Retail cards
 

People that work in Retail, I've got a message for you.

NO, I don't want to sign up for the (Target, Kohls, Cabelas, Bass Pro, etc. etc.) card and save 10% on my purchase today.

I've been on this earth for 46 ****in years. If I wanted to create a store charge card, I'd ask for one. But I don't.

You ****ers ask me every time I come to the checkout. It makes me not want to shop there.

Stop. Next time I'm in a retail store and some ****face asks me if I want to save 10% today by signing up for the stores charge card, I'm gonna ****ing go off.

Why am I pissed? Because I went to two stores today for boxers, shoes, and socks (Target and Kohls), and both asked me the same ****ing thing.

carry on

they want your money

Grumpy old man: DO YOUR JOB YOUNG PEOPLE
GRUMPY OLD MAN: OH I HATE WHEN YOU DO YOUR JOB.

Tooge, are you sure you wouldn't like to sign up for the Chiefs Planet Visa? We can give you 10% Casino Cash Back on every purchase you make at participating retailers.

This!!

Because saying NO is so hard. :)

Oh, I get that. But a little sign at the checkout would be fine. I especially want to punch (or choke out) the ones that then say "are you sure? you will save money on todays purchase"

**** you! **** you and everyone that looks like you!

You realize they are required to ask you, right?

I'm pinching your head, I'm pinching your head

Choke grandma out!

The best way to have it stopped is not griping at the store level unless its the store manager. Call the corporate offices too, that is where all this is coming from. The employees are usually pretty much forced to ask it or face termination. So the best thing to do is find the top dog in that store, also mention it in any comment cards or surveys, keep threatening to take your business elsewhere.

The 2 grocery stores near me allow kids to sell whatever they're selling for whatever reason they're selling it for right by the entrance. Annoys the shit out me. The last thing I want when buying a sixer and some Easy Cheese is some snot nose talking about a trip to Europe or some shit.

You're sure you're not interested? There's no annual fee.

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You get the PBR, I'll get the porch and nonfilters. We can just sit there and glare at shit.

Blaming the wrong person man, you should get mad at the people who this type of marketing is effective on.

Clerk: Do you want to donate a dollar to save a starving, homeless, innocent child?
Me: No.

LOL. I hate that too. I will donate to dogs at Petsmart when I check out, but dogs are cool, people suck.

Probably your best post ever.

I went to some store (possibly DSW) to get some shoe laces. Shoe Laces. Cost like $2, maybe. The clerk asked me if I wanted to enroll in some frequent buyer program. “No, I’ve never been here before and I’m just getting shoe laces”. Well you could save X% on your next purchase. “I will probably never come back here, no”. Well, do you know someone who shops here, you can get them some valuable coupons.

At this point I was ready to either walk out or turn around and yell “is there someone here who can just ring me f**k up for these so I can get the f**k out of here?!”

Target is not a store charge card by the way. It links directly to a debit card, so it's an in store debit card that saves you 5%. if you pay cash, then obviously it's not for you, just sayin.

but yea, it's still annoying as hell.

This is just one of the many reasons why I make about 700 purchases a year through Amazon.com. As a Prime Member, I receive items in two days or less (as well as a great library of films and TV shows).

But unless you enable Instant Checkout, the site asks if you want to save 10% by signing up for an Amazon Visa today.

At least it's not a person. :D

Internal guilt is an amazing marketing campaign. My Jewish mother is a PRO at this.

Those people would like nothing more than to not have to offer them.

The move that annoys me is if you're travelling and go to a grocery store and don't have the local card, and the cashier acts like there's no house card you can use. So they try and give you an actual card that you'll never use again and just throw away on your way out.

LMAO LMAO

That

In Cali, I just give them my phone number. CVS is like that as well.

There's a CVS just by my parents home in JC and every time I purchase something there, I confuse the hell out of each and every cashier I've encountered:

Cashier: Card number or phone number?
Me: 323
Cashier: 913
Me: No, 3-2-3
Cashier: 913
Me: 3-2-3
Cashier: 913
My Dad: Just use our number


Never fails!

At Best Buy they would have tried to add on an additional $0.67 for an extended full replacement warranty.

my favorite is when Best Buy asks if I want a protection plan on a game I buy.

Gamestop does that as well.

You can get both. The debit card one and a regular store credit card.

Coming from someone who works in retail, I say "**** you". Our employees are required to ask you to sign up for rewards cards and credit cards - or they face termination. Most of us are college students who need jobs like these to pay bills. Do you think people like begging others for credit cards and rewards cards? Do you think we honestly give a shit about these things? We do it just to keep our employment status.
Also, from the retail point of view -- the average consumer is a giant piece of shit. They make messes which they have no intention of cleaning up. They leave their trash inside the building for us to clean up. They treat us like shit and argue with us anytime they have a chance. They destroy fixtures, have zero regards for closing time (hey assholes, we'd like to go home to see our families at some point), and in general, are just giant pieces of shit. To the average consumer, **** you.

Regards,
Any employee in retail

Everyone are giant pieces of shit. You are no better.

I agree. My kid and I tear the shit out of stores when we go in there. It's a lot of fun.

This.

They're required to ask you. It's their job. Pretty stupid to complain about someone doing what they're paid to do.

You think those kids behind the counter WANT to ask you sign up. If they had it their way, they probably wouldn't even give you fake smile and hello.

I get super pissed when dentist ask me if I've been brushing and flossing.

Get it all out, that's fine.

I agree. Consumers are pieces of shit, no doubt about it. I use to manage a movie theater when i was younger.....good god....made me REALLY hate people for awhile....especially older women, they were the worst.

Amazon Prime is uber-cool!

With Amazon, I'm still able to avoid sales tax, too. Nearly anything you could purchase at a brick and mortar is available at Amazon tax-free with free 2 day shipping...and the Prime Videos are indeed a nice bonus.

In particular, Amazon's textbook department has saved my wife and I hundreds and hundreds of dollars since she's gone back to school to work on her M.S.N. Her school's bookstore was selling a used anatomy book for $179. She bought a gently used one from Amazon for $6(!).

You should totally SCREAM at the teenager who is being forced to ask you because it's her job and her commission is based on it. I'm sure that will change the stores policy.

As annoying as it is, they are just doing what they are required to do by the company. But I do agree, when I say no I wish they would leave it at that rather than verify I really meant to say no.

My wife on the other hand, can't say no because she just hears the "savings" part of it. Drives me nuts. I would rather have some more airlines points on my Visa than that 10% off of our $45 purchase.

Having to say no thank you is a major inconvenience.

Wow. chill out, have a cream soda and put on some White Lion cassette from 1987.

I know, right? It's like when I'm at a restaurant having a pleasant conversation and the dumb bitch waitress comes over and asks me if I want dessert. I've been on this Earth for 41 years. If I wanted dessert, I'd ask for it.

You ****ers ask me every time I eat here. It makes me not want to eat here anymore.

Next time I'm in a restaurant and some **** face asks me if I want dessert, I'm going to ****ing go off.

Why am I pissed? Because I went to two restaurants today to feed my fat ****ing face, and both times the ****ing waitress asked me if I wanted dessert.

white people/first world problems

You can gripe in a variety of places, but none of it is going to make any difference. Store loyalty cards make them way too much money for them to ever stop pushing them.

I think RJ uttered some words of wisdom about this sort of thing a while back, when he said about his own company's promotions that he would ask the question, "Are we doing this for the customer or are we doing it for ourselves?" I guess one could read the loyalty card thing both ways, but I tend to think that it's more for the company.

The challenge is that if one place does it, it's not bad. The problem now is that everybody does it, and it exhausts and overloads the consumer's patience. It's like the popup surveys that companies put on their web sites. It's to the point now where I want to write a letter congratulating any company that doesn't put a crappy popup survey on their web site.

We love our target card, it saved us a couple hundred bucks last year.

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Totally agree with the sentiment that it does no good to complain to anyone at the store level. This is coming from the corporate office. No one at the store can do anything about it. Hence, waste of time to talk to anyone at the store about it.

Put them in a headlock next time. That's your go to move, right?

My advice? Start drinking heavily.