Missed Sale

JC Penny had an ad in the paper promoting $9.99 polo shirts. There was also a $10 coupon if you spent $50. I haven’t had any new shirts for work in about 3 years, so this seemed like a perfect opportunity to update my closet for cheap, buy 5 shirts and get them for only $40.

We hit the mall in town early and at Penny’s they only had one style marked at $10 instead of the flyers four with most of the polos there marked at $12.99. That didn’t seem right, so we left the store and checked the other major stores in the mall looking for deals on shirts. We had no luck so ended up back at JCP. I picked out 3 shirts I liked, another that would do and headed for the checkout.

There were two women at the counter talking to the sales clerk as they checked out, they must have known each other. He kept reaching to one side of the counter into a large pile of clothes and scanning an item. Looked like he was going to be at it awhile, so we headed over to the other side of the store to the only other open register. There were two separate woman in line there and the girl was finishing with one as we walked up. The clerk looked at the remaining woman and said, “I’ll be right back. I’ve run out of register tape.”

That was the straw that broke the camel’s back, I put down the shirts and we left the store. We’ll probably go to Augusta tomorrow and try their JC Penny.