Everyone likes a good sale. The cheaper the food, the better. One of our regular customers, an employee for the city bus system, has recently decided that he wants his food for free. Paying for items is so overrated.
Now, this gentleman is certainly a law-abiding citizen. For him, shoplifting is out of the question. Instead, he has devised a semi-ingenious (although not so morally sound) plan.
STEP 1: Purchase a chicken salad sandwich and a small carton of milk from our store.
STEP 2: Leave store.
STEP 3: Eat all but one bite of the sandwich and drink 3/4 of the milk.
STEP 4 (a.k.a the “brilliance” of his plan): Return to the store, find a manager and claim that the sandwich and the milk “didn’t taste good.” (Mhmmm, right.)
STEP 5: Receive a new sandwich and milk on the house after apologies from the manager.
Using my superior deduction skills, I postulated that Pinocchio is cheating the system, considering we sold nearly 20 identical sandwiches and cartons of milk that day; no other customers complained.
Our manager graciously swallowed Pinocchio’s fibs. I would not have been so understanding. My question is:
WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU NEARLY FINISH A SANDWICH AND MILK THAT YOU THOUGHT TASTED REALLY FUNKY? (Is that too harsh?)
Plus, when he asked for another sandwich, he picked the same, identically packaged chicken salad sandwich. That would be like me purchasing a T-shirt, claiming that it gave me a rash, returning it and then buying an identical t-shirt. It’s insanity.
I check you out. 