To think you wouldnt just go into M&S windows and ruin their displays

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or Wallis, or Debenhams, Primark or indeed any high street stores, I bet if I just asked that question everyone would say I was not BU, so why do people think they can just go into a charity shop window and totally ruin a display that I spent all afternoon doing with pride and professionalism.

I am on Holiday and am helping out at the Charity shop my DH manages, I spent all afternoon doing the windows, they are separated from the shop so its clear its not a shopping area, all the garments had tickets on the front showing make, size and price and there were three staff on the sales floor, so all people had to do was to open their mouths and say ' can I look at that jacket or can I try on that jacket please ( not even fussed about the please tbh).

But no, they think as its a charity shop they can treat the stock and the workers with total contempt, and my work as an unpaid volunteer is worthless and unimportant, as are the standards my DH sets.

I would have been very happy to take anything out, let anyone try anything on and replace and redo the window as needed, if only people would just ASK, instead of destroying my work.

Yanbu. I would ask, of course I would. Some people just have no manners.

Charity shops are different from a normal shop because hopefully most shops will have the item in stock. I do think it's rude for customers to take stuff from the window without asking first. But if the stuff is in the window it should be for sale if a customer wants to buy. The purpose of a charity shop is to sell suff and make money not as a display case for your creativity. If you want this hire an art gallery.

next I did say beforehand that customers should ask first before helping themselves. I stand by my later comment .

I would always ask staff instead of taking something out of the window display. There are often signs saying to do that. Stuff actually got smashed because of customer's carelessness in this case, so it's clearly not a question of the OP being 'precious'.