for real people?

Ok. Have you ever gone into a store to buy some clothes...you look around, and you find a few things you kinda like...you go to the back of the store and you say "can i try these on?" and the sales clerk says "No."...? No, that has never happened to you. Unless you're asking to try on underwear...in which case you're gross and need mental help. Or how about this...have you ever gone car shopping, and the dealer refuses to let you take the car on a test drive? Doubt it. Even HMV lets you listen to a CD before you buy it, to make sure you dig it first....this is all standard procedure for most places....

So WHY, at certain stores to they NOT allow you to test out FRAGRANCES before you buy them? This is actually even DUMBER than not letting people try on clothes. I can't count how many stores i have been to recently where the cologne is fucking LOCKED UP. WHAT!? locked up!? Ok. I understand that cologne is expensive (unless you're buying Tim McGraw's cologne. In which case, end your life please), but still, you need to SMELL the cologne before purchase, and smell it ON your body. This is the purpose of cologne. Now, i understand the purpose of locking it up. But at least keep a tester bottle out for fuck's sake, this way people can actually see and smell what they are buying.

True story...Picture this: You're standing in a Superstore...they have a vast and actually impressive collection of fragrances at decent prices. You look and find a few that you are interested in...but SHIT! They are locked behind a pane of glass...and go figure, NO ONE is around to help you. At least at Shoppers, there is a person that works specifically in that department to help you....but NO. not at the superstore...or rexall....or wal mart...or ANYWHERE else except sears. So you finally flag down some fat massive bitch to come and open up the fucking case for you. This person goes out of their way to make you feel like you have just committed some massive crime by interrupting them from whatever pointless task they were doing...then they STAND there and breathe down your neck while you peruse, and the whole time you feel pressured and rushed and like a giant idiot....so you don't even dare ask them if you can open a box because you know they are going to say no...so you feel like leaving because you don't want to deal with their shit...so there is no sale!!! So by locking up the cologne, sure no one steals it, but no one fucking buys it either!!!

So reaaallly it's probably more worth it to keep everything unlocked, and risk the occasional bottle being lifted as opposed to never selling a single fucking bottle. make sense? Yep.