People in stores!
By snowcat46
@snowcat46 (2322)
United States
March 11, 2009 3:47pm CST
Have you ever watched how callously people who are shopping treat the clothing? I was volunteering yesterday, and the Store had a lot of people in. I followed one group, picking up the blouses they'd pulled out to look at and then dropped on the floor. We're not talking 1-3 blouses, they were looking at a lot! And each one went on the floor.
I picked them up and hung them again. Then watched this group of women come back through and do the same thing to the same shirts!!
I was told to pick them up by the head of the store, when I explained what these women were doing. I figured they'd just come through in another sweep if I picked them up again. As soon as they left, we all picked up and rehung.
Have you seen groups of people, or one or two, do this in mainstream stores? Where the cost of the clothing is a lot more than in these stores to help the poor? How do you feel about it? Tell your tale of people being thoughtless and causing more work!
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@elisa812 (3026)
• United States
11 Mar 09
That is horrible! I can honestly say that I've never seen people do that in the stores around here, fortunately. I have seen clothes on the floor sometimes in stores, but I always just figured maybe they were there by accident sometimes or they just fell off the hangers. I guess it never even occurred to me that someone might have just come through and thrown them on the floor after looking at them! It is amazing how thoughtless some people can be. I would feel awful doing something like that! How lazy!
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
11 Mar 09
They do just fall off hangers. I found that out yesterday too! I picked up one shirt almost 7 times, then I taped that sucker to the hanger! I know nobody did that one, it was just a really slick material. Sometimes a person looks at something, and it accidentally falls off, but they just walk away and pretend nothing happened. These women (30 and 40 years old) were doing it on purpose. They only spoke Spanish, so there wasn't anything I could say to them, not that I would!
@okkidokitokki (1736)
• United States
11 Mar 09
I worked at Old Navy one hliday season (between Thanksgiving and Christmas) It was horrible. The customers would unfold every shirt on a table and just toss them in a pile. They would also take clothes off the hanger and hold them up to their kids to check the size and just toss the ones they didn;t want ton the floor.
This does not include the women who would put clothes in their baby strollers and then leave the store. We caught a woman one day with almost a thousand dollars worth of stuff in her baby's stroller. People are crazy, and sometimes messy
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
11 Mar 09
That is sad. In Old Navy, those clothes cost a pretty penny! To just throw them on the floor is stupid. I have no respect for shoplifters, in any way shape or form. Do they expect people to feel sorry for them, when they're so willing to steal? Not the things they need, but enormous amounts of what they clearly don't need? People are crazy.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
12 Mar 09
Some people just have no respect for others or other peoples things. This happens in almost all shops. The cheaper the shop the more they do it. Places like Ross or other cut rate normal stores have clothing left everywere.
It doesn't happen in the shops were you have a personal attendant to hand you things and take the rejects away. I went shopping at Draper's & Damon's with my mom and loved the experience of being waited on. They are about 10% more expensive than shops in the mall, but the service makes it worth the extra bit of money.
I put every thing back on the hanger and either leave them near the dressing room or hand them to a sales person to restock depending on what the store prefers.
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@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
13 Mar 09
I used to shop at a charity shop in the States. Everything was ultra organized. All short sleeved shirts were together all long sleeved were together etc. I miss that shop. I got designer clothing for almost nothing.
They went farther with all silk type together all cotton together and they also had everything arranged by color. It was really easy to find what I wanted.
The easier it is the more people will buy. I was a wizz at finding what I wanted. I could just feel the shirts to see if they were real silk or synthetic. The better the store is organized the more people will come back and the more they will buy.
If you want people to put things back on hangers, have an empty rack near the dressing room labeled telling people to put there discards there. Most people will take the few minutes to do it if it is easy and brainless. The easier it is to do the right thing, the more likely people will do it.
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
Hmm!! Now there's an idea... We have way too much clothing right now. It's packed everywhere. If I were to find sizes for ladies while they were in the waiting room, I wonder if they'd buy more... Hmmm!!! Everybody would love me if I could get more sold!!
There is only one room, very large, with all the clothing and assorting other donations are put to be sold. But the back 2 rooms are packed to the ceiling with clothes we still need to go through and hang out. What a fabulous idea!! Thanks!
@messageme (2821)
• United States
12 Mar 09
Sounds to me those ladies were doing it on purpose. I would feel embaressed myself if I threw any clothing on the floor. Even shirts that are folded up I will refold them if I am not going to purchase them. It is just the nice thing to do, plus it makes it look like such a mess if all the shirts are folded and the one you have is not. Sounds like those girls have too much time on their hands. And it don't seem like they care too much about other peoples property.
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@messageme (2821)
• United States
12 Mar 09
I could only imagine!! Spoiled brats can be brats! And I don't think that fades with age!
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
They might have been doing it on purpose, but they were all older women. If they're doing it at that age, I shudder to think what they were like as teens!!
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
12 Mar 09
I see people who pick stuff up and put it in the wrong place all the time. Not put it in the wrong place because they forgot where it goes but put it in the wrong place because they are too lazy to put it back where they found it. People will pick up something like they are going to buy it and change their mind half way to the cash register. Where ever they change their mind is where they put the article or item they thought they would purchase. It irritates me because I may be the person that wants to buy it and can't find it.
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
It is now, but it sure isn't when I'm trying to find something!!@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
I've seen that before too. I guess that doesn't bother me at all. Most of the time, when I see that thing that's out of place, it's just what I was looking for and now I don't have to search anymore. So it seems to work out for me. I've only came across one thing out of place that I wasn't searching for. I carried it with me and accidentally found it's spot and put it back. If I'd been looking for that particular spot, I'd never have found it!! (I'm unlucky that way)
@AeosWrathOfGod (56)
• United States
11 Mar 09
Some people have no respect. I have a funny shopping experience, I was 12 my bro and I were going to get action figures and I farted in front of a wolverine figurine and he said I smell trouble and my bro and I could not stop laughing.
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
11 Mar 09
That's a good one!! Thanks so much for giving me a laugh! It helps as a 'cure' for seeing this stuff.
@Darkwing (21583)
•
12 Mar 09
Unfortunately, yes, I've seen it happen. What makes these people tick, I don't know. The must have a chip on their shoulder or a very poor upbringing to walk around ransacking the displays in this way. I, as a customer, often go round behind them picking up and re-hanging. It must be so frustrating for the storeworker who has carefully hung all the clothes, in sequence of size, colour and everything.
Brightest Blessings.
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
15 Mar 09
It sure is. I'm not sure I'd be able to handle working in a real store every day and dealing with that. I don't think I'd have the patience.
@Amberina (1541)
• United States
12 Mar 09
That is why when I buy clothes at a used store I bring them home and wash them before I wear them. I always make sure to fix the clothes I am looking at if they fall off the hangers but there are some clothes like jackets and blouses that are so slippery or big they just slide off the hangers no matter how hard I try to fix them with those I just fling them up over the bar and figure someone will come along an either buy it or fix it with a clothes pin or something.
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
Considering how much I hate bending (hurts my knees something fierce), I'd have probably kissed them if they'd done that! Flinging them up over the bar is WAY better than on the floor. I always wash new/old clothes too. New ones have too much starch, used ones have too much smell. Like perfume. Ick.
@baileycows (3665)
• United States
12 Mar 09
That is just crazy. I dont ever just not hang something back up unless I have tried it on in the dressing room. However I still put it on the hanger and if it is not a large store and I know where I got it I will put it back but if not then i just give it to the associate.
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
Same here. It's just polite. I prefer to put it back, but half the time I can't find the spot again! (There's a reason I take a bunch of clothes in there with me!)
@strawberrychocodahi (4818)
• Philippines
12 Mar 09
Well dear sorry to hear that you are having a problem of placing back those clothes that customers are just throwing down or messing on floor. I haven't encounter any problems like that nor did i saw someone do that.
What if they go back again tomorrow and do the same thing? what will you do? i guess you have reported that to your manager or supervisor. Do they have some cams to look out for shop lifters?
Sometimes when i do shopping and browse on blouses and shirts, i do place them back to their proper place because i do feel the burden of attendants fixing it back again like some shoppers do scatter blouse and mix it up with different items.
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
It's all volunteer. And the things they were looking at, we'd all rather have it shop lifted!! It's sweaters that we need out so the new donations can get on the racks. Everything there is donations, so they really aren't too concerned with stealing! Except for the money. That goes to pay the electricity and the extra goes to various charities, like food pantries.
@renemouche (843)
• United States
12 Mar 09
I try to always put stuff back that I dont want or am done looking at. I may not fold t-shirts and such the exact way they were folded before but at least its were it belongs. I have seen people just throw stuff on the floor or just make a big mess with the t-shirts and its just wrong. I always try to think of the person who is going to have to go clean up the displays and not try to make there job any harder
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
You're a very nice person and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. (Which isn't very far from the floor, being as I'm a trifle height impaired...)
@HelloMickey (1655)
• Hong Kong
12 Mar 09
Hi snowcat46
I haven't see people shopping in this manner. They are so rude!!!
If I were in the store, I must have scolded immediately after I found them doing the same to every clothing they looked at. I am a customer too, I don't see why they can do it. Do they think they are queens?
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
If they didn't like someone there, they really are fools. These are very decent people (excepting me, lol) who go out of their way to help others every day. This store is a labor of love. All the stuff used to be free, except they needed help in paying for the electricity. That's the only reason everything costs a quarter now.
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
It's a volunteer place, and part of a Church. (hard to believe I'm helping there!) So acting like that, while great at the moment, would be terrible in the long run.
@76highlander (58)
• United States
11 Mar 09
I may not work in retail.... That does bug me also. I see it all the time. Makes one wonder how their houses are kept doesn't it? If someone acts like that in puplic, they are more than likely 2-4 times as bad, around no-one! Me and my lady were just shopping today. A big sale was going on, she had waited for it for a week. Clothes all over the ground!! I think that we got some stuff for free, just becauase I was helping pick the stuff up. Who knows. It is just aweful! I see no respect from these type of people. I really do not like to talk bad about anyone. It just bugs!
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
11 Mar 09
I don't like to talk bad about people either, but this sort of thing is bad for everybody. It just causes bad feelings all around!
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
11 Mar 09
people can be so rude. they have no appreciation of other people's things. they probably don't have for their own things either.
@suzzy3 (8341)
•
11 Mar 09
They were looking for trouble or they were trying to cause a disturbance so one of them could steal something.Then theres the possibility that they had no respect at all.The clothes sold go to help the poor and needy or people who just beleave in not wasting any of the worlds resources.I have been in many stores and charity shops and have never witnessed anything like this,I have witnessed people abusing shop staff,which is not called for at all.I just hope these woman never hit hard times and need help.My good friend works at a charity shop and it would really upset me if she had been treated in this way.People can be strange and well done for not getting upset with them shows your metal.xx
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
12 Mar 09
Hi snowcat! People can be very disrespectful. I have seen these tornados go through stores before and as long as they find what they are looking for,they don't care what kind of mess they leave. You might as well have waited til they left because you are right..they would have just messed it up again.
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
That was my thinking. Glad you agree. I was feeling pretty angry at the time and didn't much want to pick them up again. Even if they weren't going to pull them off again, I really didn't want to touch those shirts again!
@erricaalisa (489)
• United States
12 Mar 09
When I working in retail this was one of the things I hated. It seems as if they would you working on a folding a table ot straightening up a rack and they would come by and mess it up.
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
12 Mar 09
I probably would have lost it if they did that! It was bad enough standing way off to the side and watching them do it again, but if they did it right in front of where I was working. No, I'd have probably come totally unglued.
