Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Supermarket Wars: Answering questions

 

Some of the questions I get asked I give answers that can be a little sarcastic and some misadventure mixed in

 

Lady looks at the shelf turns to me and asks “Why is the shelf empty and do you have the product, if not why not?”

Me looking at the shelf, pulls the box out and brings the product behind forward

Lady :”Oh”

 

Asked why the shelf is empty for a certain soft drink

Me: “People buy them”

 

Asked what time the delivery truck with the load arrives

Me: “How long is a piece of string?”

Also me “When it arrives”

 

People ask for the cold petfood. I send them down the petfood aisle. I happen to be watching them walk to the aisle look without going down it and walk back

Tell me its not there.

I tell them there is a fridge at the other end of that aisle

 

Asked where is the frozen vege

Me “In the freezer”

Blank look “Down such and such aisle”

 

Asked for where something is

Me “Aisle 10”

Them “Aisle 6”

Not correcting them until they tell me its not down that aisle and then I tell them I had said 10

 

Asked why we no longer have a product and if its ever coming back. I reply that I don’t know why as I don’t have that information.

Their answer to me “You don’t care”

 

Lady getting upset that I walked past her with a trolley

“You almost hit me”

Me “Did you want me to try again?”. Her husband is laughing at my comment

The art of mishearing things at work

 

Been a few years since I wrote in this blog. I really should post more in this especially since I have worked in a supermarket for nearly 20 years. I tend to say stuff that could get me into trouble in an office setting

 

I work in the cold section and can mishear things or sometimes words don’t really register.

 

Guy comes up to me and asks for Toe food. Turns out it was Tofu

 

People come up to me and start asking for Keenwa when it started to become popular, I have no idea until I find out how its spelt and pronounced Quinoa

 

Acai, although I keep pronouncing as Akasi even though its wrong and in my head it seems right

 

Someone comes up and asks for Ees. Turns out its eggs and because the person main language isn’t English it can be interesting to figure out, but mobile phones and internet helps when they have a picture.

 

Guy asks for Lancer and I say we don’t have it until I realise he is saying Garfield’s favourite food Lasagne