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What you want could be two feet in front of your face, but you'll basically kick rocks and say, "Fuck this, I'm going home"? Yes, I absolutely will do just tha

What you want could be two feet in front of your face, but you'll basically kick rocks and say, "Fuck this, I'm going home"? Yes, I absolutely will do just that. And then, because you "don't have time", you'll wait an additional 24-48 hours? I don't have time to waste wandering around a store looking for an employee. It's not usually the case that I specifically need the item right now. In that rare exceptional case I'd stick around and find the employee, but that would definitely be the exception and not the norm for me. For me, if I go into Home Depot or somewhere it's more likely that the store was on my way home from work, I had a vague notion that "I need a new tape measure" or whatever, so I stop and go in. In that case, I have NO problem walking right back out if they make it hard to buy the thing I want. Also, just to elaborate, if there are other things I planned to buy while in the store, I may well go ahead and go get those (assuming they aren't locked up as well) so it's not necessarily the case that the entire store visit is thrown away because one item is locked up. But they definitely lose the sale of that specific item, barring the aforementioned exceptional case where I absolutely, positively, must have it "right now".

jjulius 4y ago
>For me, if I go into Home Depot or somewhere it's more likely that the store was on my way home from work, I had a vague notion that "I need a new tape measure" or whatever, so I stop and go in. In that case, I have NO problem walking right back out if they make it hard to buy the thing I want. You stop in on your way from work. You see that tape measure, but it's locked down. There's an employee one aisle over who can help. You bail. The act of going to HD, parking, and going to find that tape measure probably takes about 5-10, maybe 15 mins depending on how far off of your route home the store is. Do you consider the cumulative time spent performing those tasks to have been wasted if you leave empty-handed?
- mindcrime 4y ago
  The act of going to HD, parking, and going to find that tape measure probably takes about 5-10, maybe 15 mins depending on how far off of your route home the store is. Do you consider the cumulative time spent performing those tasks to have been wasted if you leave empty-handed? You're over-analyzing this. None of that matters in any way here. Humans are not homo-economicus - obsessively rational creatures who roam around minimax'ing every decision. At least I'm not.

jjulius 4y ago

>For me, if I go into Home Depot or somewhere it's more likely that the store was on my way home from work, I had a vague notion that "I need a new tape measure" or whatever, so I stop and go in. In that case, I have NO problem walking right back out if they make it hard to buy the thing I want. You stop in on your way from work. You see that tape measure, but it's locked down. There's an employee one aisle over who can help. You bail. The act of going to HD, parking, and going to find that tape measure probably takes about 5-10, maybe 15 mins depending on how far off of your route home the store is. Do you consider the cumulative time spent performing those tasks to have been wasted if you leave empty-handed?

mindcrime 4y ago
The act of going to HD, parking, and going to find that tape measure probably takes about 5-10, maybe 15 mins depending on how far off of your route home the store is. Do you consider the cumulative time spent performing those tasks to have been wasted if you leave empty-handed? You're over-analyzing this. None of that matters in any way here. Humans are not homo-economicus - obsessively rational creatures who roam around minimax'ing every decision. At least I'm not.