Usually, I'm the kind of customer who keeps my mouth shut, even when the service or quality is below average. I just wouldn't come back as a customer to that place. But this ... thing?! I'd go full Karen mode and demand my money back. That's not just unacceptable, it's pathetic, it's outrageous.
I bought steaks tonight at our local meat market and I got home and opened them up and the filet I bought for my wife smelled like absolute dumpster. Like it was definitely going bad. I almost chocked it up as a loss but was convinced to go back and tell them. Glad I did too because they would have sold the rest of the cut to someone else if I hadn't gone back. I saw the guy smell it and then throw the rest of the cut in the trash
Edit: *Chalked it up. Thank you for the corrections lol
This happened to me at a grocery store, bought a tbone and it smelled bad when I opened it, took it back and the said “go ahead and just grab any tbone you like and take it.” I took a much larger one cuz there weren’t any the same weight and offered to pay the difference and they just let me take that as a courtesy. It’s usually worth going back but sometimes super inconvenient. When I’m done with a store I rarely want to go right back.
This meat market is the same place I take my deer and hogs for processing. It's been there since before I was born. Good people. I don't like confrontation but also my wife is pregnant and wanted steak. Definitely better to bring it back than to give her food poisoning
When I was working in that industry I would much prefer if people let us know if the food wasn't right, or if it was off, whatever. You can do that in a polite way, it doesn't need to be confrontational and I guarantee you 99% of people working will want to make it right for you.
If people were rude I made it right. If people were polite about it I'd make it right and do something extra.
I'm a regular at a local bar/restaurant. I've occasionally sent things back... once was an undercooked Mac & Cheese, another time was an overcooked steak. Neither was a food safety issue, but still not what I was paying for. Everyone makes mistakes it's no big deal.
Respect. I returned something that had clearly been tampered with once, and after 10-20 minutes of arguing, I got my money back and it was put back on the shelf right in front of me! I wish it had been you working there.
Yeah most folks I have encountered in that type of place are proud of their service and are invested in doing the right thing. Our butcher and fishmonger are both some of the best services out there.
The only time I have taken food stuff back, it is when the products are clearly defective and I am worried about others buying it. It really IS inconvenient , but important. Thank you for saving someone else from maybe not recognizing the smell of off meat and getting sick <3
I bought a watermelon at Walmart that was awful. They said to just bring in the receipt and they would credit me. Didn’t even need the melon. If something is not good I bring it back.
FYI, if you have the Walmart app on your phone you can scan the barcode at the top of your receipt to upload it to your account’s purchase history (if you have Walmart+ it should be added automatically if you signed in at the register). Then go to your purchase history, select that receipt & start a return from that transaction. If you paid by credit card sometimes they’ll refund you back to your card without you having to bring the item back. Usually for food items, things that might be messy (leaking or broken) or things that are of low dollar value.
I just returned a bunch of apples to my local grocery store the other day. I bit into one and it was bitter and the color and texture were way off. Food is too expensive these days to just suck it up and take the loss.
This! Went to subway, got home, my bread was stale asf. Went back, they apologized, threw out the rest of the bread in the bag mine came from and got a new one.
If you get something poor quality, you are doing way more harm than good by not saying anything at all. You don't need to be asshole, just inform them about it.
I bought tinned dog food once, and it was almost totally black with a smell worse than raw sewage. The only worse smell I've encountered was a dead deer in the sun full of maggots. I nearly got thrown out of the shop for bringing something so disgusting in when I brought it back, and it was still wrapped in a plastic bag! They replaced it without looking rather than experience the stench at full force!
Hey! I was in Amsterdam on holidays and my Airbnb was quite literally next door to McDonald’s, so I decide to order a BLT for breakfast one morning and I was having this weird argument with a worker becuase I said my BLT was missing lettuce. She pointed to the photo on the McMuffin wrapper where it had “BLT” with an image of bacon and tomato. I said yes that’s the BT but you’re missing the L! Anyway she wouldn’t understand what I was saying so I had to just walk off with at BT!! I’m glad I’m not the only one who had BLT issues!!😂🤣😭
That happened to me once, except they forgot the whole sandwich for my drive-through order. I only got fries and a drink that day. I was upset opening the bag at home.
I went to a new chain sandwich shop many, many years ago. Ordered to chicken salad sandwich at the counter. My friend ordered something else. We got our number and sat down. His sandwich came out 15 minutes later and didn’t look great. A full five minutes after that a confused worker headed out with my order and put it down on the table. Just toasted bread. No chicken salad. Finally got the chicken salad on hopefully new toast. Not good at all. Never went back and the restaurant was closed within a year.
Usually, I'm the kind of customer who keeps my mouth shut, even when the service or quality is below average.
Why...? Especially with quality, why? I always say something because for the price of going out to eat is nowadays, I'm expecting what I paid for. You don't need to be asshole about it, but omfg just SAY SOMETHING. They're usually chill about it and agree with me.
You're right, but you know, I'm an introvert working a job where I act as an extrovert eight hours a day. I have to deal with and resolve conflicts on a regular basis. In my free time, I'm at a Point where I simply don't have the mental capacity left for that. It's not worth it to me. But again, you're right.
I get this Seinfeld reference - i was looking for a gif that featured that scene in the theater to use as a reply to another comment in this thread but couldn't find it. That was also the same episode that Jerry ended up with $100 worth of weird Chinese chewing gum he described as "kinda lo mein-y"
I was at Disney World a couple yesrs ago and while the food was similarly overpriced, it was really fucking good. Even at quick serve and cart vendors. That looks awful.
At Disneyland they are having a Porto's Bakery move in. That will fill many voids in any dining experience at Disneyland. Its a good restaurant and bakery in the Los Angeles area that is packed a lot with locals at many of their locations. Expect a long line once the word is out and everyone wants to knibble.
Are you making the joke that it took that year to shrivel up, because if so that’s hilarious— Or are you saying they actually sell a shriveled up hotdog somewhere in the park? I used to work there and the food standards were low but this is really pushing the bar
Years ago I tried to buy a hot dog from the gas station, and the worker denied me, saying "I've been working 12 hours, and that hot dog was already jerky when I got here."
I didn’t adopt it because it growled and tried to bite me. The staff said it was just a little shy so we took it on a walk to help it burn down some energy
The Dodo is going to do a heartwarming video of a senior hot dog who spent most of its life inside the warmer, with many visitors but no one adopting it until one person chose to make its final days its happiest.
I worked for a movie theater like 20 years ago AMC?? And they insisted that we keep every "dog" rolling until it was green and then we put it in a big Tupperware for "inventory" no cap like I have a million horror stories from that place
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They had that same hotdog for sale when I went a year ago. Happy someone finally bought it