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Re: Shelf clearing and "cherry picking" |
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By: SnappyLT Date: June 28, 2024, 2:07 pm |
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I'm entering the conversation late, I realize. I just today |
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noticed this thread. |
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I agree with the others who have said that the original behavior |
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at Aldi was NOT rude. |
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I just want to add a note about the first time I heard the term |
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"cherry picking". I was in my late teens (many decades ago). My |
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very favorite cousin was the assistant manager in a small local |
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chain grocery store, and he was telling me about his work. |
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His small chain would run very good sales (sometimes at a loss) |
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to try to attract shoppers away from the bigger chain grocery |
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stores. Of course, the hope was that the shoppers who came to |
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the smaller chain store for the loss leaders would also buy some |
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items at full price while they were in the store. |
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My cousin told me that they called the shoppers who came in and |
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only bought the loss leaders "cherry pickers". As I recall, my |
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cousin was not angry at all about the cherry pickers; he knew |
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that was the risk the store took when they put things on sale |
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for such low prices. |
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(If anyone is curious, my cousin moved on to work for a larger |
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chain for many years. The small local chain he originally worked |
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for held out until sometime in the 1980s or 90s and then sold |
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out to one of the big national chains.) |
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#Post#: 81345-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Shelf clearing and "cherry picking" |
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By: NFPwife Date: July 5, 2024, 2:34 pm |
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Oh my heck! My first W2 job was at an independent grocery store |
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and the owner called people buying the loss leader items |
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"(profanity) cherry pickers." When the woman called me a cherry |
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picker I was tempted to ask if she'd worked there, or say, |
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"Actually a cherry picker is someone who only buys loss |
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leaders." |
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One time I was counting my drawer and the owner was in the |
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office complaining about the cherry pickers. Apparently he was |
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going to go to the poor house over people buying Crystal Light. |
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He was watching the carts go by and commenting on how many |
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Crystal Lights they had and how much money he was losing on each |
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cart. I had to keep re-starting my counting until the fourth or |
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fifth time when I had to ask him to stop saying numbers. |
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(The Crystal Light wasn't the only loss leader that week but it |
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was the one that made him the craziest.) |
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