Eric D’s Efficiency Tips #2: Congratulations, Century Mart!
You’ve made the lines at the checkout 5 times SLOWER than what they were before! How did you do it? By offering a 5 RMB coupon for every 200 RMB spent at the cash register!
How this works: Say you’re out shopping with the missus & the little ones. Fill your cart up nice & full. Now, head over to the check out area.
Unload your cart, but keep an eye out on the total price. When it goes over 200 RMB, shout, “STOP!!!” and pay & get your coupon, and let her bag everything up. Start again. Unload more groceries, yell “STOP!!!” at 200 RMB, pay & get your coupon. Wash, Rinse, Repeat ad nauseum.
Congratu-fuckin’-lations on making an already slow line even slower!
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 am
I on the other hand got stopped by the cashier from spending >200 kuai when I went to the Century Mart next to the photo store on Xie Tu.
*Its 2hrs free parking if you spend more than 60rmb, so its a mandatory shop every time I get camera equipment.
She _insisted_ I split it into 2 receipts so I could save the 5RMB, probably cost me more than that for the charges on my foreign credit card, but hey, one *has* to listen to the crazy ladies doing the registers. She wouldn’t take no for an answer, “what, am I crazy to pass up 5rmb off”, was pretty much what she said.
On the other hand, at least its better than Carrefour. Carrefour has no belts on the checkouts, so I end up having to push a trolley worth of crap toward the cashier so she can reach it all, then I get one bag for about 20 kilo’s of stuff, and I have to plead for another one so it doesn’t break by the time I get downstairs.
Sigh….
Lawrence / http://www.computersolutions.cn
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:26 am
Yep. They’re a bit crazy that way. I don’t have the time of day for those kind. The Century mart over here by Beixinjing has no conveyor belts, and barely enough room for half a basket’s worth of stuff.