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AIBU?

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to think shoe shop staff were vv unprofessional?

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CocktailQueen · 05/11/2015 19:55

Took 12yo dd shoe shopping to Clarks the other day. She needed new school shoes.

I'd ordered two pairs on t'internet for delivery to store - got a 6 as that's what her current ones were. DD hasn't had her feet measured in a while. Got there and they measured her feet - 7.5. Oops. So the shoes I'd ordered were no good.

One of the sales assistants picked up dd's school shoe and felt inside it in the toes and started laughing - dd's toes had left indents in there (Oops - bad mum bit.)

Because she's 12 and had said they fit, I'd believed her. But they were obviously too small.

Anyway, the sales assistant called over two other assistants and said to them: 'Look at this - I've never seen this as bad - look at the indentations in these shoes!' then they all laughed. DD was standing on the feet measuring thing at the time and looked a bit Hmm

Then one assistant asked dd to take off her sock to see if she had ingrowing toenails from wearing ill-fitting shoes. She doesn't.

I was a bit taken aback tbh and didn't know what to say. After we had bought shoes, the first assistant apologised for laughing and said she hadn't mean to upset dd, she was just amazed at the indents her toes had left in the shoes.

Sorry this is so long! AIBU? They were being crap and unprofessional, weren't they? But if I complain I can never go in there again, can I?

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Viviennemary · 05/11/2015 21:08

They were rude and unprofessional. I had a hangup over having big feet at around her age and worried they'd keep growing. They didn't.. I'd have been mortified if any shop assistant behaved in that way. If you feel strongly you should complain.

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 05/11/2015 21:49

She probably couldn't believe that you'd had to fold your kids feet up to fit them in the shoes FFS.

I'd have pointed & laughed too...

CocktailQueen · 05/11/2015 22:10

Well, IKnow, that says more about you than about me! Hmm

And dd is 12. Her shoes have stretched, obviously. I wasn't squashing her toes into her shoes. Perhaps you could rtft if you want to respond?

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NotMeNotYouNotAnyone · 05/11/2015 22:17

Yes she was but she realised and apologised, I would leave it at that.

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