I hit my local Martha Stewart boutique shop the other day to see what sort of clearance they had. I was happy to pick up a few Lord of the Rings sets for cheap enough. Then they had several copies of Mia's Desk 30102 lying in the Friends animal series display. Sure, that would make a good chore prize for the girls. I go to ring up and the polybag registers as "before release date." The cashier says "I can't sell this to you". "Then why do you have 2 dozen of them on the floor?" A manager comes over, looks at it, and says she can't sell it to me. We experience deja vu. I tell her she better pull all the ones that they are trying to sell.
Turns out the UPC code must have been miskeyed. Had I realized that
this was a 2012 set then I might have made a little more of a fuss. Had
it been a Super Heroes, Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings pack I may have
known better. But as a 37 year old father of three, my interest in
Friends extends to its delight for my girls.
Then I'm asked if I want to sign up for a demographics harvesting card. "How do the points work?" I get a lot of blah, blah, blah but at the end the cashier says,
"I know you'll get alot of points for this purchase."
"Yeah, but what's the exchange rate?"
"Um, I think it's 1000 points equal $1."
"So imma get 15c for this pile? No thanks."
"No wait, it's more than that!"
"Even at a buck-fifty it's not worth my time to fill it out."
"But you can get cash! Back!"
O_o
Please forgive me for profiling but I chose this cashier because I thought she might be more interesting to chat with as she rang my stuff up. I'll just choose the high schooler next time.
But I guess this doesn't surprise me for K-mart. Maybe it does a little. The last time I went shopping there their regular priced item was 14% cheaper than everywhere else. That was a good thing and the high school cashier rang me up with no issues other than having only a ginormous bag to put a few small sets in.
So I'm left with an army of Orcs and no polybag to review.
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