275
submitted 1 year ago by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

When I was working minimum wage at a gas station many eons ago, we would have '2 for $x' specials where x is less than 2 times the individual price of whatever item.

People would often not want to buy 2, but I would ring up 2 in the till for the special price and charge them for the single. Then when the next person did the same, I would charge them for the other single.

So over the day, I would sell 10 energy drinks at say $4, but ring them up as 5 '2 for $6' specials. This would put the till up by $10, and then I would use that $10 to have a free meal.

Anyone else do anything like that?

(page 2) 43 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Sniffy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Wow I hope you don't get caught because that would be serious, manipulating item prices without authorization. Maybe gas station management is more lenient but I personally wouldn't bet on it.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 7 points 1 year ago

When I worked the closing shifts at a grocery store years ago, we would go take donuts that were gonna get tossed.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

My dad's friend took me out around midnight one night when I was a freshman in college. We went by a gas station that closes at midnight and the workers just gave him like 30 donuts that didn't sell. Apparently he does this at least once a week lol. They had the donuts already in a bag waiting for him when we walked in, and all knew him by name. It's a great life hack. I think the secret to making it work is actually making the workers like you. Gotta spend a few minutes for fun conversation before they give you free stuff.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 points 1 year ago

That’s awesome. Just gotta build a little rapport and you’re golden. So many places throw so much food away. It’s sad. When I did Food Not Bombs years ago, we would get entire bags of leftover baked goods from a local place. They’d give us literal trash bags worth of bagels, donuts, pastries, all wrapped up. Some grocery stores have gotten strict and won’t give that stuff away anymore, but you can still find the right people that don’t give a shit about the rules.

[-] LegionEris@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

When I worked at a motel, I got first pick of a bunch of leftover shit by taking the initiative to sort out and organize and purge of trash several months of backlogged lost crap. I don't think anybody else actually wanted all the tarot and oracle cards, but the ring light would have been wanted.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Creepy.. did anything wierd happen after you got the cards?

[-] LegionEris@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

No? They're hardly the first tarot cards we've owned. We have several sets. They were bizarrely left with some lingerie (which I declined) the aforementioned ring light, and the absolute motherlode of gel pens. There were enough gel pens for multiple employees to take home a set and to leave some around the motel office and lobby. I still have some more than six months after I left that job.

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is quite clever.

To be honest if you agreed to cover the cost of the drink if the day ended on a odd number of cans. I reckon you should have at it, it’s a good little bonus incentive.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

King Missile has a nice song called Take Stuff from Work.

__

^posted^ ^from^ ^work^

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
275 points (100.0% liked)

Asklemmy

44149 readers
1763 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS