Earn money while you buy groceries with Ibotta

  

I've been using Ibotta for about a year now and I've earned $282.12 so far just buying groceries. Being low-income and relying on foodstamps this app has been extremely helpful for getting a few extra bucks every month on stuff I was buying anyway. 

How it works is it gives you offers for different items, you scan your receipt and can cash out when you earn $20. Every time I go grocery shopping I sit down and review all the available offers and check everything I might potentially buy. At self-check out I probably annoy customers behind me by scanning each offer on separate receipts (makes it easier when scanning into the app). Often if I check the Stop & Shop app I can find a lot of the same deals with store coupons as well to maximize savings. Check your preferred grocery store's app for more coupons. 

Ibotta can also be used for money back with online purchases and food delivery such as Grubhub, Uber Eats and DoorDash.

 

Especially during pandemic times it's important to save money where you can and these are purchases you're going to make anyway so might as well earn some money back on them. 

Download Ibotta today and use my referral code "hgpcoec"to start earning money back on your purchases. I highly recommend this app! Sign up for Ibotta!

Shoplifter

I caught a girl shoplifting. I've seen her in the store a few times before. She looks like a bum. The first time she came in she was covered in bruises. It made me wonder if her boyfriend had beat her or something.  Last time she came in she brought a bunch of change and wanted cash for it.

I was walking by the aisle when I saw her trying to put a Beanie Baby in her backpack. She kind of jumped when she saw me stop and then she tried to play it off. She asked if I thought her son would like the Beanie Baby. I thought for a minute, and felt a little bad for her. I told her he would probably like it better if she paid for it. She just looked at the ground. In a nice way I said "Look I know what you were trying to do. I think it's nice that you have your son in mind but you can't just take that. I'm not going to make a big deal out of it, but don't let me catch you doing this again."

She almost broke down crying swearing to never to do it again (personally I think she probably will) then she told me how the store manager at the Stop & Shop next door called the cops because she was caught stealing baby formula. She thanked me again for not calling the cops and left.

I suppose she had good intentions At least she wasn't like the other guy who stole mouth wash and then got drunk off it by our pharmacy.

Meshe

So this old black guy comes into the store with his bike (which you're not allowed to do) and he comes up to the register with his money in his mouth.. So I said "how can I help you?" and all he would say is "me-she", he just kept repeating it. I don't know what the fuck that means 0_o
So I said "okay I don't know what you want sir" All he would say back was "yeah", "no", "thank you" and "me-she". He also kept pointing to his crotch, so as he's saying "me-she" or "me-see" I start thinking "oh god is he about to take his pants off?" Thank god he didn't.

I was completely lost so I called my supervisor.

A few minutes can MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

It's been a while since my last post (I'm a lazy asshole, sorry!). However something happened recently that blew my mind and it's actually a serious subject I'd like to touch on.

A few weeks ago I had a customer (just some random total stranger) who was really upset. Long story short, someone he cared about a lot had betrayed him.  I just stood there quietly and listened to his (longgg) story. To be perfectly honest, my short attention span (probably from smoking to much weed) zoned out a few times while he was talking(but I'm still good at making it look like I'm paying attention when I'm not).At the end I gave him my honest opinion on his situation. He said I was the first person to be that blunt with him and he appreciated my honesty.

He came in a few more times after that night, he was lonely and liked chatting with me while I rang up his stuff.  He told me how he had no family, no one to talk to and just felt completely alone. I sympathize for him. Over the past 8 years I've had a few severe bouts of depression and I completely understand what its like to feel like you are completely alone in the world. For a while I actually believed it was better for me to isolate myself because I "wasn't worthy" of being around other people. That was just my fucked up belief.  Today I still struggle with depression but it wasn't until recently, after years of surrendering to it, I finally started to fight back.

I saw him again a few days ago, he hadn't come to the store to buy anything he said he just wanted to thank me. Confused I asked him for what? He said that I had stopped him from committing suicide
(O_o)
At first I thought "Wait, I did? I'm just some cashier you don't really know. How could I had made that kind of influence?" I didn't really feel like I had done anything. I mostly just stood there and let him talk. After further thinking about it I though "Isn't that something everyone needs, someone to be there for them when they're alone?"

One of the problems in the world today is that no one usually cares about anything but their own problems. So remember just taking a few minutes to simply listen can make THE difference!

There are so many stupid hashtags on Twitter, please take a minute to make a difference by spreading this message!
#FEWMINUTESMAKEADIFFERENCE

Lost in translation

Everyone says be careful what you choose for a tattoo, its permanent. That and if you're getting a tattoo in another language make sure you know what it means. This guy clearly didn't do either.

This guy that reminded me of Sloth from The Goonies came through my line, he had a wife beater on and his arms were covered in tattoos. One tattoo that caught my attention was a Japanese one written in katakana. It said モチメチネ which reads as 'mo chi me chi ne' and sounds like mochi meh chi nay. "much machine? much money?" I tried to read it out loud and couldn't . I asked him what it meant and he said "Sarah" Lmfao I couldn't help it I started laughing at him.

ばか！そですね？

Quick Japanese lesson, the Japanese have three different writing systems. There's the most well known kanji, which originated from the Chinese  It's usually assumed by 外人 that every single kanji is Chinese. There's hiragana which has around 50 characters and is comparable to the regular English alphabet, and then there's katakana which also has around 50 characters and is used to translate foreign words into Japanese.

私は日本語がすこしわかります、でもまだじょずじゃありません。だけどカタカナわかります。- I understand some Japanese but I am not fluent. However I do understand katakana.

Because I was oh so social in high school, I would sit at home and watch Sailor Moon and Japanese dramas and movie. With the power of the Internet I taught myself how to read katakana and hiragana, I can only read a hand full of kanji though.

So I corrected the guy and showed him what his tattoo translated to and he was pissed.

Moral of the story: do your research before getting a tattoo!

Jealous Bitch

Before I even start, I really want to hear people's opinions on this. Please feel free to leave a comment below telling me what you think!

We used to have this nerdy kid who would come in. He looked a lot like McLovin from Superbad.

So McLovin would come in and get cigarettes and a diet coke like every night and he was cool so I would go out for a few minutes, smoke a cigarette with him and we would talk  about the zombie apocalypse or he would talk about how awesome the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic MMO is.

It wasn't just me one of my guy co-workers would also talk to him because we all had similar nerdy interests. I had 0 interest in him as anything more then a friend.

One day McLovin came in with some fat girl and I asked if he wanted to go out and smoke a cigarette. He said no, left and I just continued with my work.

A few weeks later I hadn't seen him since then and I commented to my co-worker about it. His response was "yeah because he's pretty pissed off at you ."
???? What did I do? He seemed fine the last time I saw him.
Turns out his fat ass girlfriend got jealous and thought he was cheating, all because I asked him if he wanted to smoke a cigarette. 0_o

Really? That's the reason you don't come in any more? That's why he's pissed off at me, because this fat bitch is insecure and is jealous over a some what attractive girl asking if you want to smoke a fucking cigarette? Really?

Ok whatever fuck both of you then.

But what really bothers me is that my co-worker says it's entirely 'my fault' that McLovin won't come in anymore.

So I want to know, do you think I was wrong to ask if he wanted to smoke a cigarette, not knowing that Jabba the Hutt next to him was his girlfriend? Or is this a case of a crazy girl that gets jealous way too easily? Leave me a comment below telling me what you think!

Bald guy

A bald guy came in looking for hair care products. Dude you're bald, if you can't use this stuff for your head I can only imagine where you can possibly use it...