You’re not paying a “fee”. Sure, someone is paying for it, but it isn’t a fee.
Returns are a right and a necessity. Just as you take broken, spoiled, lost (and as you said, stolen) goods into account and “mark up” others to make up those losses, you do the same thing for returns.
It’s a business expense that has to be covered by some means (larger margins). But that’s not a “fee”.
For online shopping you can annul your order and they have to comply for pretty much everything, with a few exceptions and under a few caveats (such as unopened/original packaging, depending on the item in question)
Buying in-store you can likewise reurn most things, although you have to provide a reason (which the store may or may not accept), and is again subject to some caveats.
For example, for unperishable items you just have to provide the packaging. Foodstuffs must be unopened or have an obvious factory fault that wasn’t detectable without opening. Underwear is generally not accepted back due to sanitary reasons, but other garmets are, including shoes. Medicine from pharmacies isn’t accepted even sealed and unopened.
Of course, you must provide the original receipt, although scans/photos are accepted and some stores go so far as to look up the receipt by CC number.
“World” (sans America)
When a 3rd party actually wins, and the Democrats vecome the 3rd option, i wonder - where will the donors go?
They were conditioned to growing up. Their parents taught them to, they saw how the ingroup and the outgroups work and settled on the ingroup. Not much more to it than that i’m afraid.
Polish and Czech are basically the Dutch of Eastern European languages.
“Slightly” feels like an understatement.
The thing with “this one” is he was president for 2 terms, unlike the previous one. The others before him in this millenium were a bit less off the rails, hence less ridicule.
Bots do sway the results towards every current president, but this one is a bit… Specific.
But whatever the next one may be, short of insane choices like Kim K, Elon, Kanye, MTG, etc. The ridicule will be much less than for Trump.
Which will all get fed into a misquoting, fallacy-inducing, lying, hallucinating, LLM.
When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie
And please show me where I didn’t say that.
Then treat your employees like humans, not human resources. That means sick days at the very least. If you want to be respected more, then start respecting your employees more.
Lucky for you, you can get around with English in most places.
Ireland didn’t leave the EU, so that’s an option.
In most big cities you can get around just fine. In some you can actually live very comfortably.
As far as laws go, as an EU citizen one is entitled to communication with any public institutions one may come across in their preferred “official language”. Stuff like paying your utility bills, registering health insurance, similar bureaucratic stuff, as well as getting stopped by the police. You can insist on doing it in any one of 28 languages, including English.
Usually that’s a bit overkill, and whoever you’re dealing with will be happy to speak to you in English or find someone else who does if they don’t. I assume the same goes for non-citizens. German and French are also quite popular, but English is by far the most ubiquitous.
Don’t burn candles with a sad face. Nothing about people or candles without faces, though.
Wrong.
It calmed at most -500 people just today.
It is Musk’s AI assistant, after all. Now in more than one way.
It is to show that I suffered with you for a bit. Only one third of me, to be fair, which I created specifically for that little exercise.
Under what logic does immigration enforcement deal with domestic production of cannabis.
(I know, 100 miles from any border, port of entry, federal land, Indian reservation, etc but still)
Greedy retailer.
Any retailer worth their salt would include them in their profit margins.
When you run a retail store (or online store) selling physical goods, you are bound by the rules of matter (as oppoes to digital stuff). Stuff breaks. Food spoils. Old car models lose value. PC parts even quicker. Stuff gets lost. Stuff gets broken. An error occurs during manufacturing. These are all sources of loss which you have to take into account, predict and mitigate.
Adding returns to that already large (and by no means exhaustive) list isn’t an unreasonable ask.
You just estimate the number and projected cost of returns and adjust your prices and profit margins accordingly.
A “restock fee” is definitely uncalled for. The store made the decision to order X amount of the product, with a Y margin of loss (lost, broken in transport, stolen,…). These present a loss of item. An item they could’ve sold. However, a return isn’t a loss of item. They get the item back. And charging customers for the priviledge of buying something, getting dissappointed and making a big deal out of it with “restock fees” is a stupid business move - you risk losing the customer. Especially when you consider the fact that a return is the smallest cost out of all the issues mentioned here.
And if your competition doesn’t treat their customers as bad as you do - the risk isn’t small. And even if not, a boycott out of spite, even just one customer, is a much larger loss than the net gain of one “restock” fee.
So, it’s just greedy. And a bad business move if you care about customer retention. Not doing it while others do is a smart move, since these things are bound to happen. And when they do at a competitor, who knows? Maybe the customer tries you next and just… Remains loyal. Although when you say “customer loyalty” today, people think of gimmicks like loyalty cards.