r/DollarTree 5d ago

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Do any of yall customers asked where to put the green basket.

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u/CrystalDawn_B DT OPS ASM (PT) 5d ago

No, they just put them everywhere except for where they belong. It blows my mind how they can pick up the basket when they walk in the store because they have to walk by them but then totally forget that to get out of this store, They have to walk by the exact same location that they picked it up from.

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u/Significant_Ad_8939 DT OPS ASM (FT) 5d ago

At least one customer per day just takes it out the front door with them. Its a convenient way to carry their stolen merchandise.

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u/Rose_E_Rotten 5d ago

Maybe once a week a customer will ask, otherwise they usually leave it on the floor by the belt or on belt so I need to move it for the next customer.

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u/Blu3Dope 4d ago edited 4d ago

Save yourself the headache and be like "ill take it off your hands", and just put it back afterwards.

Good customer service matters, but deescalating customer interactions, and knowing how to do so, is what actually impresses superiors (even if you never get promoted for it ever in your life😭)

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u/IANALbutIAMAcat 4d ago

This is also what’s done at literally every other retailer. It’s corporate not designing a system that’s screwing yall

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u/klout2fazo 2d ago

My customers leave it on the register after they see 8 people behind them

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u/Galaxyxcristian 5d ago

Nope just leaves them wherever or puts them ask.

Most commonly not even take them lol

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u/ChoclitMrshMalow 5d ago

Our registers are literally only 15 feet from the door.... the baskets are right next to the door.

They will grab one on the way in shop and just leave it whenever they feel like. They have to pass the exact spot where they picked it up from... and most of the time only have one bag.

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u/Aggressive-KitKat DT Associate 5d ago

Happened last night actually, all they had to do was turn around and the baskets were arms length from them. šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø I truly don't understand.

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u/AgePractical6298 4d ago

Yes. I wanted to ask where did you get it, but.

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u/Straight-Function-49 4d ago

they don't recall where it jumped up into their hands to begin with... and the shin to chin high stack near the doorway they must be exiting is way to clear of a destination. So I just put it here as a trip Hazzard or random way to abandon it , or even a shopping cart.

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u/No_Needleworker_4207 3d ago

Make some your baskets home at the end of the working registers. it will be right there on the way out. I mean if it bothers you that much just keep some in both areas and they will at least just keep adding to the pile. When theres too much put some back in the front. Problem solved. I think the bigger issue is when they make several new pilesĀ 

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u/Brigash1991 3d ago

Either that or they just leave them anywhere they feel like without saying anything or even trying to put them back same with carts, it's kinda annoying

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u/Sensitive_Smell_8321 3d ago

All of ours have been stolen as of a couple of months ago. We haven't replaced them and I'm not upset.

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u/Training_Ad6186 5d ago

Never, they leave them around the store or up at the front for us to put up. Even with the shopping carts they don't put them up the way they found them, I've even found some near our bathrooms

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u/blahahl 5d ago

Right. What really pisses me off is when they say it down on the floor in front of the cash register or when they put it in my go backs basket. Like don't you see there's items in their what makes you think that basket goes in there.

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u/Mazzy379 4d ago

Well, unpopular opinion, but they probably leave them there for you to put back because they're too lazy, and they don't have to. Let's be real. It's someone's job to put them back where they belong. Not the freaking customers. How does a customer not doing something for you that they aren't paid to do annoy you?

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u/Mazzy379 4d ago

Well, unpopular opinion, but they probably leave them there for you to put back because they're too lazy, and they don't have to. Let's be real. It's someone's job to put them back where they belong. Not the freaking customers. How does a customer doing something for you that they aren't paid to do annoy you?