So, kids decide that it is a good idea to put every piece of dirty laundry in at one time. I mean they must have had the little kids jumping up and down in the machine to pack what they did into it. Well, add that in with a hundred pounds of water and a spin cycle, you get several bust supports which makes for a washer that literally shakes itself to pieces.
Off to Sears I go. I love Sears, don't know why just a lot of good childhood memories I guess. Before Wal-gonna take over the world-Mart, that was were you would go to get what you needed. Not to mention the lifetime replacement on Craftsmen tools. Found a busted channel lock pliers in a ditch one day, the word "Craftsmen" barely visible, took it in and received a no questions asked replacement. But I digress...
Standing there in my frayed cargo shorts and old t-shirt ( you know the one that could possibly disintegrate the next time you wash it), with all the kids, and in 10 minutes at least 5 different "sales" people walk by and don't ask if I need help. Eventually this old guy, Mack, comes in, I assume from the heavy presence of cigarette smoke he just finished taking a break. He walks up and I procede to get a new Kenmore super capacity washer and a Dyson vacuum (which is every bit as good as they say).
For kicks I went up stairs and came back with about $500 dollars worth of clothes for the kids. Mack must of went on break again, but at this point all those people who walked by the first time were hounding me to go ahead and check out. I politely said to each one, "No thanks, I wasn't good enough to help earlier so I will just wait on Mack."
Needless to say, he made his commission for the day, and was VERY happy.
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That is the ONLY part of being a consumer that I enjoy anymore......
making salesm...people look and feel stupid. 'Back in the day' you couldn't walk into a store without a salesm..person asking if you needed anything. They were willing to spend an hr with an elderly woman if maybe....just maybe.. they could talk her into buying a tree stand for hunting....or maybe a volleyball set.
Now days commission is what you get when someone decided to buy something and you just happen to be in the right place, right time to ring it up and get your %.
I too feel the same way about Sears.
And there staff. Last time I was there I asked them for a set of 6 point metric sockets.
He had to look it up in the catalog. He didn't believe they carried them.
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