As you know, I work as a cashier at a local grocery store. One of the things we are supposed to do is a thing called "suggestive selling". An example would be if I'm ringing up a customer that has purchased strawberries, blackberries and raspberries, I typically mention the time I got a honeydew melon, cut it in half, ate the white middle out but left the green and then put the strawberries, blackberries and raspberries in the middle (along with frozen daiquiri mix) and ate it all together. I would also mentioned how delightful and yummy it was. As you can see, by suggestive selling, it plants an idea in the customer's head that if they add honeydew and possibly daiquiri mix to what they already buy, it will make a yummy concoction.
Well, today, I had an old man who bought an issue of Sports Illustrated, the swimsuit issue. I just spoke with him but didn't do any suggestive selling. My co-workers were all on break and so I went over and told them about the customer and said, "How does one suggestive sell the swimsuit issue? Should I have suggested he get KY jelly as well?". They all busted out laughing. Then I said, "And I typically do suggestive selling by telling the customer how I do it." And that cracked them up even more.
Making people laugh is so much fun!
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