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       #Post#: 81341--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shelf clearing and "cherry picking" 
       By: SnappyLT Date: June 28, 2024, 2:07 pm
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       I'm entering the conversation late, I realize. I just today
       noticed this thread.
       I agree with the others who have said that the original behavior
       at Aldi was NOT rude.
       I just want to add a note about the first time I heard the term
       "cherry picking". I was in my late teens (many decades ago). My
       very favorite cousin was the assistant manager in a small local
       chain grocery store, and he was telling me about his work.
       His small chain would run very good sales (sometimes at a loss)
       to try to attract shoppers away from the bigger chain grocery
       stores. Of course, the hope was that the shoppers who came to
       the smaller chain store for the loss leaders would also buy some
       items at full price while they were in the store.
       My cousin told me that they called the shoppers who came in and
       only bought the loss leaders "cherry pickers". As I recall, my
       cousin was not angry at all about the cherry pickers; he knew
       that was the risk the store took when they put things on sale
       for such low prices.
       (If anyone is curious, my cousin moved on to work for a larger
       chain for many years. The small local chain he originally worked
       for held out until sometime in the 1980s or 90s and then sold
       out to one of the big national chains.)
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       Re: Shelf clearing and "cherry picking" 
       By: NFPwife Date: July 5, 2024, 2:34 pm
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       Oh my heck! My first W2 job was at an independent grocery store
       and the owner called people buying the loss leader items
       "(profanity) cherry pickers." When the woman called me a cherry
       picker I was tempted to ask if she'd worked there, or say,
       "Actually a cherry picker is someone who only buys loss
       leaders."
       One time I was counting my drawer and the owner was in the
       office complaining about the cherry pickers. Apparently he was
       going to go to the poor house over people buying Crystal Light.
       He was watching the carts go by and commenting on how many
       Crystal Lights they had and how much money he was losing on each
       cart. I had to keep re-starting my counting until the fourth or
       fifth time when I had to ask him to stop saying numbers.
       (The Crystal Light wasn't the only loss leader that week but it
       was the one that made him the craziest.)
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