As if American sales clerks were authorized to give discounts. Another one thinks this is a third world bazaar where you’re expected to haggle with the vendor.
Marla’s management, not sales. Assisstant Manager 2004-2012, Manager 2012-2020. Sure, she does sales sometimes, but she also does work behind the scenes, and has more power in her position, putting her in charge of the salespeople.
When I lived in Tokyo way back in the early 1990s, I got name-brand jeans at a shop that sold “2nd quality” goods, meaning there was something trivial in the reason the jeans did not pass inspection. I got them for the equivalent of $10.
I grew up in the 1970s, when outlet stores were still, well, outlet stores. My mother bought a lot of our clothes from outlets. There would be a sticker with an arrow or a red dot showing why the product was a second, and she had a good sense of what didn’t make a difference to the quality of the garment, and what she could easily fix at home.
Seconds don’t make the outlet stores any more. If they’re not too bad, they’re just put in with the other garments in the hope that someone will buy it without noticing the defect. And if they are bad, they’re just trashed. Outlets sell overstock, or last season’s leftovers, or a special line of lower-quality products…. or they’re just a brand flagship store packaged to make you think you’re getting a bargain.
Yeah, there is also a variant of this type of customer. Not sure what you’d call it, but I’ve only seen them recently myself. They will ask you to open an item for them to make sure everything is good. Then demand a discount for it being opened. I’m not talking like a 10% discount either. I had one the other day that demanded a 50% discount off because “She didn’t want to give her daughter an opened product.” Well we had ones that were unopened. Plus, her daughter was 2 at most. Kids don’t care, especially babies. I’ve never seen a kid turn down a free toy because the box was opened. Needless to say, she wound up paying regular price, all the while grumbling about how she would never come back. I saw her today in the same department.
As if American sales clerks were authorized to give discounts. Another one thinks this is a third world bazaar where you’re expected to haggle with the vendor.
Marla’s management, not sales. Assisstant Manager 2004-2012, Manager 2012-2020. Sure, she does sales sometimes, but she also does work behind the scenes, and has more power in her position, putting her in charge of the salespeople.
When I lived in Tokyo way back in the early 1990s, I got name-brand jeans at a shop that sold “2nd quality” goods, meaning there was something trivial in the reason the jeans did not pass inspection. I got them for the equivalent of $10.
I grew up in the 1970s, when outlet stores were still, well, outlet stores. My mother bought a lot of our clothes from outlets. There would be a sticker with an arrow or a red dot showing why the product was a second, and she had a good sense of what didn’t make a difference to the quality of the garment, and what she could easily fix at home.
Seconds don’t make the outlet stores any more. If they’re not too bad, they’re just put in with the other garments in the hope that someone will buy it without noticing the defect. And if they are bad, they’re just trashed. Outlets sell overstock, or last season’s leftovers, or a special line of lower-quality products…. or they’re just a brand flagship store packaged to make you think you’re getting a bargain.
Yeah, there is also a variant of this type of customer. Not sure what you’d call it, but I’ve only seen them recently myself. They will ask you to open an item for them to make sure everything is good. Then demand a discount for it being opened. I’m not talking like a 10% discount either. I had one the other day that demanded a 50% discount off because “She didn’t want to give her daughter an opened product.” Well we had ones that were unopened. Plus, her daughter was 2 at most. Kids don’t care, especially babies. I’ve never seen a kid turn down a free toy because the box was opened. Needless to say, she wound up paying regular price, all the while grumbling about how she would never come back. I saw her today in the same department.
Maybe it’s a red dot that you can’t see until somebody points it out to you?