Stay Home

So we've been doing curbside pick ups for a bit.
Where customers can order stuff online and then once they get notified that their order is ready they can come to the store and wait in their car and we can bring their purchase out to them.

However, it's not a perfect system.
Like you can't order prescription food for the curbside pick up.
And you can't purchase animals online (with the exception of feeder goldfish and crickets) either. 

Plus you have those customers who have no idea how the internet works...or don't trust it...and want to try and get around it.

Which results in them trying to pay over the phone --which we don't do.
Or else they want to come to the store and wait in their cars and have us take their credit cards from them to go pay with it in the store and then come out with their card and purchases.
Which is another thing we can't do.
There's too much of a safety risk doing that. 

In today's case.
The customer called the store wanting to buy ghost shrimp.
Which luckily for them, we had them in stock still.
Unluckily for them. Ghost shrimp are an 'in store purchase only' sort of situation. Though the customer was trying to talk us into letting him pay from his car. *exhales*

Nope. The customer can only get the shrimp by coming inside.

Only.
He couldn't come inside.

Why?
Because the customer told us that he'd contracted COVID. 

*exhales*
So this guy. Has the virus that's been causing havoc all over the world.
And he wants to get in his car. Drive to our store. Have us come out to his car. And get him Ghost Shrimp.

Like...at least he didn't try to come into the store proper. At least he was trying to keep people safe by not leaving his car and calling first before deciding to drive over.

But like Dude.
NO.
If you have COVID...STAY HOME.
There is no reason whatsoever that you need to get a handful of 39 cent ghost shrimp for your tank at this time.
No reason. Whatsoever. Your tank will survive a few more weeks without the shrimp.
And if you're soooo desperate you can have a friend or family member who isn't SICK come to the store to get them.

But Do. Not. Leave. The. House.

The customer wasn't having it though.
He was trying to convince the manager over the phone to let him pay for the ghost shrimp and bring them out to him.

The manager told him no.
Also told him to stay home too.

Because dude.
Ghost shrimp isn't worth our health and safety. 

*shakes head* 

-Sarnic Dirchi