Oct 102012
 

20120910-214156.jpgPre-drink: This one cost me about $1.50, a fairly high cost drink for the amount of oz! After eating an entire family size mac and cheese (with 4600mg of delicious sodium) I’m ready to drink something liquid. This is something that I believe will be thick, creamy and delicious. Lets find out.

Now… review time!

Not what I expected at all. I was expecting smoothie, I got moxie/red bull. It was surprisingly carbonated, Tasted similar to red bull, but creamier. That doesn’t sounds like a delicious description, but this isn’t a delicious product. Also, whilst consuming, I found out that it doesn’t contain any pomegranate. I call shenanigans.

5.78/10

TL;DR: The Redbull company just started making smoothies. Proceed with caution.

Oct 092012
 

So, by now we all have learned that Craigs List is crap. Poorly designed, and not really local. Well, there’s a pretty nifty new site out there which aims to aims to fix things. Wickedlists.com. It’s free to sign up, and free to post, making it super easy to advertise any product you want. Through looking at the individual ads posted, most of them seem to have around 100 page views, so your ad is sure to be noticed!

Oct 032012
 

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Pre-drink: So I know this one is technically not a drink, but it was in the Milk Aisle! According to the packaging, this is a granola bar filled with milk. I decided that science is awesome and picked up a box. (for like $3.) Upon splitting a bar for the picture, I was disappointed that milk didn’t actually pour out, and my estimated appreciation dropped.

Now… review time!

So it’s pretty much a milk flavored granola bar, now I know that doesn’t sound delicious, its got all the deliciousness as a thick whole milk would have, and even with some chocolate! I approve!

7.45/10

 

Have something that you think I need to review? Lemme know!

Sep 262012
 

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Pre-drink: I picked up these fine beverages at good ‘ol Mahdens for 2/$1. Pretty good price all things considered. As much as I wanted to make this purchase stretch as long as possible, I’ve decided to put all three flavors in one review. I personally don’t care so much for vitamin water, it tastes OK, but nothing I would live off of.

Now… the review!

Multi-V Lemon-Lime: This is the green one, on the left. Before consuming, I didn’t really have high hopes for it, lemon water isn’t my favorite thing in the world, and the thought of additional vitamins didn’t really convince me. But I continued. FOR SCIENCE! The results were clear… it was everything I expected it to be, like licking one of those lemon-lime lollipops that cheap old people give you on Halloween, but in more of a liquid and cold form. Nothing I would want to consume on a regular basis.

4.75/10

Power Dragon Fruit: Now on the other hand, dragon fruit sounds pretty good! It’s like fruit, but meaty! And pink. There were two concerns though. One concern was that the bottle was dented, as if it had been opened, squeezed and closed again. The seal had yet to have been broken, and it was good. The second concern was that it smelled of fruity bug spray. I couldn’t get over the smell to finish my sample, but the taste was half decent. A little fruity, but very bug spray smelly.

1.3/10

Recover Fruit Punch: You would think that they would call the recovery one something other than ‘punch’, but I expected none the less some good ‘ol Hawaiian punch here, hopefully sans bug spray. After spilling the Test Beverage (TB) on the Grape Shield Beverage Consumption Laboratories Media Creation Surface (GSBCLMC pronounced Gasbucklemic, commonly referred to as a table) I cleaned up my act and decided to consume the TB. The smell was a bit off, but still much better than the Dragon Fruit. It tasted half decent, the only negative was the splenda taste, which was hidden well.

6.8/10

TL;DR: Vidration tastes a little funny, don’t even bother with Dragon Power, it tastes like the dragon sweated all over the vat in the factory. Also, I now have a weird feeling in my throat from it.

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Sep 192012
 

We’re back!

So myself, a new tech, and my manager was at a tech desk when a guy came up and mumbled something about “my CPU is overpowered”. So I said that he could bring in his computer. When he returns with his laptop (we aren’t allowed to touch them until they’ve signed off on work), he showed me that the computer wasn’t very responsive. And German.

I ask the guy to change it to English, and he said that he didn’t know how, for he doesn’t speak German. I was overwhelmed with tech work already, so I asked the new guy if he could take the computer in for a free cleaning and return to my work. I explain to the guy that it could take up to three days and he would have to leave the computer with us.

Turns out while the new tech was filling out the form with the customer, the customer walked off. As in mid-question the guy just turns around and leaves. with his laptop on the desk. Now here’s the interesting thing. We can’t lock up his laptop, nor can we just leave it there in the middle of a busy store. Nor can we just stand there and keep it guard. We decide to leave it, and keep an eye, not our fault the guy abandoned it!

Turns out he was going employee to employee, making them bring forward furnature from the back room, only to try (unsuccessfully) to haggle the price down and have them bring it back. 10-15 minutes he returns, asking if his computer is fixed yet. After the new guy (very frustrated) tells him he will have to fill out paperwork and leave it here, the guy says “I’ll just have my tech do it for $30/hour!!!” and storms out of the store, stolen ream of paper and all.

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Jul 122012
 

You may have noticed that I am now giving really corny titles to my blog posts. That’s just me feeling creative, lemme know if you want me to stop.

So a big buff and bald guy came I today. After ignoring my greeting, he came up to me five minutes later “I need floppy disks”. “I’m sorry sir, we don’t have any in stick anymore, if you’d like, we can order some and have them shipped to your house for free?” “NO NO NO. I need them now.”

He then walked off. I guess he asked almost every employee the same question, to just about the same response.

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Jul 042012
 

Came in this morning and the Tech Table was filled with a funky smell. When I asked my coworkers, here’s the story that I was told:

Apparently, this guy came in and had some viruses on his computer. He was really dirty, and had several different layers of funk on him. Turns out his desktop was a porn picture. My (female) manager who was working with him at the time told him to take that off or she would not work on his computer. She walks away and has a male coworker of mine complete the transaction. After the wallpaper is changed, he talks with the customer about the costs of removing the viruses. And the guy was complaining that he had anti-virus and therefore shouldn’t have any viruses. His mother walks up (old lady with completely black teeth that smelled of death), smacked him and yelled at him about how she told him to stop looking up porn. Glad I wasn’t there I guess.

Have any funny (and true!) stories about working in retail? Let us know! If they’re good, I’ll post them in this segment.

Jun 272012
 

So, I was selling a lady a camera, and asked her if she’d like me to pick up an SD card. She proceeded to get very angry once she learned that she would have to buy extra stuff with her camera. “It’s like batteries not included, but worse!!!”. Eventually I convinced her that [redacted] isn’t going to give her a free one, and tried to explain that the SD card is free after rebate anyways, but she wasn’t having any of it! Eventually she calmed down, and bought the camera, after trying to later convince me that the battery was the SD card. “I thought you said batteries weren’t included.” “Actually, I never said that, I said the opposite. You were the only one who mentioned batteries not being included.”

Later that day someone tried to buy a 128 MB SD card, because her camera won’t support higher. She wound up trying her luck with a 2GB card. Although she told me to watch ‘The Matrix’ because it would change my life. (at this point her eyes got really big)

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Jun 202012
 

The following is user submitted. Enjoy!

When people feel the need to park their car in front in the Fire Lane of Hannaford, Shaws, or any other big box store, and they either get out of their car and leave it running and run in quickly for something (which usually is never quickly) or when they park there and go into the store and turn it off. Being a firefighter it really bugs me.. because it limits access to the front of the store for a Fire Truck or Ladder Truck if their is a need because of a fire.

I wholeheartedly agree. Especially when they cover the cross walk. I’m apt to throw some TP at them. Or think mean thoughts. 

Something bugging you? Get a load off of your chest and let me know! 

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