Anyway, I went looking for one special item at a kiosk in the mall. I had to wait a while why the one guy manning the kiosk helped other customers. That was weird as I had been there a few days earlier when the mall was almost nearly dead and there were two guys in the booth. Strange, I thought that there would be only one guy on this super busy night. Turns out he didn’t have what I wanted, but it was kind of a long shot anyway.
I then moved over to Sears to look for an on-sale shirt. As I walked by the jewelry counter, I saw the very Seiko watch I was thinking of buying after the holidays…and it was 25% off! Wow, a sale! I waited for someone to help me but no one ever came over. So I walk around this rather large department and saw one woman waiting on a customer. I also saw four other people waiting for this rather incompetent woman to help them.
I say incompetent as she could not figure out something on her cash register. Then the customer she was working with started piling other items from around the store onto the counter and wanting the woman to ring them up. Again no one came to help her or all the other customers waiting. So, I just left…after muttering a few inappropriate remarks to myself.
I don’t blame the woman…I blame Sears for not providing her with more help. How stupid is that? Jewelry has one of the highest profit margins in the whole store and on one of the busiest shopping nights of the year, they had only one woman manning this very large department. That is just pure stupidity on their part!
Knowing me, I would have bought the watch on the spot and walked out with it on my wrist. But now, I will buy it from Amazon. In fact, I bought all my Christmas gifts on line this year. I don’t need to suffer this kind of incompetence and frustrations from brick and mortar stores.
OK, I got that off my chest. That is why this blog is called Rants and Raves. If you had any doubts, that was a rant. Next time, I will do a rave.
I am taking some additional time off for the Holidays and will write just one blog this week and one blog next week. After the first, I will get back on the two-a-week schedule. So, I hope all of you have a very Merry Christmas and thanks for making me a part of your life. -JRC
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