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Aug. 21st, 2005 12:33 pm( Watching Friday's SGA with my mom was a bad idea )
In other news, B&N has done something really regrettable: they've instituted a $1 sale. This means that there's a massive table filled with shitty books that our customers are pouncing on like rare pearls. And oh my God, these people are VULTURES. I had to go in early last night because we were so overwhelmed with bargain-hunters. And these people get unreasonably angry, too. They'll bring, like, a $50 art book to the register and expect it to be $1 because they found it on the $1 table. Then they'll be some variation on this conversation:
Me: I'm sorry, this isn't actually $1.
Vulture-Consumer: It was on the $1 table.
Me: It doesn't have a dollar sticker on it and it's not coming up in the computer as being $1. I'm sorry.
VC: But it was on the $1 table!
Me: People pick things up from other areas of the store and put them down there. I'm really sorry.
VC: Well! That's extremely misleading.
VC huffily pays for crappy thriller or outdated book about birds/tying knots/minor eastern religious sect.
On the plus side, yesterday brought about another B&N Celebrity Encounter (TM)--William H. Macy! He was with his small daughter, and he bought this John Lithgow children's book, and an If You Give a Mouse a Cookie doll. I went with my usual celebrity encounter approach and behaved like a glassy-eyed moron who had never been to the movies and had absolutely no idea who he was. I hope he appreciated it.
In other news, B&N has done something really regrettable: they've instituted a $1 sale. This means that there's a massive table filled with shitty books that our customers are pouncing on like rare pearls. And oh my God, these people are VULTURES. I had to go in early last night because we were so overwhelmed with bargain-hunters. And these people get unreasonably angry, too. They'll bring, like, a $50 art book to the register and expect it to be $1 because they found it on the $1 table. Then they'll be some variation on this conversation:
Me: I'm sorry, this isn't actually $1.
Vulture-Consumer: It was on the $1 table.
Me: It doesn't have a dollar sticker on it and it's not coming up in the computer as being $1. I'm sorry.
VC: But it was on the $1 table!
Me: People pick things up from other areas of the store and put them down there. I'm really sorry.
VC: Well! That's extremely misleading.
VC huffily pays for crappy thriller or outdated book about birds/tying knots/minor eastern religious sect.
On the plus side, yesterday brought about another B&N Celebrity Encounter (TM)--William H. Macy! He was with his small daughter, and he bought this John Lithgow children's book, and an If You Give a Mouse a Cookie doll. I went with my usual celebrity encounter approach and behaved like a glassy-eyed moron who had never been to the movies and had absolutely no idea who he was. I hope he appreciated it.
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