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Maybe I'm not American enough, but that experience sounds much more like luxury to me than having an employee bugging you to buy without you explicitly asking.
by benhurmarcel 1y ago
Maybe I'm not American enough, but that experience sounds much more like luxury to me than having an employee bugging you to buy without you explicitly asking.
- Xmd5a 1y agoI visited a Dior boutique in Tokyo (the one facing an LVMH store), put my greasy fingers on a glass guardrail, and within 10 seconds an employee came with a spray to clean it. I apologized, he apologized back.
- eloisant 1y agoActual luxury stores (like Dior or Vuitton) are absolutely profiling their visitors. If you don't look like their typical customers (age, clothes, etc), you'll be mistreated or even sometimes kicked out as soon as you step in the store.
- parthdesai 1y agoReally? Went in to Hermes store in Madrid and Dubai in shorts, t-shirt and slides, and I was treated with utmost respect. I was so under dressed in Madrid that my gf initially didn't want to accompany me.
- gield 1y agoSounds like you dressed like a proper tourist.
- mannyv 1y agoMany high-end stores will train their workers to not profile their visitors, because these days that lame-bro in the flip flops might be a crypto billionaire. Plus it's just good practice. Your job as a salesperson in a high-end store is to educate and inform, not to sell. With that level of clientele they're looking to buy - if not now then later. The only people who should be profiling customers are LPOs.
- Xmd5a 1y agoWell I was wearing a middle class attire, and so was my cousin who was guiding me into enemy territory. Back then he was LVMH's financial director in Asia.