Coming from the sample lady grocery store perspective:
- Don't leave your empty sample cups on store shelves. We have large, obvious trash cans all over the store.
- Don't rearrange samples on my tray. They're all the same product. I'm required to throw out every sample you've touched, whether you ate it or not.
- Don't stick your finger into a sample cup, cherry pick a piece and leave the remaining sample on the tray. Just throw the remaining sample out or eat it.
- Don't run past, grab a sample, remark "too busy to chat, gotta run" and then come back whining "Eww, you didn't tell me (whatever ingredient) was in this!"
- No, I cannot reuse your fork, napkin, plate or cup. I cannot go along with "Oh, I don't want you to waste a plate. Just put the food in my hand."Also, putting a used toothpick on my tray = I have to dump the whole tray of samples out, wash and sanitize the tray and make a new batch of samples.
- Please don't give me a lecture on "This product is s***. It's bad for the environment and for your health. You should only buy the version that comes from Shangri-La and is made by tiny singing animals from Snow White. Let me read the ingredient list to you and tell you what I think of each one...."
- I cannot leave my sample table to pick up a heavy item for you or climb a ladder for something you want on a shelf
- Mistaking me for a store employee is an okay mistake. I'm willing to direct you to the correct person. But walking up behind me and just blurting out "The price ? I said what's the price of this aspirin" is not a good idea. I do not know if you're talking to me or someone else. Moving next to or in front of me and asking "Excuse me, ma'am, can you help me" is much better.
- Yes, sometimes I have to sell pet food, feminine hygiene products or high fiber cereal. The joke you'd like to blurt out at the time isn't clever. You'll either be the 20th person to say it today ("har har, I'm on a diet. No dog food for me") or your comment will be so offensive that I'll think you're a very crude, ill mannered person.
- If you want to spit food out, put it in a napkin and throw it away. Don't stand over my trash can and try to drool out your chewing gum. Or dramatically fountain spit it into my trash can (true story). I had to toss out samples and sanitize my cart because of that customer