Playing devil’s advocate… by shopping, you are contributing a strong economy, which funds renewable energy causes ;) so actually by going shopping you are saving the world.
Or something.
Fair. I worked in retail for a long time and used to have people picking fights (older female Karens, pretty much universally).
I think I kept pretty calm but something had to be said - no shouting but a few truths.
Very Canadian!!! My other half is Canadian and I split my life between here and British Columbia, that sounds like a classic scenario that would happen there and not here!
Absolutely, I’ve worked retail and I know how awful it is to have KPIs for approaching every customer, upselling targets, “through the door conversion targets” (where a scanner on the door measures the percentage of transactions/footfall).
But it doesn’t make the actual shopping experience any...
I went in “Lush” recently with my missus - she likes the bath bombs. I can’t stand the smell of the place and feel nauseous within minutes, but that’s by the by. Literally two seconds after stepping through the door, we were greeted by a very overly friendly young woman with a fixed grin and...