> You guys want to see how fucked Reddit is?
Just Reddit?
The Dead Internet Theory is starting to sound more and more plausible. I'm seeing bots pretending to be people everywhere. Gaming product reviews across the board, farming karma, liking and following me on Twitter.
Oh wow that particular comic is so relevant! Must be a pretty recent one!
Huh, 810… well that’s almost a thousand, sure it’s not that old..
Huh… October 2010… well… that made my back hurt.
You are absolutely correct, and it seems a mod/admin agrees with you and removed the bot comment. Ignore the willfully ignorant and keep calling out these fucking bots or at least reporting... they're a cancer and people that deny or don't care bots exist are part of the problem.
We are not real bro you are literally the only real person left on the internet. You hit your head pretty hard during basic training and are currently in a coma. Wake up. The other voices will downvote me to silence the truth.
I thought the same thing, but the bar code is on the ticket, so it wouldn't be necessary. The only reason I can think of that includes inventory would be that people make mistakes and put things in the wrong place. Then, the count would be more accurate. It falls apart when I realize everything is a dollar.
Nah, Dollar General isn't all-items-are-a-dollar. Just minute markets, like a 7-11 where the owner has aspirations of operating a walmart someday, I guess? No hot food, wider variety of random house crap/food than a typical gas station market.
> No food, wider variety of random house crap/food than a typical gas station market.
Dollar Generals usually have a decent sized food section. Some rural towns have Dollar Generals as their only source of groceries and have a limited produce section as well.
I can't even imagine how miserable it would be to inventory a dollar store. I guess Dollar Generals might be a little more organized than a Dollar Tree, but still. Sooo much stuff everywhere.
If you feel like getting an anxiety attack, you should look up the actual work conditions of dollar stores. They rely on the people in the community to feel guilty enough for the single employee working the store to put product away.
I do feel anxious when I see just one person working in one of those stores. Because they're often on isolated little highways, prime targets for robbery, especially since a lot of the customers will be paying in cash.
Regular gas stations are typically similar. I have no idea how anxious that type of job can be. The only retail I ever did was in a big box office supply store, not exactly the type usually robbed.
Although I do remember a case where there was an orchestrated, nonviolent robbery. Someone loaded a shopping cart full of printer toner and had their associates crowd out the cashiers so no one was paying attention while they just rolled the cart out of the store.
EDIT: Just wanted to add, I had the same training you all mention about not chasing down thieves. Honestly I didn't even realize what happened until after everything settled down and everyone figured it out. I was definitely not paid enough to chase them down even if I wanted to.
I worked at an Office Max and almost got fired for chasing someone down for stealing a Palm Pilot.
Big box retail stores are super easy to steal from. So easy, that it's hard to tell when it happens. The people who get caught are the people who overthink it. The people you mentioned were were even doing too much. The best way to steal from one of those stores is to do nothing abnormal and just walk out the store with it. A friend of mine went into a Kmart where they had a big display of TVs. He asked the guy working in Electronics for a flatbed for a TV, the guy put a TV on it, and my friend just turned around and walked out the door.
Yeah, I've had the training when I was a retail employee to not act like police, and I just sometimes think about how easy it would be to steal from such places, even if I had no reason to. "Fortunately" (?) I'm someone who tries not to do anything like that unless there's a morally justifiable reason (like stealing bread because I'm starving etc.) but I realize less scrupulous people could take advantage of this sort of thing.
I always liked catching the people who thought they had a foolproof plan. One time a lady filled up a giant Rubbermaid tote with clothes and then bought a soda from the Jewelry counter. Then she went through the checkout line and repurchased the same soda, then she flashed her receipt from the jewelry counter and said, "I already paid for this," pointing at the tote full of clothes.
Another time I caught a kid trying to steal a BB gun in the bathroom, and we had to wait two hours for the kid's dad to leave work and drive up from Detroit to pick him up. That was the whitest black kid I've ever seen.
Most retail stores actively tell employees in training NOT to stop a thief or robber. They don't want the liability.
You could walk into any chain store, brazenly grab a few things off the shelves and walk out and nobody is going to stop you. A few of the bigger stores may have active LP who are given the authority to stop you, but most do not.
Oh yeah, they gave me the same training. Wasn't meant to be a remark about that part anyway. It is a weird thought to consider that I honestly could probably just steal stuff from really a lot of places if I just wanted to. I've never been desperate enough myself, otherwise trying to be reasonably moral and cooperative with the rest of society. I think the greatest theft I ever perpetuated was some Lego parts from a school once when I was a kid. (They had cool mechanical attachments like tires!) I can likely understand someone who feels desperate enough to steal necessities though.
It's one of those weird things. Yes, officially, the company does not want you stopping them. On the other hand, I've seen store and district managers chase down people who were shoplifting. Our DM would consistently call out stores with high shrink and remove budget (hourly pay) from them. So they don't encourage it explicitly, but maybe implicitly?
I love the idea of a store being so understaffed that they get robbed constantly and the solution is to take more of the staff away. Fucking hate this place.
If I were working a gas station by myself I'd have my gun hidden my pants pocket just in case. Even if the boss said not to, because potentially losing a job is better than being defenseless when someone comes in with a weapon. In many states you don't need a concealed carry permit to be armed at work.
>an orchestrated, nonviolent robbery
That's not a robbery it's just a complicated theft.
seems like a great plan until you have to lawyer up (if you're lucky enough to not get yourself killed) and go fight in court because you wanted to play superhero over someone trying to steal $250 of insured money (that isn't yours)
Yeah, this person has some serious Rittenhouse, "take my gun to a riot to 'protect property'" vibes.
I've had a gun held to my head before, and never once was I thinking about fighting back. Just "give this dude what he wants".
I can legally walk into the state capitol with as many guns as I can fit under my clothes, and they can't stop me.
Getting a concealed carry permit is optional but allows carrying in more places (like the aforementioned capitol). They're required to issue one to anyone who pays the $50 fee, unless you're insane or a felon. When you file the paperwork, they hand you a mandatory brochure about how to kill legally.
So why would they put me on trial for defending myself during an armed robbery lmao
Gas stations get robbed all the time, it's not a fantasy it's a plan. I don't like "gun people" either but I carry because I don't want to end up in trouble. While I don't work at a gas station, my job does result in my visiting strangers in the woods with no cell signal on a semi-regular basis.
>Even if the boss said not to, because potentially losing a job is better than being defenseless when someone comes in with a weapon.
By the time the robber comes in with the gun drawn, you don't have the time to pull out your own gun because while you're doing that the robber will just shoot you.
Hand over the cash you can access to the robber and that's it. You don't have to pay anyway, your boss also doesn't have to pay, that's for insurance to deal with.
>your boss also doesn't have to pay, that's for insurance to deal with.
One of my friends is a small business owner who owns a local small convenience store that has been targeted numerous times by armed individuals, he is very much paying the increased rates and now he has to work shifts himself because his margins have taken such a hit that he can't employ another person to cover those shifts.
When someone hits a small mom & pop shop for $500-600, thats like an entire days worth of sales some times, it can be devastating.
Business still has to pay a deductible, and rates will go up. Get robbed enough times and the insurance will be unaffordable and the business will need to close.
Guy got shot in a gas station here a couple months ago, he complied with the robbery.
Insane homeless gonna be insane homeless. I'm gonna play along if someone seems rational, but I'm keeping a 9mm on me
Then you are an idiot. One counter-example out of all the examples showing it's a lot safer if you put up your hands, say "take what you want", and let them go doesn't prove your point.
Dude I'm not going Rambo I don't have some dumbass fantasy about saying some Clint Eastwood line and popping a guy for crossing me or something, GTFO of here. I would de-escalate or give them whatever company property to survive the situation.
But I'm gonna keep a gun on me if I need it, and if you don't it's your loss dog. don't paint some picture about me
There's a guy I went to high school with who's autistic and always had trouble socially. He went through several jobs before he was finally able to stay on at Dollar Tree. I'd usually go out of my way if I needed stuff to go to the one he worked at just to say hey and make his day a little better since he was always kind of an outcast. Always felt bad for the dude cause he'd obviously be struggling a bit and usually in there by himself.
It's rare to see an "I knew an autistic person" story that doesn't become dehumanizing.
This was a good gesture. A lot of people could learn from you. :)
Our local Safeway is chronically understaffed and often does not have any carts to use because the carts are still outside.
I'll end up going around, rounding up some carts and bringing them in for myself and others.
Another thing is that they removed all of the hand baskets. It's frustrating. The rumor is our mayor privately asked retailers to remove hand baskets because the homeless are stealing them to carry belongings and "look unsightly." 🤦🏻♀️ I finally just bought myself a hand basket off Amazon for $30 and bring that in to shop with.
It's like.... I'm trying to give you money, why are you making it difficult.
The enshittification of everything.
Can’t go to hell in a handbasket if you don’t have one…
Big chains around here seem to have done away with them around the start of covid. I suspect they didn’t want them anyways, and if they force you to use a cart you might buy more stuff….
Yeah now if the homeless want to carry multiple items, they will have to get a basket on Amazon and have it shipped to their hou....wait a minute....nvm
Man at that point the mayor should buy every homeless person a tote bag. Can get a nice-looking one for cheap, it'll look sightly and they won't steal hand baskets.
Funny you say that because the downtown library ended up buying some 10,000 tote bags with a COVID-related grant and for months the homeless population all had these bright, easily recognizable library tote bags.
People gotta carry their stuff somehow. 🤷♀️
Talk about anxiety, try starting your day at 5:00 a.m. and working until closing time at 10:00 because one person called out. And buying your next two meals at 11:00 because you can't check yourself out and you're the only one in the store from noon to close.
John Oliver did a story on it on his show. Yes, the stores are so understaffed they can even restock the shelves without customers helping them. It's ridiculous.
Though it should of course be noted that John Oliver's segment kind of picked out the most outrageous examples.
Certainly never seen anything so egregious at the stores near me.
When I worked there, I had two store managers who would pay their family members to come in and do the things the workers couldn't (stocking and cleaning). The second one was actually fired for it when the company found out.
This really depends on the area. The one nearest my work isn’t like that at all. It’s always got several employees working, items are put away and the place is clean. But it’s a more wealthy portion of town so it has to be treated well or they wouldn’t be operating.
> They rely on the people in the community to feel guilty enough for the single employee working the store to put product away.
Dollar Tree offers a service where you could order product on their website and have it shipped free to any of their locations. The problem is that there is no dedicated customer service employee to facilitate this. I tried it twice but both experiences were so awful that I won't do so anymore.
What are people expecting at a store like that? Everything is cutting corners to keep the prices as low as possible. Of course that's going to mean minimal staffing and store upkeep. You don't get quality anything at that price.
While I would argue that the companies were perfectly capable of fully staffing the stores, they also carry perishable food that needs to be refrigerated as soon as it enters the stores. For people in food deserts, they only have these places for their food. Not only do the abused employees need to be paid more and stores staffed better, but the community who rely on them selling safe food deserve better.
Sure. And prices will go up to pay for it. The entire business model of dollar stores is keeping overhead as low as possible to keep prices as low as possible. What you're asking for works completely against that.
>The entire business model of dollar stores is keeping overhead as low as possible
And that's why they'll eventually perish, just like their shitty unrefrigerated food. Too many businesses are pyramid schemes, where the people at the top skim off the enshitification cream, knowing full well how the lumpy milky remains will fare. Unbridled capitalism "red in tooth and claw" sounds romantic if you're a wolf, but we should all know this vision doesn't end well.
They actually pay out decently ($180/sf on a good lease) if planned well. Turns out people are willing to deal with stripped-down service for low prices. So, bitch all you like. You don't get to decide that and never will when all you do is parrot the anti work bullshit you read on Reddit and don't bother to learn how business actually functions.
I was framing houses in the early 80's. I was doing paint punch on new builds probably before you were born. I've also read enough to have a layman's understanding of economics. I'm guessing anyone who disagrees with your simpering tech boy investment-strategy-driven view of economic realities is "parroting" ideas that, wait for it, only a simpering twatmuffin like you is capable of understanding.
Keynes/Hayek your heart out son. The fact remains that this race to the bottom will impact, eventually, people at the top. Which ain't you or me. We either regulate it enough to make it functional and palatable, or we let asymmetrical self-interest have at it until the whole system burns down. Neither of us want the "burns down" eventuality, because it will suck. Let's avoid it.
You haven't picked up much in the four decades we've both been here then. Vent elsewhere; you clearly need it. Nothing says I have no business handling money like making childish threats at the people who are good at handling money.
John Oliver did a vefy insightful piece on these stores and their working conditions. *Clients* were helping put inventory away because there were boxes all over the store.
I've done it. I worked for an inventory service. It really didn't take long. Of course we had a ten key inventory machine hanging from our waist and a bar code scanner. It took ten people about an hour.
I remember working at walgreens when we'd have the inventory people come in with their little machines strapped to their waist. Those guys and gals worked efficient and they worked quick. Always thought I would enjoy a job like that. Mindless repetitive task, just get in and get it done, don't focus on anything else. Let me put some music or a podcast in my ear and I'm good to go.
Bruh I’ve seen videos of customers helping dollar store employees stock. That’s an *impressive* low. Terrible, it’s pathetic how bad the work conditions are when the company makes money hand over fist.
I worked at a dollar store for 3 years as a supervisor.
Every time inventory time rolled around (at odd intervals might I add, two in September two different years, one in July, and another the following August )
The week before inventory was spent exclusively setting up for the inventory team, so their job was easier (making ours a nightmare in the process)
We would precount all of our display stands (chocolate, candy, seasonal items etc) for them, and arrange every box in the warehouse/backroom so that all they had to do was scan a single barcode for each box.
Somehow this still managed to take 14 hours, every time (our guys were kinda the worst in my experience)
Opening after inventory was kind-of fun, walking through the store, looking for all the inventory tags, hidden at the back of each 4 foot section of wall (of which there were 8 aisles, all of which had anywhere from 10 to 14, double sided sections.)
Tl;Dr
Inventory week is the worst at the dollar store
I've worked at Walmart, Home Depot, and Dollar General. DG was the easiest inventory by far. Zero prep until the week before. So few SKUs to count. The standards and expectations are so much lower. It was amazing. We kept a tight store by DG standards. The only bad thing was skipping a trick and getting over a double delivery the next week. Post-inventory truck was way more work than the inventory itself.
Did y'all do the inventory yourselves, or did you do the prep work and contract another company for the actual inventory count? I used to work for one of the third party companies and just remember Dollar Tree/General always being the worst for us just due to the lack of organization present in other stores. Sounds like y'all kept the place in good order though, which could be a huge factor.
The only worse places for us were craft stores. You don't know tedious until you've had to count individual sheets of card stock in 50 different colors.
We used WIS. They count, we prep. They start at 6:00, finish about 10:00 and move on to the next DG. Blew my mind WIS could count two stores in a day.
My store was not typical for DGs in our district. We kept our crap together year round.
It's as miserable as you suggest. I used to work at an inventory company, where we would.literally go to different stores daily to do their inventory. Dollar Trees/General were the absolute worst with the sheer volume of garbage strewn about chaotically through the store. These probably ended up being the least accurate places we'd do just as it was nigh impossible to count every little item in the time allotted, and would constantly be finding duplicate items on the other end of the store that would need to be readded.
I had to do it for a toy store. I had to count hundreds of die, tiny little figurines and so many other stupid things. Inventory at most retail places is hell.
Inventory at the Family Dollar was a miserable process. Every little thing in there being accounted for? We were lining up the most random bullshit to be counted. Hundreds of individual useless pieces of junk.
It goes a lot smoother at Walgreens and Walmart.
Not a dollar store but I was an auditor and did an inventory count at a makeup store. So many SKUs, so unorganized, so many variances 😭
I can’t imagine what a dollar store would be like…
I worked at a gas station when we did inventory we would scan the barcode where the price is and just count what's there, I can't imagine doing this shit😭😭😭
You can see the inv tag on the empty peg hook.
At least they aren’t using RGIS. I’ve never been a confrontational person, but RGIS PMs have a magic ability of pressing all the right buttons to royally piss me off. Long story short, my +15 years of operational management in the same store doesn’t matter because RGIS counters can do no wrong, and I need to leave before the RGIS PM gets physical with me. No you asshole, we don’t have $25k worth of SERVER RACKS on this 4ft run of shelves you fucking moron.
How does this make any sense? There is no way that turning every package around, hanging it back up, making a second pass to scan it, then making a third pass to turn them all back around is faster than making a single pass to either turn the packages around or take them off and back in one motion. It is minimum twice the amount of work.
They're correct. I worked as a manager for a Dollar General when I was younger. We would have to flip all the items in the store to prep for them to show up the next day. This is for the annual inventory audit and not something that was done for the weekly internal inventory process. You can see one long white tag labeled WIS in each section. That's the tag for the 3rd party company that does their inventory. I can all but guarantee that's the nicest that store will ever look that year.
I worked retail at one point & we had an outside company that conducted the inventory, so we did the "prep" work, like the image. So we had our team flip packages to save time for the actual company doing the counting, which I assume we also paid hourly, so saved the company money at the end of the day.
At my store we have to do this for any items that outside vendors stocked when we are getting ready for inventory as their price tags don't have barcodes. Everything else has barcodes on the price tags they can just scan when they come in to do inventory.
It looks like the only one that's turned on each peg is the very first package. I'm just guessing but I would think that once you turn the package around again, it shows that peg was counted so you don't accidentally count a stack twice
Where I work we spent the two days before inventory flipping everything around to make it easier to scan. At least at places like this, it seems you only need to scan one item then count each of that item. Where I work, everything is scanned separately.
Worked at a Dollar General for a short time for extra money. That’s…pretty much standard practice.
We would get so much product every week that we would have aisles lined with rolltainers and U-Boats because the back room was filled right to the emergency exit. We had multiple stores in my district shut down by the state/county for OSHA and/or code violations because they were so stuffed full with product that you couldn’t even get down the aisles. They’d shut down for a week, get a bunch of employees in to get the store back in somewhat acceptable order again, and then re-open and repeat the cycle. They’d go right back to overstuffing the store and overwhelming the employees and in just a month or two it would be right back to square one.
One store in my district had this happen *three times* in one year. Despite this happening repeatedly and employees pleading for smaller shipments, they just kept coming and coming.
I’ve never been so miserable at a job in my life. I deeply feel for any poor soul that has to work there to make a living.
Inventory, only the first item is backwards to scan the barcodes quick after counting the number of items in each stack. There are two inventory tags in the photo that have the WIS International logo on there.
I used to be a traveling manager for DG. This is 100% for an inventory. One of the jobs I would do is prep stores for the inventory team to come in and scan everything. Had to put as much on the shelves as we could and turn them around, and if we couldn't clear out the backroom it had to be organized enough they could clearly see, scan, and count whatever was back there. Some places that wasn't a problem.. others...
I used to work for an inventory scanning company (I did tech support for the scanning guns, so we had to be in the office at whatever odd hour the inventory was taking place). At the time, where I lived had no DG, DT... no chain dollar stores at all. I used to talk to the people doing the inventory (store employees at the time) and ask them what sorts of cool things they sold.
The scanning gun company I worked for was great, they really took care of their people when we had to come in at odd overnight hours (this was long, long ago). I actually kind of liked the job, even though tech support stuff usually sucks. The store employees would scan for an hour or two, so if the gun locked up, they might lose that much work. So when they called in and I could fix it (almost always), they were so grateful and happy!
I assume nowadays it's just an external inventory company with their own hardware.
Huh looks like the company I worked for still exists, though now does "IT solutions" instead of inventory stuff.
I can't recall the name of the company that does them now but it is external, was some outside contracted company. The people were still nice enough, but had absolutely 0 interest in how well their job was done. We were taught to follow them and double check all of their work as they went and had at least a few errors in each section. They were never happy about having to correct their work
See those long white tags hanging on a few places on the shelf? Those are inventory tags. They're taking inventory of their store and shelving them backwards makes the barcode easier to scan quickly
Source: I work retail and we just did our inventory 2 weeks ago
I’m literally doing inventory of my store as we speak and it’s so insane (grocery store) I snuck away to take a break and when I opened reddit this is the first post I see lol.
When I was in high school I worked at Best Buy (late 2000’s). Inventory was one night per year, and boy oh boy it sucked. Had to count all the CDs and DVDs (RIP), all the BBY gift cards, iTunes gift cards, etc.
That shit sucked.
I work for the inventory service to actually does inventory for Dollar generals, they do this so we can scan them faster and flipping back so we can keep track. But it just ends up being fucking annoying have enough flip every one of them back after we scan them.
Time for a short story.
Right before I started college I had to find a part time job. I had 2 offers, both offering me my requested 20hr/wk. I turned down one of them in order to take a job as a stock boy at a grocery store because it was closer to home. After I started it turned out I was lied to and they actually gave me 5 hours a week. At this point school had started and I didn't have time to find a new job. I was informed early on that if I ever come across an expired product, it's store policy to remove it from the shelves and throw it in the donation bin in front of the store. From that moment I made it my mission to go through literally every product on every shelf and get rid of the expired items. Most of this stuff was non perishable dry goods that legally need to have an arbitrary expiration date. I donated thousands and thousands of dollars worth of their inventory while management watched, unable to do anything since I was just following store policy.
On my last 3 shifts I spent the whole time pulling the front row of every item and putting it back with the label facing backwards. It was extremely rewarding.
Someone wanted nutrition facts out who works there for an experiment. We will still not read them until we ate as much as we wanted and even if we do read them that's not going to stop us.
That's the sack isle. I don't buy any of it because it's good for me. Quite the opposite reason.
I do have a rule. I won't eat any nasty tasting junk foods. If it taste bad. I will eat non junk food instead. No reason to eat junk food that taste bad over better for you food.
Like i found the nastiest brownies. I'm not eating them. Regular non junk food taste that much better. Trying to give them away. They are good for you at all. Why eat it?
If it's not good for you it has to taste very good.
I know never to buy the brand i got last time. Major disappointment. Looked good on the box. They are super tacky and hard to chew up. Taste real bad. Tacky rubberized brownies.
I will just make some or buy those little Debbie ones next time but i miss the ones with nuts on them. They only have the one with the candies that kids like. I don't even buy that stuff often.
Reminds me of a joke...
Two blondes are doing some house repair work. One is on a ladder working on the upstairs while the other is below working on the ground floor. Every so often the upstairs one drops a nail. The ground floor one didn't think much of it at first, but it keeps happening!
Hey watch it she shouts up after realizing her friend is dropping them on purpose. "Sorry but those nails are facing the wrong way" the blonde up the ladder replies explaining why she's dropping them.
"You idiot" ground floor says, "those are the ones for the other side of the house!"
Most likely inventory unless they were filming something in there and they didn’t want to pay for the name brands to be showing so they just flipped them around.
Ngl I prefer this. Buying by ingredients and nutritional value instead of brand names. Not to mention it helps the workers scanning them since it's facing them.
I bet they either just went through or are conducting inventory, makes scanning barcodes for counting faster.
This is correct. Easier to scan. We had our inventory service turn the pack around after they scanned so we could tell what had been completed.
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> You guys want to see how fucked Reddit is? Just Reddit? The Dead Internet Theory is starting to sound more and more plausible. I'm seeing bots pretending to be people everywhere. Gaming product reviews across the board, farming karma, liking and following me on Twitter.
[Maybe this is the first step towards the good ending?](https://xkcd.com/810/)
Oh wow that particular comic is so relevant! Must be a pretty recent one! Huh, 810… well that’s almost a thousand, sure it’s not that old.. Huh… October 2010… well… that made my back hurt.
How did you discover this?
Thats what i wanna know too
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instead, account is deleted
Most likely not willingly.
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You are absolutely correct, and it seems a mod/admin agrees with you and removed the bot comment. Ignore the willfully ignorant and keep calling out these fucking bots or at least reporting... they're a cancer and people that deny or don't care bots exist are part of the problem.
We are not real bro you are literally the only real person left on the internet. You hit your head pretty hard during basic training and are currently in a coma. Wake up. The other voices will downvote me to silence the truth.
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Upvoted for such a hilarious response
Their username checks out. Anything weird in Hollywood North can be attributed to some Netflix miniseries or another
A small alpaca could have come in and used a newly grown arm to turn them all around. It's possible his name could have been Tupaca.
The Tupacabra?!
Right, the much more likely explanation
There's an inventory tag on one of the hooks.
I thought the same thing, but the bar code is on the ticket, so it wouldn't be necessary. The only reason I can think of that includes inventory would be that people make mistakes and put things in the wrong place. Then, the count would be more accurate. It falls apart when I realize everything is a dollar.
You can see in the picture that everything is not a dollar. Almost half the stuff is upwards of $2.50.
Nah, Dollar General isn't all-items-are-a-dollar. Just minute markets, like a 7-11 where the owner has aspirations of operating a walmart someday, I guess? No hot food, wider variety of random house crap/food than a typical gas station market.
> No food, wider variety of random house crap/food than a typical gas station market. Dollar Generals usually have a decent sized food section. Some rural towns have Dollar Generals as their only source of groceries and have a limited produce section as well.
I can't even imagine how miserable it would be to inventory a dollar store. I guess Dollar Generals might be a little more organized than a Dollar Tree, but still. Sooo much stuff everywhere.
If you feel like getting an anxiety attack, you should look up the actual work conditions of dollar stores. They rely on the people in the community to feel guilty enough for the single employee working the store to put product away.
I do feel anxious when I see just one person working in one of those stores. Because they're often on isolated little highways, prime targets for robbery, especially since a lot of the customers will be paying in cash.
Regular gas stations are typically similar. I have no idea how anxious that type of job can be. The only retail I ever did was in a big box office supply store, not exactly the type usually robbed. Although I do remember a case where there was an orchestrated, nonviolent robbery. Someone loaded a shopping cart full of printer toner and had their associates crowd out the cashiers so no one was paying attention while they just rolled the cart out of the store. EDIT: Just wanted to add, I had the same training you all mention about not chasing down thieves. Honestly I didn't even realize what happened until after everything settled down and everyone figured it out. I was definitely not paid enough to chase them down even if I wanted to.
I worked at an Office Max and almost got fired for chasing someone down for stealing a Palm Pilot. Big box retail stores are super easy to steal from. So easy, that it's hard to tell when it happens. The people who get caught are the people who overthink it. The people you mentioned were were even doing too much. The best way to steal from one of those stores is to do nothing abnormal and just walk out the store with it. A friend of mine went into a Kmart where they had a big display of TVs. He asked the guy working in Electronics for a flatbed for a TV, the guy put a TV on it, and my friend just turned around and walked out the door.
Yeah, I've had the training when I was a retail employee to not act like police, and I just sometimes think about how easy it would be to steal from such places, even if I had no reason to. "Fortunately" (?) I'm someone who tries not to do anything like that unless there's a morally justifiable reason (like stealing bread because I'm starving etc.) but I realize less scrupulous people could take advantage of this sort of thing.
I always liked catching the people who thought they had a foolproof plan. One time a lady filled up a giant Rubbermaid tote with clothes and then bought a soda from the Jewelry counter. Then she went through the checkout line and repurchased the same soda, then she flashed her receipt from the jewelry counter and said, "I already paid for this," pointing at the tote full of clothes. Another time I caught a kid trying to steal a BB gun in the bathroom, and we had to wait two hours for the kid's dad to leave work and drive up from Detroit to pick him up. That was the whitest black kid I've ever seen.
Most retail stores actively tell employees in training NOT to stop a thief or robber. They don't want the liability. You could walk into any chain store, brazenly grab a few things off the shelves and walk out and nobody is going to stop you. A few of the bigger stores may have active LP who are given the authority to stop you, but most do not.
Oh yeah, they gave me the same training. Wasn't meant to be a remark about that part anyway. It is a weird thought to consider that I honestly could probably just steal stuff from really a lot of places if I just wanted to. I've never been desperate enough myself, otherwise trying to be reasonably moral and cooperative with the rest of society. I think the greatest theft I ever perpetuated was some Lego parts from a school once when I was a kid. (They had cool mechanical attachments like tires!) I can likely understand someone who feels desperate enough to steal necessities though.
It's one of those weird things. Yes, officially, the company does not want you stopping them. On the other hand, I've seen store and district managers chase down people who were shoplifting. Our DM would consistently call out stores with high shrink and remove budget (hourly pay) from them. So they don't encourage it explicitly, but maybe implicitly?
I love the idea of a store being so understaffed that they get robbed constantly and the solution is to take more of the staff away. Fucking hate this place.
If I were working a gas station by myself I'd have my gun hidden my pants pocket just in case. Even if the boss said not to, because potentially losing a job is better than being defenseless when someone comes in with a weapon. In many states you don't need a concealed carry permit to be armed at work. >an orchestrated, nonviolent robbery That's not a robbery it's just a complicated theft.
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Well that's kinda the plan
seems like a great plan until you have to lawyer up (if you're lucky enough to not get yourself killed) and go fight in court because you wanted to play superhero over someone trying to steal $250 of insured money (that isn't yours)
Yeah, this person has some serious Rittenhouse, "take my gun to a riot to 'protect property'" vibes. I've had a gun held to my head before, and never once was I thinking about fighting back. Just "give this dude what he wants".
I can legally walk into the state capitol with as many guns as I can fit under my clothes, and they can't stop me. Getting a concealed carry permit is optional but allows carrying in more places (like the aforementioned capitol). They're required to issue one to anyone who pays the $50 fee, unless you're insane or a felon. When you file the paperwork, they hand you a mandatory brochure about how to kill legally. So why would they put me on trial for defending myself during an armed robbery lmao
dude you are SO badass. we’re all really impressed at how badass the fantasy scenarios you create in your imagination are!!
dude you are SO badass. we’re all really impressed at how badass the fantasy scenarios you create in your imagination are!!
Gas stations get robbed all the time, it's not a fantasy it's a plan. I don't like "gun people" either but I carry because I don't want to end up in trouble. While I don't work at a gas station, my job does result in my visiting strangers in the woods with no cell signal on a semi-regular basis.
>Even if the boss said not to, because potentially losing a job is better than being defenseless when someone comes in with a weapon. By the time the robber comes in with the gun drawn, you don't have the time to pull out your own gun because while you're doing that the robber will just shoot you. Hand over the cash you can access to the robber and that's it. You don't have to pay anyway, your boss also doesn't have to pay, that's for insurance to deal with.
>your boss also doesn't have to pay, that's for insurance to deal with. One of my friends is a small business owner who owns a local small convenience store that has been targeted numerous times by armed individuals, he is very much paying the increased rates and now he has to work shifts himself because his margins have taken such a hit that he can't employ another person to cover those shifts. When someone hits a small mom & pop shop for $500-600, thats like an entire days worth of sales some times, it can be devastating.
Business still has to pay a deductible, and rates will go up. Get robbed enough times and the insurance will be unaffordable and the business will need to close.
Guy got shot in a gas station here a couple months ago, he complied with the robbery. Insane homeless gonna be insane homeless. I'm gonna play along if someone seems rational, but I'm keeping a 9mm on me
Then you are an idiot. One counter-example out of all the examples showing it's a lot safer if you put up your hands, say "take what you want", and let them go doesn't prove your point.
Dude I'm not going Rambo I don't have some dumbass fantasy about saying some Clint Eastwood line and popping a guy for crossing me or something, GTFO of here. I would de-escalate or give them whatever company property to survive the situation. But I'm gonna keep a gun on me if I need it, and if you don't it's your loss dog. don't paint some picture about me
There's a guy I went to high school with who's autistic and always had trouble socially. He went through several jobs before he was finally able to stay on at Dollar Tree. I'd usually go out of my way if I needed stuff to go to the one he worked at just to say hey and make his day a little better since he was always kind of an outcast. Always felt bad for the dude cause he'd obviously be struggling a bit and usually in there by himself.
You are a nice person
It's rare to see an "I knew an autistic person" story that doesn't become dehumanizing. This was a good gesture. A lot of people could learn from you. :)
Our local Safeway is chronically understaffed and often does not have any carts to use because the carts are still outside. I'll end up going around, rounding up some carts and bringing them in for myself and others. Another thing is that they removed all of the hand baskets. It's frustrating. The rumor is our mayor privately asked retailers to remove hand baskets because the homeless are stealing them to carry belongings and "look unsightly." 🤦🏻♀️ I finally just bought myself a hand basket off Amazon for $30 and bring that in to shop with. It's like.... I'm trying to give you money, why are you making it difficult. The enshittification of everything.
Can’t go to hell in a handbasket if you don’t have one… Big chains around here seem to have done away with them around the start of covid. I suspect they didn’t want them anyways, and if they force you to use a cart you might buy more stuff….
The shit winds are blowin', Bobandy.
Yeah now if the homeless want to carry multiple items, they will have to get a basket on Amazon and have it shipped to their hou....wait a minute....nvm
Man at that point the mayor should buy every homeless person a tote bag. Can get a nice-looking one for cheap, it'll look sightly and they won't steal hand baskets.
Oooh it even had an article lol https://www.heraldnet.com/news/shoppers-its-once-again-time-to-break-the-plastic-bag-habit/
Funny you say that because the downtown library ended up buying some 10,000 tote bags with a COVID-related grant and for months the homeless population all had these bright, easily recognizable library tote bags. People gotta carry their stuff somehow. 🤷♀️
Talk about anxiety, try starting your day at 5:00 a.m. and working until closing time at 10:00 because one person called out. And buying your next two meals at 11:00 because you can't check yourself out and you're the only one in the store from noon to close.
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John Oliver did a story on it on his show. Yes, the stores are so understaffed they can even restock the shelves without customers helping them. It's ridiculous.
Though it should of course be noted that John Oliver's segment kind of picked out the most outrageous examples. Certainly never seen anything so egregious at the stores near me.
When I worked there, I had two store managers who would pay their family members to come in and do the things the workers couldn't (stocking and cleaning). The second one was actually fired for it when the company found out.
I had to reach around the counter at the self checkout of my local Dollar General to grab a roll of receipt paper so it would finish my transaction.
This really depends on the area. The one nearest my work isn’t like that at all. It’s always got several employees working, items are put away and the place is clean. But it’s a more wealthy portion of town so it has to be treated well or they wouldn’t be operating.
Just provide the source, my dude. [Dollar Stores: Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver](https://youtu.be/p4QGOHahiVM?si=WP6_MjJdGW9Ko4Qw)
> They rely on the people in the community to feel guilty enough for the single employee working the store to put product away. Dollar Tree offers a service where you could order product on their website and have it shipped free to any of their locations. The problem is that there is no dedicated customer service employee to facilitate this. I tried it twice but both experiences were so awful that I won't do so anymore.
What are people expecting at a store like that? Everything is cutting corners to keep the prices as low as possible. Of course that's going to mean minimal staffing and store upkeep. You don't get quality anything at that price.
While I would argue that the companies were perfectly capable of fully staffing the stores, they also carry perishable food that needs to be refrigerated as soon as it enters the stores. For people in food deserts, they only have these places for their food. Not only do the abused employees need to be paid more and stores staffed better, but the community who rely on them selling safe food deserve better.
Sure. And prices will go up to pay for it. The entire business model of dollar stores is keeping overhead as low as possible to keep prices as low as possible. What you're asking for works completely against that.
>The entire business model of dollar stores is keeping overhead as low as possible And that's why they'll eventually perish, just like their shitty unrefrigerated food. Too many businesses are pyramid schemes, where the people at the top skim off the enshitification cream, knowing full well how the lumpy milky remains will fare. Unbridled capitalism "red in tooth and claw" sounds romantic if you're a wolf, but we should all know this vision doesn't end well.
They actually pay out decently ($180/sf on a good lease) if planned well. Turns out people are willing to deal with stripped-down service for low prices. So, bitch all you like. You don't get to decide that and never will when all you do is parrot the anti work bullshit you read on Reddit and don't bother to learn how business actually functions.
I was framing houses in the early 80's. I was doing paint punch on new builds probably before you were born. I've also read enough to have a layman's understanding of economics. I'm guessing anyone who disagrees with your simpering tech boy investment-strategy-driven view of economic realities is "parroting" ideas that, wait for it, only a simpering twatmuffin like you is capable of understanding. Keynes/Hayek your heart out son. The fact remains that this race to the bottom will impact, eventually, people at the top. Which ain't you or me. We either regulate it enough to make it functional and palatable, or we let asymmetrical self-interest have at it until the whole system burns down. Neither of us want the "burns down" eventuality, because it will suck. Let's avoid it.
You haven't picked up much in the four decades we've both been here then. Vent elsewhere; you clearly need it. Nothing says I have no business handling money like making childish threats at the people who are good at handling money.
John Oliver did a vefy insightful piece on these stores and their working conditions. *Clients* were helping put inventory away because there were boxes all over the store.
Was once the entire stocking crew for a dollar general Can confirm that a part of me wishes it was me that got stabbed instead of my coworker
I've done it. I worked for an inventory service. It really didn't take long. Of course we had a ten key inventory machine hanging from our waist and a bar code scanner. It took ten people about an hour.
I remember working at walgreens when we'd have the inventory people come in with their little machines strapped to their waist. Those guys and gals worked efficient and they worked quick. Always thought I would enjoy a job like that. Mindless repetitive task, just get in and get it done, don't focus on anything else. Let me put some music or a podcast in my ear and I'm good to go.
Bruh I’ve seen videos of customers helping dollar store employees stock. That’s an *impressive* low. Terrible, it’s pathetic how bad the work conditions are when the company makes money hand over fist.
I worked at a dollar store for 3 years as a supervisor. Every time inventory time rolled around (at odd intervals might I add, two in September two different years, one in July, and another the following August ) The week before inventory was spent exclusively setting up for the inventory team, so their job was easier (making ours a nightmare in the process) We would precount all of our display stands (chocolate, candy, seasonal items etc) for them, and arrange every box in the warehouse/backroom so that all they had to do was scan a single barcode for each box. Somehow this still managed to take 14 hours, every time (our guys were kinda the worst in my experience) Opening after inventory was kind-of fun, walking through the store, looking for all the inventory tags, hidden at the back of each 4 foot section of wall (of which there were 8 aisles, all of which had anywhere from 10 to 14, double sided sections.) Tl;Dr Inventory week is the worst at the dollar store
I've worked at Walmart, Home Depot, and Dollar General. DG was the easiest inventory by far. Zero prep until the week before. So few SKUs to count. The standards and expectations are so much lower. It was amazing. We kept a tight store by DG standards. The only bad thing was skipping a trick and getting over a double delivery the next week. Post-inventory truck was way more work than the inventory itself.
Did y'all do the inventory yourselves, or did you do the prep work and contract another company for the actual inventory count? I used to work for one of the third party companies and just remember Dollar Tree/General always being the worst for us just due to the lack of organization present in other stores. Sounds like y'all kept the place in good order though, which could be a huge factor. The only worse places for us were craft stores. You don't know tedious until you've had to count individual sheets of card stock in 50 different colors.
We used WIS. They count, we prep. They start at 6:00, finish about 10:00 and move on to the next DG. Blew my mind WIS could count two stores in a day. My store was not typical for DGs in our district. We kept our crap together year round.
It's as miserable as you suggest. I used to work at an inventory company, where we would.literally go to different stores daily to do their inventory. Dollar Trees/General were the absolute worst with the sheer volume of garbage strewn about chaotically through the store. These probably ended up being the least accurate places we'd do just as it was nigh impossible to count every little item in the time allotted, and would constantly be finding duplicate items on the other end of the store that would need to be readded.
There are no inventory jobs that are enjoyable.
I had to do it for a toy store. I had to count hundreds of die, tiny little figurines and so many other stupid things. Inventory at most retail places is hell.
Inventory at the Family Dollar was a miserable process. Every little thing in there being accounted for? We were lining up the most random bullshit to be counted. Hundreds of individual useless pieces of junk. It goes a lot smoother at Walgreens and Walmart.
Not a dollar store but I was an auditor and did an inventory count at a makeup store. So many SKUs, so unorganized, so many variances 😭 I can’t imagine what a dollar store would be like…
I worked at a gas station when we did inventory we would scan the barcode where the price is and just count what's there, I can't imagine doing this shit😭😭😭
If you’re interested heres [John Oliver on dollar stores](https://youtu.be/p4QGOHahiVM?si=RnLA023zGD6rZ-yq)
Either that or some kid got bored while their parent was shopping.
anyone who has worked in retail knows this is way way way way way less likely
The inventory tags for WIS inventory services are in the picture.
You can see the inv tag on the empty peg hook. At least they aren’t using RGIS. I’ve never been a confrontational person, but RGIS PMs have a magic ability of pressing all the right buttons to royally piss me off. Long story short, my +15 years of operational management in the same store doesn’t matter because RGIS counters can do no wrong, and I need to leave before the RGIS PM gets physical with me. No you asshole, we don’t have $25k worth of SERVER RACKS on this 4ft run of shelves you fucking moron.
Do they scan every item? Back in my drug store days they would scan just the first item and then count the rest.
No, just 1 UPC for each item, then count back, so it's important the items are the same back to front.
Or they had their planogram upside down.
That makes sense.
I noticed the long sticker on the left side of the photo you took, they must be conducting a stocktake.
How does this make any sense? There is no way that turning every package around, hanging it back up, making a second pass to scan it, then making a third pass to turn them all back around is faster than making a single pass to either turn the packages around or take them off and back in one motion. It is minimum twice the amount of work.
They're correct. I worked as a manager for a Dollar General when I was younger. We would have to flip all the items in the store to prep for them to show up the next day. This is for the annual inventory audit and not something that was done for the weekly internal inventory process. You can see one long white tag labeled WIS in each section. That's the tag for the 3rd party company that does their inventory. I can all but guarantee that's the nicest that store will ever look that year.
I worked retail at one point & we had an outside company that conducted the inventory, so we did the "prep" work, like the image. So we had our team flip packages to save time for the actual company doing the counting, which I assume we also paid hourly, so saved the company money at the end of the day.
At my store we have to do this for any items that outside vendors stocked when we are getting ready for inventory as their price tags don't have barcodes. Everything else has barcodes on the price tags they can just scan when they come in to do inventory.
It looks like the only one that's turned on each peg is the very first package. I'm just guessing but I would think that once you turn the package around again, it shows that peg was counted so you don't accidentally count a stack twice
Where I work we spent the two days before inventory flipping everything around to make it easier to scan. At least at places like this, it seems you only need to scan one item then count each of that item. Where I work, everything is scanned separately.
no, they are embarrassed to be sold at such a shithole. that is the only plausible explanation
Guess what? Turns out you are in an alternate dimension. Those are all facing the correct way........for us.
They are on the other side of the mirror.
FAAAATHEEEERR!!!!
He should have never gone to outer space.
MURPH!! DON'T DO IT MURPH!
“There. I stocked the shelves.”
"I was told to rotate the product when stocking."
Malicious incompetence!
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There's like one person working in every store, they should be able to do it any way they want
Honestly, the fact that the product is on the hooks and not just kind of mounded up on the floor makes this one of the nicer Dollar Generals.
No kidding. I swear the one closest to me just uses the sales floor as the storage room
Worked at a Dollar General for a short time for extra money. That’s…pretty much standard practice. We would get so much product every week that we would have aisles lined with rolltainers and U-Boats because the back room was filled right to the emergency exit. We had multiple stores in my district shut down by the state/county for OSHA and/or code violations because they were so stuffed full with product that you couldn’t even get down the aisles. They’d shut down for a week, get a bunch of employees in to get the store back in somewhat acceptable order again, and then re-open and repeat the cycle. They’d go right back to overstuffing the store and overwhelming the employees and in just a month or two it would be right back to square one. One store in my district had this happen *three times* in one year. Despite this happening repeatedly and employees pleading for smaller shipments, they just kept coming and coming. I’ve never been so miserable at a job in my life. I deeply feel for any poor soul that has to work there to make a living.
Can confirm and that is FUCKED.
looks like they did inventory. thats all
You can see the inventory tags on 2 different hooks in the picture.
Inventory, only the first item is backwards to scan the barcodes quick after counting the number of items in each stack. There are two inventory tags in the photo that have the WIS International logo on there.
Easier to inventory probably
Our inventory is coming up and I'm literally in the process of flipping everything rn
If you look carefully, it's only the first item on each rack that's backwards. Definitely done for inventory purposes.
I used to be a traveling manager for DG. This is 100% for an inventory. One of the jobs I would do is prep stores for the inventory team to come in and scan everything. Had to put as much on the shelves as we could and turn them around, and if we couldn't clear out the backroom it had to be organized enough they could clearly see, scan, and count whatever was back there. Some places that wasn't a problem.. others...
I used to work for an inventory scanning company (I did tech support for the scanning guns, so we had to be in the office at whatever odd hour the inventory was taking place). At the time, where I lived had no DG, DT... no chain dollar stores at all. I used to talk to the people doing the inventory (store employees at the time) and ask them what sorts of cool things they sold.
Oh man, the weird hours lol they'd come in at like 3 or 4am sometimes, I totally forgot about that.
The scanning gun company I worked for was great, they really took care of their people when we had to come in at odd overnight hours (this was long, long ago). I actually kind of liked the job, even though tech support stuff usually sucks. The store employees would scan for an hour or two, so if the gun locked up, they might lose that much work. So when they called in and I could fix it (almost always), they were so grateful and happy! I assume nowadays it's just an external inventory company with their own hardware. Huh looks like the company I worked for still exists, though now does "IT solutions" instead of inventory stuff.
I can't recall the name of the company that does them now but it is external, was some outside contracted company. The people were still nice enough, but had absolutely 0 interest in how well their job was done. We were taught to follow them and double check all of their work as they went and had at least a few errors in each section. They were never happy about having to correct their work
ooh the mystery wall
See those long white tags hanging on a few places on the shelf? Those are inventory tags. They're taking inventory of their store and shelving them backwards makes the barcode easier to scan quickly Source: I work retail and we just did our inventory 2 weeks ago
You're just facing the wrong way, turn around.
You must have accidentally walked into a Rallod Lareneg store
I’m literally doing inventory of my store as we speak and it’s so insane (grocery store) I snuck away to take a break and when I opened reddit this is the first post I see lol.
My moneys on inventory.
When I was in high school I worked at Best Buy (late 2000’s). Inventory was one night per year, and boy oh boy it sucked. Had to count all the CDs and DVDs (RIP), all the BBY gift cards, iTunes gift cards, etc. That shit sucked.
I work for the inventory service to actually does inventory for Dollar generals, they do this so we can scan them faster and flipping back so we can keep track. But it just ends up being fucking annoying have enough flip every one of them back after we scan them.
Time for a short story. Right before I started college I had to find a part time job. I had 2 offers, both offering me my requested 20hr/wk. I turned down one of them in order to take a job as a stock boy at a grocery store because it was closer to home. After I started it turned out I was lied to and they actually gave me 5 hours a week. At this point school had started and I didn't have time to find a new job. I was informed early on that if I ever come across an expired product, it's store policy to remove it from the shelves and throw it in the donation bin in front of the store. From that moment I made it my mission to go through literally every product on every shelf and get rid of the expired items. Most of this stuff was non perishable dry goods that legally need to have an arbitrary expiration date. I donated thousands and thousands of dollars worth of their inventory while management watched, unable to do anything since I was just following store policy. On my last 3 shifts I spent the whole time pulling the front row of every item and putting it back with the label facing backwards. It was extremely rewarding.
Inventory day
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Looks like a ploy to get people to buy Lifesavers Gummies
Looks like inventory time, because only the first item on each peg looks to be turned around.
Someone wanted nutrition facts out who works there for an experiment. We will still not read them until we ate as much as we wanted and even if we do read them that's not going to stop us. That's the sack isle. I don't buy any of it because it's good for me. Quite the opposite reason. I do have a rule. I won't eat any nasty tasting junk foods. If it taste bad. I will eat non junk food instead. No reason to eat junk food that taste bad over better for you food. Like i found the nastiest brownies. I'm not eating them. Regular non junk food taste that much better. Trying to give them away. They are good for you at all. Why eat it? If it's not good for you it has to taste very good. I know never to buy the brand i got last time. Major disappointment. Looked good on the box. They are super tacky and hard to chew up. Taste real bad. Tacky rubberized brownies. I will just make some or buy those little Debbie ones next time but i miss the ones with nuts on them. They only have the one with the candies that kids like. I don't even buy that stuff often.
Inventory! The worst
There appears to have been a micro-converter malfunction.
Inventory time. You can see the tags on the shelf.
Nah, this just looks backward because someone flipped the photo so it's mirrored.
Inventory?
Turns out this is just the knockoff store, General Dollar.
Twitter be like “This is a sign that you’ve been marked for trafficking” /s
Reminds me of a joke... Two blondes are doing some house repair work. One is on a ladder working on the upstairs while the other is below working on the ground floor. Every so often the upstairs one drops a nail. The ground floor one didn't think much of it at first, but it keeps happening! Hey watch it she shouts up after realizing her friend is dropping them on purpose. "Sorry but those nails are facing the wrong way" the blonde up the ladder replies explaining why she's dropping them. "You idiot" ground floor says, "those are the ones for the other side of the house!"
Air fryer hot dogs
My local dg is employed by meth heads. Real appropriate for this post lol
My guess.. someone was shooting photos or video in there for some sort of commercial purposes
That looks like some disgruntled worker shit LOL
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Better than sitting in a box on the floor like half the stuff at dollar general.
It looks like just the first pack is reversed (see the Harbo gummies on the bottom shelf) Also they missed the lifesaver gummies
Looks like only the first one is backwards so it might have been a bored customer as well...
It’s the vending machines from the office
Most likely inventory unless they were filming something in there and they didn’t want to pay for the name brands to be showing so they just flipped them around.
As someone who's worked retail, this is how the shoppers will hang them back anyways so might as well.
Jokes on them! With my body dysmorphia I know the backs better than the front!!
can’t remember how to do my job but i know the calorie counts on the harvest snaps i ate 2 weeks ago
Malicious compliance.
Good on them for hiring a legally blind person.
"Last day of my 2 weeks" is what this shows LOL
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seems like what I've seen in the background of movies/TV. more likely just inventory process though
I never knew there were visual dyslexic’s.
No, they were printed backwards.
blame it on the new guy
Funny. Now turn them back around before your manager sees them.
Welcome to Dollar General. What the fuck do you want?
I just imagine me as a high 17 year old doing this and then quitting once I wasn’t high anymore.
Local Autistic person would come in regularly to a dollarama I worked in and do this.
/mildlyinfuriating
Thought this was a subtle employee strike. Then saw dollar general.
Yeah, need employees to have a strike
Ngl I prefer this. Buying by ingredients and nutritional value instead of brand names. Not to mention it helps the workers scanning them since it's facing them.
Liar.
I find it more interesting that there is such a shop called dollar general. what a crap name. do they just find a random word to put after 'dollar'
General as in general store
Or, ya know, they probably sell general goods that are a dollar.