RE: Daily Discussion No. 2: "Black Friday" and Holiday Shopping - Too Much Emphasis on Consuming Rather than Connecting?
you're right. When I go to HomeDepot I'm on a mission. I'm HUNTING.
I get rilly annoyed that the people who work there don't know where stuff is. I get even more annoy to find that it's been moved since I was there the last time.
don't get me started about stacking stuff in the aisle so I can't even walk thru or bend down to check the lower shelf without knocking stuff over.
When I go to (finally) buy something it's because I've researched it quite a lot. When I find (usually) that I know more about THEIR product than they do...well In general I have contempt for sales people.
That includes high ticket items...thirty thousand dollar cars...and one hundred and fifty thousand dollar trucks. The last truck I bought was after stopping at about twenty dealerships nation wide. It's incredible how STUPID some truck salesmen were in 1999.
Yes. THAT. It's one of the greatest time-wasting devices used by retailers... allegedly done in the name of "increasing sales" on the assumption that customers will see products they don't normally see, when things have been moved around. Normally it just makes me angry enough that I'm more likely to go shop a competitor's store, instead.
or online.
but the webdesigners are even more stupid than the store managers.
I know that's a stretch..how can anyone be THAT stupid....you wonder if their mommies still dresses them every morning.
Considering that many of them are rounding 30 and are living on a couch in their parents' basement, maybe we shouldn't be surprised...