Back To School

WOW, I'm telling you that retail (particularly in back to school/stationary departments) is NOT a fun place to work. I mean, yeah it's great to have the sales. But what's not so fun is those that wait until the LAST minute to shop for back to school. They waited so long in fact that today we ran out of some items that were needed. But if they would have shopped a little in advance, the stuff would have been ordered and IN! The computer can only calculate sales based on average daily sales, and when we sell THAT much in one day, the order isn't in the DAY BEFORE SCHOOL.

Someone at work said it best today... the attitude that 90% of the customers had today (even if it was just looking for something that was on hand) made you think that they just found out today that school starts TOMORROW (or Tuesday).

It was just a frustrating day. It won't even be over tomorrow really. Then we have high school kids that don't get their list until the first day of school. Then the people who will be back to get what they couldn't/didn't get today. A lot of people just got frustrated by the SHEER volume of people in the isle that they left without getting everything.

I work tomorrow, but it's a short shift. So, that is AWSOME!