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by jagged-chisel 4 hours ago
> ... if someone in the store shows me one item and gives me a good story, pretty good chance I'm walking out with it.

I don't comprehend this. I'm in the store for a purpose. I don't want a sales pitch. I don't need a story. If I need human interaction, I want the facts that I request and nothing more. Even when I have disposable cash, I've likely already decided on The Thing I'm spending it on.

I don't want to be treated like a walking cash vault whose access code is to be guessed so money can be extracted.

If I ever wander into a store without purpose, it would take a genuine human interaction to engage me and convince me to buy anything. When I say "genuine," I mean that the seller/employee/whomever is truly interested in a conversation, isn't trying to steer it into a commissionable sale, and listens to me pontificate aloud my interests in the products available.