I always get mad every time I go to a supermarket and Im given sweets as part of my change. I used to say sometime back that Ill go shopping with that 10cent sweets one day. So jana jua ilikua kali kuruka and as it happened that I was passing by Ukwala Supermarket kenyatta avenue, Nakuru, I decided to go for bottled of water. My thirst was huge so I went for the Quencher 1.5ltrs which goes for 58 bob. The young lady cashier hands me two twenty bob coins (40 shillings) and two sweets as change for the 100 bob I gave her. Aaai nikamshow NO, I dont take sweets for change. She replied, I dont have coins, and gets ready to serve the next person in the queue. I demand my two shillings change, she stands her ground she has no coins. Then why do you put coins in your prices if you dont have coins to give change? Im now almost shouting. I dont wish to cause a scene over two bobs so I take the sweets and walk away fuming...not because of some useless two bobs but because of the theft that goes on in supermarkets, especially Ukwala Supermarkets and other small supermarkets, with the cheap 10 cents sweets they give away in place of shillings. In my heart I swear to teach them a lesson--not tomorrow,bt saa hio hio ! I walk to the left-luggage counter located just at the entrance/exit, leave the water, and walk back into the self-service store. I remember just in time that I actually need toothpaste. So I go 4 it! theres a Colgate herbal that goes for 53 shillings. I pick it and walk to the cashiers, making sure to go to the same one who gave me sweets. She punches the Colgate into her cash register and I hand to her 51 shillings and the two sweets. She looks at me and asks whats this for? referring to the two sweets. You gave me those,remember me?Since you guys seem to have made sweets a currency, I can as well pay with them! With the most serious expression she could muster, the girl who doesnt look so young now, tells me: we dont take sweets from outside. The muindi the shop manager who just happened to be passing by heard the exchange and stopped to find out what was happening. This girl gave me sweets as change a few minutes ago in spite of my protests that I dont chew sweets. I went back to the shop and took this toothpaste and added the sweets to the money that I have but she will not take the sweets saying ati they are from outside. If you can give sweets as change, and therefore a form of currency, why wont you accept them as such? The manager seeing my face familia and fears this must be a certain admin, just smiled, perhaps concluding that Im either a nutcase or a smart-aleck, said to the cashier Its Ok, chukua, gave me my toothpaste and I left the shop. The people in the queue almost cheered... ^dr.ordi
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:47:00 +0000
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