...and The Rest of the Story

 

On Saturday, Mr. Man and I went out the dinner and he wanted to know how did we end up with so beer and how this thing work.🤣

As I mentioned in my Plotting and Planning post,  I had went specifically to Vons to pick up the Money Maker beer but I also picked some cheese and I thought I was picking up the "Friday Only" shrimp for $6.

The cashier and I got kinda distracted because someone was acting crazy in the store and I forgot to look to see if the shrimg rang up for $6.  

I paid the $26.72 and when the cashier handed me the receipt, I only saw that the shrimp rang up for $17.98 and I requested that cashier refund me for the shrimp because I thought I had grab the Friday Only $6 shrimp.

There was no one there behind and called out for an override so the manager could refund the money. However, all the managers that had the override key was in a meeting and of course, a line started to form but eventually someone runs out and approves the refund.

It's not until Saturday when I remembered to submit the receipt for $15 Budweiser or Budlight Rebate (limit 3) rebate that I realized that the $15 off $15 Meat/Seafood Flavor Adventure game coupon had come off on my receipt which means that the $17.98 refund that I got for the shrimp, the $15 off $15 Meat/Seafood helped pay for the beer...and in essence, without knowing it, I rolled the $15 off $15 into cash.

I was not expecting the $15 of $15 to come off because I thought that I was getting the "Friday Only" shrimp for $6.

HOWEVER, Mr. Man still didn't understand how we paid $18.83 for beer and the give us back $30 on PayPal...and we are expecting $15 from a rebate.

I told him it's because the folks at Budweiser don't have checks and balances. When I started my work career, there used be throngs of people that did checks and balances to make sure that everything straight but at some point, capitalism determined that they didn't need all these people because they had computers and they started running their businesses on a bare bones basis. They started touting the whole "Do more with less" but it's impossible to do more with less because you are going to get less.

There is even more to this story but one must know when to shut up and enjoy one's wins.