No, that poo-coloured shirt they told you looked amazing does not in fact suit you. It just doesn’t.
As we all know, retail workers are the most powerful people that have ever and will ever exist.
They provide advice on the very clothes on your back, and seeing as they have an official uniform/are dressed smartly/have a neat looking badge, we tend to implicitly trust everything they say.
Unfortunately, like the rest of us regular plebs, retail workers may not always be 100% truthful.
In fact, sometimes they may even lie. We are of course as shocked as you are.
After a quick poll of current and former retail-workers, here are just some of the most common lies told, vs the truth that will usually only exist in their head.
1. “Sorry, company policy.”
Truth: If you weren’t such an arsehole, I would’ve made an exception for you. Not this time, though.
2. “I’ll go check out the back.”
Truth: Salesperson will go out the back, sit on floor and look at phone before telling the customer “sorry we’re all out”
3. “That colour would really work for you.”
Truth: “The thing you’re trying now is suuuuuper unflattering.”
4. “We don’t do over the phone transactions.”
Truth: I cannot be fucked doing an over the phone transaction.