E-Mart is a Horrible, Mindless, Corporate Monster

I use small amounts of plain Denmark yogurt in cream to make butter. They stopped selling that in our one store in Gyeongju, so thought I'd pick up a couple yogurts since I was in Daegu, a larger city about an hour from home. Unfortunately, when I got to the counter, they told me that I couldn't buy just two yogurts, I needed to buy them in tens. No way I'd use that many yogurts before they started getting moldy, and the store wouldn't work out a deal for me, so I left about $100 worth of would-be purchases at the counter over their intransigence about two small containers of yogurt. Somebody tell me again that big business is good for us.

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• E-Mart
• Korea
• Korean
• business
• sucks
• horrible
• mindless
• cretins
• yogurt
• butter
• cream

[silentgrayfellowx]

If they sell you two out of a pack of ten, who will they sell the 8-pack to?

[lopo790]

u have to u cant just take out 3

[angryislander56]

Sounds like something a Canadian would do:)

(Americans are always complaining that we have no respect for the infallibility of the customer)

That was an example of corporate paternalism I think? The managers are more afraid of breaking a policy or rule than they are of not making a sale>Which is their raison d'etre one supposes. No north american korean shop keeper would make that decision I bet:)

[MrJimboray]

That's too funny Mike. Love you brother.

[freethinker3161]

lol what they hell are they doing. it seems unproductive to do that. lol.

[ozmoroid]

They want to force you to buy 10 yogurts? Ridiculous. I understand having a deal on a bulk buy, but not letting you buy a single item is a really stupid business practice.