My wife went to Sears the other night to buy some vacuum bags and a frying pan and was approached two times by a Sears salesman. He was trying to get her to listen to a schpeel about their window coverings and home remodeling services. The second time, he realized she was the same lady that had just shot him down a few minutes earlier in a different part of the store, so he cut his sales pitch short and went on to another unsuspecting victim, er um customer. I’ve never been pressured to buy window coverings while looking at vaccum bags and frying pans before!
Today, we were pulling weeds in front of our [rented] house and were approached by two door-to-door salespeople within five minutes of each other. It’s amazing how the sales pitches keep changing. It seems that now everyone wants to give us stuff for “free”. Oh, and “this isn’t a sales call”.
When you get right down to it, there’s not much crap that people really need to survive happily. I wonder how these high-pressure sales tactics will change as people’s house ATM machines run out of money.
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