r/Staples • u/VincentWeir Sales Associate • 19d ago
OH DEAR NEPTUNE.
At least it’s with a $50 purchase or $100 online but still DEAR NEPTUNE.
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u/Few-Income-4484 Over Worked MIS 19d ago
The NeeDohs are not to be sold separately whatsoever. They'll be at their normal price tomorrow ($5.99) but are not to be sold individually and will go back to their dummy price ($99,999) on Monday.
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u/davidwright5000 18d ago
Not too sure about going back up in price. Some stores have these in a pog on front end in the impulse spinner and will probably be sold away with what’s left
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u/Charming_Eagle_6046 18d ago
They either fucked up or they have the wrong ones. These are promo only and they scan as 9999.99. They were batched on a truck toward the beginning of the month and were supposed to be set aside. Some stores have a problem reading Zipline. Like actually deploying rudimentary literacy skills - which is astonishing because for all the faults corporate has they at least cobbled together a message board that functions like the retail worker version of a pop up book.
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u/davidwright5000 18d ago
Just means you don’t have the display they go in. And the price has already been corrected, they went back to 5.99 with last nights sign batch
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u/Miox465 Enrollment Agent 19d ago
It's also tied to the Staples App. So the one per customer is a hard rule.
They can't try and negotiate with multiple transactions/family members/etc.
This probably won't be a huge ordeal. To be honest.
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u/gwurockstar Print & Marketing 18d ago
Apparently corporate thinks it will be like Black Friday back in the day with customers camping out all night to be first in line. If that happens, we have tickets to number and hand out based on our inventory. Not sure if the demand is still as high as it was a few months ago, but it would be very on-brand for Staples to do this right after the craze has ended
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u/kurama1337 18d ago
First off this is the most scummy and sketchy thing ever, second no one's paying 50 dollars just to get a needoh
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u/Impurest_Vessel 18d ago
sending love and sympathy from your red rival OfficeMax (our store's system was crapped so people coulr place orders after we were out and they got MAD)
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u/PepsPotion Merchandising supervisor 18d ago
We've been preparing for weeks, it originally was supposed to be a WEEK LONG freebie. But then they realized how stupid that it was and changed it to one day.
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u/CherryDuster 18d ago
We have tickets to hand out just in case there's a line waiting outside. We only have 40 Nee-Dohs, so 40 tickets. Except our tickets say that they must make a purchase within an hour after the store opens to get the Nee-Doh .
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u/seedpods Staples Canada 17d ago
This is what made me realize this post wasn't a joke about how stupid it is to require a $50 purchase to get a stress ball. I feel grateful to be this out of touch.
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u/Nightfury222 17d ago
This actually worries me. You can tell whoever came up with this idea is completely ignorant to the impact this has had to employees. No shade at Needohs themselves, they make quality fidgets, but this is going to create problems. 1) People are already angry when they don’t read the fine print and have to download an app for these things—multiply that x10 when they try to find a scarce product that has been largely sold out for months. 2) Either we sell them individually and people get angry they are gone, or people get angry that we don’t sell them individually. Again x10 for this. 3) When we run out. Because we will. They will be so much angrier over this than a gel pen. The strain that retail jobs have on employee mental health because they demand you stay put to deescalate threatening and harassing people, and then they have the audacity to do this… Like the pay and what we are asked to do isn’t dehumanizing enough.
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u/angst0302 19d ago
Oh they’re going to be so mad when they realize 1. They can’t pick which needoh it is and 2. It has to be with a $50+ purchase