Buying Greetings Cards

[lankeela]

This perhaps ought to be in the shopping section, but following on from the 'how do you give change' thread, why is it that people never put cards back where they got them from, and take the wrong envelopes. I work for a card company and people constantly moan about the prices, but most of that is spent paying me to sort out the mess they leave! Every card is put in the correct place, with the correct envelope. No sooner has this been done, than someone takes one out, reads it and puts it back somewhere else, or can't be bothered to look where it came from and takes an envelope from another card. How they make them fit is beyond me, they don't even bother to take one that is bigger, never mind the same size!

The worst are the 'humourous' ones, where you just have to read them all to find the funniest. The worst ones for envelopes are the men, particularly at Christmas or Valentines, they don't seem to realise that they need an envelope.

So please folks, make this merchandiser happy and make sure you put the card back in the right place, and take the right envelope. Help us to help you!

[joko]

often its because someone else has already moved or taken the envelope for the card you want so its a vicious circle - perhaps they should put them in the clear plastic sleeves or attach the card to the envelope with a band of cardboard or even that sticky rubber stuff they use on magazines?

[lankeela]

Yes, it is easier if they are in plastic sleeves.But this makes them even more expensive (unless you go for a very cheap card like you get in 'pound' shops). But we do replace envelopes almost on a daily basis, particularly in big supermarkets like Tescos, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Asda, etc. Some people actually nick huge wads of envelopes.

[lady_p_gold]

Its the same in any retail thing .. I used to work in Curry's and people constantly fiddled about with things that were alarmed until the alarms went off and you had to go and punch in a number, and then I worked in Selfridges on knitting machines and people fiddled about with them and messed up all the knitting - it is human nature I am afraid ... and who of us can deny having plonked something back in Sainsbury's miles away from the aisle because we changed our minds ... .hmmmmmmm ???? Oh and another thing .. I can never ask for the loo in a store because when you work there you get asked a hundred times a day .. in fact we used to make a game of it .. one of us had the loo and the other had the lifts and we got a point if someone asked us and then whoever had the most at the end of the day won ! Made it more fun ! And when I was on directory enquiries people would say, if you couldn't find the number "its a massive huge building" .. really doesn't help I'm afraid !!

[rampart]

I am lazy, so I do not always put them back where they came from. I will not buy a pink envelope, so sometimes I change the envelope!

[lankeela]

I rest my case!

[maggie01]

They do it in all the shops. You often find in asda that people just put shopping back on the shelf after they have walked a few isles up from where they picked them up. Especially things from the deli counter. I have often seen these tucked in between biscuits etc. It's just lazy. I'm sure if I did it, there would be someone behind me tap me on the shoulder and ask what I thought I was doing. :)

[lankeela]

These things may seem minor, but they all cost us in the long run, having to employ people to put things back, and the waste if perishables have to be thrown away because they have been left out of the chiller, etc.

Another bugbear, why don't people put their trolleys back where they got them from? How much does it cost to employ people to push the trolleys back to the trolley park? Perhaps they could fit them with a remote control that made them zoom back to the trolley park once emptied - I can just picture having to jump out of the way as one came hurtling past at 90 mph. OK Maybe not.

Now I'm on a mission. Why do they put kids IN trolleys? I don't want to put my food in where some snotty nosed kid has possibly p****d itself all over the trolley, or had its dirty feet.