If you lived through the 80's or earlier you remember the commercials with the K mart blue light special. Where a person gets on the intercom at the store and announces some great deal within the store. Well, at my store we don't have a blue light, and we really don't have any great deal. But... We do have in store announcements.
Lately they have been pushing some obscure items, such as a 3 piece sectional couch at a hardware store. Its weird, like I want to buy my living room furnishings where i buy my toilet seat. Anyways, we get over the intercom and announce these great deals. I am unfortunately the designated person for announcing the garden departments specials. I get the esteemed privilege of using my best fake happy voice to promote big savings on items. Luckily I speak clearly and with even pace so I am understandable, but once and a while we get another department that no one can understand what was said.
Its pretty funny when you are a coworker to hear someone mess up, but when the customers come up to you and ask what the announcement was, you have to be clever and come up with something. Sometimes i tell them its a sale on paint, very general and directed in the opposite direction of where I work. Other times I tell them it is about something that I know is on sale in my department, and i can maybe convince them into buying more junk.
So listen up next time your in a store, you might be missing out on a steal, a deal and a bargain.
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