Comments on: Five Steps Toward Building a Better Grocery Store http://yworking.com/at-work/five-steps-toward-building-a-better-grocery-store/ generation y is at your service. sort of. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Matt http://yworking.com/at-work/five-steps-toward-building-a-better-grocery-store/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Matt Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:06:46 +0000 http://yworking.com/at-work/five-steps-toward-building-a-better-grocery-store/#comment-9 My other favourite was when something would not scan, and instead of calling for a price check -- which would take YEARS -- I'd just flat out ask the customer if they remembered what the item cost. They could give me ANY price between $1 and $10 and I would enter it, no questions asked. Honestly, lazy employees (due to bad practices, I'd argue) can lead to far more savings at the grocery store than any coupon book could. Thanks for the comment! My other favourite was when something would not scan, and instead of calling for a price check — which would take YEARS — I’d just flat out ask the customer if they remembered what the item cost. They could give me ANY price between $1 and $10 and I would enter it, no questions asked. Honestly, lazy employees (due to bad practices, I’d argue) can lead to far more savings at the grocery store than any coupon book could.

Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Matt http://yworking.com/at-work/five-steps-toward-building-a-better-grocery-store/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Matt Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:21:11 +0000 http://yworking.com/at-work/five-steps-toward-building-a-better-grocery-store/#comment-8 "...and so odds were that if you came through my cash your exotic looking vegetables would ring up of one of those three items. Don’t worry — it was almost always a big money saver for you." Hahaha, oh God. So true. I know so many kids that just ring up anything red as plum tomatoes, yellow as bananas, etc. They call it the veggiesaver system. More streamlined software like you mention here would really go a long way in saving the store a massive headache come inventory time, I think. “…and so odds were that if you came through my cash your exotic looking vegetables would ring up of one of those three items. Don’t worry — it was almost always a big money saver for you.”

Hahaha, oh God. So true.

I know so many kids that just ring up anything red as plum tomatoes, yellow as bananas, etc. They call it the veggiesaver system. More streamlined software like you mention here would really go a long way in saving the store a massive headache come inventory time, I think.

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