And about an hour before the comic went live, somebody posted this on Facebook:
Tag / Retail
So… that means she IS comfortable?
Parking
Yeah, the joke’s ancient, but this made me smile anyway.
Maybe it was the head pat.
Shoplifting
So the joke is that self-checkout leads to shoplifting? It doesn’t, of course.
But the real question is, what’s the escapee from Chicka Chicka Boom Boom doing in the third panel?
And once again… Do I even want to know?
I’m not sure a correlation between stock price and payroll actually exists
Of course Stuart might just be using this as an excuse for payroll cuts that were going to happen anyway, but Marla doesn’t seem to be interpreting it that way and why would Stuart resort to weird excuses anyway?
I see this as part of the Questionable Economics trend begun a few days go by Tiffany in LuAnn.
Why the customer should have known Marla was faking it:
After “the following options,” she forgot to say “Please listen carefully, because the options have changed.”
I remember when the magazine I work for got a voicemail system, and when you called it the message included “Please listen carefully, because the options have changed. To reach the publisher, press 1; To reach the Managing Editor, press 2…”
I called the publisher — on a direct line — and said “Ray, we just got the system installed this morning. How can the options have changed already?” He told me that line is just part of the standard package.
(You know, going back to the Sally Forth from a few minute ago… when the magazine was circling the drain, maybe I should have tried for the same deal Sally suggested)
Saturday Morning Ewww, March 16, 2019

Submitted by Andréa
Played
Exactly how was the customer supposed to have prepared himself for this?
Granted, he could have waited a week before returning his item, but that doesn’t qualify as “being prepared for this.” The store, on the other hand, knows from experience that lines will be long on December 26. Granted, all the preparation in the world wouldn’t eliminate lines on December 26; but again, not the point.
Grumbels and Marla are Amazon’s greatest friends.