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The original was posted on /r/talesfromretail by /u/BowloRamaGuy on 2024-11-11 06:56:01+00:00.
I was working as a cashier / salesperson at a now defunct chain that carried electronics, car audio, appliances, computers, CD's, etc. This was back when heavy tube televisions were still a thing.
The store manager gives us a game plan for Black Friday and my station was in the television department first register closest to the front door.
The doors open and immediately I have a line of people.
One rather large man asks "Where are the 32 inch televisions?" and instinctively I said "The next aisle over" and he goes over there. I mean, technically my answer wasn't wrong. They were in that aisle. He meant the ones on sale lol oops. He came back and I had to tell him they were already out of stock.. Boy was he mad.
A few hours later the store manager pulls out a few 32 inch tv's from the back he was hiding so it looked like the store still had a few in stock and people at like 1PM were getting a deal.