Christmas is insanity, and Dollar Alley is no different. For those of you who are new to this blog, Dollar Alley is located in frigid PA, where we are currently experiencing icy rain and a high of 37 degrees (it’s better than yesterday- a high of 23). But coldness does nothing to repress the craziness.
A woman walked in with her teenager daughter and son. She looks right at me, and says, “Excuse me.” She holds up a Dollar Tree (*cough* horrible place *cough*) giftcard. She says to me, “My daughter has a Dollar Tree giftcard. Can she use this here or does it have to be at a Dollar Tree?”
My question for her (which went unspoken) was ‘Would you walk into Target with a WalMart giftcard and ask if they accept it?’
A Kayla Story
We occasionally get asked if the boss or the manager is in, by people who have a complaint or just want to say hi. However, we never expected this result:
Customer: “Hello. Where’s the boss?”
Kayla: “She’s in the back.”
Customer: “Ok.” He proceeds to walk to the back of the store, open the back door, and walk into the back to find her. Now thankfully, he knew her, but we were speechless for sometime. How do you respond to that?
There are definitely some interesting people who buy interesting things. However, one woman was ingenious. She explained to Kayla that she bought our decorated sleighs, signed the back, and gave them to people as gifts.
While there has been some speculation whether she is famous, or if she is simply pretending that she made them, we will consider either option feasible.
A Note from the Register
Slat and Pepper Shakers.
*hint to the cashiers who wish to change this*: it’s the Christmas ones.
Some people have very confusing logic. While I have been accused of this, I believe that this woman is still more confusing that I. “Make sure to put the [wrapped in three layers of plastic] soap in another bag – it might melt on the candy bars.”
Interesting Fact of the Day (that you may not want to know)
Did you know that there’s mechanically separated chicken in Slim Jims?
Customer Saying of the Day
Is that mustard food?
I have found one of my new favorite things that we sell at the dollar store. Kayla loves the Happy Flutes, Jordan likes the planners, Dave likes the Dave pens (right?). I happen to like a fascinating new game called Donkey. What you do is you shuffle the cards, then equally give them out to each person. The person on the left picks out a card from the dealer’s hand, the person on that person’s left picks a card from the first person’s hand, etc. After everyone has picked, whoever has the donkey is the loser, and you can call that person Donkey for the rest of the day.
Well, have a Merry Christmas!! Who knows what will happen next?
