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It's that time of year again.
Or another good title for this would be playing shop.
Yes the glorious half term, the kiddie winks are off, and the older set are tramping around the town.
Nothing bad in that, most of them are pleasant unfortunately there are the ones that really get up your nose.
Kiddies playground
We have had a few of these, usually but not always they're boys.
Mum and or Dad is sick of the sight of them, and has told them to go out somewhere.
Where do they wander?
Right into the High Street and straight for the stores to make a nuisance of themselves.
Vandalising property(recently the photo booth outside our doors), starting problems with the customers , usually cr#p they'd do in the playground.
None to pleasant comments, swearing directed at anybody that crosses their path.
Trashing the store and the toilets, why, because we can't really do anything about them and worse still they know it.
.They are still minors, so what ever they do it's a warning or a slap on the wrist.
Most we can do is ask them to leave, can't lay a finger on the little brats.
(wouldn't want to actually hurt them, but would really like to drag them home to their parents and explain to them exactly what their 'not so little darlings' have been up to)
It's got to the point where they will happily cheek our security man (who scares the hell out of most of our shop lifters.
big softie but he looks really big and scary he looms )
Dress up
Balls, proms, weddings, special occasions there are times when a girl needs a really fantastic dress, which will probably cost a fortune.
We stock a decent section full, gorgeous things but the prices are £70 (approximately $140) and up, seriously I try not to look at the prices of some
most are more than I earn in a week.
Round the school holidays we often get silly (best word I can think to describe some of the ones I've met this week) teenage girls who come in to play dress up.
They pick up these dresses and spend most of the morning(or if they can get away with it the day) trying them on .Wasting staff members time when they could be dealing with another customer.
They are not going to buy them,( at 13 / 14 I doubt many of them could unless someone else is paying for it) they just want to play around with their friends doing this.
These dresses often get smudged, crumpled from being dropped on the dressing room floor, the fabric can be snagged , you get the picture
After this the clothes can be in a bit of a state, which we can do nothing about except reduce the price when the next person wants to buy one.
Generally we will try to cotton on to this, and simply shut the fitting rooms, or refuse to let them in without an adult / parent present. (not nice but neither is them ruining a £100 dress or three)
So they have started wandering to other floors, trying to get in any unattended fitting rooms.
Anyone else had trouble this half term?
Yes the glorious half term, the kiddie winks are off, and the older set are tramping around the town.
Nothing bad in that, most of them are pleasant unfortunately there are the ones that really get up your nose.
Kiddies playground
We have had a few of these, usually but not always they're boys.
Mum and or Dad is sick of the sight of them, and has told them to go out somewhere.
Where do they wander?
Right into the High Street and straight for the stores to make a nuisance of themselves.
Vandalising property(recently the photo booth outside our doors), starting problems with the customers , usually cr#p they'd do in the playground.
None to pleasant comments, swearing directed at anybody that crosses their path.
Trashing the store and the toilets, why, because we can't really do anything about them and worse still they know it.
.They are still minors, so what ever they do it's a warning or a slap on the wrist.Most we can do is ask them to leave, can't lay a finger on the little brats.
(wouldn't want to actually hurt them, but would really like to drag them home to their parents and explain to them exactly what their 'not so little darlings' have been up to)
It's got to the point where they will happily cheek our security man (who scares the hell out of most of our shop lifters.
big softie but he looks really big and scary he looms )Dress up
Balls, proms, weddings, special occasions there are times when a girl needs a really fantastic dress, which will probably cost a fortune.
We stock a decent section full, gorgeous things but the prices are £70 (approximately $140) and up, seriously I try not to look at the prices of some
most are more than I earn in a week. Round the school holidays we often get silly (best word I can think to describe some of the ones I've met this week) teenage girls who come in to play dress up.
They pick up these dresses and spend most of the morning(or if they can get away with it the day) trying them on .Wasting staff members time when they could be dealing with another customer.
They are not going to buy them,( at 13 / 14 I doubt many of them could unless someone else is paying for it) they just want to play around with their friends doing this.
These dresses often get smudged, crumpled from being dropped on the dressing room floor, the fabric can be snagged , you get the picture
After this the clothes can be in a bit of a state, which we can do nothing about except reduce the price when the next person wants to buy one.
Generally we will try to cotton on to this, and simply shut the fitting rooms, or refuse to let them in without an adult / parent present. (not nice but neither is them ruining a £100 dress or three)
So they have started wandering to other floors, trying to get in any unattended fitting rooms.
Anyone else had trouble this half term?
Thanks for the advice.
Usually when the public toilets are closed and they come in to use ours , which will mysteriously now always be being cleaned by a female cleaner. Cruel but effective.
(meant in a totally non-creepy way)
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