Every corporate retailer has a website.
Every retailer website has a function that allows you to see which products are available at which store. The website is usually updated more quickly than the stores' internal systems.
Calling a store to ask which other stores have an item in stock is the shopping equivalent of calling a library and asking them to look up a trivia question in an encyclopedia and read it to you over the phone. If you're doing it, you'd better have a damn good reason why.
RELATED: There's a special place in hell for people who ask you to check inventory at places where you don't even work.
"Well, do they have it over at B?"
"I have no idea. I work at A."
"WELL THEN, WHAT GOOD ARE YOU!?"
The best part is that we're literally three doors down from the place they're asking about, but if you say, "I have no idea, but I don't mind if you go over and ask them," they always freak out.
No, I am not going to call our competitor to check their inventory for you.
You can do it yourself, very easily, on their website.
BAM. Full circle.
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