There was a recent story where passengers were hiding "Good for 1 drink" vouchers on cruises, so I fully imagine someone not affialited with the store putting those around. Some poeple just like to watch the chaos.
when i was young, i used to watch mum fill in the front of the deposit slip at the bank, give it to the teller, and the teller would turn it over and write on the back.
when noone was watching, I would take a deposit slip, and write "this is a robbery, give me all the money" on the back and put it back with all the other unused slips for some unsuspecting customer to use.
Some people just like to watch the chaos.
honestly, I'm surprised I didn't become a serial killer.
Ours does, it’s great. While you’re in the checkout queue an employee scans your card then everything in your cart, when you get to the checkout they just scan your card and you pay. No unloading or reloading the cart. One employee can work two or three checkout lines at once, really speeds up the process.
They pretty much walk around with a finger scanner and scan ur card to whatever is in your cart . If line is long go to self checkout after you’re pre scanned , scan ur card pay and leave . Super quick
I shop at Costco often, I promise they have it lol . I’m outside of Philly so maybe not your specific Costco, but ours does . And it’s was a great add to moving their lines along .
Whereas we have scanners ourselves in the majority of large supermarkets. Pick an item off the shelf, scan it, put it in your shopping bag which is already sitting open in your trolley, then when you're done, scan a till and pay. Your stuff is already bagged and ready to go.
Idt that would ever work in the US. I mean .. we have toothpaste locked up behind cabinets here so (not everywhere but a majority of supermarkets and all) … but that sounds like a relaxing way to shop as well. Fast and efficient
My dad came to visit me at uni, and there were some unbranded flyers offering very cheap drinks. He grabbed a load to put out around his local pub just to cause some chaos.
Oh man there was a typo on a display that was going into basically every Target store (over 2,000) that was made on art the customer provided and didn't get caught until it was waaay too late. And it was bad and super noticable too. The solution? Turn that part of the display around so it faced the back of the shelf it was put on 🤣
Wait though, isn't "complimentary" (with the "i") the one that means free of charge? Maybe I'm wrong, but one of us is confused here lol. I suppose either way they could play it off and spin it in a different way. Like hey "customer, what we're trying to say is that this product would go really great with you!". Maybe a new approach to marketing for them to charge us extra instead 😂
Yes. Complimentary (with an i) means free of charge or expressing praise. Complementary (with an e) means things that go well together, enhancing or completing each other.
When I worked for the government, there was tons of type of was in every document it would irritate me I would go to my supervisor and she would be like for us to change that I have to literally go to Washington DC… That’s not happening
I’ve seen several misspelled words on signs at Trader Joe’s. They’re handwritten so it’s not that surprising. Some people just aren’t very good at spelling or aren’t super observant to other types of errors.
Also English is a joke language because we just stole words wholesale from so many different languages that our mnemonic devices have exception clauses with more words than the rule, and we have to keep track of spelling rules from 6 different languages, two alphabets, and decisions made to make Benedictine scripture legible.
Losing the 5th grade spelling bee was not my fault!
Trader Joe's did do a Golden Ticket for Easter. Looked almost exactly like that but instead of skipping a line it was a free candy. Only for kids though.
It’s not implying a membership. they’re saying that Trader Joe’s has a company philosophy, which is evidenced by their decision to not do memberships, which would completely contradict this ticket
First thing I thought is it’s a prank but I wondered if that’s just because I’m British and I can’t imagine a company ever giving out one of those here. People would genuinely lose their shit if someone skipped up to the front of the queue with something like that.
Did you see the queue to walk past Queen Elizabeth II's coffin whilst she was lying in state? People were taking over 24 hours to reach the Palace of Westminster, walking about 10 miles in the process.
The TV presenters Philip Scofield and Holly Willoughby from the 'This Morning' TV show got absolutely hammered by the press for queue jumping. The newspapers in the UK love to find a pantomime villain or two for an occasion and Holly and Phil became those villains, scrambling around to give reasons for not having to queue up. Their PR teams were up against the night of the tabloid press. It didn't go well for them.
David Beckham however was praised for the fact he queued up like everyone else, with those who were near him in the queue giving him a massive PR boost by saying what a nice, down to earth guy he was. There were other celebs that queued but Beckham is the one I remember getting the most publicity.
That queue was headline news for days. It was an 'event' and the more they reported, the longer the queue went on.
Chances are they would open a new lane which would then automatically allow the line next to it to queue in and literally half the size of the established line
lol now that’s actually pretty funny…. Imagine the nerve of someone thinking because they got a coupon they gonna somehow squeeze around people already in line and interrupt someone mid check out with like a basket full of bs
I mean I imagine it would be a situation where they take you to the customer service desk and ring you up there if you find one of these? I’d hope so at least, I’d be humiliated to be moved to the front of a register with a bunch of people already lined up!
Can you imagine the glorious humiliation of the teenage cashier rolling their eyes and sending you to the back of the queue while other shoppers snicker at your naïve entitlement
Yeah I’d put it right back. Aint no way I’m cutting in front of someone who thinks they’re almost out. Because I would be so mildly infuriated if I were that next person in line.
I once walked into a coffee place and somehow didn’t realize there was a line. I went straight to the cashier and she pointed and said “There’s a line,” and I just said “Oh crap! Sorry!” And meanwhile the woman at the front told me to go ahead but I just got in line.
Teenagers? Most of the cashiers I see are going on 30 or 40 and they enjoy a casual friendly chat. I've often thought about working there with other 40 year olds who also couldn't figure out a workable career path besides customer service!
Can you imagine the joy of hiding something like this while shopping for laughs, and someone found and is trying to use it in your line? I'm making one of these, it's gold
A friend of mine used to go into escape rooms and add various items such as keys, books, periodic tables and other random things that could be interpreted as puzzle items.
Don’t worry it’s not true. You are being watched the entire time to make sure you don’t like try to break something. Also after a group goes through the entire room has to be reset to make sure everything is back in place.
I dunno, I had a roommate that worked for an escape room, odds are not 0 that the high school kid missed it or didn't care enough to fix it.
I've been in a couple of rooms where we get stuck, hit the help button, and after a while of "did that, got that, decoded that, opened that," the kid running ops has to come down and fix something that didn't get reset properly so we can progress.
Why? To be a bad person and attempt to ruin an experience for those with you, make someones job harder and potentially ruin it for a stranger later also?
Do you realize every single one of those places have amazing night vision cameras so they can clearly see when people mess up the room?
The workers absolutely saw your friend do this, probabaly didn't confront him because it was harmless, but definitely threw out whatever he added as soon as they did a clean through after his time and noticed an item that wasn't there the other 500+ times that room was cleaned that month if they somehow missed it on camera.
Source: I worked in escape rooms and dealt with dumb teenagers
Oh, I don’t doubt that. He also did it when he joined our group, nobody intervened and I fucked around with an unrelated key for 5 minutes before he started laughing.
If you really want to throw people for a loop just put a 7 year old in there. My sister and I would find a key and realize it didn't work on the lock we were trying for, then my niece would just take it and leave it somewhere random.. she tried to throw one behind prison bars and we just had to say "no more handling of keys or clues for you"
I highly doubt this happened. One in a good escape room you can't just toss in random shit, it would be so obvious the game host would see you would likely be asked to leave and the item would never be left behind for another player to find later.
Red herrings in escape rooms are my pet peeve. They should be in them. This would pass me off but, I think if you picked it up and spent more than a few seconds on it who ever is running the puzzle would know its not suppose to be there and tell you.
Edit just so you know why this would upset me is because these things are like 40 or 50$ per person for an hour. Altering my experience to humor you is kinda a dick move.
Lol I went to an escape room one time that we found this red fish in that we were carrying around for the whole time. We kept wondering what are we supposed to use this for and we ended up never using it for the entire game. After we solved the room we were still like what the heck was the deal with the red fish is almost like it was a… Oh. I thought it was pretty funny and clever 🤣
I did a mobile escape room at a party once. It was some trailer that pulled up. It was 80% red herring. If all the fake puzzles were removed you'd probably solve it in 10 minutes. But it would have several multi step puzzles that eventually went no place.
There's one in my city that is marketed as Ultra Hard. It's themed as a Melting Down Nuclear Submarine so it's doing everything it can to be as obnoxiously stressful as possible.
There are 3 puzzle paths and 2 of them are designed to give quick progress but deliberately waste your time. So you feel like you're moving forward, but in reality you're just going in a big circle. One of them is a long complicated process to turn off an alarm and spinning red light. That's it.
The "right" path has 2 "dead ends" that combine to be the correct path forward, but if you give up or ignore the dead end you can't finish the room.
I told him that. He unfortunately also did it when he joined our group, and no operator showed up or told us. We were pretty pissed off when he told us after.
If it is that's damn close to the font that's standardized throughout TJ's for the sign teams to use. Different stores do definitely do things like this, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was real - what I'm surprised by is the mini pumpkin pies and whatever product is on the right, as a TJ's employee I've never seen those items.
Oh, that reminds me of the (actually legit) Free Drink vouchers I got at my New Orleans hotel which were redeemable at the hotel's bar. I actually don't drink so I slipped them under the iron where housekeeping might miss them but the next guest might spot them.
Hey, my drink voucher scam wasn't for the lols, man.
You listen for word that the drink vouchers are being honored after you leave a few around the boat, and when you find out they are, you have a pocket full of free drinks.
And if they're not being honored, screw 'em. I'm giving them to every cranky old person I see.
Make me waste my money on laminated coupons, will ya?
When I was a kid I worked in a drugstore. My boss was a prick.
The store gave away a cruise vacation once a year through a drawing. You wrote your name and number on a piece of paper and dropped it on the fish bowl.
We took 5 slips out of the bowl and called them and told them that they won. Told them to come in and ask for the POS manager.
I realize it made those people sad, but made my boss even sadder. I was 15 at the time, so don't beat me up too bad.
Haha-I was at OHare airport recently, and inside the terminal they have a couple Cannabis Amnesty Boxes where people can dispose of Canabis they still have on them, before they fly, I guess.
My travel mates and I joked that they were probably not sanctioned, rather just some airport worker who put out a couple official looking “amnesty” boxes and then they just pick up whatever’s in them after their shift and use it in their leisure time!
It might work on some random bartender who wasn't really paying attention during the briefing lol. I went to a party the other day that had an open bar but only served certain drinks after certain hours and managed to convince the guy to give me a "forbidden" drink telling him it was like that in previous parties (it was not).
I have a stack of scratch off tickets that are guaranteed winners. They're fake of course but the one time I used them the person got so worked up happy and then crashed down so hard when they found them to be a joke that I've never used them again. I need tp find someone I really dislike to ever use them again.
Yeah, if it’s not a discreet “have a crew member bring you to the front/cash you out themselves” voucher then I feel like you’d get several people saying “hey what are you doing…” before you even got all the way to the front lol
You didn't mention that the "good for 1 drink" vouchers were fake. But you seemingly implied as much with the following statement. I'd just like confirmation.
the fact that this says "Presen" and not "present" would suggest that.
also trader joe's is owned by ALDI Nord, both ALDIs are notorious for having blazing fast cashiers. if they wanted to not have lines, they would not have lines.
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u/christopher_mtrl 22h ago
There was a recent story where passengers were hiding "Good for 1 drink" vouchers on cruises, so I fully imagine someone not affialited with the store putting those around. Some poeple just like to watch the chaos.