to be pissed off with snooty shop assistant in Selfridges in kids clothes dept...

[blighter]

twas' similar to the scene from pretty woman. i love going to selfridges with dd, we like a good mooch & to have lunch in the 4th floor restaurant. dd wanted to have a look at the clothes in the childrens section so i obliged although not my scene, dressing kids in designer clobber, so it was a mooch. tbh i enjoyed looking at the price tags, unbelievable. anyway, the lone women assistant was giving out vibes that i irritated her. she may as well come up to me and said 'fuck off, we don't want your kind here, it is obvious to look at you that you aren't going to buy anything'. she came up and no sooner had i let go of the price tag to one garment than she had immediately tucked it back in. i don't dress in a typical way of alot of females that shop there, rebellious but i tend to dress down rather than up when i go there. i do like good labels but not for a 9 year old, no way (each to their own). i am sure that if i had been dripping in prada & dior she would have been full of smiles/arse kissing. makes it all the more vile

A revolutionary idea. If someone doesn't look like the sort of person who might buy something in your shop, perhaps you should be extra nice and try extra hard to convince them why they should.

lol, had no idea Selfridges was that posh. Thought it was a bit like an uptight Next.

Fair enough :) Hope you have a good evening too limited.

Wasn't saying a £300 shirt was haute couture, just you seemed to be implying that no cotton shirt could ever be worth more than £100 and I was saying there were instances when they can be :)

It shouldn't be revolutionary nomoreinsomnia.

Retail is a simple balance between effort and outcome. It shouldn't be a personal judgement although lot of people think it is and some retailers and their staff make it like that.

Crudely put, if you think someone is likely to spend more money then you will spend more time on them possibly to the detriment of someone who doesn't look 'worth it'.

The pointer is appearance. We can all think of those eccentric billionaires who buy the whole shop and sack the staff because someone has been rude to them but most people are not Howard Hughes.

That's no excuse for being horrible to someone who doesn't appear to have much money.

Now, even more than ever, retailers fight for every penny they can.

The good ones always did, btw, and that's what might help them survive.

I always pile in on threads like this because I'm sick of people like the OP bashing shop staff because of their own inadequacies.

In my first post here I said I'd hate to be a shop worker. It's so hard.

Where is the OP, btw?

"Bupcakes. You are projecting shit onto me. I think it matters not what shop the assistant works in, if it were Aldi the shop assistant wouldn't be able to make a customer feel intimidated.

So do [eye roll] elsewhere."

Nah, I'm OK eyerolling at you cheers, sweetcheeks. :)

Yawn I am also getting a 'chip on the shoulder' vibe from the OP. Get over yourself.