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?

  • Custoslibera@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      1 year ago

      Just in case anyone around their first job is reading this, many businesses would consider this theft

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzOP
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        1 year ago

        You can always go the safe route:

        Ask the customer if they want to go halves with you on the deal instead of buying the single. You both get a cheaper drink. The store gets more money. Good customer service. No harm no foul.

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          1 year ago

          Sure. But probably don’t do it in the energy drink case. At least not several ones each workday 😳🙃