Ive always been nice to guests. I ask if they want "this" bagged, if they'd like "that" left out, I tell them they have a gift card for X amount and hand it to them, I ask how they want things bagged, etc. I'm a very nice guy.
I usually only start getting upset after I've had someone arguing with me when the guest is belittling me. One time I had a guy bitching with me because he picked a bag of charcoal off of a rack we have at the front end that was sitting above a clearance label. We had fully stocked it that day with bags and a lot had gone, and someone must have put it back in the clearance spot because theyre lazy.
He notices it didnt ring up for Clearance, and he goes "Wasn't that clearance?" And I said I don't know, lets see. No clearance sticker, and price isn't deducted at all. I go over to the rack whete he found it,and there isnt anything there at the clearance label. I asked,a GSTL walking by if charcoal was clearance at all and she said no.
I walk back, let the guest know it's not,clearance, and if it was, it'd have a clearance sticker on it for it's discount price, but it doesn't.
So he huffs and puffs and says it should be clearance. He realized he needs lighter fluid so I watched him go over and lo and behold, he grabbed a stray bottle from another clearance label. He tells me it should be clearance.
Well, it's not lol. I explained I can't discount his price at all, but he says he just wants the clearance price, so I ask him what price he wants, and he says "the clearance price!" And he's getting kind of loud now, he's drawing eyes. I said "I can't give you a price if there is no clearance price, its not clearance, I'm sorry you will be paying it in full, I can void them our for you and take them back if you'd like" and he said "Well, no.. I need them" so I said Okay.
That entire transaction after that with him was a bunch of pissing and moaning about clearance prices, I wanted to die.