A few months ago, I was out shopping and there was this teenager girl newly working as cashier.
She asked the usual "Do you have our app?" and I told her "No.".

Of course, with the obligatory tone that I have no interest, cause I fully expected her to follow up with "Would you like help setting it up?". Which is always funny, because like everyone else on Lemmy, I work in IT.

I think, she absolutely understood that I have no interest, but her manager was in earshot, so she thought for a moment and then hit me with "We also have these stickers you can collect!".

And just, goddamn, lady. I know, I probably look to you like I belong in a museum, but I'm not that old.

...of course, I didn't actually take it personal. Not to mention that I was genuinely delighted to hear that they still have a non-tracking option. But yeah, still most definitely no interest.

Funny thing, the one job I ever worked before I couldn't work anymore I was supposed to do this, but I'd just shut up the second they said no, never once did the whole thing, and got "demoted" to janitor for it. Turns out the janitors get paid more and they had to give me a raise. I unfortunately had to quit before I got that raise though due mental disabilities getting in the way.

You guys are getting 15%? I always assume that these things are like "If you spend an entire month shopping here you might get a coupon for a chance to get £5 off something you weren't going to buy anyway".

I went to an apple store once that buy my dad the basic ipad mini and had something similar.

"Hi, how can i help"

"I'd like this model of the ipad mini with x storage capacity"

"What are you going to use it for?"

"It's for my dad i just need that specific one as it's within the budget"

"What is he going to use it for?"

"Ipad stuff i guess, i just need that specific model"

"Video's? Design? Editing maybe?"

I nearly walked out of there as a result of how annoying that got.

I just hit 'em with "my wife would kill me". It really works.

Sears got me to come in because of a sale on mens shirts. It was raining and I am with my then two year old who is bored out of her skull in the massive line I am trying to keep her from getting upset and sitting on the sludge of mud from footprints. Counter person tries this on me and I am not proud of myself but I snap telling him that this is why the line is so long and could you please please just take my money for the items I wish to buy.

Haven't been to a Sears in eight years.

Retailers here (Swiss) already understood that "no and good" saves time on both sides. Goes usually like this:

• Do you have a ?
• Nope
• Do you want to create one?
• Thanks, no.

"Would you like to sign up for our awful credit card?" Nah. "Would you like to sign up for a free trial of our plus service that you'll never use?" No thanks. "Do you want the X month protection plan for your USB drive that's 10x the cost of what you're paying today?" What? No. "Would you like to donate to this charity the company totally could but won't but say we raised all this money for?" Nope.

Oh god... this is literally what my job is turning into 😰

The employees at my local Walgreens just walk you through pressing cancel like 4 times so you can just pay. Love them, hate Walgreens.

I almost always decline and I always say sorry for their bosses making them do this.

Sears! Dont forget the protection plans on top of this that we had to upsale. Thank you for never coming back.

I purchased something that didn't require any follow-up but they still asked for my phone number and address to put in their system. The cashier and I had an awkward moment when I found out that the 5 digits I had given him wasn't a valid ZIP code and I had to think of a different fake one on the spot.

I remember the private company taking over our little staff restaurant in the hospital years ago. And then the "talks" we received for not "upselling" to vulnerable old ladies who had clearly just lost their husband.

So true.

I drive an extra mile to a different gas station only because I discovered their cashiers don't start a lengthy discussion about why I should get one of those plastic data collectors every time.