I'm about to enter one of those hectic weeks.
At work, a major upgrade of our computer system is slated for Thursday overnight. This necessitates all manner of work beforehand, only a fraction of which I currently know how to do. Luckily, I have resources upon which to draw...
Also at work, we are currently running what is billed as the biggest sale of the year, featuring--you guessed it--turkeys at $1.00 a pound. Turkeys, in August? Apparently so. There were over fifty people waiting for the doors to open Saturday morning...it was the busiest day I've seen since Easter.
There is a limit of two turkeys stated clearly in the flyer, so of course that just meant families split up and went through separate tills. (What in the holy hell do people need with four or more turkeys, anyway? In August?)
This wasn't the only item flying out the door, not by a long shot...we also had Tropicana juices on sale for $1.00 (the 946 ml size--and don't ask how many people thought they could get a 1.89-litre carton for $1.00!) Then, of course, chocolate milk and buttermilk on for $1.00. This item turns people into ravening monsters no matter what time of year it's on. Neilson Dairy didn't exactly help me out on this sale. I was shorted all my low-fat chocolate milk on Saturday...what's more, nearly every single one of the 1440 units of regular chocolate milk were half full. I had to arrange for a second delivery, which arrived early Saturday evening. I take nothing for granted when it comes to this tinpot dairy, so I was able to rely on the stock I had brought in Thursday for most of the day. Still, I had run out of saleable stock by the time the truck came.
Want more? Our store brand waffles were on for $1.00/pack...Head Office advised us to order heavy, which was a joke: our walk-in freezer was stuffed wall to wall to wall to wall and floor to ceiling with turkeys.
Add in the chaos in other departments: three pounds of clementines or five pounds of new potatoes for $1.00; Kraft Dinner at 2/$1.00, and on and on and on, and it made for one hellish day.
It's shaping up to be a hard slog. This blog will probably fall by the wayside somewhat. My apologies in advance to my faithful readers.
2 comments:
I can't IMAGINE planning for something as unpredictable as consumerism.. especially when it comes to food! People are so fickle. What kills me is when it's a holiday (even if it's just a day), people desperately stock up the day before AND the day after... Like, what, you ran out of the 6 bags of milk and 5 loaves of bread you got two days ago? And the turkeys.. that's pretty amazing... what are they gonna do with all those turkeys? Keep them in their freezer til Thanksgiving? How big a freezer do they have? Or do they have a turkey dinner every weekend?
Oh, I'm guilty of buying too much as well... for some reason, I CAN NOT resist when canned tuna and salmon are on special. Why, I do not know... There is always a couple of cans in my cupboard, "just in case"... Mind you I do like it; I toss a great salad with salmon and creamy cucumber dressing and lettuce and shredded carrots... And I take tuna sandwiches to work for lunch, but I don't need, like, 5 cans of it at all times... LOL
YES!!! I always wonder, the day before a holiday, "isn't TOMORROW supposed to be the day everybody has off?"
It's the big, big sales that bring in the cherry-pickers, the people who cruise around town getting nothing but specials, disregarding the money they're spending on gas, not to mention their oh-so-valuable-in-other-instances TIME. I'd hate to think how long the average customer spent in line at our store last Saturday, and that was with all eight tills running full-out. When you have twenty people in each line you're looking at a good half hour wait.
It's a good bet that most people think they're underpaid, ergo, they value their time highly. Let's suggest for the sake of argument that many people would peg their time at $40.00 an hour. I just plucked that figure out of my belly-button...feel free to revise to taste. Anyway, at $40.00 an hour, there's twenty bucks down the drain, just so you could save--let's see, ten pound turkey (people invariably want 'em small)...carry the thirteen...umm...$6.90 off the standard price at Thanksgiving when you'll actually EAT the damn thing. Plus, it takes up space in your freezer that you could otherwise use to store, say, cans of tuna. *smile*
The world, it don't run on Ken-logic, that's fer sure.
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