Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 20, 2012

  1. Missing large
    Namrepus  over 12 years ago

    TJ should be a car salesman.

     •  Reply
  2. Schnail
    whayle  over 12 years ago

    More than just an upsell. Need meat on your bones? Go to Weenie World!.Teenie weenie special? Really? Who named that deal??

     •  Reply
  3. Pib130828 eyebrow cocked
    bikenboatn  over 12 years ago

    And that’s how the Super-Sizing of America begins.

     •  Reply
  4. Emerald
    margueritem  over 12 years ago

    The boy’s good.

     •  Reply
  5. Missing large
    legaleagle48  over 12 years ago

    Now, why can’t I upsell like that in MY job?

     •  Reply
  6. Img5
    King_Shark  over 12 years ago

    He does come across as incredibly pushy. I don’t see how he could possibly “double business”, unless nobody in Pittsville has a spine.

     •  Reply
  7. Truff avatar
    ShagsCA  over 12 years ago

    Teenieweenie Special eh? TJ had you down for something more manly than that!

     •  Reply
  8. Missing large
    ZacBSM  over 12 years ago

    SO that is how he doubles his sales? WW must have really ignorant and dumb customers. I would have seen right through him and insisted on the $2 special and nothing else! Just like a car salesman – always trying to hoodwink customers into paying extras or slipping it onto the sales forms in hopes they don’t notice the extras and end up paying for them. I caught quite a few of them and demanded explanations for those extras and demanded them removed. Sheesh. I loathe slick salespeople and I see TJ is one of those. Ugh!

     •  Reply
  9. 062
    DuHhozr  over 12 years ago

    Went in for a fish hook and came with a boat and a truck to pull it!

     •  Reply
  10. Missing large
    Agent54  over 12 years ago

    Guy is most likely a plant (friend of TJ’s) who makes him look good in front of the boss lady. by allowing the upgrades.

     •  Reply
  11. Mo o
    lance96816  over 12 years ago

    Word

     •  Reply
  12. Missing large
    JerryTheK  over 12 years ago

    She’s a comic!

     •  Reply
  13. Missing large
    Packer12  over 12 years ago

    Back to focusing on seconday characters of the strip!

     •  Reply
  14. Thinker
    Sisyphos  over 12 years ago

    Well, we get to see TJ’s technique in action. And even if it might not work in the Real World, it appears to be pretty successful in the Comics Universe. —Even if Ann Eiffel finds it hard to believe (“incredible”). We’ve got to keep in mind TJ’s mesmerizing charm (even if we don’t like it, the guy’s got IT).

     •  Reply
  15. Missing large
    Hank1938  over 12 years ago

    TJ… Undercover Boss…

     •  Reply
  16. Martini 800
    mojitobaby  over 12 years ago

    He’s not ripping anyone off. If they’re too weak to say ‘no’, that’s their problem and they’ll have to learn how to deal with it like grownups – or else go through life broke. But since they’re getting food for their money, he’s not ripping them off or cheating them.

     •  Reply
  17. White tiger swimming
    cabalonrye  over 12 years ago

    Anyone who tries that with me is in for a long and interesting discussion for the need for a hearing check up and the need of a brain in working order. And that’s only to start with. Very politely but also very loudly. I once held up a file for long minutes until the manager offered me a free drink just to get me to move.

     •  Reply
  18. Oldwolfcookoff
    The Old Wolf  over 12 years ago

    TJ is using classic techniques of persuasion to elicit a “click, whirr” response from his public, and they work. Salespeople do it all the time, and while many find it annoying, more are not even aware that it’s being done to them, hence it continues. The only weapon against persuasion techniques is education.

     •  Reply
  19. Cm1
    Mordock999  over 12 years ago

    My God, TJ’s like the BORG assimilating one SUCKER at a time!“TJ should be a Car Saleman”?HELL, In a Nation of SHEEP, he’s got a GREAT Career as a Politician (And You can Pick the Party of Your Choice)!Isn’t there ANYONE, ANYWHERE within the VAST Luanniverse that can STOP this Grining Jackass?!!?

     •  Reply
  20. Imagescaiw0lwc
    imbaldeagle  over 12 years ago

    Well, it’s not as blatant as shown – to get the point across quickly. The upgrade is often so subtle that it can slip right by us. We think, “OK, that’s a good idea and it only costs a little more” The other day a news show ran a segment on grocery stores showing product placement and direction of customer flow improving impulse buying.

     •  Reply
  21. Wiz wirp boing
    johndifool  over 12 years ago

    Taking wagers on how long it is before she jumps his bones.

     •  Reply
  22. 26201 100585236648862 7660196 n
    phurface  over 12 years ago

    TJ for President!!!!!!!!!!!

     •  Reply
  23. Missing large
    Tinyman  over 12 years ago

    I agree with hank1938

     •  Reply
  24. Missing large
    bagbalm  over 12 years ago

    He’s wasted on hot dogs.

     •  Reply
  25. Missing large
    poopdaddytim  over 12 years ago

    I’ve forgotten why TJ is financially secure. Does he own WW? Hmmmm….

     •  Reply
  26. 2b14e180 e18c 4a0f b216 5604a7c39112
    WitcheeMinx  over 12 years ago

    It is the same ploy that restaurants use with dessert trays. How many times did you think that you would not have any dessert & then your server came around with the tray. You saw all of those goodies & the next thing you knew you were ordering one!

     •  Reply
  27. 318346 10150515659374989 119105629988 11258985 63388929 n
    Airman  over 12 years ago

    This is going to be very dull unless Ann decides to check out TJ’s own teenieweenie special.

     •  Reply
  28. Gocomics avatar
    Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Sometimes I feel sorry for the prisoners here who don’t know how to suspend reality and participate in the fantasy world of the comics. But in way, you are part of the entertainment. Like Bill. Even JJ.

     •  Reply
  29. Hobo
    MeGoNow Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Eye-Full is easy to fool. She was wise enough to know she’s not too bright and to avoid higher employment in favor of WW where she could exercise her abusive nature and still keep the job.

     •  Reply
  30. 3dflags usaal1 5
    Alabama Al  over 12 years ago

    I agree with Ann – it is incredible. TJ’s tactics may work for awhile, but customers would soon resent being pressured. Aggressive sales tactics are effective only in establishments that don’t depend on frequent repeat business.

     •  Reply
  31. Missing large
    braxtonrob  over 12 years ago

    JUST the TeenieWeenie’s PLEASE!

     •  Reply
  32. Missing large
    eocene82  over 12 years ago

    How does this make TJ look good? If someone at a fast food place (or anywhere) did this to me, I’d leave and/or complain to the manager. I’d probably avoid that chain entirely after that, and eat somewhere where I’m not forced into getting food I don’t want or paying almost 5 times as much as I intended.

     •  Reply
  33. Missing large
    Chuck373  over 12 years ago

    Oh, Ann likes it alright. She just can’t believe it. And TJ is not ripping off the patrons. They are getting everything they pay for.

     •  Reply
  34. Missing large
    Chuck373  over 12 years ago

    And then you’d be hungry while TJ moves to the next person in line.

     •  Reply
  35. Missing large
    Chuck373  over 12 years ago

    There’s a sucker born every minute – and TJ is the obstetrician.

     •  Reply
  36. My eye
    vldazzle  over 12 years ago

    Back when I still ate fast food, I not only knew what I wanted to order, I usually tryed to have exact change ready in the drive through lane. I couldn’t usually understand when they repeated on the speaker, but if the amount on the screen was not as expected – I’d repeat my order LOUDLY! No changes or upselling.

     •  Reply
  37. My eye
    vldazzle  over 12 years ago

    @Sheriff, sometimes it does seem like the readers can’t remember that it IS a toon. But I find it fun how each person relates to the characters. I have found our bunch over at Dinette Set often is lively that way, getting a little slow over there and I think it’s interesting to get back over to TJ and AE. I like that Greg changes scene for a week or so -things are going so smoothly at WW that it needs some conflict.

     •  Reply
  38. Violet bay
    LiviaBay  over 12 years ago

    Hey … The patron isn’t correcting TJ about the mistake in the price of the meal. So much for who’s looking to get over on someone.

     •  Reply
  39. Missing large
    puboxer  over 12 years ago

    After all these years I have finally figured it out….TJ is the reason I am fat!

     •  Reply
  40. Missing large
    tigre1  over 12 years ago

    Good old TJ…now to s-l-o-w-l-y reel the boat gently to her fishy side, slip the net under her, help her into the boat…gut her, slice her up, cook her…and EAT her.and spit out the bones.Adios evil B…

     •  Reply
  41. Missing large
    Tinyman  over 12 years ago

    I dont remember in the strip where it was metioned that TJ is well off. Can someone fill me in? I do admit I have started reading louann after not reading the strip for a long while. Thanks

     •  Reply
  42. 1.richard waiting
    yuggib  over 12 years ago

    Just a guess, but I think you might be in a very large minority. Half of what is left (minus the minority you are in) would go qalong, and the other half would just say “No.” And maybe “No, Thank you.” I get this almost every time I go into Micky D’s, and a lot of the time in other Weenie-World type places.

     •  Reply
  43. 1.richard waiting
    yuggib  over 12 years ago

    If anybody thinks about it, TJ is doing what he is supposed to do, especially if he wants to move up the corporate chain. He IS increasing sales. We all know that he has an ulterior motive (getting AE’s goat) and the last panel shows it’s working. And if you look at what TJ says the price is, I think he added the price of the pie in there. NOBODY can accuse TJ of being dumb!

     •  Reply
  44. Accepting award cropped compressed bigger
    kbyrdleroy123  over 12 years ago

    Guys got the magic touch!

     •  Reply
  45. 318346 10150515659374989 119105629988 11258985 63388929 n
    Airman  over 12 years ago

    I suspect that the clientele of a Weenie World are not among the more sophisticated diners. The older generation of mall walkers might use it for cheap coffee (as opposed to Starbucks), but I think it would mostly be teenagers and young mothers with little kids. I’ll bet it’s been about 10 years since I’ve been in a Micky D’s and got really sick from one of their hamburgers.

     •  Reply
  46. Oldgeezerlittle1
    Numbnumb  over 12 years ago

    TJ would do well in Congress!

     •  Reply
  47. 52532821 10218381841719002 403852446243225600 o
    Kathy M T M Premium Member over 12 years ago

    me too!

     •  Reply
  48. Missing large
    rpger3  over 12 years ago

    After reading the comments here- I am compelled to pass on a lesson learned. This concerns 2 particular employees at the hotel I manage (a college grad- going for masters and the other a college student) who cannot do simple math and have no concept of how much things cost or how much they pay for things. Why are they still employed? They are 2 of the most charismatic people I have ever met and can talk down the most boisterous and argumentative customer. Charisma and confidently delivered flattery can get people to do things that they would never do otherwise. Our filed customer complaints, both in person and the email satisfaction survey we send out 10 days after checkout, have dropped significantly after I made them “guest relations”. There were several months after I promoted them that I did just what AE did in the last panel- Now, I accept that most people are willing to be led down the path if the person leading is confident, charamatic, and capable of subtle or not-so-subtle flattery.

     •  Reply
  49. Missing large
    ILikeMeSomeComics  over 12 years ago

    That guy’s a wimp. TJ is EVIL!

     •  Reply
  50. Martini 800
    mojitobaby  over 12 years ago

    Except that commodities that you can make a deal on with a sales staff, like cars or tires, aren’t hot dogs. Fast food prices aren’t negotiable (outside of coupons), so TJ’s “surprise” of “it should be double” isn’t due to a discovery of some fake “hidden discount” – which is why the hapless patron’s doing that reflexive validation of the total. This sort of hard upsell is blatant and deliberately outrageous and would make most of us go to the Hellno part of town – but of course it’s for comic effect. And it’s also based on Greg’s ideas of how businesses are run – at least in the Luanniverse.

     •  Reply
  51. Missing large
    JerryTheK  over 12 years ago

    WHAT??

     •  Reply
  52. Butterfly
    QuietStorm27  over 12 years ago

    It’s the customer’s fault for not saying no, I used to be like that before I got a backbone.

     •  Reply
  53. Bori
    morningreview  over 12 years ago

    Sorry to advertise,but please join http://luanncomicstrip.wikia.com/wiki/Luann(comic_strip)_Wiki,it’s a wiki for anyone who like Luann and can hangout and stuff.I will make a blog for those of you who havent contributed to a wiki yet.

     •  Reply
  54. Missing large
    sweetgirl23  over 12 years ago

    agreed they are many more restuarants in the world

     •  Reply
  55. 11 06 126
    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    OK, this is what some people have always accused TJ of being, a hustler…

     •  Reply
  56. Tourney08c
    Charles Weir  over 12 years ago

    This reminds me of a test to see which salesperson customers liked better. Two were selling candy and customers ordered a pound. One salesperson would put more than a pound on the scale and take candy off until it was exactly one pound. The other salesperson put less than a pound on the scale and added candy until it was a pound. Customers preferred the latter salesperson.

     •  Reply
  57. Hawaii5 0girl
    treered  over 12 years ago

    he could sell a Frigidaire to an Eskimo!

     •  Reply
  58. 08 6
    tegm  over 12 years ago

    wow he sure put that b*tch in her place… nothing worse than a woman who has control of something.

     •  Reply
  59. 00qavatar
    AnonymousUser  over 11 years ago

    I’d gate foe TJ to come knocking at my door to sell something or ask me to donate. I find it hard to turn people away as it is. Also, it’s past midnight but this comic made me decide to go to a nearby 24 Carl’s Jr.

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Luann