Frye's, an electronics store in the area that never ceases to draw amazing crowds with the absolute junk they sell, does the same thing.
"Be sure and show your receipt on the way out" is the freindly rejoinder I remember getting the last time I bought anything there (being measured in years now instead of months I am glad to report) so I did just that: On my way out just held up my receipt and never broke stride.
I got a few stares, but that was it. Frye's does the added insult of having one of the most fucked up queue systems I've seen in a store. They have the 'paddock' which leads you to some goob who points you to an open register on the huuuuge line of registers. He stands on a mobile ladder/platform rig to see over the throngs of purchasers.
To their credit, unlike Best Buy in most occasions, they manage to have the majority of their registers manned.
To their serious discredit*, if you're more than about 18" in width, you get to become very chummy with the shoppers checking out on either side of you.
Sorry to blather on, but you hit a nerve!
* - there are a lot of things to make up this list!
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Date: 2004-07-17 08:25 am (UTC)Frye's, an electronics store in the area that never ceases to draw amazing crowds with the absolute junk they sell, does the same thing.
"Be sure and show your receipt on the way out" is the freindly rejoinder I remember getting the last time I bought anything there (being measured in years now instead of months I am glad to report) so I did just that: On my way out just held up my receipt and never broke stride.
I got a few stares, but that was it. Frye's does the added insult of having one of the most fucked up queue systems I've seen in a store. They have the 'paddock' which leads you to some goob who points you to an open register on the huuuuge line of registers. He stands on a mobile ladder/platform rig to see over the throngs of purchasers.
To their credit, unlike Best Buy in most occasions, they manage to have the majority of their registers manned.
To their serious discredit*, if you're more than about 18" in width, you get to become very chummy with the shoppers checking out on either side of you.
Sorry to blather on, but you hit a nerve!
* - there are a lot of things to make up this list!