u is a winer!

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FJ

ms--go to home depot


"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> Tabbi wrote:
>>
>> Essentially, I'm keen to get 'supermakret rage' stories of whatever
>> degree.
>
> The final straw that got me to stop shopping at Safeway
> was when they reprogrammed their computers to rip off
> the consumer making change. It used to be if you had
> $0.80 change coming, you'd get three quarters and a
> nickel. Now you get two quarters and three dimes,
> or worse. Even if you have $0.50 coming, you won't
> get two quarters. You'll get one quarter, two dimes,
> and a nickel.
>
> Why do they do this? It's to reduce the amount of
> change they have to stock in the checkout lines.
> To save _the_interest_ in the value of the change
> (less than a penny per shift), they are willing
> to inconvenience hundreds of customers. Safeway
> is willing to spit on hundreds of customers for
> less than a penny! I can take my business elsewhere.
>
> Now, you might wrongly say that I can always ask
> to trade my change for some quarters. The last time
> I did that, the checker didn't have any quarters in
> her drawer. I pointed to the change machine and
> pointed out that it was full of quarters. But she
> said they'd changed the machines, and she'd have
> to get the quarters from another checker. In all,
> it took about an extra three minutes, and I wasn't
> about to let them off the hook for those quarters.
> I'm sure they hated me for that, which is fine with
> me, as long as they also hate their employer at least
> as much. They should suffer for having chosen an
> employer with so little regard for their employees
> and their customers. HATE HATE HATE SAFEWAY.
>
> I now do most of my shopping at Trader Joe's, even
> though that's a fair distance from me, and Safeway
> is only two blocks away. The employees at TJ's
> seem genuinely happy to work there, unlike every
> other place that sells groceries. And the prices
> are excellent. I'd rather buy more groceries from
> a genuinely happy person at TJ's than from a slave
> at Safeway.