Retail Snobs

What is up with Retail Snobs? You know these "store sales associates" who kiss the ass of every well dressed or wealthy-appearing customer. Why do they cater to their "target" customers and not to everyone who enters the store? Whether or not I'm wearing yoga pants or a suit, I'm still the same person, who makes the same amount of money and wants to buy the same products from that store? The reality of this retail snobbery became blatantly clear to me the other day while I was shopping at the Towson Town Center. I entered Macys department store and a sales associate working in the Beauty Products isle was distributing perfume samples to customers walking by. She gave her speech about the product then handed a sample to the well dressed ladies in front of me. I smiled at the associate showing her that I was interested in the perfume and she just smirked back and ignored me. Okay so I was dressed down that day and was rocking jeans and a casual T, maybe she thought I was a teenager or something? I'm 28 but I've been told I look about 20. Anyway, I could be 20 and have extremely wealthy parents who give me their credit card and let me buy whatever I want. How does she know?

Should anyone be passing judgment on another person based on their appearance alone? Little did that lady know, I was on a serious shopping spree that day and probably would have impulse bought her over-priced perfume. All of this makes me reflect on a childhood memory, I was probably about 7 years old and grocery shopping with my father, while shopping we ran into an acquaintance of his. He was older, probably in his 60s, wearing worn jeans with a hole in the pocket and a flannel button down shirt. After shaking his hand and walking away, my father looked at me and said, "You just met a millionaire Christine, did you know that?" I remember thinking to myself, I cant believe that man is a millionaire! He didn't fit my idea of what I thought a millionaire would look like. That memory never left me, now I am in sales (no longer retail thank God) and I always remember my father's average looking, millionaire friend. I treat all my customers with equal respect, you really never know who you're dealing with. As for the retail snobs they need to get it together and realize that passing judgment is only hurting their productivity as a sales person.