I went in to get some cheap flip flops that I had been eying, when lo and behold, they had been taken off the shelves.
I asked an employee if they had any in back, and after a couple of questions on size and colour, she came back with what I needed. AND she told me they were on sale. Score.
The store was busy and she was clearly in the middle of merchandising but she went out of her way to help for a sale that amounted to a few dollars.