“Customer” Customer Service is superior

I now understand why people wear pajamas and house shoes while shopping at Walmart. However, If you really want to draw attention to yourself, wear a red shirt with tan pants to Target. If you are caught in this situation, you have two options. You can tell them you don’t work there. Alternatively, you can try to help them out anyway, such as…

• Direct them to isles that don’t exist
• Recommend certain “personal” items, and explain your use as we speak.
• Lead them around the store, searching for items that don’t belong, like looking for grape nuts in the camping section
• Recommend the wrong TV shows for kids, like getting Dexter confused with Dexter’s Laboratory
• Rummage through their cart and say things like, “Wow, I thought this was recalled”
• Offer unwarranted advice like: “Seems like you should be looking for the prescription strength deodorant or some age-defying make-up”
• Offer to check in the back stockroom, and never return.
• Say that you’re a manager and don’t “stoop” to the customer level.

The same could be said for a blue shirt and tan pants to Best Buy. If you are a tech guy, you will probably help them more than the people who actually work there. Knowing anything about electronics gives you an advantage.