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I'm rather introverted and I very much don't want help from employees in stores. So much so that stores lose sales from me, and I wonder how many sales across t
by city41 13y ago
I'm rather introverted and I very much don't want help from employees in stores. So much so that stores lose sales from me, and I wonder how many sales across the board stores are losing.
The other day I went into an Apple store to consider getting an iPad Mini. I was immediately approached by an employee who very eagerly wanted to show me how light it is, how beautiful the screen is, etc. I told him I really just wanted to look, and he agreed and left. But I immediately left the store, because I knew he'd come back in a few minutes, which I really didn't want.
I also tend to avoid shopping at Best Buy because you get stopped by no less than three employees on each visit. I know it's company policy, but how much money are they losing to introverts and/or grumpy people?
- jff 13y agoI've considered just answering with "fuck off" whenever somebody comes up to me unasked, but I'm just not rude enough.
- city41 13y agoThey're just doing their job though. Even when telemarketing was common I never felt that was an appropriate response.
- jff 13y agoExactly; it would be effective, but inappropriate.
- trhtrsh 13y agoYou just pre-Godwin'ed the thread. No one is required to take a job as a professional harasser. And if you really have sympathy for the employees, then consider that the more victims fight back, the fewer people would join the profession, and wages would increase, hurting the evil owners.
- mpyne 13y agoMan, I'm not exactly a bleeding-heart type but even I would find that behavior on the part of the customer rude. You know a better way to "hurt the evil owners"? Just don't go to that store at all. But asking a customer a question is not a crime (unlike your Nuremberg analogy), these "victims" chose to walk into the store (unlike Nuremberg again), and being needlessly rude is needless, not required.