A woman buying a black and mild cigar and alcoholic lemonade made her 6 year old son put back the snack he’d picked out when the total went above the amount of cash she had, saying, well I told him he could spend the change from my purchase. It was a little after noon.
We ran out of straws before I got there at noon but still sold drinks and slurpees all day without straws till 630pm when more straws came on a truck.
Not one person purchased fresh produce from our new fresh produce rack that showed up last week which I have been excited about. Since the nice looking rack with avocados, tomatoes, potatoes, and onions went up, I recall selling a total of two russet potatoes, once, to a regular who comes into the store at least 4 times in my 8 hour shifts including yesterday, and who gets an extra large slurpee refill each time, the Coke flavor.
A Hispanic guy my age did this:
Turned in 2 $5 scratch tickets stating that he didn’t think either was a winner but he’d like to check them both. Neither were winners. He purchased another $5 of one of the two and scratched it off. I checked it for him: not a winner. He took out a $20 and purchased one more of the same type again and one $5 different ticket and scratched them off. I checked them for him: the one that had been losing kept losing while the other was a $5 “winner,” as the lottery describes it, paying out the $5 it cost to buy it. With the $5 credit he purchased another of the continual loser, I think at this point believing a winner was due, and with the $10 change from his prior $20, emboldened I think by the win, he purchased a $10 ticket. He retired to the coffee bar and scratched these off diligently and then turned them in, both were not winners. He pulled out another $20 and purchased the same: a $10 and a $5. I scanned them in and both were losers. He bought one more of the $10 ticket with a $5 bill and $5 on a debit card. It was not a winner. He bought one more $10 and one more $5 ticket on his debit card, scratched them off, and turned them in, but they were not winners. He bought the same again, one $10 and one $5, scratched them off, examined them, and left.
A woman over 40 filled up 5 extra large slurpees for herself and two friends (without straws). One of the friends went outside indicating to us that his slurpee was with her tab. The charge was $10, but down to about $6 after 7-rewards. She was using food stamps but her pin wouldn’t work. Her second friend berated her for grabbing the “wrong card,” and they left the 4 extra large slurpees on the counter and went outside to discuss with the 3rd person. Eventually they left but not before my boss noticed the 5th slurpee that had already been partially consumed in the mans hands outside was sporting one of our $1.19 Seattle Seahawks straws, and went to the door to tell them they needed to also pay for that straw he had taken. The woman came back in and said they would be back. I poured the 4 slurpees down a drain about an hour later.
We sold 314 mini tacos.