Clothing store employee makes hilarious mistake, refunds shirt from the year 2000
If you’ve ever worked in retail, just about nothing will surprise you.
Save one employee at GAP, who managed to refund an item of clothing not only way past the returns policy limit, but one that was purchased almost 17 years ago.
Another worker at the store, thevintagekid, posted an image of the said shirt on Reddit, with the caption “I love retail”.
The shirt had the following notice posted next to it:
“Who on earth accepted this as a return?!?!?!
“This item is from the summer of 2000! That was almost 17 years ago!
“Our return policy is 45 days! If you’re not sure, ASK! – Management.”
The post soon made the front pages of the social site, and the red shirt with a tartan waistcoat combo made it to fame.
Some users smelled a rat, however, asking how it is that GAP software would allow such a return.
xjimbojonesx said: “I’m amazed that their POS [point of sale] software would allow a return that old without a managers approval.”
Though another, Moxz, pointed out: “Probably pick something like ‘misc return’ or something. Gave cash back, input a custom price.”
Or rather, the scenario we can most imagine happening is the one described by Waking:
“I’m sure the employee scanned the barcode and it came up blank in the system. The customer was probably ready to throw a fit, so the employee just shrugged, rung them up for store credit, then moved on with their life.
“GAP lost a couple dollars but the customer is happy and they can throw this on the clearance rack. NBD [no big deal].”
And whether GAP lost that few quid or not, hey, it made us laugh.
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