[Magdalen] Penny-pinching silliness

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

But the people you dealt with were good, and that is also my experience
with CVS. They must stress this with their training.  It's competitive, so
they know that one small discourtesy can have that customer going away and
bad-mouthing the store too.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Went to CVS/pharmacy today to pick up a bunch of items now that I had
> a 20% off coupon to bring the prices down closer to what they should
> be.
>
> Rang up the stuff myself on a self-checkout and headed toward the car
> realizing I had forgotten to swipe the coupon...a little voice within
> said, "The coupon is why you bought the stuff now! Go back and get it
> re-rung!" So I sheepishly went in and said I had stupidly forgotten
> about the coupon and could they redo this?
>
> They could not have been friendlier or more accommodating. Basically
> they bought back all the items with cash and rerang it all with the
> coupon and I paid with the cash. But basically I lost some advertised
> discounts on some of the items and the coupon saved me only $4. I felt
> silly.
>
> At home I mapped out the complex transaction on paper because I felt
> like I had ended up paying double. Nope. I had paid on the credit
> card, had been given the cash and paid the cash back, so the original
> payment persists, give or take about $4.
>
> My head hurts now. I should use one of the Alka-Seltzers I bought. :)
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>