What do you say to the Bunnings Door Person?

**Rowan** · 12th July 2004, 11:42 AM

[QUOTE=soundman]Bunnings have the most crude loss prevention system I have ever come across.

No other retail store I have ever seen feels the need to check your recipt AFTER you have been thru the check out.
They NEED to do it because the front end of their shops are so badly laid out and their check out system is so poorly tahught out.

Having come from a retail variety discount chain background where loss preventions is far more important than the staff themselves I have to agree that Bunnings have stuffed up bigtime with their layout.

HOWEVER

Lets see how many of us start complaining if Bunnings go out of business and Mitre 10 and the like go back to having no competition and can set the prices at the levels they want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**DaveInOz** · 12th July 2004, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by silentC

Dale Carnegie would be proud of you Dave

:confused: Who?

don't look now but thats my ignorance hanging out

**silentC** · 12th July 2004, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by DaveInOz

:confused: Who?

don't look now but thats my ignorance hanging out

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...68902?v=glance

**DaveInOz** · 12th July 2004, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by silentC

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...68902?v=glance

OIC - don't make me think this early in the working day/week

**PaulS** · 12th July 2004, 12:22 PM

Oz
haven't ahd the trouble at the boom gate that you have had. I think that that is probably the solution, just use the trade and timber section. Its got lots of advantages, you can park your car in the shop (you don't get wet when it rains & your car doesn't get hot in summer).

I just can't wait for the reaction of the guy at the boom gate when I drive out without buyting anything.

What do they do when there is no docket to show him?
Do they strip search you & your vehicle?

**Eastie** · 12th July 2004, 03:45 PM

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**Sturdee** · 12th July 2004, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by Tonto

Who is going to be the guinney pig for us and refuse to drop everything to show the receipt.

Not me Tony.

I normally say hello and have a chat with the girls on the door as I have come to know the regulars over the years and on the way out I say goodbye.

Mind you they never want to check my purchases instead they help me find a suitable box to carry them in.

Peter.

**DavidG** · 12th July 2004, 09:04 PM

Please be nice to them. They are just some poor bu--ers trying to make a living like the rest of us.

**bitingmidge** · 12th July 2004, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by DavidG

Please be nice to them. They are just some poor bu--ers trying to make a living like the rest of us.

Well spoken David!!

We should be able to come up with a secret greeting that we all use so that they know "we know".....we could start a whole movement of people who say the same thing to the Bunnies door people.

How about a wink and a smile as we go in, and a simple "toodlepip!" on the way out!!

P

**ozwinner** · 12th July 2004, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

How about a wink and a smile as we go in, and a simple "toodlepip!" on the way out!!

P

Thats fine for you gay guys, but what about us straight guys?

A

**bitingmidge** · 12th July 2004, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Thats fine for you gay guys, but what about us straight guys?

A

Sorry to wake you!
Look I think it's time all you pseudo macho bricklayer types did the right thing and CAME OUT to Bunnings for the new Be Friends With The Person On The Door CAMPaign.

Toodlepip!
P

**Gumby** · 12th July 2004, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Thats fine for you gay guys, but what about us straight guys?

A

How about "Hi diddly doo Bunnerinos !"

**ozwinner** · 12th July 2004, 09:59 PM

l ( forgot it )

**Markw** · 25th July 2004, 11:40 PM

My local bunnies have the strangest check??????????

They don't check the goods your carrying, they only want to stamp the docket without reading the contents. You could have a brand new 3 phase MIG welder trailering behind you, but as long as you have an unstamped docket to present, maybe for a packet of screw, all is OK

This is not security, this is a joke :confused:

**DanP** · 26th July 2004, 09:25 PM

The person at the door is there because research shows that having someone at the door lowers theft from the store by a massive amount. Chains like bunnings have theft bills that run into the hundreds of thousands PER STORE. If they drop this number by a quarter, it's big dollars. Well worth the $25,000 they pay the door person. As far as the cheery greeting goes, that's Bunning's (and other stores) way of offering you (they think) a happy welcome that will make you spend more.

EVERYTHING that these places do is based in massive amounts of research designed to increase dollars in the bank or keep cost down so that they are able to remain competitive.

All theft related costs are divided and added to the product. So the person at the door represents savings to you. What harm is it to say 'G'DAY'

Dan

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