From your reply, you don't believe me so I'm not going to waste time
playing "prove it to me" by answering the questions.
Just in case you might believe me, a very good friend who used to be
part-owner of a small supermarket told me what they used to do to protect their
thin margins. With today's affinity cards it's easy to identify those who
take primarily sale items. Even before the affinity cards, they could tell
who those people were. And the markets had the right to not service people
they didn't want on the property.
Many years ago I did work at a grocery store that my grandfather owned &
we did kick out customers. However, they were mostly winos since we didn't
have any sale items.
PS My friend later in his career worked for a large chain that specialized
in selling items that were deeply discounted. Unless you were stealing, I
never heard of treatment as bad as back-rooming. Some of the stuff that he
told me about led me to avoid the chains that focus on deep discounting.
That old saw, you get what you pay for is really true. He does go back to
the chain to shop occasionally but does most of his shopping at Costco.
That's enough of a testament for me.
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--- In _vpFREE@yahoogroups.vpF_ (mailto:vpFREE@yahoogroups.com) ,
TedChee@... wrote:
>
> If you've ever worked at a grocery store, you'd be struck by some of the
> similarities. Yes they have loss leaders but did you know that they also
ask
> people who buy only the loss leaders not to come back?"
No, I didn't know that.
I've never heard of a grocery store asking someone not to come back
because they only purchase sale items.
How does this work? Does the cashier call a Security Guard? Do they tell
the shopper he will be trespassed next time?
Do they backroom the shopper and call in Metro?
This sounds ridiculous to me, whether you've worked in a grocery store or
not.
Links to verify?
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