Or did I just not used to notice it?
Today I went into a well known underwear shop, it's one haven't really been in since my student days (5 years ago).
So I walk in and there is the standard girl there to say hello, I thought, so I say hello and try to walk on passed but instead we do that thing where you try and go to her right, then left and she goes that way too and kept blocking me off then walked along beside me so she could ask what it was I was in looking for today, did I need any help, etc. This annoys me! If I want help, I'll ask, you've said hello so I know you are there. 
So I just say "I'm just browsing, thanks" and walk on.
So I go and pick up a bra to try and keep walking around looking when another girl comes over to ask if I off help. "No thank you", then another girl comes up to ask me "Did you not see the matching pants?" I say I did, and try to continue browsing, she follows me to tell me where the pants are or I can get the thong if I would prefer? I hate when they do this. I'm choosey about pants! I only get them from M&S and if they're not a PERFECT match, I can live with it, so shoot me But it's like they are judging you and giving the cat's bum face to make you get the pants too.
Then, in another shop, tried to go into the changing rooms to try on a jumper, no assistant there so I go on in myself when one runs across the shop to ask if I want to try that on? Well, yes, clearly! Then she takes it off me to walk me the 2 metres to the changing room of her choice (the first one), and then closes the curtain for me. I like to pick my own changing room down near the back, and close the curtain so I it is sealed with no gaps 
Then, when you try and pay, they don't stop their conversation to say thank you, or they act like you are rude for interrupting their conversation to pay.
And why don't shops seem to have mirrors in them anymore? Sometimes I like to hold things against me in the mirror to decide if I like it enough to try it on, so I look around and there is one tiny one on the other side of the shop.
AIBU?!
Disclaimer: I might just be in a bad mood as I've just had to pay £130 for a new passport and am trying to fill the 4 hours while I wait for it by hemorrhaging more money
AIBU?
Or are shop assistants (clothes shops, specifically) getting increasingly annoying
BakerStreetSaxRift · 14/11/2013 14:35
Ah yes , well there's no solution to that other than to say very loudly "just fuck off please!"
I know but I'm much to British to do that!
I just passive aggressively leave without my purchase and go and get them somewhere else.
In Debenhams, as it happens, where there was 20% off! Everything happens for a reason! I should be thanking them, really.
Lush stores are bloody awful for this. I just dont go in to them anymore! The latest thing now is supermarket checkout staff asking you what you plan on doing for the rest of the day.!!! Wtf. None of your fucking business thanks.
No problem with a polite hello and exchange of pleasantries, but this Really pisses me off
i feel sorry for the staff that have to do this TBH, they must hate it as much as we do.
Also the 'did you find everything you needed?' asked at the till. Like you are going to hold the queue up by saying no you didn't. 
Obviously i found everything because I am at the till anyway. I would have asked an assistant on the shop floor otherwise.
Do GAP still do the 'did anyone help you today?' at the till. 
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That's awful!
Surely even the lady she was talking to thought that was terrible. If, I had a friend who worked in a shop and I was chatting to her and she told the customer to wait while we finished our conversation, I'd have left myself out of embarrassment/not wanting my friend to get fired!
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