A little help here

[ManyBeers]

How does this statement"Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" make a customer want to make sure and get a receipt. That's what the author of this Article states. What am I missing?

 

[j00fek]

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[Kev]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers
How does this statement"Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" make a customer want to make sure and get a receipt. That's what the author of this Article states. What am I missing?

The point is that the sign "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" forces the cashier to give recipts to the customers to create a paper trail of all the transactions. That way the employee can't steal money from the register.

 

[Pantoot]

It may be that I am completely missing your point, but the point isn't that you make the customer want a receipt, you want the customer to pay attention to whether or not they get one.

If I am told I get free stuff if you forget to give me a receipt, and you don't give me a receipt I will call you on it, so I can get free stuff.

So that money you were about to slip into your pocket comes back to me, and I get my lunch for free. This voids your master plan to not ring up my purchase and just pocket the money.

 

[dullard]

What are you confused about? Did you have too many beers before posting?

Here are the steps without the sign.
[*]Customer wants to buy item.
[*]Employee wants to steal from employer.
[*]Customer gives money to employee and leaves with item.
[*]Employee pockets money.

Here are the steps without the sign.
[*]Customer wants to buy item.
[*]Employee wants to steal from employer.
[*]Customer gives money to employee.
[*]Employee tries to pocket money.
[*]Customer sees sign and mentions the receipt BECAUSE customer is trying for the free item.
[*]Employee must use register and put money in register.
[*]Employee prints receipt.
[*]Customer gets receipt and walks away a bit disappointed.

What is confusing about that? What is hard to understand about a customer wanting free items?

 

[WHAMPOM]

Better qeastion; How does the customer prove they bought something and did not get a receipt, without a receipt for the merchandise?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: WHAMPOM
Better qeastion; How does the customer prove they bought something and did not get a receipt, without a receipt for the merchandise?

That is the beauty of this sign. The consumer NEVER wins in this situation. (a) You mention a receipt and just get a receipt printed and get nothing or (b) you have no proof that you bought it there and get nothing.

It is the PERCEPTION that they may get something that makes consumers mention the receipt. And the whole scheme works.

 

[DainBramaged]

Maybe the author had TooManyBeers

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Maybe the author had TooManyBeers

"So here's what the employer does: He hires the customer. By putting up a sign saying "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt," the employer is getting the customer to guard the employee. The customer makes sure the employee gives him a receipt, and employee theft is reduced accordingly."

Read bolded part

Why would the Customer make sure he gets a receipt? If he gets a receipt he can no longer get the item for free?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers
Why would the Customer make sure he gets a receipt? If he gets a receipt he can no longer get the item for free?

Like I said above, the consumer THINKS he/she might get a free item. So he/she mentions the receipt.

What is hard to understand about that? True, the highly-intelligent consumers know that the employee will just print a receipt and they'd never get anything for free. But the rest fall for the trick.

 

[imported_Trippin315]

Originally posted by: Kev

Originally posted by: ManyBeers
How does this statement"Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" make a customer want to make sure and get a receipt. That's what the author of this Article states. What am I missing?

The point is that the sign "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" forces the cashier to give recipts to the customers to create a paper trail of all the transactions. That way the employee can't steal money from the register.

Didnt seem like rocket science to me either.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Maybe the author had TooManyBeers

"So here's what the employer does: He hires the customer. By putting up a sign saying "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt," the employer is getting the customer to guard the employee. The customer makes sure the employee gives him a receipt, and employee theft is reduced accordingly."

Read bolded part

Why would the Customer make sure he gets a receipt? If he gets a receipt he can no longer get the item for free?

What don't you get?

The customer will hawkishly watch to see if the employee gives him a receipt. If they do, then oh well, maybe next time the won't. But if they don't give them the receipt, customer yells out screaming "No receipt, gimme my free food now!"

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Maybe the author had TooManyBeers

"So here's what the employer does: He hires the customer. By putting up a sign saying "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt," the employer is getting the customer to guard the employee. The customer makes sure the employee gives him a receipt, and employee theft is reduced accordingly."

Read bolded part

Why would the Customer make sure he gets a receipt? If he gets a receipt he can no longer get the item for free?

What don't you get?

The customer will hawkishly watch to see if the employee gives him a receipt. If they do, then oh well, maybe next time the won't. But if they don't give them the receipt, customer yells out screaming "No receipt, gimme my free food now!"

If you were a customer in this situation would you ask for a receipt> Yes or no.

What this statement "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" does or should do is encourage the EMPLOYEE to be sure and give all customers their receipts. As a customer I would try and distract the employee's attention in some way and maybe they will forget about the receipt.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers
As a customer I would try and distract the employee's attention in some way and maybe they will forget about the receipt.

Ok, think this through. You succeeded in distracting them. You succeeded in giving them cash without using the register. Now, what is your next step?

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Maybe the author had TooManyBeers

"So here's what the employer does: He hires the customer. By putting up a sign saying "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt," the employer is getting the customer to guard the employee. The customer makes sure the employee gives him a receipt, and employee theft is reduced accordingly."

Read bolded part

Why would the Customer make sure he gets a receipt? If he gets a receipt he can no longer get the item for free?

What don't you get?

The customer will hawkishly watch to see if the employee gives him a receipt. If they do, then oh well, maybe next time the won't. But if they don't give them the receipt, customer yells out screaming "No receipt, gimme my free food now!"

If you were a customer in this situation would you ask for a receipt> Yes or no.

What this statement "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" does or should do is encourage the EMPLOYEE to be sure and give all customers their receipts. As a customer I would try and distract the employee's attention in some way and maybe they will forget about the receipt.

Use some reasoning.

The customer is not directly forcing the employee to give them a receipt. By watching the employee hawkishly and being alert to whether or not they're giving them a receipt, it's forcing the employee indirectly to give them a receipt. Most companies probably have some sort of policy where if you forget to do it more than once, you get written up. This is because it costs the company money and alerts the company to potential theft by the cashier. So not only is the company acting as making the employee give the customer a receipt, but the customer is also forcing the employee to give them their receipt indirectly.

This really isn't that hard of a concept to understand.

 

[ManyBeers]

OK, from reading the article and the way the author phrased things I got the impression that he was saying it was in the customers best interest to get a receipt, which it is clearly not in their best interest. The point of the phrase "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" is to make the customer AWARE of the receipt situation. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Maybe the author had TooManyBeers

"So here's what the employer does: He hires the customer. By putting up a sign saying "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt," the employer is getting the customer to guard the employee. The customer makes sure the employee gives him a receipt, and employee theft is reduced accordingly."

Read bolded part

Why would the Customer make sure he gets a receipt? If he gets a receipt he can no longer get the item for free?

What don't you get?

The customer will hawkishly watch to see if the employee gives him a receipt. If they do, then oh well, maybe next time the won't. But if they don't give them the receipt, customer yells out screaming "No receipt, gimme my free food now!"

If you were a customer in this situation would you ask for a receipt> Yes or no.

What this statement "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" does or should do is encourage the EMPLOYEE to be sure and give all customers their receipts. As a customer I would try and distract the employee's attention in some way and maybe they will forget about the receipt.

Use some reasoning.

The customer is not directly forcing the employee to give them a receipt. By watching the employee hawkishly and being alert to whether or not they're giving them a receipt, it's forcing the employee indirectly to give them a receipt. Most companies probably have some sort of policy where if you forget to do it more than once, you get written up. This is because it costs the company money and alerts the company to potential theft by the cashier. So not only is the company acting as making the employee give the customer a receipt, but the customer is also forcing the employee to give them their receipt indirectly.

Read the bolded part in your paragraph.

Didn't you read my sentence in your quote of my paragraph...? What this statement "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" does or should do is encourage the EMPLOYEE to be sure and give all customers their receipts. So yeah, we agree

 

[KarenMarie]

wouldnt it be a hoot if the customer did not get a receipt and had no way to prove they made a purchase.

hahaha.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Didn't you read my sentence in your quote of my paragraph...? What this statement "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" does or should do is encourage the EMPLOYEE to be sure and give all customers their receipts. So yeah, we agree

And it also is causing the customers to force the employees to give them receipts. What don't you understand about that?

If a customer never called the employee on not giving them a receipt, then the sign would be meaningless. Hell, I could have a sign that says "Free $1,000,000 Gift Certificate if you don't get your receipt" and if nobody called the cashiers on it, it wouldn't change their behavior one bit.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: BigJ
And it also is causing the customers to force the employees to give them receipts. What don't you understand about that?

I'm stumped, I think we need to give up. ManyBeers just cannot understand this topic today. Maybe tomorrow he'll come back and answer my question (what is his next step after distracting the employee) and then he'll understand it.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: BigJ
And it also is causing the customers to force the employees to give them receipts. What don't you understand about that?

I'm stumped, I think we need to give up. ManyBeers just cannot understand this topic today. Maybe tomorrow he'll come back and answer my question and then he'll understand it.

If my edit doesn't get through to him, I'm done. I don't know how else to explain it.

 

[zanieladie]

I see signs with that on it all the time...like at the local Wendy's drive-thru. Some fast food places also post signs stating that if the order-taker doesn't ask you if you want a soft drink, then the drink is free (such as at my local Taco Bell.)

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Didn't you read my sentence in your quote of my paragraph...? What this statement "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" does or should do is encourage the EMPLOYEE to be sure and give all customers their receipts. So yeah, we agree

And it also is causing the customers to force the employees to give them receipts. What don't you understand about that?



It does not FORCE customers to demand a receipt it only encourages customers to notice if they DID NOT get a receipt.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Didn't you read my sentence in your quote of my paragraph...? What this statement "Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt" does or should do is encourage the EMPLOYEE to be sure and give all customers their receipts. So yeah, we agree

And it also is causing the customers to force the employees to give them receipts. What don't you understand about that?

It does not FORCE customers to demand a receipt it only encourages customers to notice if they DID NOT get a receipt.

That's it, I'm done. You have a huge problem with any sort of logic and reasoning. You also have a very difficult time telling the difference between "direct" and "indirect."

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers


It does not FORCE customers to demand a receipt it only encourages customers to notice if they DID NOT get a receipt.

WTF? You are just arguing over semantics now.