Walgreens Cashier Turns Into Commercial
SCENE: Standing in line at Walgreen's with a Take Five candy bar and a box of Garnier Nutrisse Hair Color, Macadamia #90, in my hands, behind a lady who had only a magazine.
PLAYERS: Cashier, The Lady In Front of Me, Me
(As the scene opens, Cashier rings up the magazine...)
CASHIER: Ok, one magazine (patronizingly)... Can I interest you in a Snickers bar today?
TLIFOM: Umm, well ok, I guess. I'm going to the hospital. (She takes 3 Snickers bars from the Cashier.)
CASHIER: Great, because when you're hungry, why wait?
ME: (stifled, unbelieving snickers) (not the candy bar, the giggles)
CASHIER: (eyes me with slightly slitted eyes, addresses TLIFOM) Thank you, come back.
CASHIER: (to me) Hi, how's it going? (rings up candy bar and hair color) Can I interest you in a Snickers bar today?
ME: No.
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"We are now accepting callers for these beautiful pendant keychains."
-- J. McCrea, et. al.
Comments
Clearly, the all-powerful Mars family has gotten to this Walgreen agent. Their tentacles are long and powerful.
But what truly motivates a Walgreen's agent to "upsell" product?
If I could harness that motivational power and use it on my OWN employees i could rule the worl...well, maybe not rule the world, but I could keep my job a little longer.
Zen: I had no clue, either. Maybe the manager was putting the screws to him to unload the last box of about-to-expire Snickers bars? I doubt he was getting a commission and even if he was, it would only be pennies, right? Maybe he was doing it as a dadaist statement on America and its obsession with convenience foods... but somehow that feels like I'm reading too much in.
Oh man...our grocery store is being turned into a Walgreen's...I almost want to go in there so they can ask me if I want a Snickers bar.
...I think we've got Snickers bars downstairs. brb.
LBB: Indeed. I hate suggestive selling. I always think of Jack Black on that Tenacious D record: "SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO MY ORDER!"
Todd: Ha! Thank you. I am merely a Paint Dilettante.
BoP: Thanks! Doing those silly scribbles in Paint is always more fun than I remember. I do like Snickers, I was just already good for candy that day.