To the employees at certain well-stocked clothing store in Park Lane… usually higher price tags are associated with better service not girls with heads full of air, mouths full of gum and zero taste, barely managing to multi-task while using their touch-screen phones on the job. You just scraped by with sub-rate customer service which mainly started after I brought out my credit card. Great clothes but maybe the “help” should reflect taste.
—Miss Shopalot
This article appears in Dec 17-23, 2009.
zing!
People shop at Park Lane? I thought that mall went of business int he 1990s.
Like….. Whatever…..
You’re surprised, OP? The pricier the tags read, the snottier the sales people are 😛
Did you learn NOTHING from Pretty Woman?
hee 😛
Sorry Pretty Kitty…never saw that picture !
But I have shopped in upper scale men’s clothing shops & I really can’t say I’ve ever had a problem like being discribed by the OP.
Any of you other guy’s find problems like that ?
I’ve been ignored before, but when they actually do speak to me, they are usually as helpful as a sales person can be.
Again, I only speak for the guys here….
Maybe it’s just like that in women’s clothing stores? Men seem to not be as bitchy to their customers.
My dad always gets excellent service when he goes clothing shopping (and he shops in some upper scale men’s clothing stores too). I, or my mother, usually go with him when he shops and I actually do find quite a difference.
I was “mill”ing around a store on SGR looking at eye cream at the clinique counter and was trying to decide whether or not to buy the gel or cream and I just PICKED UP the jars and didn’t even open them and the sales lady come running over stating in a very abrupt tone “USE A Q-TIP PLEASE!”…..I mean I wasn’t even touching the stuff, I just had the jar in my hand and I use only clinique and mac so I *know* the protocol for testing their products so it’s not like I was dipping my fingers into it, and all I got was snotty attitude. So I put the stuff down, went down the street to Shoppers and bought it there (and got optimum points for it) and I will never buy anything at the store I was “mill”ing around in again (even though I *was* a regular clinique customer there, who uses their skin care system which is rather pricey).
I had fabulous service at the Shoppers and will continue to go there.
HAHA once the credit card was whipped out – you shoulda stacked the counter with a bunch of stuff – piled up – really make that salepersons day with a nice commission . Then decline to purchase it until they spit out their gum – ditch the cell phone , PDA or whatever and get some manners – you actually consider to purchase . Oh yea and blow a nice stinky loud fart on your exit .
Ask them to get you another salesperson to serve you. A few lost commissions should fix that.
The better you dress the better they treat you? That would be an interesting experiment, shop at upscale clothing stores dressed in un-stylish drab, like you can’t afford the shop there. Then shop at upscale clothing stores dressed to the nines…
hmm
It does seem that women are cattier with eachother in general, especially when it comes to clothes and looks. They tend to do this behind eachothers’ backs, as well. Ohh my God did you just SEE what she was WEARING? REOOOWWW!
Then again, I’ve had snobby service from men at men’s clothing stores (not here in Halifax, though). It usually is when I’m dressed a bit down and kind of scummy, which is most times because I’m lazy, generally don’t care that much about clothes, and simply not a good dresser. I always notice a huge difference in how I’m treated when I’m wearing a suit (usually to job interviews), especially with the ladies! So yes, I think it does have a lot to do with how you’re dressed.
I love going into these stores and making snide remarks about the quality or styles of items that are for sale. Ask PK. Bitches want to act snobby then I can act snobbier.
One of my favourites is to browse in Duggers and make comments about how Colwells is so much better and the staff so much friendlier.
Also, there’s nothing that’s upper class in Park Lane. Even the A&W has higher quality than any clothing store in that little fountain mall.
park lane mall is totally just full of annoying gay clerks that piss you off !!!! Pretentious ? Yes ? Bankrupt because noone shops there for a 95 dollar walmart shirt? Yes !!!! Only good place about park lane is the shortcut to dresden row from spg rd on a shitty day haha!!!!
Park Lane is in desperate need of a retrofit. I thought it was pretty happening when I was a kid in the 90s, but not now. I remember marvelling at the huge basement food court before Nubody’s took over. I loved to throw a coin in the fountain and make a wish. Now I’d just wish to get the hell out of there and for my quarter back.
Also, people who give bad customer service should totally have charges pressed against them, as well as mothers who bring those huge strollers onto the busses, servers who complain about not getting enough of a tip, and storeowners who play too much Christmas music.
Your last post just pretty much covered all over park lane employees haha
The nice thing about crappy service at a clothing store is the ability to drop the crap on the counter andwalk out and watching them as they realize their commissions walking out.
HAHA one time – i was shopping after work – and my job actually makes me pretty dirty and smelling funny . Nothing special just wanted to get the old lady something just because and i got the snot look and ignored when I asked a question. I called one person to the register and pulled out a few hundred dollar bills wrapped with my twentys and asked for change . HAHA certainly wanted to help me then and i told them all i needed was change and i was willing to spend my cash elsewhere – —- Moral i quess – looking and dressing pretty doesn’t always mean you have money and or willing to spend it or deserve better service – when a hard working guy that looks dirty is scum and has a nice line of credit and cash is broke. There was a story once i read long ago about this totally billionaire dude whioo got mistreated and or laughed or ignored at a mercedes dealership – later finds out it was up for sale – buys it and fires the lot of salemen . HAHA You nevder know who your being a dick too i quess
I think I prefer the new KAYY to the old one…
Naahhh, we still love ya kay!
The day I went in looking at eye cream, NGF was with me and I believe I was dressed like a bum in old gym pants and a faded hoodie and my hair was up in a messy pony tail. He can attest to their snottiness!
All I went DT for that day was to have lunch with NGF and get some fucking eye cream — why the hell would I dress up for THAT? Meanwhile, the time I went in for some toner the sales bitch was all over my ass because I had a nice summer skirt/sweater set on that day and had just had my hair done/manicure/pedicure/eyebrows and I had actually bothered to put make up on.
I generally only feel the urge to give a shit about how I look when I go out in the summer — in the winter I just want to stay warm! lol
When you two hang out, do you refer to yourselves by your LTWWB usernames?
Probably not, but it’d be funny if you did. Try pronouncing mine…
NGF— Cowell’s is much better anyways, you’d only be preaching the truth. You just gotta have that one good suit, eh?
I’d have to say, in terms of clothing, this has to be a female issue. Any time I’ve had to cough up cash for a suit (and spend half of my life savings) the experience is decent… That’s the closest any straight guy will get to fashion.
qpmzwonxeibcruv: we don’t use our LTWWB names, but we DO call each other by names that aren’t our actual names!
Dr F: I know women who will shop for hours for a pair of pants, yet most men I know can get a full wardrobe in under 30 minutes. LOL
I went to Birk’s to buy a ring. I asked the woman at the counter where the emeralds were.
She called her boss over and asked, and the boss replied “The small ones are over there”
I opened my wallet, pulled out my Platinum AMEX, and said to the first clerk, “Thank her for losing a big commission” and walked out.
Sometimes commissioned staff is the way to go. Commissioned staff would rather not have the customer notice them snapping their gum or chatting with their buddies.
Matt, presumption is usually at the root of miscommunication. I fuckin’ hate that.
oooh ml emerald is my birthstone aint you just the sweetest…small ones are fine too
You aren’t a redhead, are you Pain?
when i was a wee lass i had a strawberry blond head…now its brown and grey, but still nice and thick
It does surprise me that even in this century, where wealthy socialites, rock stars and tech billionaires dress in the same ordinary clothes that everyone else wears (who shops wearing top hats and ball gowns?), that some store clerks still dismiss the “casually-dressed” customer as a less than worthwhile effort.
When will they ever learn that even if a person is buying a “small” purchase today, there is no reason to assume that they won’t be in the market for a much bigger purchase later. Their loss.
When I was a student, I was making jewellery, so I actually was a buyer of (very small) gemstones with some frequency. Of course I always looked like I just stepped out of the studio because this was very often the case. I was always treated very well by a certain independent jewellery store on Barrington street, and still deal with them to this day for my (still small) gemstone purchases and the occasional gift.
A customer is a customer—the businesses that learn this are the ones who earn the loyalty of all their customers, wealthy and not-so-wealthy.
And those emeralds . . . sigh . . . just gorgeous. And still mostly out of my budget.
It bugs me in snotty stores b/c I always look handsome and stylish. Even in my tattered jeans, black shirt, short-but-messy hair, etc.
Is it Pseudio or Envy or that newish Olsens store? LOL
And now I remember why I make most of my purchases online…