younger and going through college. It's no picnic when someone hands you a stack of 50 coupons and half of them don't scan or they got the wrong thing. It's a headache. I was also an office guy for a lot of that time, at the end of the night you have to tally up all the coupons and make sure they matched what the system has, and when large amounts of coupons are entered it's almost impossible to match them up correctly.
Here's another little secret - We used to keep a stack of "extra" coupons that we would throw in so the amounts would match at the end of the night. It didn't matter if customers actually used them or if they had to be sent to different companies to redeem.
Our store also did double coupons or sometimes triple coupons if they spent 35$ or more, but they were limited to 4 of the same type of coupon. So we'd one couple come in and buy multiple orders of 35$ just to reach the doubling point, and do that like 5 or 6 times in one night. Huge pain in the ass. Also the coupons are doubled by the store, so in the end it's possible for people to abuse that system to where we actually lose money. And if the person saves too much money, a manager has to come over and approve it.
I'm all for people saving money, but some people take it to the extreme and turn it into a second job (and they do, they'd spend hours and hours finding and clipping coupons, cataloging them, getting online coupons, buying 8 sunday papers).
I'm a cashier, and I don't mind when people use a ton of coupons. Either way I'm working, either way I get paid the same amount. It's a nice break from the usual scan-and-bag. However, I do mind when people buy things they obviously won't use and don't need to commit coupon fraud. Coupon fraud meaning trying to double coupons, trying to use coupons on "similar" items that are half the price of the intended item, etc. If you have good intentions, it doesn't bother me at all. Customers in line might get frustrated, but you have a right to use coupons (as long as you're not trying to defraud the store).
since this thread is clearly about being a casher and having the occasional coupon scammers, i'll include my own experience:
-any working man's job has annoyances, you must have it real good for you when you cant relate to a job
-when a customer comes into the store with an assload of coupons, unless they are senior citizen can typical coupon scammers who will attempt to explot a companies double/triple policies with the cashier's own ignorance (some people cant count/know the rules/etc) with terrible attitudes and end up tieing your line up for long enough that by the end you run like the wind away from your register because now you have to pee. you wouldnt be annoyed?
-scanning a $350-500 line of buggies only to find out they want to bounce a check (out of state or area,) so now you get to put it all back on the shelves
-Sure in the end you still get paid, but wouldnt you rather just be sitting at the end of your register hitting on the new girl?
It's a question of what money is worth to you. Is money worth the extra time it takes to finish the checkout? Is $200+ worth 30 minutes of your life, combined with the time it takes to mine the coupons??
God sometimes I feel like almost everyone on TL is a dumb teenager who thinks he is above average intelligence.
Why yes, $200+ dollars is worth 30 minutes of my time. It's easily worth 8 hours of my time.
Lol coupons. We dont have that at all here in europe, well:at least not in the netherlands. Seen a programme about it on tv a while ago called "extreme couponing" its kinda funny to see and it looks like a pain both for the couponer as well as the casiere Still if the system is there, why not use it. 200$ for a few hours work is good monney for most of us. What i absolutely dont get however, is why are the shops doing it? Its such a silly system, in the end the companys make just as much monney as before, only it adds alot of work for both the casiers as well as the couponners. Why not simply put a product on sale without the whole hassle of coupons. Realy dont get this at all.
On October 08 2012 16:35 Rassy wrote: Lol coupons. We dont have that at all here in europe, well:at least not in the netherlands. Seen a programme about it on tv a while ago called "extreme couponing" its kinda funny to see and it looks like a pain both for the couponer as well as the casiere Still if the system is there, why not use it. 200$ for a few hours work is good monney for most of us. What i absolutely dont get however, is why are the shops doing it? Its such a silly system, in the end the companys make just as much monney as before, only it adds alot of work for both the casiers as well as the couponners. Why not simply put a product on sale without the whole hassle of coupons. Realy dont get this at all.
Because if nobody is offering coupons, then one person starts offering a coupon that provides a higher discount, deal-hunters will go to the guy offering the coupon, yet unlike just offering a standard discount, when customers come in who dont't pay attention to where they can get the best deal they can charge those people the normal price.
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