I'm also Britsh and find this annoying but it does seems to be on the increase here. Quite often shop assistants ask you how your day has been or what you've g

I'm also Britsh and find this annoying but it does seems to be on the increase here. Quite often shop assistants ask you how your day has been or what you've got planned for the rest of the day. I wonder if they've been trained to do that or it's something that they have picked up from the US.