Just writing to say…I work doing demos at a local store. Until now, I would never believe these so called university educated members could be so rude and ignorant! The older I get, the less tolerance I have for these types of people. It’s all I can do not to tell them off on a daily basis. They walk up to the table and say, “what do we have here?” Clearly it’s roasted almonds…I really feel mlike saying does it look like a lobster supper? And it is a sample, not a buffet. People bring their family of 6 to eat off these demo tables 3 times a week …and yes its the same people over and over again to come to the demo “buffets” the stackers will put 2 samples in left hand, two samples in their mouth, and two samples in their right hand, then circle around to the other tables and make their rounds working their way to a full belly. As I was growing up, my parents taught me to say please and thank you and to take the one closest to me if offered anything from a tray…whether it be a candy dish at Christmas time or whatever…I cant believe the stackers that reach to the 3rd one in the last row just to get the biggest sample! Are you people for real! Who wants to eat something that your bathroom unwashed hands and nose picking fingers have touched! Shame on you! And what are u teaching your kids? Thank God its only a part time job because if I did this full time, I would have told some people how to use manners and act like a civilized that person that can afford to buy their own groceries. You DISGUST ME! —noneya BUSINESS
This article appears in Aug 15-21, 2013.
Pole dancing ….. check it out …. you can even offer samples to the patrons ….. hours are flexible as long as you are too!
I’d sooner do petri-dish shooters than sample free food at room temperature in a grocery store. Howard Hughes had the right frickin’ idea.
move to Vancouver, you can’t offer grocery store samples there. your life isn’t worth it. I watched a knock down drag ’em through the blood and guts fight amongst a dozen old ladies in black dresses in a s-way store over a rack of 99c a pound chickens.
I think OB is just angry that s/he has this type of job…
i feel bad for you op, along with the poor clipboard folks who wander the aisles, looking sad
I’ve never thought of taking more than one food sample. If I tried that with the bunch at the grocery stores around here, they’d knock my front teeth down my throat. They’re a tough bunch but they’re fair.
You’re paid to give out free samples. So, free samples you will give. If there’s not a one per customer limit or a purchase policy for in store items before eating the samples then you’ll just have to deal with it.
I used to love free sample day when I was a kid, my siblings too. We did what you despise too. I did grow up in public housing so that could explain it, but you claimed it was only university educated folk so my family would’ve been off the hook to your sample rules.
Oh, and how do I know you’re cleaner then the sample takers?
Dust off your CV. You need a change.
Free sample day is a happy, fun day for lots of people, ya damn grinch 😀
You sell nuts, you say? Buy some of dem little tiny paper bags. The ones you get at the candy store to put penny candies in… Take a bag and put 2 nuts in it. Den you can hand out dem samples of yo nuts to whomever you see fit.
Your approach line can be, “wanna taste my salty nuts?”