Where Does This Stuff Even Come From?

It's mod season at work! This means we're attempting to recover (inventory wise) from the clusterfuck that is the Christmas shopping season. Putting out new stuff, getting rid of deleted stuff. Yeah!

Speaking of which, I just want everybody to know that, although we WILL take back your returns, it would be nice if you would return items you actually bought at this store. Or least from a Walmart, not Target or something. Why? Because it short circuits our brains when we come across an item on the shelf that we don't sell. There is no place for it. We can't leave it there, because we have to put This Other Item in that spot. But we can't move it, because we have nowhere to put it. We can't bin it because it would come up as a "Not On File." Basically, our reaction is "WTF. Does not compute! *brain sizzles*"

I was stocking in the stationary department last night, and stumbled upon a brand of secretary envelopes we don't carry. It was plugging up the space where our lovely Walmart "@ The Office" envelopes go. I stared at it for probably 3 minutes, deciding that the best course of action would be to put our envelopes back on the pallet as overstock. One time, we had a Lexmark printer behind the electronics counter for weeks because we just could not figure out what to do with it. We carry HP, Canon, and Kodak, no Lexmark. It's like random merchandise just appears on the shelf and the Retail Gods laugh as we flail about trying to decide what to do with it.

All we can do is just leave it there and somebody buys it, so we can put our shit back on the shelf. Though sometimes it just floats around the store because associates move it from location to another.