Do you clean up after yourself in stores?

[golfgal]

I am always shocked when I am out shopping watching people take a shirt off a shelf, look at it, and then ball it up and throw it back on the shelf or people that don't hang stuff up on the hangers after they try them on in a fitting room. They leave clothes balled up on the floor in a heap. It's just sad. Do you at least try to fold things before putting them back or hang up clothes in the fitting rooms?

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I don't leave an outright mess, but most of the time I will place things back as best I can. I'm not perfect, so I didn't say all of the time.

I recall going into an Old Navy BEFORE Thanksgiving. I was buying a birthday present for my niece. They had a sale....the store looked worse than Black Friday. I was appalled! You couldn't walk through the baby department without stepping on stuff. We tip toed as best we could--but the place was simply trashed. I blame it on my area in VA as I have never ever seen anything like that in a store. Even on Black Friday, I have found stores to be neater due to extra staff.

Actually--I stand corrected, Running of the Brides was worse. While I can understand the mayhem, there was a respectful way to handle the gowns that could not be put away, and then their was people leaving them in crumpled balls. Our team draped the gowns over the racks that were near us and when we ran out of room, we tried to make neat piles.

 

[ajk912]

I voted "most of the time". I don't leave clothes in the dressing room, but I am admit that sometimes am lazy about putting things back exactly where I found them when I come out the dressing room. I'll put them back on the hanger and make a reasonable attempt to put them back where I got them, but as for sizing the stacks perfectly so it doesn't look like I grabbed one one out of the stack (i.e. returning my medium/large to the middle of the stack with the other mediums..)..no. I worked in retail long enough to know that it would definitely be best if I did that, but I suck and I'll fold the medium and put it right on top of the small (or xs, whatever the smallest size is.)

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

I always attempt to!! I always hang clothes back on hangers after trying them on but some stores leave a rack in the dressing area to leave things, so I'll sometimes leave them there instead of putting them away. I'm not very good at folding shirts and things but I always try.

Yesterday, we were out shopping for summer clothes and bathing suits for my DD. Our normal routine is for her to hand me each outfit as she takes it off, I then put it back on the hanger, and DS finds the rack that it came from and hangs it up ( it keeps him entertained). One of the girls working in the store was very entertained by our routine.

 

[Brownsfan317]

I spent ten years in retail management. Oh the stories I could tell!

I have taught my DS since he was very little to clean up after himself. He now actually enjoys "zoning" (cleaning up and straightening) the aisles. I am sure a lot of it is to pass the time while I shop, but he does a really good job!!

 

[MushyMushy]

Yes, and often I pick up other people's messes too.

Too bad I can't be that conscientious at home.

 

[VAfamily1998]

I always put stuff back on the hanger and then place the hanged item on the rack that is usually right outside the dressing room--or hand it to the attendant. I don't clean up other's messes though--unless it is in my way enough to make it difficult for me to try stuff on...then I just clean it up enough for it to be out of my way.

 

[Plannin'Shannon]

After working retail during all four years of college and two of high school, I voted yes, always.

 

[Pixiedust34]

I used to work in retail, too. I always clean up after myself in a store.

For the record, I don't rip open packages of socks, underwear, etc. either. It blew my mind how many people would rip open a package of socks to see the size, and then would buy an unopened package of the same size they just ripped open to look at. That was a pet peeve of mine.

 

[Planogirl]

I treat clothes gently because they're not mine and I dislike the idea of buying stuff that other people have put through the wringer. I don't always fold as nicely as they were before but I try to at least fold them back.

 

[golfgal]

I used to work in retail, too. I always clean up after myself in a store.

For the record, I don't rip open packages of socks, underwear, etc. either. It blew my mind how many people would rip open a package of socks to see the size, and then would buy an unopened package of the same size they just ripped open to look at. That was a pet peeve of mine.

I don't get that either. I see more packages that are meant to be opened, probably for that reason.

 

[Kimberly]

If I take something off a shelf or rack that I decide I don't like that instant? I fold it back up and put it back as nicely as possible. Most of the time I take things to the dressing room, and stores actually prefer that you not return them. Fine by me... but I always make sure not to look like a tornado went through the area I shopped in.

 

[JacksLilWench]

After only three years in retail, I refuse to leave a mess. I just remember how I felt having to clean up after people who thought I was there to be their personal chambermaid (side note: why are people so rude about stuff like that? Is no one raised with manners anymore??) So I always try to leave things "cleaner than I found them." (I also used to be a Girl Scout....it shows up everywhere, lol)

At the store I worked at, we were trained by our managers that if someone was digging through a stack of something, we were to go over, put our hand on the stack to prevent MORE digging, and ask "what size can I grab you?" Worked like a charm

 

[Ms. Belle]

Most of the time, yes, I will hang things up or fold them after I've looked at them. It drives me crazy that alot of stores put their merchandise folded on a counter or table. To me, that is just asking for people to open up the item and put it back unfolded. Why do they display the merchandise that way if they don't want people to pick it up and unfold it?

 

[twinglesmome]

I voted yes. I too worked in retail. Now if I could only do as well at home

 

[mrodgers]

Do you folks really think that when creating a thread like this, someone is going to say, "No, I pick every shirt off a stack and throw it in a pile on the floor until I find the size I'm looking for..."

I worked in a grocery store from 16 years old until I graduated from college and found a "real" job at 22. I often remove an item I'm buying when in a grocery store with one hand and pull 2 up to the edge of the shelf with the other. It's a habit that never really left me after quitting the grocery store job. That was 17 years ago.

 

[Buckalew11]

Do you folks really think that when creating a thread like this, someone is going to say, "No, I pick every shirt off a stack and throw it in a pile on the floor until I find the size I'm looking for..."

I worked in a grocery store from 16 years old until I graduated from college and found a "real" job at 22. I often remove an item I'm buying when in a grocery store with one hand and pull 2 up to the edge of the shelf with the other. It's a habit that never really left me after quitting the grocery store job. That was 17 years ago.

I do that same thing quite often. I worked for a lady who owned a motel and a small grocery store. I stocked shelves at the store twice for her (my regular job was at the motel) and I learned real quick about stocking shelves--29 yrs. later, I still do it quite often.


OP, I voted "yes, always" because I always clean up after myself in a store. Honestly, I probably could not lay my head down at night if I didn't, . I also have a kid who since she was very young, has tidied up the store shelves as we'd go down the aisle.

 

[coolbeans]

i voted "other" because i have worked retail and do take time to put clothing back the way i found them, or as close to that as possible. but just today, in walmart, i was attacked by a display of frisbees and jump ropes in the toy section... i kept trying to put them back but they kept falling..so, i very quietly got the heck outta the toy section! so i felt that "other" would be an appropriate answer.

 

[MIGrandma]

Yes, I always clean up after myself in stores. If I'm trying things on I put them all back on hangers and either leave them in the changing room on the hook, or on a rack outside if it's provided. If I take a T-shirt off a pile on a stack, to look at it, I will fold it back up the same way the others are folded and put it back neatly. I don't understand people who think it's okay not to clean up after themselves. I feel sorry for people who work at the store, having to clean up after lazy-butt jerks like that.

 

[golfgal]

Do you folks really think that when creating a thread like this, someone is going to say, "No, I pick every shirt off a stack and throw it in a pile on the floor until I find the size I'm looking for..."

I worked in a grocery store from 16 years old until I graduated from college and found a "real" job at 22. I often remove an item I'm buying when in a grocery store with one hand and pull 2 up to the edge of the shelf with the other. It's a habit that never really left me after quitting the grocery store job. That was 17 years ago.

Not really but some people did vote that way. On shopping cart thread plenty of people admit to not putting those away though.