Anyone work in retail at holiday time?
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Anyone work in retail at holiday time?
| Mon, 12-06-2004 - 7:34pm |
Do you work in retail at holiday time? How is your store doing so far this year for holiday sales? What are you thinking when someone hands you their credit card to pay for a purchase? When someone makes a large purchase or buys an expensive item or an item you really wanted, how do you feel? Have you declined a sale to someone? Have you learned anything personally from working in retail in regard to spending?
Littlesbigs

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I don't currently work in retail, but I did for years during and before college (Kmart and Toys-R-Us). It used to bother me when a card didn't go through. And as soon as I said, "They'd like me to call in the purchase for approval", the customer would look so shocked and embarrassed. I felt so bad for them because most of the time, the card was just fine. Most were understanding about it....but a few were very angry with me. It was bad for checks also that were denied. I can only imagine that checks have gotten more difficult with the new law saying businesses can treat checks like debits and withdraw the money without waiting days for the check to clear. As soon as that law passed, I knew that it would be hard for many families this holiday season.
Patty
I worked for a Disney video kiosk at Christmas in 1999. It was the first year that Disney started releasing their movies on DVD, and they started with 9 all at once. DVDs weren't cheap in 1999, since they were still in the gaining popularity stage. My store sold the Disney DVDs for, if I remember correctly, at least $30 each, plus taxes. I had several people (the serious Disney collectors) buy all 9 at once - to a tune of over $300. At the time, I was struggling very hard, and sort of resented the fact that some people could just throw that kind of money around. Back then, $300 was my share of a month's rent.
Of course, just because these people were spending it, didn't mean they could afford it. I clearly remember one woman visibly cringing when I gave her the total, yet she bought them all anyway.
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Is it to prevent people from using it in other stores that might not call in the card? To help consumers from spending over their limit? I've wondered this myself.
Patty
And here I thought it was because it was possibly a stolen card!
I know when I worked retail, it was always the possibility of having to confiscate a card (I never had to do it) but we were to give them a number to call, etc... to explain why or something of that nature.
Becky
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It just put the pic of dh in my head when he has gone over limit. Not much thankfully but even a dollar makes me mad lol. But it would still make me mad if they were to cut his card. I was thinking of that kind of scenario.
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