I've heard people admit they like the attention the sales staff give them be it jewelry store, car dealer or furniture store.
I want everything - absolutely everything - sold at an Aldi type store. Don't you dare try to up sell me! ;)
Sales people trying to schmooze with me sets off all sorts of warning bells in my head. Probably shouldn't but there we are.
OMG! This is me, too. I was in sales my whole career, and commission sales a good part of the time, 'cuz the money's better there. I swear any time someone tries to schmoize me it takes a concerted effort not to bark, "Fuck off!" at them. Oy.
Same here! I always dress down when I have to go shopping in a showroom type setting in hopes that they think I have no money and leave me alone. It mostly works!
I wish dressing down would work for me here in the Middle East...I don't think it matters what I wear though; a middle-aged white woman walking into a store here is assumed to be a well-off expat.
I have a hard time shopping for anything but groceries because the stores here are so overstaffed in comparison to Canada. The staff aren't that busy and tend to immediately descend on me like locusts. I don't want to be rude, but seriously, I will ask if I want help! Can you not give me space to look at things and think about it without you standing
right there staring at me? (They don't even attempt small talk. They will literally stand two feet from me and stare, after I've told them I don't need help. And I don't think there's any way I can explain to them how uncomfortable and annoying this is, plus it's probably what they've been told/trained to do, and they'll get in trouble if they don't.)
So I often end up walking out without buying the thing I came in for, unless I manage to arrive at a time when they're busy with other customers and leave me in blessed peace. I try to aim for that. Or just avoid buying the thing at all...