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Sunday, February 05, 2006

Ramblings

Do you know that if you go to a store here with a coupon but the item you want to buy is sold out, you can actually get a raincheck that allows you to come back some other time but still be able to use your coupon even if it has expired?

I went to Walgreen's today with my coupon which allowed me to get 200 pack tissues at 99 cents each, but when I reached the shelves I noticed that all of them were already snapped up and there was this huge empty space staring back at me. So I asked one of the staff if they had any more stock (yet another of their good qualities - you can always ask them to check if they have more stock and they'll smile and do it rightaway. Try doing that in NTUC Fairprice and the staff will probably say there's no stock without even checking.). After checking for quite some time he told me there wasn't any, and then said I could get a raincheck at the counter. And I was still quite suaku because I couldn't believe it, I even asked him if I needed to pay first. Haha. Well when I got to the counter the cashier had to ring the manager to write me the check, and guess what? The manager said he had kept some stock (which apparently the first staff who served me couldn't find -_-) and in the end I managed to buy my 2 packs of tissue. All that trouble for just 2 packs of tissue.

I think the returns policy here is quite good (at least in Safeway, the supermarket near my accommodation); I've had friends who bought items that they thought were on sale but weren't, and they could get their refund from the cashier in a jiffy, no questions asked. If only NTUC was like that too. Haha.

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