In my second week of working as a seasonal worker for a bookstore, this guy comes up and asks me if we have any magazines in Spanish. Keep in mind I'm clearly in the stationary/novelties section (and have only been trained in that section...I'm just using my own, UNtrained knowledge the rest of the time ( Read more... )

ME=helpful bookstore clerk ( Read more... )

I found this a little ironic, and so did a few of my coworkers ( Read more... )

So today, I'm ringing in a customer who remembers after I've swiped her Visa that she promised her husband that she would pick up the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Would I mind finding it for her? Sure, no prob, I say. We seem to have a good rapport going on and I good-naturedly ask if she wants the receipt in her hand or the magazine. The ( Read more... )

So my fiancé was down at the registers the other day when a couple approached him and said that they wished to send a few magazines to a prison. We do this fairly often, as we are located near several prisons. One of the mags is in a plastic bag and my fiancé tells the guy that the bag has to be removed first. The guy asks if he could thumb through ( Read more... )

So, last night after close I was straightening out the magazine section. Not surprising, this week it's been a disaster area. About 50 minutes after we closed (and that's 20 minutes past when we were scheduled to leave), I heard a taping at the window ( Read more... )

Thank you everyone who responded to my last post. The long and short of it is, I run the Mags department at my Canadian bookstore and have a lovely woman who is "taking it to Head Office" (boy, does that ever put the fear of death and taxes right in me!) about our practice of not removing the freebies, and that we're "the ONLY store in Canada" to ( Read more... )

My fellow Bookstorians. =) With your Magazine attachments (the free CD/DVDs/Gifts/etc) that come attached to the magazines - do you remove them from the magazine and store them somewhere (ex. behind the cash desk) or do you leave them attached and let the customers fend for themselves? Any answers, comments or suggestions would be greatly ( Read more... )

Oh, look, it's me with another rant. Clearly all is spiffing in my workplace ( Read more... )

A guy came up to me today asking for a magazine. Specifically, asking why we had the August issue of [Magazine] when it is still July. The following conversation transpired ( Read more... )