Safeway PA extensions?

[ljc]

Does anyone know these? I ask the cashiers ALL the time when I go there (My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself., I don't think they know what I want to do) and they always tell me it's a button on their phone. I looked on a phone and I think there was a page and intercom button on it. Intercom should be overhead paging, but if I tell them to press transfer, then intercom, then hang up, it sounds suspicious.

I want to tell them to press transfer, then the intercom extension, then hang up. Since the employees probably don't even know the extension they'd probably transfer me.

[afreak]

Having worked at Safeway aeons ago, I think I recall the paging extension as 999. However, it has been nearly five years since I worked there.

[ljc]

How do you transfer? I told Starbucks (in Safeway) to transfer to 999 and he didn't know how. I told him that most likely he can press transfer, then 999, then hang up. He put me on hold for a minute, then came back, dialed 999, then hung up. Didn't work.

Can Starbucks access overhead paging?

[afreak]

I have no clue. Again, I am in Canada, so they possibly have a different system. There is a transfer button from what I recall, and from what my brain is letting me remember, they're based on some system from Lucent. Every phone has its own extension, and as far as I know, you can broadcast on the PA for a maximum of 5 minutes.

[ljc]

Wow, I hope they don't use the same system in the US. 5 minutes is too short for me. I'd rather do a 2-hour broadcast similar to the one RBCP did.

[Anirak]

Their system might disable allowing access.  I tried this at walmart before.  I called from in the store and tried getting like 5 people to transfer me to the paging system, and they tried but it just wouldn't work.  I told them extension 96 (which worked from on the phone) and I also just straight up said that my paging button wasn't working and I needed them to transfer me.