Posted on 08/09/2006 7:43:37 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Here is something I like to do and I wonder if anybody else is on the same page.
I'll go into one of those convenience stores, especially a mom-and-pop convenience store, and I'll buy multiple quantities of some stupid dust-covered knick-knack type thing that this store might sell two or three of in a given year.
After two or three visits, I'll have this item completely cleaned out of the store. Then the store will inevitably buy a whole bunch of this stuff, thinking that this item is suddenly in demand. But once this happens, I'll never buy another one of those items again.
Case in point is the item you see on the left here. Now a convenience store in my area actually stocked about 7 of these items - useless refrigerator magnets that nobody would ever buy. What were they thinking?
So one day, I bought one of them. Then the next day (when there was a different clerk), I bought another. Then I sent my sister in to buy another one and then I sent in my son to buy one. Just so the clerks wouldn't think it was the same person buying them and thus think that these silly refrigerator magnets were suddenly in demand.
Then late one Saturday, after maybe one too many margaritas at the local Mexican restaurant, I went in there and cleaned them completely out.
Then I waited. Each time I went in there, I'd look in that aisle to see if they restocked. About a month and a half later, sure enough, there were about 15 of these items back on the shelf! They actually had them on two hooks instead of one!
I never bought another one of these stupid things again. But I wasn't content to just let those 15 packages of stupid refrigerator magnets just sit there. No!
What I started doing was bringing these refrigerator magnets back into the store, one by one. (You didn't think I actually used them did you?).
I'd walk into the store to buy a Propel or a newspaper or something like that and I'd surreptitiously slip these stupid magnets back onto the shelf. So instead of 15 of these things sitting on the shelf, they now have 22.
And there are some convenience store clerks in my neighborhood shaking their heads.
I have done this with several items over the years including erasers, plastic rulers and those inserts that people buy for their wallets (that hold pictures).
This man. Ten bucks says you'd make it onto the show.
You average run of the mill random ........
Sounds like something Jack Handy would do.
Actually there was a demand. He bought the things and the store got the profit. Not only that, he put them back so the store will make a profit again when/if someone else does buy them. Finally, those junky little things probably cost the store pennies I bet they made 200 percent profit when he bought them.
Hahahahaha! It's perfect.
I can't breathe I am laughing so hard!
Man, you're an outlaw! Wow! Born to be wild, eh? I bet you don't return library books either, right?
This is one odd post, and very out of character for you. What's the story? Did your account get hijacked, or have you been drinking heavily?
Yeah, and then they lost that profit again when they reordered a dud product that will sit on the shelves forever. We have customers everyday that act like because we own our own business "we must be rich".
I could understand if this guy was 10 years old, doing something like this - but I'm assuming this is a grown-up adult that should know better.
He must be drinking those margueritas tonight - no sober person would admit to being such a jackass.
I know. Aren't they great?
why not go around the internet and start donating amounts like .17 cents to various Dimocrat and leftists groups via credit card so the fees will end up costing them more money that you donated? At least you will be targetting somebody worthy of mocking and harassment.
Sorry Sam, I work in a convience store and folks like you are a real pain. So are the ones that let their kids run wild and trash the store.
The clerks will be even more curious and think you are really baaaaaa....aaaad!
Reverse Kleptomania, try it! (LOL) This is a trick worthy of Inspector Cleuseau!
The Geek Die has spoken.
You need to find a real hobby...
Ya really think there is a BIG demand on that item and peoples time is not worth money?
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