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Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
The brother of one of my friends works in a Waitrose somewhere near Liverpool. On Christmas Eve they were reducing the prices of their turkeys during the afternoon to get rid of them before the store closed at five o'clock. There were more than a few overtly affluent customers hovering around waiting for the prices for the large turkeys to fall further - they'd been reduced twice from £100 to around £40 and some customers had been hovering for over an hour.
At ten to five an irritated customer confronted my friend's brother and complained about the lack of reductions in the past hour and demanded to know what he was going to do about reducing the prices in the final minutes of the store's opening after all there were around twenty turkeys unsold.
He went to see the manager and pass on the customer's concerns.
The manager's response was awesome. It went along the lines of:
'Twenty turkeys? We'll not be able to sell them in the last few minutes. I've got all perishables ready for collection by the food banks and charities. Bring them into the warehouse and I'll add them to the consignments.'
The customers' faces were pictures as they witnessed the turkeys being loaded into trolleys and wheeled into the back of the store.
Oh to have been a fly on the wall.
At ten to five an irritated customer confronted my friend's brother and complained about the lack of reductions in the past hour and demanded to know what he was going to do about reducing the prices in the final minutes of the store's opening after all there were around twenty turkeys unsold.
He went to see the manager and pass on the customer's concerns.
The manager's response was awesome. It went along the lines of:
'Twenty turkeys? We'll not be able to sell them in the last few minutes. I've got all perishables ready for collection by the food banks and charities. Bring them into the warehouse and I'll add them to the consignments.'
The customers' faces were pictures as they witnessed the turkeys being loaded into trolleys and wheeled into the back of the store.
Oh to have been a fly on the wall.
would love to have seen their faces
