Q's CVS Lounge

At the OB store it's hard to miss, people just walk right out with it. The cashiers sometimes ask if they paid yet but they just keep walking. I've seen a cashier walk out after them, but they start running as soon as they reach the door. At the CVS I wouldn't have noticed except the cashier pointed it out and told me he did it every day.

There were some kids who used to come into Wags every day and steal candy. One day the cashier told them to put the candy back and not to ever come back to the store if they were going to steal. One of the kids went home and told his dad. His dad called corporate and corporate called the store manager and told him that he had to issue the dad a $50 gift card. True story...

At another drugstore (can't say the name), somebody was stealing some alcohol and the store manager screamed at the cashier to stop him. The cashier just stood there by the front door. The crook bumped into the cashier as he was running out of the store. The cashier got fired. Again, true story...

I went to a store I can't name yesterday and got 8 items I can't name but I'm sure that you know what they are. The cost is $16 + tax after coupons or less if they have any clearance. You get more back than what you paid including tax. It's pretty amazing...

Now you can get 3 of the .99 greeting cards, pay with points and get $3RR. Do that in 4 separate transactions, then buy the 8 items again with 4 BOGO and the 4 $3RRs.

when i worked retail many yrs ago...

Really disappointed in CVS's ads for Thanksgiving week.

quote-
Even shares of JC Penney fell by as much as 16% Friday [businessinsider.com], after the company reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ame...57335.html



you should just buy stocks that are never going to beat expectations. stocks always get punished for doing better than the experts expect them to.

i have to agree somewhat w/ this part of the article-
US consumers have been trained to never pay full price for anything, and it's crushing some American retailers. Shoppers started gravitating toward discount stores during the recession, and many have failed to return to shopping in full-price stores.
Once they realized they could get steeply discounted merchandise, they became addicted to seeking out good deals on food, clothes, shoes, and other items.

have to say i go shop at marshalls/tjmaxx b4 i go to macys. however, in the past i have always gone to this wk's one day sale this wk, the wk b4 thanksgiving. it really is the lowest prices of the season and if you need a good selection instead of leftovers from catalog companies and trying to get lucky, this is always the best wk of the year to shop at macys. the only thing is i really don't need anything so i'll check over the flyer but i'm not anticipating that i'll buy anything. i also noticed last yr that amazon.com was matching macy's prices for their doorbuster items. so if you could scrounge up $35 worth, you could just order online and never leave the comforts of home to do battle with the lines.

what i really don't like is that i didn't buy the paper, and therefore i don't have the macys ad. and they don't put it online until that day. so how do i know if there is anything good and need to go to? i found the ad for SF as a pdf from the paper, so i guess it will have to do.

doubleq7- we had lunch at Grimaldi's Sunday. I'm not a pizza fun so food was just ok to me. We got there at 1pm and the restaurant wasn't busy- I thought it would have been very busy for a Sunday afternoon!

I'm surprised that SD isn't going crazy today. Not only is there a deal in the weekly thread that's at least as good (if not better) than last week's epic deal but there's more, too. I'm going back out to check out a couple more stores.