"We don't take well to up-selling extensively..." Having been both the customer and the cashier in these situations... yeah, most people in the US aren't too keen on it either.

A former Target Canada employee here (truck unloader). The guys hit it on the head about how fucked everything was. Best story was an American manager came down during set-up for the store and was trying to push us to get used to upselling and handling the 'flow' (the shelving space for each item). He made an... interesting gesture and told us to 'roll the dice'. The gesture, of course, looked much like someone beating their meat before flinging the liquid into the listener's face. Needless to say, the next week was spent with the employees helpfully reminding each other to 'roll the dice'.

3:27 To be fair, we don't take well to upselling here in the US either. But they do it anyway.

I love Matt's emphasis on "which is WEIRD AND DIFFERENT!"

Fucking Canadian Target went: We're gonna drive EVERY OTHER SHOP out of business with our great deals! "Great deals" were like half a dollar off a shirt or something.

"Moon prism buckshot!" Quick! Someone put that in a video game!

Nice, not everyone gets an opportunity to work with the Postal Dude.

“I’m buying a tea-pot do you really think I care about images/symbols of power?”

If you go to a store in the states and they don't ask if you want to upgrade your membership, somebody got fired that day.

Most malls in the USA are closed before 11 pm unless there is a Holiday

We in the US love the up selling. I can't stand it when a salesperson isn't trying to get me to buy shit I don't need. How will I know that I need that thing I don't need.

I actually have a really chill Gamestop in the mall by my house, they are all like 30 year old super nerds that work there and they are actually really fun to talk to. The most upselling I ever get is " You want to preorder something bro?, nah? alright."

The way Target handled the closing of its pharmacy was a disgrace.

Now I want to see a version of Glengarry Glen Ross set in a Teavana.

As someone enslav- er, Employed at Target, I can say that the only thing Target fucking cares about is selling those fucking Credit cards. The team leads constantly remind us to sell them (every 10 minutes) and getting pulled in the office if we don't sell enough of them daily isn't uncommon. It drives me fucking crazy.

I live in Minnesota and haven't had to deal with much upselling, yea they ask the typical "Do you have our card?" or "Would you like to add this?" but as soon as you say no, they drop it and move on because they really don't give a shit. When i worked at pizza hut my manager only 1 time said "Hey, try to sell some of this, we accidentally made a couple we weren't supposed to" and i asked like 3 people that called if they wanted to add one and didn't bother trying to convince them and at the end of the time limit he put on us we had sold none and he just said "Alright, well, guess no one wanted any right now, no sense throwing them out, anyone want one?" and it was fucking delicious.

To be fair, have you guys fired guns before? It's fuckin' radical.

I remember the stories my sister would tell from having to work at Teavana, with how she was forced to sell to customers. Definitely funny how big of an impact regional differences can have on business practices.

Super best economics101cast

Target sucks in the US. Sure they're always stocked and the employees are alright. But the prices are high, the clothing looks cheap and is cheap. And it always reeks of fucking popcorn and butter.

The worst is when they try to push things at fast food joints. Like I know what I want, just let me order and let's go.

RIP Zellers

I must have been Canadian in a past life, because I fucking detest up selling. Especially from game stop. it's insane.

oh boy...I used to work at Teavana. This is entirely accurate.

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following: • Supports store sales growth through delivering personal and team sales goals, upselling, and suggestive selling to customers based on their needs. • Follows the Enhanced Sales Process, fully executing each step to ensure each customer experiences the Tea Journey that meets their needs as defined by the customer type. • Responsible for providing a positive customer service experience and sampling. • Follows Teavana operational policies and procedures, including those for cash handling and safety and security, to ensure the safety of all partners during each shift. • Provides quality beverages, consistently for all customers by adhering to all recipe standards and provides samples according to recipe specification. • Responsible for keeping beverage station cleaned, stocked and organized at all times. • Reports any supply needs to Operations Team Lead. Assists in maintaining visual displays per standards and reports discrepancies to the Visual Team Lead. • Maintains, rotates, dates, and organizes back stock according to plan. • Ensures proper handling of damaged and defective merchandise, completes re-tickets of back stock, under stock and over stock. • Ensures proper storage and organization of all stock at all times and reports any issues to Operations Team Lead. • Maintains visual integrity and brand image of Teavana promotions by ensuring store cleanliness and restocking product per the visual merchandising guidelines. Pretty standard clerk job.

maybe i should move to Canada. i hate dealing with that shit.

...And now Target's commercials exclusively try and sell clothes and accessories to hipsters and such, complete with the irritating trendy songs of the minute. You would have no idea it's a department store.

i hate awkward upselling conversations, i get squemish thinking about how awkward and forced it all is. one time i had a clerk at spencers SING the rewards card benefits to me. like, dude . . . how whipped are you?

That sock shit happens here in America too

"Get your twelve year old daughter her first gun!" I wish I lived in a world where that could just be a really funny joke and not a reality =(...

The gun laws are one of the major drawbacks of Canada. It sucks we're more likely to have more gun laws, meaning we're more likely to have police powers expanded and more people victimized by them than we are the stuff that actually decreases violent crime like universal health care or full, unionized employment.

First world problems

Maybe it's different elsewhere, i'm from ohio, i have never been upsold anything. Shit, usually i have to go walk around and find a worker just so there's someone to work the register when i'm ready to buy

I worked at Teavana.... Yeah... It's some shit...

That guy w/ the trench coat sounded like the biggest tool in the universe.

Can I request a moment from a podcast I can't find?

am i the only one who thinks these types of videos should be copy right claimed so the original creators can profit more off there work instead of someone else profiting off there stuff.

Target is ass, always was ass I cant believe Canadians are always Praising the Target Gods

Wow Canadian target... get gud.

America's obsession with guns is genuinely frightening. You'd think the sheer amount of gun deaths America experiences a year would make them rethink their relationship with guns.