I sympathize—you thought you were going to get your children some toys. Your children, doubtless, deserve toys. The thing is, when it turned out you’d misread the price, there’s nothing a cashier can do about it—the “scanning code of practice” protects you from mislabeling, not misreading. So, you were essentially asking the cashier to break the rules for you. I think she should have, but, let’s face it, she’s almost certainly been subject to decades of capitalist ideological indoctrination that your tantrum in no way addressed. I think you missed a wonderful teaching moment to say, “Look kids, Galen Weston Jr. rakes in billions of dollars denying toys to children over a measly twenty bucks. This is how a society based on wage labour and commodity production devalues real human beings. And this poor, underpaid cashier is expected to run damage control for the bourgeoisie!” Instead, you acted like a jerk. Don’t be a jerk, we’re all in this together. —Woblaws
This article appears in Mar 2-8, 2017.
Why should the cashier have broken policy and price adjusted because the customer made a mistake that was 100% their fault?
You’re never too old to be immature…
Wobbly, if you are incapable of forming a cogent argument without regurgitating rote-memorized marxist pablum, you aren’t in “this” with anybody, except perhaps the other bedbug incubators who crash at your squat.
You could have made it a teaching moment by telling the kids to “check their privilege” and consider the waifs of Raqqua whose only toys are RPG tubes, and barrel bomb fuses.
Now, go shoplift some tins of ravioli to barter for sexual favors.
WTF is this?!
HAHA, I am much less of a lefty these days but I LOVE that suggested quote. If someone ahead of me in line at toys’r’us said that to their kids I’d have paid the difference.
What is to be done?
Not even worth a comment, although I just did, which is ironic.