When I was working minimum wage at a gas station many eons ago, we would have ‘2 for $x’ specials where x is less than 2 times the individual price of whatever item.
People would often not want to buy 2, but I would ring up 2 in the till for the special price and charge them for the single. Then when the next person did the same, I would charge them for the other single.
So over the day, I would sell 10 energy drinks at say $4, but ring them up as 5 ‘2 for $6’ specials. This would put the till up by $10, and then I would use that $10 to have a free meal.
Anyone else do anything like that?
This is quite clever.
To be honest if you agreed to cover the cost of the drink if the day ended on a odd number of cans. I reckon you should have at it, it’s a good little bonus incentive.
Just in case anyone around their first job is reading this, many businesses would consider this theft
You can always go the safe route:
Ask the customer if they want to go halves with you on the deal instead of buying the single. You both get a cheaper drink. The store gets more money. Good customer service. No harm no foul.
Sure. But probably don’t do it in the energy drink case. At least not several ones each workday 😳🙃