HERE IS MY STORY TODAY
Beware on Store Promos
/Rewards: Make Sure They Work
I was about to redeem my meat
freebie today at the Monterey Meat Shop, but instead - I got pissed, tore the
ticket and flung a confetti in front of the cash register.
Wow! I’m excited what surprise gift pack that
would be…
You know customers are happy and
become just like kids for freebies, discounts and store rewards. Sometimes I am not just into believing these promos,
but sometimes, too, we feel so cool and we’d pay and
validate store promos to receive surprises with what we’d buy in the “Buy One,
Take One” or half the price discounts, among others.
After completing a cycle (6 sets)
of two hundred fifty pesos (250) worth of each single receipt of beef, pork and
chicken, affixed with the cashier’s signature and date of purchase I was asked
to get my surprise pack as available. So
I waited and every time I went in the meat shop, in the community I always
asked about the prize which made me go there from time to time because I was
excited. They even advised me to come
back for the prize. Maybe, I’m just like
my Mom who got excited buying something with a freebie when she bought medicines
and toiletries at Watsons. We just laughed
out loud because even if she did not need the product, just for the freebie,
she would buy it. I didn’t know what
term in psychology that would classify us.
The reason maybe was because we bought with hard earned money and we’re
unfamiliar with the word ask - so we’re happy if we got a surprise or a freebie
with our choicest stores as valued customers.
I told the cashier “Hey, you piss
me a lot! I could have asked the maids
to buy here but because it made me cheery to keep track of the promo, I often
visited the store, myself.” She could
have instructed me to keep all the receipts from time to time because I thought
it would be okay if the purchase receipt was incomplete because they could
trace it from the ledger or computer data as to the date cashiers’ had signed
the ticket.
And FYI: I did not ask for that ticket, she offered it
to me. Well, she became my friend before,
but at that time of my complaint I wanted to tuck the pork ribs inside her
mouth (in my imagination) for the hassle she caused me: the make-believe advertisement
and false publicity.
She would not know how I hated
bad publicities, but as a PR writer, back then, I had been honest to what I
wrote. I would never tolerate people
like her. People of that kind might spell
danger; and unknowingly, betray public trust.
And one more thing, didn’t she
know how to utter the word, “Sorry?”
That would make a lot of difference; moreover, that would settle for
peace.
Anyway, thanks to the store
supervisor who appeased the aggrieved me.
I became a demigod today. We need to rebuke, if necessary, but it could
have been better than that.
/rosevoc.april
28, 2017
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