Bug List

20 Things That Bug Me:

1. At Michael's, in Argyle Forrest, the quantity available listed online does not match the availability in the store.
• I would assume this is because the inventory system is not updated frequently by the employees or the system is not setup to do automatic updates.
2. In many retail outlets, prices online don't match the prices in the store.
•  Encouraging customers to purchase items online reduces the cost that a traditional retail store has to pay.
3. Walgreen's on Blanding Blvd was very strict about printing professional pictures and made me get a specific liability release form even though I had an appropriate form from the picture producer.
• They are very concerned with lawsuits.
4. Women's pants aren't sold by length and width like men's pants, instead the sizes sold at different retailers vary greatly.
• I have no idea why this is done.
5. Shoe sizes, even though they are supposed to be standardized, aren't always true to size and it makes ordering shoes online difficult.
• Costs to completely standardize the sizes of shoes would be tremendous.
6. Many restaurants on campus, such as Chick-fil-A, Papa John's, and Croutons, close before students are ready to eat dinner.
• More students live off campus than on campus, therefore Aramark would not make as much profit because fewer customers are available at night.
7. Amazon Prime's 2-day shipping often extends past two days and they have never offered compensation for the inconvenience.
• Around the holiday season shipping gets slowed.
8. Masterpiece Puzzle Company does not cut identical puzzles into identical pieces, therefore when a piece is missing they can't replace the piece.
• I don't know why. I think it would be easier to cut all the puzzles into the same pieces.
9. The custodian in my building often puts an extra toilet paper roll on top of the rolls attached to the stall wall and these extra rolls often fall onto the floor and then people don't want to use them.
• Over the weekends we go through more toilet paper than the allotted spots attached to the stall allow and the girls still continue to use it even though its been on the floor.
10. Netflix has taken over eight months to put up the final season of Parks and Rec.
• It is probably more expensive to buy the rights to the show the newer it is.
11. Pandora's customer service takes two months to replace broken jewelry.
• Pandora sends all the broken jewelry overseas to inspect and fix it and because it does take so long many people will just buy a replacement instead of waiting two months.
12. UF Bookstore sells many of their books in binder form which they do not buy back from students.
• When the book is in a binder and pages are loose-leaf, pages could be taken out and not put back by students and it would cost a lot to have employees check to see that every page was returned.
13. Many small sized packaged foods, like king sized candy bars, are singularly packaged but contain multiple servings which deceive consumers about the amount of calories in the package. 
• The larger candy bar provides more value for the customer at a lower cost than buying two candy bars.
14. Most alcohol, Seagram's wine coolers for example, don't contain the nutritional value on the bottle.
• These drinks aren't healthy, and if producers aren't required to reveal the nutritional information they don't.
15. K-Cup sellers, like Green Mountain Coffee, don't sell individual K-Cups to be able to test them before you buy an entire 18 pack.
• It is cheaper to package and sell larger packs of K-Cups.
16. Melamine dishware, sold at Target, is not made to be microwave safe, but it is sometimes necessary to reheat food that is served into the bowls on onto the plates.
• They can sell them for cheaper when they don't have to use materials that are microwave safe.
17. My Magic Chef mini fridge's freezer is very small, leaves food icy, and will not keep things like ice cream in their appropriate state of frozen.
• The freezer is simply an icebox, a higher quality freezer would increase the price of the fridge.
18. Samsung and Apple laptops, among others, don't come with very many USB ports and require users to buy an adapter to have more ports.
• It costs more and the laptops would have to be made larger to add more USB ports.
19. As Apple introduces new products the chargers they require aren't the same as the chargers of the previous models and you have to buy extra chargers.
• The batteries are different and require different chargers, and also they make more money when people buy additional chargers.
20. Comcast makes it very difficult to get out of a service contract.
• They make it difficult to do as much as they can to keep your business.

This list was very hard to come up with, especially around number 12.  Most of my list consists of services rather than products because I feel like I have become accustomed to the lacking of my products, but notice when people mess up . And it was very difficult to come up with the reason for the issues; most of the reasons I came up with came down to money.