While I was working over the past weekend, I overheard the following conversation in the Halloween section of the store:
'Dad, I need this color hairspray for Halloween this year.'
'Don't you have some of that from last year?'
'Yeah, but I need this one this year.'
'Whatever, just throw it in the cart.'
No. No. No. No! This child did not need this color hairspray, they wanted it. I don't have anything else to really write about it. But there is just so much going on in just that little conversation. You have the kid being really annoying. You have the dad collapsing almost instantly instead of telling his kid no. You have the parent enabling the child and not teaching them about responsibility to use up everything you have before actually needing to go out and buy something new. Something you already have in your house.
Don't get me wrong, this helped out my store because it drives sales and profitability so I guess I appreciate this father's inability to stand up to his teenage child. But it's the principle of the matter. Maybe it's because of where we live (people live and love to show that they have money) or because I see this quite a bit in my store, but this is not a one time thing. This is not an anomaly. Maybe it's because we have been watching our spending over the past year so everything we buy we have to take a moment to think 'do we really need this? or do we want it?'
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