Dear Retail Shopper

I am writing this one cause there are SO many really either stupid people or they just don't care. After working in retail for as many years as I have, I have pretty much seen it all. I have seen a single Mother have to deny her daughter a doll stroller, only to have the customer behind her and another customer buy it for the little girl cause it was christmas. I have also see the completely oblivious customer go into a tantrum over a coupon that was not used because they forgot to give it to the cashier before hand and the coupon was for 25 cents on a $25 order. I have seen so many things and I have to laugh at some of these people because they just do not see how they are acting sometimes.

Cashiers, some are the most patient people in the world. They get the brun of things sometimes when they didn't even have anything to do with whatever the customer is complaining about. I on the other hand, was in management and didn't give a crap. If a customer wants to give me crap, they will get the same right back. I WILL NOT stand there and let some gutter person, in my opionion, bitch at me for something I have no control over. I will NOT allow my cashier to take the crap either cause I WILL step in and take over. I am not above throwing some trash out of where I am working because they want to be idiots. I am also not above calling the police on someone that wants to act like a child.

Retail shoppers, when you go up to a register, treat that person with some kindness. They have been there for however many hours, listend to however many others complain about things, get bitched at for things they have no control over, etc. Shopping to get cards, be kind and turn them over so the barcode on the back is showing, especially you elderly people that buy 50 cards at a time usually. The barcode is what is needed to be scanned, so if you want to get out of the store faster do something nice and turn the damn cards over.

If you are shopping with kids, keep them with you, put them in the basket, or leave them in the car. Just remember to put the windows down a little bit, they are after all, like animals most of the time. People working in stores are NOT there to watch your kids, but they are the ones stuck cleaning up after them when you leave. Stores are NOT day care centers where you can drop them off to be watched and cared for. Most people that are shopping go about their shopping while their brats are running around the store doing pretty much whatever they want, taking whatever they want, and playing with whatever they want. Because people DON'T watch what belongs to them, kids, they should not bring them with them.

Also retail shopper, if you decide that you DO NOT want something, please be kind and either walk it back to where you got it (god knows many of you could use the extra steps to lose the weight), or give it to the cashier or someone else that works there so they can put it back for you. DO NOT just put it wherever you want, i.e. frozen food shoved behind something in housewares so it can defrost and go bad. If YOU had to buy the things stores do and throw out all of the things people put wherever they wish, you would be broke. So do all a favor and stop being so damn lazy, walk the crap back to where you got it from.