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December 01, 2025 10:56PM
I am traveling solo tonight and staying at a hotel location, on my own dime, a hotel that routinely gets shopped although I've never shopped it.
The staff apparently thinks I'm the shopper lol.... I probably fit the profile lol - they have gone above and beyond a million times over already...really it's an amazing sight to see....I wish I could tell them I am not the shopper, so they could relax lol...I can't tell because maybe some day I will shop it even though it's Coyle lol...and it's such a small town experience, they will remember me lol.

Do you fit the shopper profile? (whatever that is lol) if so, do employees fall over themselves to serve you?

Life was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on
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December 01, 2025 11:51PM
I must not fit the profile because I get shoddy treatment quite often. Silver lining, I avoid being excluded from jobs.
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December 01, 2025 11:54PM
BTW, I was fully ignored at a deli counter last week. With my adult kids. I guess we all pass for normal and unimportant.
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December 02, 2025 01:14AM
lol, Dee, shoppers almost always single, they don't bring their kids, or even their spouses most of the time. Some shops require that the shopper be alone.

I've always been invisible, I can stand in a line and get passed over. I'm NOT pretty, and I'm fat and disabled, so they deliberately try not to see me. But even driving in my car, when they can't see who is driving at all, I'm still invisible. Folks pull out in front of me with only feet to spare, I drive with my headlamps on ALL OF THE TIME, so that they will see me, but it only helps a little. It's amazing that I haven't hit anybody yet, but I make a project of trying to avoid it.
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December 02, 2025 01:31AM
When I'm wearing what passes for business casual for me, with my spectacles on, going somewhere by myself where most everybody else has work boots or flip flops, I often get the shopper treatment at places I know are shopped.

When I first started and I got that treatment, I actually told a clerk to not worry, I wasn't shopping them. They looked at me like I was crazy, and I never did that again.

I think in some cases they really do profile people and give some the shopper treatment, just in case, but mostly it is just them doing a good job. It migh be that as shoppers we tend to be more polite and attentive to them out of habit (I assume I am speaking for most here,) and they reciprocate.
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December 02, 2025 04:41AM
There's one place I eat where they seem to fall all over me. I'm not always on a shop when I'm there.

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer
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December 02, 2025 10:10AM
I was in a non-shopping situation last week at a UPS store where I received TERRIBLE treatment, but I am sure it had nothing to do with profiling or looks.

I was at a UPS store making some Amazon returns (this store does not have an Amazon kiosk).
Right in the middle of the transaction, the woman leaves to help another customer who approached the counter (hello, what about using a line?)
This customer had a huge pile of non-Amazon packages to ship = more revenue for the UPS store than a lousy Amazon return shopper.
I was left standing there in the middle of my transaction. I got mad but I waited and never said a word. I just ran out of there with my hair on fire.
Maybe I should do a google review of the place.

Life was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on
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December 04, 2025 10:16AM
According to my UPS Store, they make no money from those returns. But leaving you standing there while someone cut the line was rude.



@BarefootBliss wrote:

I was in a non-shopping situation last week at a UPS store where I received TERRIBLE treatment, but I am sure it had nothing to do with profiling or looks.

I was at a UPS store making some Amazon returns (this store does not have an Amazon kiosk).
Right in the middle of the transaction, the woman leaves to help another customer who approached the counter (hello, what about using a line?)
This customer had a huge pile of non-Amazon packages to ship = more revenue for the UPS store than a lousy Amazon return shopper.
I was left standing there in the middle of my transaction. I got mad but I waited and never said a word. I just ran out of there with my hair on fire.
Maybe I should do a google review of the place.
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December 05, 2025 08:09AM
I made a Google review about it - now have a request from someone claiming to be in management - wants me to email the details

Life was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on
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December 05, 2025 12:56PM
My UPS store has a kiosk where you do everything yourself, including bagging the item and printing the label.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown
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