Have a nice day or keep smiling?

[Netcurtainnelly]

Somebody's suggestion that instead of the cashier in a shop saying have a nice day, at the end of the transaction,it would be good if they said keep smiling to the customer?😀

Which do you think is best?
Have a nice day or keep smiling?

Neither. Thank you is all that’s required.

Neither. Goodbye and thank you are the only necessary words.

"Don't eat it all at once"

'Have a good day' is nice. People are used to it and know that it doesn't require a response.

'Keep smiling' assumes they have things to keep smiling about when they may not.

If someone said ‘Keep smiling’ to me I’d assume they were being heavily sarcastic.

"I remain, madam, your obedient servant"

"Keep smiling" would have elicited 1000s of voiced and non-voiced "fuck off"

"See you next Tuesday"

(Just throwing some alternatives into the ring..)

They'd get a hard stare from me if they said keep smiling!
Are you in the USA?

Thank you, come again

"Get behind me, Satan!"

"Love you!"

Good one.

Or cackle ‘And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.’

Or ‘One may smile, and smile, and yet be a villain.’

I cringe slightly even when told to have a nice day. I think “thank you” is perfectly adequate.

"You remind me of....Grace Kelly"

I don’t mind ‘have a nice day’ and I tend to say it first to delivery drivers/cashiers

keep smiling would make me never go back to that shop. I want my groceries, not to be patronised.

and anyway, I wouldn’t be smiling so it’s not a phrase the cashier can use on repeat so a bit of a hassle for them

"You're not as handsome in real life"

Neither!

”Keep smiling” is particularly egregious

I can live with “have a nice day” and always reply “you too”

"Yes, I am judging"

They're both unnecessary, but "keep smiling" is patronising and a bit pathetic.

keep smiling makes me think of the people (usually men, almost always to women) who say "cheer up it might never happen" or "smile!"

but who is "somebody's suggestion" OP? It's a stupid one!

Apart from anything else, "have a nice day" is usually understood to be missing the "I hope you..." at the start - i.e. they want you to have a nice day (even if they don't really care!) 'keep smiling' can only be a directive - they're ordering you to smile. Which is both inappropriate, and, if they aren't smiling in the first place (and who does grin inanely while doing the shopping), nonsensical.

I know what you did last summer

I can recommend a good surgeon

Keep smiling is really inappropriate.

If I patronised a store where the customer advisors were all told to say “keep smiling” I’d complain to management.