Because it’s Christmas Eve and they’re desperate for customers?
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I guess….. because after months of panicky hysterical customers this is a calm collected guy???? Maybe he’s going to keep things in perspective if things don’t go perfectly? He said he “might as well start here” so he doesn’t really care what the outcome is?
Frankly, he seems like the *worst* person a retailer wants on christmas eve! He assumes it will be simple and easy but once the first snag he’s likely to become hysterical.
A person who shows up late in the season willing to pay full price? Yeah, that’s a “hero” as far as the store is concerned.
James, why assume he’s “willing to pay full price”? He’s standing in front of a sale table.
“A person who shows up late in the season willing to pay full price? Yeah, that’s a “hero” as far as the store is concerned. ”
Desirable and wanted but I’m not sure that’s a “hero”. A marbled beef steer rubbing his neck against the abattoir door hoping to get in isn’t exactly a “hero”.
I think Woozy has it. He’s a customer with a positive attitude, the first one in awhile, and on Christmas Eve for goodness’ sake.
” why assume he’s “willing to pay full price”?
Because he’s admitting that he’s just getting started on his shopping, rather than asking about the area of the store with the sharpest markdowns.
“Desirable and wanted but I’m not sure that’s a “hero”. A marbled beef steer rubbing his neck against the abattoir door hoping to get in isn’t exactly a “hero”.”
Hero is a nearly-exclusively-human characteristic.
He shows up near the end of the third reel, and solves all the other characters’ problems. What do we usually call that? It ain’t the villain…
The clerk might deem him a hero because he’s bucking the trend to start the Christmas (shopping) season earlier and earlier, which is what makes both retail and Retail so unpleasant this time of year.
But maybe not the intended meaning, or he might be the hero they’ve needed all along. But perhaps the exhausted shoppers and clerks need him right now to show them a better way for next year?
I used to watch Storage Wars quite a bit. One episode featured “Laura ” doing all the auctions instead of her husband as is more typical. There was a rapid sequence of lockers auctioned off. One just had a large tank in it. Everyone pretty much stared at it, until some guy in the back said “Fifty dollars”. She beamed and said, “My Hero!”
He chose a brick entrepreneur instead of a click entrepreneur. He would be a hero to a local merchant.
I think John K. got it.
Why would he pay full price – panic and need.
He ordered a Barbie mermaid doll that lights up in water for husband niece’s from Walmart as it was not carried locally. It took 2 weeks to come. (Ordered on short time before Christmas as it took SIL until then to tell us – yes, crazy SIL.) We open the shipping box – panic sets in. In the listing Barbie was traditional Barbie – Caucasian, blonde haired, blue eyed. The doll we received was African American. There had not been a choice on the listing. We did not have another 2 weeks and there was no guarantee the right one would show up next time.
I went into panic mode – I started with Mattel online – found out the doll we got we got was a Princess NIkki and they have different sku’s from Mattel – not the same doll at all. I then found the doll listed as in stock at 3 local Targets for $4 (on a $13 item). I printed out for 2 of the stores the info and that they were in stock and where, sure that when we went in there would be none and I would have to find an employee and berate them into finding us one. (“Don’t tell me you don’t have any – it shows 24 of them in stock…”) There they were – out on display. Grabbed one. As we walked away – the price on the shelf was $2 more than the online listing which included “buy in store at this price”. (We are on tight budget and for all we know SIL decided niece would like this and niece never heard of it.) I went to the service desk where I was actually told that the price it says it in the store does not matter as the price varies from store to store (show me which store has the low prices and which has the high, I was thinking, I’ll buy stuff at the low price store and return it without the receipt to the high price one. She did match the price – but it is amazing how panic can make one shop.
Oh, and the shelf price in Target, known as a discounter, was $2 more than list price. It was not hard to find this doll because it was sold out – but apparently no one wanted it. And yes, niece unwrapped, looked at it, blinked and threw it over her shoulder onto the pile of stuff behind her.
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I guess….. because after months of panicky hysterical customers this is a calm collected guy???? Maybe he’s going to keep things in perspective if things don’t go perfectly? He said he “might as well start here” so he doesn’t really care what the outcome is?
Frankly, he seems like the *worst* person a retailer wants on christmas eve! He assumes it will be simple and easy but once the first snag he’s likely to become hysterical.
A person who shows up late in the season willing to pay full price? Yeah, that’s a “hero” as far as the store is concerned.
James, why assume he’s “willing to pay full price”? He’s standing in front of a sale table.
“A person who shows up late in the season willing to pay full price? Yeah, that’s a “hero” as far as the store is concerned. ”
Desirable and wanted but I’m not sure that’s a “hero”. A marbled beef steer rubbing his neck against the abattoir door hoping to get in isn’t exactly a “hero”.
I think Woozy has it. He’s a customer with a positive attitude, the first one in awhile, and on Christmas Eve for goodness’ sake.
” why assume he’s “willing to pay full price”?
Because he’s admitting that he’s just getting started on his shopping, rather than asking about the area of the store with the sharpest markdowns.
“Desirable and wanted but I’m not sure that’s a “hero”. A marbled beef steer rubbing his neck against the abattoir door hoping to get in isn’t exactly a “hero”.”
Hero is a nearly-exclusively-human characteristic.
He shows up near the end of the third reel, and solves all the other characters’ problems. What do we usually call that? It ain’t the villain…
The clerk might deem him a hero because he’s bucking the trend to start the Christmas (shopping) season earlier and earlier, which is what makes both retail and Retail so unpleasant this time of year.
But maybe not the intended meaning, or he might be the hero they’ve needed all along. But perhaps the exhausted shoppers and clerks need him right now to show them a better way for next year?
I used to watch Storage Wars quite a bit. One episode featured “Laura ” doing all the auctions instead of her husband as is more typical. There was a rapid sequence of lockers auctioned off. One just had a large tank in it. Everyone pretty much stared at it, until some guy in the back said “Fifty dollars”. She beamed and said, “My Hero!”
He chose a brick entrepreneur instead of a click entrepreneur. He would be a hero to a local merchant.
I think John K. got it.
Why would he pay full price – panic and need.
He ordered a Barbie mermaid doll that lights up in water for husband niece’s from Walmart as it was not carried locally. It took 2 weeks to come. (Ordered on short time before Christmas as it took SIL until then to tell us – yes, crazy SIL.) We open the shipping box – panic sets in. In the listing Barbie was traditional Barbie – Caucasian, blonde haired, blue eyed. The doll we received was African American. There had not been a choice on the listing. We did not have another 2 weeks and there was no guarantee the right one would show up next time.
I went into panic mode – I started with Mattel online – found out the doll we got we got was a Princess NIkki and they have different sku’s from Mattel – not the same doll at all. I then found the doll listed as in stock at 3 local Targets for $4 (on a $13 item). I printed out for 2 of the stores the info and that they were in stock and where, sure that when we went in there would be none and I would have to find an employee and berate them into finding us one. (“Don’t tell me you don’t have any – it shows 24 of them in stock…”) There they were – out on display. Grabbed one. As we walked away – the price on the shelf was $2 more than the online listing which included “buy in store at this price”. (We are on tight budget and for all we know SIL decided niece would like this and niece never heard of it.) I went to the service desk where I was actually told that the price it says it in the store does not matter as the price varies from store to store (show me which store has the low prices and which has the high, I was thinking, I’ll buy stuff at the low price store and return it without the receipt to the high price one. She did match the price – but it is amazing how panic can make one shop.
Oh, and the shelf price in Target, known as a discounter, was $2 more than list price. It was not hard to find this doll because it was sold out – but apparently no one wanted it. And yes, niece unwrapped, looked at it, blinked and threw it over her shoulder onto the pile of stuff behind her.