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    Customer: "What's the difference between the ordinary cola bottles and the sugar free ones?"

    Me: "The ordinary ones are made with sugar, the sugar free ones with Malitol which is an artificial sweetener and also a laxative."

    Customer: "Yes, but what's the difference?"

    I may put a sign outside saying please bring your ears into the shop with you. :D
     
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    ME: Good afternoon Authorized Access, Dave speaking, how can I help?

    Customer: Hiya, Are you a locksmiths?

    ME: Yes can I help?

    Customer: Do you install locks?

    :|

    What am I meant to say to that exactly? :|
     
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    kelvin1950 said:
    Customer: "What's the difference between the ordinary cola bottles and the sugar free ones?"

    Me: "The ordinary ones are made with sugar, the sugar free ones with Malitol which is an artificial sweetener and also a laxative."

    Customer: "Yes, but what's the difference?"
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    Answer should have been: Absolutely nothing the bottles are both made out of plastic
     
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    Berkshire Business said:
    I guess this would put a little bit of humour into your days, there not difficult questions after all. Surely the bottle would state this difference, or maybe the 'diet' on the bottle. :|
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    Funny! :D


    Sorry... but I thought this was hilarious :D

    Cola bottles are sweets ;)

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    OP reminded me of a little gem a from a couple of years ago.

    We used to sell wrapping/crafting paper sheets made from recycled pineapple plant leaves.

    Customer 1. Oh! Look at that. Paper made from recycled pineapple leaves.

    Customer 2. Yes. It's amazing what they can do with bananas these days!
     
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    fairdealworld

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    The question which tends to floor me - and we are asked this quite often - "I like that vase/photo frame/scarf (whatever)" - is it for sale? It can be quite hard to suppress the desire to say 'Yes this is a shop".

    I occasionally wonder if I'm going about things all the wrong way, maybe we should charge to come in and look at the products rather than going to all the trouble of selling them.

    Lynn
     
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    fairdealworld said:
    The question which tends to floor me - and we are asked this quite often - "I like that vase/photo frame/scarf (whatever)" - is it for sale? It can be quite hard to suppress the desire to say 'Yes this is a shop".

    I occasionally wonder if I'm going about things all the wrong way, maybe we should charge to come in and look at the products rather than going to all the trouble of selling them.

    Lynn
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    I couldn't agree more Lynn. I might just have to pinch your idea!
     
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    fairdealworld said:
    The question which tends to floor me - and we are asked this quite often - "I like that vase/photo frame/scarf (whatever)" - is it for sale? It can be quite hard to suppress the desire to say 'Yes this is a shop".

    I occasionally wonder if I'm going about things all the wrong way, maybe we should charge to come in and look at the products rather than going to all the trouble of selling them.

    Lynn
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    Hi Lynn,

    I'm not trying to 'teach grandma' - but I'll make the observation anyway.

    It strikes me that if you are being asked this question more than once, then, as an outsider, I'd ask if you could improve the way you present such items for sale.

    Ideally, all the items in your shop should be looking at the customer and saying 'buy me, buy me' :)

    I don't mean have massive flourescent labels on everything. It can be very subtle... but if a few people actually open their mouth to ask such a question, you can guarantee that dozens more are wondering to themselves- or maybe there is some subconscious feeling they get that makes them move on to browse the next shelf before walking out of the door.

    Like I say... not teaching grandma... but if you take a minute to think about it, and decide you don't need to change anything, then so what?! You haven't lost anything!
     
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    SillyJokes said:
    so what's the difference between them and diet coke?

    (for what it's worth I think the customer meant what was the difference in price)
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    Erm... We'd already established that they were sweeties... and not the drink...

    I guess this would put a little bit of humour into your days, there not difficult questions after all. Surely the bottle would state this difference, or maybe the 'diet' on the bottle.
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    Hence why I thought it was hilarious that someone would come out with the above...

    Now you've just made me think...

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    :D
     
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    It didn't happen today but it's a memorable one for me...

    I'm a greengrocer and in the Summer broccoli comes in poly boxes packed with ice too keep it cool. One day I was putting some broccoli in a tray when a customer said "oooh, they put Ice in it to keep it cool? That's clever" to which I replied "but you know...if we leave it over night, someone comes in the middle of the night, takes the ice out and replaces it with.....water". She then leans forward and in all seriousness say's "you know...there's a lot of that sort of stuff happening around here lately...".
     
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    Tombo46 said:
    It didn't happen today but it's a memorable one for me...

    I'm a greengrocer and in the Summer broccoli comes in poly boxes packed with ice too keep it cool. One day I was putting some broccoli in a tray when a customer said "oooh, they put Ice in it to keep it cool? That's clever" to which I replied "but you know...if we leave it over night, someone comes in the middle of the night, takes the ice out and replaces it with.....water". She then leans forward and in all seriousness say's "you know...there's a lot of that sort of stuff happening around here lately...".
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    That`s just :eek::eek::eek:
     
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    Tombo46 said:
    It didn't happen today but it's a memorable one for me...

    I'm a greengrocer and in the Summer broccoli comes in poly boxes packed with ice too keep it cool. One day I was putting some broccoli in a tray when a customer said "oooh, they put Ice in it to keep it cool? That's clever" to which I replied "but you know...if we leave it over night, someone comes in the middle of the night, takes the ice out and replaces it with.....water". She then leans forward and in all seriousness say's "you know...there's a lot of that sort of stuff happening around here lately...".
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    You're not in Attercliffe are you? :eek:
     
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    I had a customer come in from a garage and the nipper asked for a set of bulbs and blue mlk plus.
    I helped him with the bulbs but couldn't understand his requirements of blue mlk plus and tried asking if it was an additive or lubricant.
    By this point he showed me the text from his boss and I read it ' blue milk pls' as in blue milk please.

    I politely told him that I was out of stock of the full fat milk and have recently stopped lactating so doubt I'd see a return.
     
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    kelvin1950 said:
    Customer: "What's the difference between the ordinary cola bottles and the sugar free ones?"

    Me: "The ordinary ones are made with sugar, the sugar free ones with Malitol which is an artificial sweetener and also a laxative."

    Customer: "Yes, but what's the difference?"

    I may put a sign outside saying please bring your ears into the shop with you. :D
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    I suspect the customer meant whats the difference re taste. But then they should have been more specific in their questioning. Which of course customers rarely are. Learn to mind read, makes life soooooo much easier.
     
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    Thomas Guise said:
    i went into a shop a couple of years ago and bought something which was £4.20. I gave the lady £5 note.

    She said have you got the 20p i said yes and gave her 20p.

    She then gave me five 20p coins back
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    Quite often in our shop someone will buy something for, say, £9.95 and will hand over a ten pound note and then say while rummaging in their purse, "I might have the five pence".

    It doesn't help. Just means we have to give 10p change instead of 5p!
     
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    groovyjon said:
    Quite often in our shop someone will buy something for, say, £9.95 and will hand over a ten pound note and then say while rummaging in their purse, "I might have the five pence".

    It doesn't help. Just means we have to give 10p change instead of 5p!
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    Not quite as silly however as the British preoccupation with ending prices in .95p or .99p
     
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    It's a perceived way of saying look I'm under £25 if I'm £24.99 people see the 99p and think ohh that's cheap, whereas if it says £25 people will go with... oh, hmm ok... it's not bad.

    Personally, I can't stand the having to give 1p change and then cashing up at the end of the night, so I round everything down to the pound.

    :)

    Please note: I did actually say round it down to the pound, unlike some of you whom would round up to the nearest pound... we ain't all money grabbers ya know :D
     
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    AuthorizedAccess said:
    It's a perceived way of saying look I'm under £25 if I'm £24.99 people see the 99p and think ohh that's cheap, whereas if it says £25 people will go with... oh, hmm ok... it's not bad.

    Personally, I can't stand the having to give 1p change and then cashing up at the end of the night, so I round everything down to the pound.

    :)

    Please note: I did actually say round it down to the pound, unlike some of you whom would round up to the nearest pound... we ain't all money grabbers ya know :D
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    I don't have any 99ps in my pricing regardless of the psychology. It's just annoying grrrrrrrr. When I went to Tunisia many many moons ago, the Tunisians on the market stall yelled two things upon realising one was British,

    ' fish and chips'

    And

    'everything 99p'

    That was 1991. Nowt has changed. Com'on retailers, make that change!!

    I do like the idea meanwhile of telling people I am *cough cough* .99 years old.
     
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