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Post by iamkristinl16 on Nov 13, 2024 22:07:36 GMT
I get so annoyed with the people who work st the kiosks at the mall. Specifically the ones who sell hair tools or skin products. I don’t want to have to say no to them multiple times every time I walk by. One time I did get sucked in and the guy told me he had been doing it for 10 years. He didn’t look old enough to have sold hair tools at malls for 10 years but I can’t imagine why anyone would want to. Do they ever actually sell anything? Do you ever buy anything from them?
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Post by Merge on Nov 13, 2024 22:21:00 GMT
No idea if anyone buys from them. I don't. My most memorable experience was the kiosk worker who grabbed my hand as I walked by. I turned and ripped him a new one.
Touching me without permission is not going to induce me to buy anything from you.
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Post by katlady on Nov 13, 2024 22:22:29 GMT
I avoid the makeup/hair/skin ones. I have bought a cell phone case from one before. And I've bought a calendar from the ones that pop up at the end of the year.
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Post by mom on Nov 13, 2024 22:23:34 GMT
No, I dont.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Nov 13, 2024 22:42:10 GMT
No idea if anyone buys from them. I don't. My most memorable experience was the kiosk worker who grabbed my hand as I walked by. I turned and ripped him a new one. Touching me without permission is not going to induce me to buy anything from you. OMG. I had a kiosk worker do that to me years ago at the Grapevine Mills Mall when we lived in the DFW area. They grabbed my hand and tried to pull my wedding rings off my finger! I actually shoved them away after yelling (okay, I admit it, I swore) at them. I was shaking. I made my DH find the nearest door, which ended up be the opposite end of the mall and far, far away from where we parked (of course it was one of Texas’s over 100° days). Never went back to that mall again. Also - people still go to malls? They tore down one of ours and the other is a virtual ghost town whenever we’ve bothered to try to shop there.
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Post by workingclassdog on Nov 13, 2024 22:49:15 GMT
When I was buying those fun cute wall calendars. I don't buy them anymore, but at the time those would pop up and I would stop there (they never tried to sell me or upsell me).. hard pass on all the other ones.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 13, 2024 22:51:26 GMT
Nope. Once DH used one of those places to replace a cracked phone screen but that’s about it. I really hate predatory retailers.
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Post by lisae on Nov 13, 2024 22:56:21 GMT
No. I usually walk by looking straight ahead ignoring them but if they get too close to me I can be very brusque in the way I speak to them. I know they are just trying earn a living but I'm just trying to enjoy a rare outing at the mall.
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Post by pilcas on Nov 13, 2024 23:17:10 GMT
The skin care ones are a bit aggressive but there lots others that are not. I have seen the phone cases, hats and gloves, giftables, jewelry, chocolates. I have bought on occasion, usually during the holidays.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Nov 13, 2024 23:30:56 GMT
I have bought Tupperware when they were in the mall and and liked doing that because it was buy and go no ordering. It was awesome. I like the smooth buttery mints at the kiosk in the mall that’s like Pepperidge Farms but it’s something else. It’s an American company and they sell meat and stuff.
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Post by TXMary on Nov 13, 2024 23:32:41 GMT
I doubt there are any kiosks on our mall. There are very few stores in it and I haven’t been inside since our Macy's closed.
Back in the day when it was booming my first job was in a kiosk in the mall. But we were a real store and always busy. We sold sunglasses. It was a fun job.
I would never buy anything from someone who grabbed me.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Nov 13, 2024 23:34:29 GMT
Maybe Hickory Farms?
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Post by Scrapper100 on Nov 13, 2024 23:40:57 GMT
I was going to say no but I did buy some Tupperware and used to buy hickory farms but they weren’t the really annoying yelling at you you stands. I avoid those at all costs. I try to avoid the mall as much as possible.
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Post by katlady on Nov 13, 2024 23:42:52 GMT
Oh, forgot about them! Yes, used to buy from them!
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Post by hopemax on Nov 13, 2024 23:45:52 GMT
Seasonal popups - yes. Everything else - no.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Nov 14, 2024 1:08:46 GMT
I rarely go to the mall. I don't buy from the kiosks.
A couple times, many years-a decade ago....I did get a neck and shoulder chair massage (the one where you sit-lean forward on the odd shaped stool-chair thingy with your face in the face hole), and the Massage Therapist stands behind you. They are usually in a roped off area, in the middle of the mall corridor.
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Post by buddysmom on Nov 14, 2024 1:12:54 GMT
I hardly ever go to malls anymore and the one I sometimes go to-like on Black Friday maybe--doesn't have kiosks.
But I heard/read many years ago that they could not approach you/say anything unless you were less than a certain distance from them--they usually have floor tiles and maybe that measured it. But I'm not sure if this is true or just hearsay.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Nov 14, 2024 1:25:56 GMT
I’m trying to remember the last time I was even IN a mall. It’s been years. But even when I did, I don’t recall buying anything at a kiosk except the Hickory Farms stuff at Christmas.
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Post by cmpeter on Nov 14, 2024 1:51:52 GMT
Way back in the day we would buy from Hickory Farms and the calendar pop ups. That’s been at least 25 years though. Now I completely ignore them.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Nov 14, 2024 2:40:09 GMT
I’m surprised at how many of you never go to malls. Where do you or your kids shop? At our mall the busiest side has two of those kiosks/popups. One is now in an actual store but the people are still standing by the door trying to lure you in. That one is Vitalitea which is a skin care company. They had about 4-5 people working so somebody must buy something. The other is a hair tool kiosk and there is usually one or two guys working there. Today when I was walking by one of them said “maam, you dropped something….my heart.” Omg. I feel bad and don’t want to be rude but they are really persistent and hardly take no for an answer, even when you are clearly walking quickly and say you are in a hurry. I hate having to try to get past them without making eye contact or some kind of comment from them.
There are other kiosks that sell things but they don’t ever try to lure people to get anything from them and most of the time don’t even look up from their phones.
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Post by padresfan619 on Nov 14, 2024 2:56:22 GMT
No and I don’t feel bad ignoring them when I walk by. I rarely go to the mall. If I ever do go it is to do in store pick up and I’m in and out, I don’t browse or mall walk anymore. My preferred clothing store is Old Navy or Target and Old Navy in my area is no longer in the mall but in a regular shopping center and Target is an anchor store at the nearby mall, but my closest one isn’t that one.
Many lifetimes ago when I worked retail I would sometimes buy snacks or drinks from a nearby kiosk.
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Post by katlady on Nov 14, 2024 3:11:21 GMT
I’m surprised at how many of you never go to malls. Where do you or your kids shop? A lot of the indoor malls over here are dying. We have a lot of outdoor malls with stores like Old Navy, Ulta, Tilly's, Nordstrom Rack, Apple, Lululemon, etc. in them. These "malls" are more like strip-malls and the stores are set up around a parking lot, so really no area for kiosks. When I go to these places, I don't say I am going to the "mall". Our two higher-end malls, which are both outdoors, are more like traditional malls, stores grouped in the middle and parking around it. These do have kiosks. There is one indoor mall close by that lost both Sears and Nordstrom. They did get a Target though. It is weird to see a two-story Target.
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Post by KikiPea on Nov 14, 2024 4:41:23 GMT
The only one I have ever purchased from is one selling phone covers.
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Post by mimima on Nov 14, 2024 5:44:44 GMT
Our library opened a branch in the mall a couple of years ago, so now I'm in the mall all the time.
And, like others, I bought calendars at the pop-up, but only after New Year with the sale, sale, sale
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Post by jill8909 on Nov 14, 2024 8:18:14 GMT
No, once a guy followed me down the hall after I said no encouraging me to try a perfume or something. I told him that if he didn't stop harassing me I was going to security for help.
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Post by Bridget in MD on Nov 14, 2024 12:36:45 GMT
I’m surprised at how many of you never go to malls. Where do you or your kids shop? At our mall the busiest side has two of those kiosks/popups. One is now in an actual store but the people are still standing by the door trying to lure you in. That one is Vitalitea which is a skin care company. They had about 4-5 people working so somebody must buy something. The other is a hair tool kiosk and there is usually one or two guys working there. Today when I was walking by one of them said “maam, you dropped something….my heart.” Omg. I feel bad and don’t want to be rude but they are really persistent and hardly take no for an answer, even when you are clearly walking quickly and say you are in a hurry. I hate having to try to get past them without making eye contact or some kind of comment from them. There are other kiosks that sell things but they don’t ever try to lure people to get anything from them and most of the time don’t even look up from their phones. our nearest mall is 45-60min away (probbaly closer to 60 with traffic) OR 1h15min away (Annapolis). I HATE the Annapolis Mall mostly bc it's a 2lane road to get there, traffic in Annapolis is awful, and the trip feels like HOURS. And if you go during a weekend, its typically crowded esp with midshipmen (which I dont blame them, there isnt a lot they can do or travel far when they get there, so they have to stay local). Where I live we have smaller outdoor spaces, they typically have a target, or old navy, or some type of store to "anchor" the outdoor mall, and then there are smaller supporting stores and eateries. It can be annoying to shop there too, if you have errands here and there and have to drive to get to the stores you want, where at a mall they are all enclosed and there. The last time I was at a mall was actually a month or so ago, we went to the Annapolis Mall bc there is an Apple store there, so we drove 1.5 hrs, went to the Apple store, the Lego store, and then left. LOL. The other "closer" mall doesnt have an Apple store and a lot of stores left, like Old Navy, and I think they are coming back. Before our mall trip the other month, we went to a wedding in August in Charleston, WV and went to the mall there and I felt I was stuck in a time capsule or Stranger Things! I hadn't seen a Sabarro in YEARS. Probably bc I hadn't been to a mall in years either!
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Post by smartypants71 on Nov 14, 2024 13:16:10 GMT
Never - I avoid eye contact at all costs!
ETA - I go to the mall maybe 1 every 2-3 months. It seems like so many stores that were in other shopping areas (outdoor/strip malls) have closed here, so the mall is pretty much where I have to go. We usually go to breakfast and then get to the mall when it opens to avoid the crowds.
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Post by melanell on Nov 14, 2024 13:27:57 GMT
I have purchased items from kiosks in the mall in the past, almost exclusively during the holiday season, and NEVER, not even once form any of those people chasing after you with skin care products. One time a lady was calling after my mom and I about how something would make us look 10 years younger. I was about 23 or 24 at the time, and I called back "I don't want to look 10 years younger!"
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 14, 2024 13:28:23 GMT
The only time is the temporary pop-up ones for Christmas sometimes. They are for specific products though, ornaments, calendars, and melt away mints from Hickory Farms.
I go to our mall probably once a year, maybe a few times. But if so it is typically to just one of the anchor stores (JC penny or kohls) for something specific. I park close to the store I want and go in and out their entrance so I don’t even go into the actual mall part.
I agree that I hate being asked to check something out. If something at your business intrigues me I will stop, if not I will pass on by. No different than a place like a farmers market or craft show. I don’t want people to call out to try and sell me their product in those places either.
Our mall has a lot of vacancies it seems, it is nothing like the mall of past. The food court is now just about nonexistent. There is still an Applebees. The IHOP just closed a few weeks ago.
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Post by Tearisci on Nov 14, 2024 13:56:28 GMT
No idea if anyone buys from them. I don't. My most memorable experience was the kiosk worker who grabbed my hand as I walked by. I turned and ripped him a new one. Touching me without permission is not going to induce me to buy anything from you. OMG. I had a kiosk worker do that to me years ago at the Grapevine Mills Mall when we lived in the DFW area. They grabbed my hand and tried to pull my wedding rings off my finger! I actually shoved them away after yelling (okay, I admit it, I swore) at them. I was shaking. I made my DH find the nearest door, which ended up be the opposite end of the mall and far, far away from where we parked (of course it was one of Texas’s over 100° days). Never went back to that mall again. Also - people still go to malls? They tore down one of ours and the other is a virtual ghost town whenever we’ve bothered to try to shop there. I live close to Grapevine Mills and it is always packed. I used to be in the AMC movie club and go to that theater but I could never find parking so I dropped it. I don't know if it's because it's an outlet mall but the few times I've been inside, it's been crazy busy. And no, I've never bought anything from a kiosk!
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