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Mikey wrote: For that matter, how many people are going to a a bulk goods/media/electronics retailer to buy clothes?

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:

Mikey wrote: For that matter, how many people are going to a a bulk goods/media/electronics retailer to buy clothes?

Impulse shopping can make you do crazy things.

IanKennedy wrote:

Reliant121 wrote:Oh, I get this a lot. Mainly with customer views on clothes. For our American friends, Argos (my company) runs a system where you use a catalogue to select an item you want, go to a till with it's item number, pay for it and then the "Argos Elves (me)" scurry around a stockroom to get it for you. They can request a view too, to see before you buy. We've just started stocking clothes and people don't seem to understand that since the items are returned to stock if unwanted, we can't let them try clothes on. Nor do they understand the bit about "with all due respect, if you bought clothes in Debenhams that had already been worn by multiple people, you would be somewhat annoyed."

No matter how or why, I (not Argos) am still ridiculous and unhelpful. I'm young too, therefore I am stupid and lazy.

Well to be frank it's a stupid policy. Just about every store I know that sells cloths has a changing room where you can try the clothes on. If you don't like them they do go back into stock and yes, people do buy clothes that multiple people have tried on. Happens every day. Personally I think it's a doomed venture, Argos selling clothes that is. Good even proper mail order catalogs allow you to order things, try them on and then return them if they don't fit or the style is wrong. I can't see any reason Argos cannot allow the same thing, other than the fact that they want to get as many people through the door as possible on any given day and they don't want to install a changing room. With that policy they aren't going to sell many clothes.

Mikey wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:

Mikey wrote: For that matter, how many people are going to a a bulk goods/media/electronics retailer to buy clothes?

Impulse shopping can make you do crazy things.

I've read entire books about impulse racks. An occasional hat or sweatshirt perhaps, but to be a viable clothing retailer you need people who are going in intending to buy clothes.

Reliant121 wrote:Hey, fair enough. I simply have to adhere to company policy; unfortunately the little men take the flak.

Tyyr wrote:I just assume the clothes I'm buying have been tried on by other people of varying hygiene and I wash them before I wear them. I'll put up with a pre-wear wash to be sure what I'm buying fits.

Tyyr wrote:Had a proud papa moment yesterday. I was flipping through some videos and the back ground music for one was Hedrix's All Along the Watchtower. My kids immediately ask what it was so I queue it up on my player and give it a whirl. Almost immediately my 3 and 1 1/2 year old girls start to dance around the room to it while my boy just starts bobbing his head in time with the music. "Hendrix rocks daddy."

Tyyr wrote:Had a proud papa moment yesterday. I was flipping through some videos and the back ground music for one was Hedrix's All Along the Watchtower. My kids immediately ask what it was so I queue it up on my player and give it a whirl. Almost immediately my 3 and 1 1/2 year old girls start to dance around the room to it while my boy just starts bobbing his head in time with the music. "Hendrix rocks daddy."