I would like someone to reinvent the cigar box, please.

[tavernier]

You know, the box at grocery stores and dry goods stores where they tell you how much your items cost, whereupon you give them some money, they open the cigar box, put in the bills, and give you the change. Then you take your merchandise and leave.

Instead, this is what I encountered today:

Cash register at back of store - "Sorry, my computer is down."

Cash register at front of store - "Do you have a store card?" Me - "No, they didn't have any more cards when I joined."
Clerk - "Phone number?" ( I give her the number and swipe card)

This is the quiz on the machine:

Enter your zip
Do you want your receipt on paper or electric or both?
Do you want to donate to xxx charity?
Do you want cash back?
Sign and hit enter.

(Keep in mind, I have one eye, so it takes me a minute to read and respond)

The clerk now asks, do I want a warranty for my purchase. I say no. She asks am I certain? as she always buys a warranty. (Now I'm questioning in my mind the quality of my purchase??)

A while later, transaction finished, I go to the door where all the bells and whistles start to ring. Cashier runs over and tells me that I have a locking device on my purchase, but her key is broken and she is unable to unlock it. I will have to return to the cash register...

at the back of the store.

So, I repeat, would someone please reinvent the cigar box?

P.S. Thanks for my valentines, whomever!!

[malthaussen]

1. Wait until you get the email...

... asking you to "rate your shopping experience."

Happens I have a cigar box right here next to my computer. I use it to hold my electric razor.

-- Mal

[Scuba]

2. "If you offer me the warranty one more time, I'm not going to buy the camera."

That usually shuts them up.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. I can't wait until they perfect the holodeck

and I can retire back into the 1890s. I won't my breath, though.