One Customer Thought A Building Supply Vehicle Could Give Them A Ride, But The Manager Quickly Shut Down The Unexpected Request
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Delivery trucks have a purpose, and free rides are not it.
One shopper asks a supply store for transportation home.
The manager has to explain the obvious.
See why everyone found the request so bizarre.
Random Person Asked Us To Be A Taxi Service.
The store a friend works at is part of a small chain of building supply stores, where their boss owns several locations and has a fleet of delivery vehicles for each store.
Most of the stores are within or just over an hour of driving distance from one another.
One day, they were approached by a customer.
So the coworker said they had a person come into the store and ask for the manager. When the manager arrived, the person explained they are from a town roughly 40 minutes away.
But they were coming to the back town in a few days to have work done on their vehicle.
This customer had a pretty unexpected request.
And in their words, “I see your company vehicles driving all around. So I want to ask if I can get a ride back to my town in your delivery vehicles since work on my car will take several days.”
The manager pretty much told them no.
The manager tried to point the clearly confused customer in the right direction.
If they need a ride back to their town, they are better off getting some sort of taxi or arranging for a family member or friend to give them a ride, because the delivery vehicles are not a taxi service.
It’s important to note, he lived within 20 minutes of one of the other supply stores, so their vehicles are in that person’s town regularly doing deliveries.
The request was pretty baffling.
It is extremely rare they make the trip down to my friend’s location.
I think this person walked out rather disappointed.
But who in their right mind would ask a building supply company to give them a ride home to a place 40 minutes away?
Talk about a liability…
What did Reddit have to say?
It’s too bad a business like this doesn’t already exist… Oh wait — it does.
Perhaps this person was just looking for trouble?
This request may end up costing this person a pretty penny.
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No business owner in their right mind would go for this.
A shopper asked the store to drive him roughly 40 minutes home in one of its delivery vehicles.
The manager declined and suggested a taxi, rental, friend, or family member instead.
Anything but that.
Turns out “delivery service” does not mean “deliver me.”
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