Seriously, Ladies....

[marcyinPA]

While the ladies are definitely pigs that left that mess, why are the changing rooms allowed to stay in that shape?! One or two like that, I can understand, but Kohl's should have employees checking in on the rooms so that does not happen.

I worked in a department store for many years, and I will tell you that on busy days, it's almost impossible to keep up with the mess! The employees have to gather the clothes, turn them right side to, hang them, take them back to their proper location/rack. It's time consuming. By the time you finish, you have to start again.

Back when I first started, in the late 80's, we had fitting room attendants, who monitored the amount of clothing people took in to try on, and checked the rooms when they were done. I think that stores are no longer paying people to just do that, and have given the task the other sales people, who are responsible for merchandising the sales floor and helping customers.

You don't want to know the things that I have found in fitting rooms.... People, in general, are disgusting!!

 

[MUFFYCAT]

That's one of my biggest pet peeve. I can't imagine why people leave clothes on the floor, inside out etc. it's disgusting!

When I see it I usually put the clothes back outside before I try on my own stuff.

 

[minniebeth]

This is a huge pet peeve for me...so much that when my DD tries clothes on at Kohl's (I agree it is the worst here), which takes forever, I actually do take the clothes out of her dressing room and hang them up myself before she starts to try on her own clothes. One, to clear out the dressing room for her, because I just don't have the heart to dump them into somewhere else, and two, to help out a little just in my own way not believeing that people are so inconsiderate.

It does bother me, but not so much as to not shop there. It's a perfect store for my DD12.

 

[Rora]

I hate when I see this. It's just SO inconsiderate! It's not hard work to hang something up and return it to the place you found it, or if you're in a rush, to the rack they provide OUTSIDE the dressing room.

I've had friends who worked at Target and they were always so frustrated- they'd fix a clothing display or clean the dressing room, they'd come back 5 minutes later and it was a disaster.

I remember I was visiting my friend at Target when she was working. She was in the middle of folding shirts and arranging them onto a table when a lady comes by, starts sorting through the shirts, and leaves the shirts in a heap... and then left, shirtless. My friend was so upset and looked like she was about to cry (just frustrated after so long, you know?).

People are so rude.

 

[Arielle22]

I have worked in retail. We had a big wedding dress sale and the customers would leave these beautiful beaded gowns in piles on the floor or draped over racks where they would get snagged. If you can bring 5 people with you to try on gowns then one of the can be assigned the task of rehanging the gown!

One morning my daughter (who was 13) and I were in a Macy's dressing room. There was 1 other adult woman in another stall. The remaining stalls were pristine as the store had just opened. DD tried on clothes and came out to show me, then went back in and hung up those she didn't chose. The other woman comes out of her dressing room and leaves without anything in her hands. I looked into the stall and there was a large pile of clothes on the floor. All I could think was "what a pig"!

I agree Kohls is the worst. Sometimes when I am in the dressing room I will pick up the other clothes and hang them back up. Unfortunately I think Kohls would need to hire at least 3 people on each shift to keep one fitting room clean when it is busy. If one person tries on and discards 6 items, then it would probably take at least 15 minutes to properly hang and return those items. It seems like the fitting room duties are combined with general stock duties in each dept which really dooms the fitting rooms.

 

[MickeySP]

I alwyas put the clothes I try on back on the rack I got it from. Never understood leaving it on the floor or anywhere in the dressing room. I put my clothes away at home so........

 

[dawn1620]

I used to work at Parisian (now Belk) way back when DH was in boot camp and it was a nightmare. I worked in the dress department and it would always surprise me the mess some ladies would leave. I'm talking about 100-200 dollar dresses just left on the floor in a pile.

I never had a problem with them leaving clothes in the dressing rooms as long as they hung the clothes back up.

My favorite was always the person that would try and return dresses that were obviously worn...deodorant stains, even food stains on them, some smelling like cigarette smoke. One lady insisted the dress was like that when she bought it - yeah, I don't think so.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

How are you "almost encouraged" to leave the clothes in the rooms? Have you been asked to? I have never felt enoucarged by staff to leave clothes on the floor. On rare occasions, when I have had to make a quick exit (toddler meltdown or suddenly ill child) I have still managed to at least hang a shirt on a hook in the dressing room, or draped on another hanger or over the door even--but to leave it on the floor if you cannot take it back to the table you got it from does not seem like what a store would encourage at all. I relaly am curious and not trying to be snarky--maybe we shop at very different places and the staff want you to leave things in the room and on the floor if not hung. I am just wondering what indicated this to you

Yes, I have been asked or better yet told. I shop typically at the following stores, Guess by Marcianno, A&F, A/X (EA too), Structure and Banana Republic. Many of these stores (think Guess by Marciano, A/X and A&F) don't have a seat in the changing rooms unless it is a Accessible room.

Typically when I walk in the store and start selecting items, the sales associate will take them from me and start a fitting room. When I go to finally try things on usually the person in charge of the fitting rooms (fitting room attendant - I don't think I've ever been to any of the stores I typically shop at for clothes where there wasn't one) will show me to the started fitting room and tell me to let her know if I need a different size and to leave what I don't want. Other times, the leave what you don't want is not said but the rule still applies.

I think the return, rack or room varies depending on the store, and if you go really high end (Armani, Prada, Gucci), the representatives would almost be offended if you tried to put a garment you didn't want back on the sales floor and there are no racks in the fitting room area. The reason is they need to ensure the garment is redisplayed properly, which may mean steaming, folding a certain way, etc. So they typically just advise to leave what you don't want in the room (these rooms do have seats in most cases), and they will take care of it.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

I'm a guy and have always took the items back that I didn't want and put them back where I found them. I always assumed this was normal, but it appears that I am just not lazy.

Same here - I put them back on the hangers, and put them back on the racks that I pulled them from. I do not expect anyone else to clean up after me. Heck, I wipe off my table top in fast food restaurants.

When I first met my wife (she is a Long Island girl), she would go into a fitting room with ten things and come out empty handed. After a few shopping trips with her, I asked if they had some special arrangement for women in there. She said no, that women just left the clothes that they didn't want on the bench inside. I asked her who had to clean that mess up, and she said that she hadn't thought of that before. She started putting her stuff back on the hangers.

She still won't put them back on the racks - I do it for her when we shop together, even if there is a rack outside the dressing room.

Not something worth getting upset about, but a pet peeve of mine...

 

[MarilIncredible]

I put the unwanted clothes on the rack outside the dresing rooms. If there is no rack, I put them back where I found them. Sometimes, I select things from all over the store, so it is a PITA when there is no rack. I still don't leave piles of clothes in the dressing rooms, though.

 

[merryweather20]

Because they've specifically asked me not to. It's their store, it's their rules. I've never been anyware were the sales ladies would tolerate me taking an item back to the sales floor and hanging it on a rack and I don't shop in high-end stores.

There has been one or two times when I've snuck an item back out to hang because it was a sale, and I didn't want anyone to miss out, but for the most part I'm a big rule follower.

There has been the odd time in Wal-Mart, that someone wasn't doing their job and I had no choice but to add my items to the top of the pile that was already there. It was pretty clear that the area had simply been abandoned by the staff, and it wasn't messy customers that led to the issue.

 

[ginna74]

I think it is rude to be that messy But I also think it encourages shoplifters as well. You go into a room bringing 5 items in and there are 20 items in the stall already it would be really easy for them to still come out with 5 items and have stolen things also. Kohls has been very messy ever sense I started to shop there, I don't think they care.

 

[marcyinPA]

I think it is rude to be that messy But I also think it encourages shoplifters as well. You go into a room bringing 5 items in and there are 20 items in the stall already it would be really easy for them to still come out with 5 items and have stolen things also. Kohls has been very messy ever sense I started to shop there, I don't think they care.

I think Kohl's is understaffed. They probably (I don't know for sure) don't have people who specifically take care of the fitting rooms. That responsibility probably falls on the floor staff when they have the time (which they probably don't....)

 

[ICF]

Maybe if these women took their husbands / boyfriends back into the fitting room they could help pick up after them while they were waiting?!?!

(For those that don't know, this is in reference to a "fun" thread from a few weeks ago)

 

[NHdisneylover]

Yes, I have been asked or better yet told. I shop typically at the following stores, Guess by Marcianno, A&F, A/X (EA too), Structure and Banana Republic. Many of these stores (think Guess by Marciano, A/X and A&F) don't have a seat in the changing rooms unless it is a Accessible room.

Typically when I walk in the store and start selecting items, the sales associate will take them from me and start a fitting room. When I go to finally try things on usually the person in charge of the fitting rooms (fitting room attendant - I don't think I've ever been to any of the stores I typically shop at for clothes where there wasn't one) will show me to the started fitting room and tell me to let her know if I need a different size and to leave what I don't want. Other times, the leave what you don't want is not said but the rule still applies.

I think the return, rack or room varies depending on the store, and if you go really high end (Armani, Prada, Gucci), the representatives would almost be offended if you tried to put a garment you didn't want back on the sales floor and there are no racks in the fitting room area. The reason is they need to ensure the garment is redisplayed properly, which may mean steaming, folding a certain way, etc. So they typically just advise to leave what you don't want in the room (these rooms do have seats in most cases), and they will take care of it.

Thanks for answering my question Of course the very high end places (and many even moderately so) have people there who ask for the clothes you do not want as you leave the dressing rooms (totally different than leaving things on the floor in my opinion). At these places you mention--when the staff starts a room for you, do they leave the folded shirts on the floor for you to then try on? If not, what do they do with the folded items? I have had folded shirts left draped neatly over a hanger with something else (that was on the hanger originally) and over the door or on a hook, but never on the floor. Maybe it is a regional thing.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

Thanks for answering my question Of course the very high end places (and many even moderately so) have people there who ask for the clothes you do not want as you leave the dressing rooms (totally different than leaving things on the floor in my opinion). At these places you mention--when the staff starts a room for you, do they leave the folded shirts on the floor for you to then try on? If not, what do they do with the folded items? I have had folded shirts left draped neatly over a hanger with something else (that was on the hanger originally) and over the door or on a hook, but never on the floor. Maybe it is a regional thing.

Guess by Marcianno in particular will leave the clothes, folded (even if I unfolded them while I was collecting clothes to try on) that were not on hangers in the floor if it's a non Accessible room.

Overall (outside the hanger, floor, chair/seat), I think it boils down to the store type on what you do with the clothes and if they staff their fitting rooms. Amazingly enough a store like Bonwit Teller typically doesn't staff their fitting rooms (I don't buy much at Department Stores, but occasionally I do) at the local mall, so I'm always at a loss and just bring the clothes I don't want to the checkout and tell them.

I guess I should clarify about my posts in general, I don't agree or disagree with leaving clothes in the room (in general sense of floor, hung or on a chair), it more comes down to the store that I'm shopping at in terms of what I do with my clothes. If I shopped at Old Navy, Kohl's or similar without a dressing room attendant on a regular basis I'd probably be apt to return the unwanted to clothes to the floor or to a rack, but I don't, so my habit is one of environment.

 

[pearlieq]

I will happily re-hang and fold clothes I don't want, but there's absolutely no way that I'm going to put them back on the racks where I found them.

First of all, it's not my job. I'm shopping at a clothing store. Their job is to make the process of selecting clothes to be as easy and pleasant as possible. Part of the service they provide, the service which is supposed to justify my paying $50 for a garment that costs them $5 to make, is them putting things back when I'm done. Hauling the clothes back around the store in a pain. I don't want to do it. If I were expected to do it I would shop much less.

I never understood the logic of "I'd do it at home." Do you clear your table and then load the dishwasher when you're at a restaurant? Do you top off the gas tank and give the car a wash and wax after you test drive it? You'd do those things at home.

Luckily, that's not an issue, because my second point is that THEY don't want me to return my clothes to the racks when I'm done. I can understand why, too. Try as I might, I can never re-hang them quite "right". Whatever kind of clothing oragami they do to make it look pretty on the racks is lost on me. Also, I can't remember where I got each and every piece I took in. I may put them back in the wrong spot. I may forget to sort them in size order. I may not finger-space the racks quite right. I may accidentally drop or step on them while I'm putting them back.

Or, worst of all for the store, putting them back may make me cranky and irritated, and ready to just get out of there. I may use the time it takes to replace everything to second guess my purchase and decide I don't really need the item after all, costing them a sale.

Leaving clothes in a messy heap is lazy. Leaving them hung and folded in the dressing room is not. No one is superior because they insist on walking their clothes back to the rack. It's an unnecessary gesture and often unwelcome.

 

[purplebelle]

I worked at Old Navy during high school and it is my opinion that the stores that provide low-priced clothing have the messiest fitting rooms. I think it has to do with the type of customer the store lures. The ON I worked at would get completely trashed in terms of the fitting room, folding tables and denim walls. There were plenty of employees on the floor (no fewer than, say, Banana Republic) but customers are a lot less thoughtful of employees at the lower-priced stores. It's kind of like people think -- these clothes are so cheap that there's no need to treat them like one might at a high end store.

 

[maxiesmom]

I will happily re-hang and fold clothes I don't want, but there's absolutely no way that I'm going to put them back on the racks where I found them.

First of all, it's not my job. I'm shopping at a clothing store. Their job is to make the process of selecting clothes to be as easy and pleasant as possible. Part of the service they provide, the service which is supposed to justify my paying $50 for a garment that costs them $5 to make, is them putting things back when I'm done. Hauling the clothes back around the store in a pain. I don't want to do it. If I were expected to do it I would shop much less.

Sorry, but I don't beleive this argument one bit! As of when did going out shopping start to equal leaving a big mess behind you? A fitting room is there so you can try stuff on. Nowhere are any of them labeled "dump your crap here". You try it on, you put it back. I'm talking about stores like Old Navy or Kohls. If you shop high end where someone assists you and takes your stuff to a room, then that is a bit different.

 

[Cat0727]

I hate that too!!!

Can you image what their bedroom floors look like at home???? Probably have to dig through a layer of clothes just to find the floor!

Seriously! When I see people being pigs I can't imagine what their houses must look like

Where I live, every store has someone in the fitting room you hand back unwanted garments to. But when I go shopping outside of NYC I always put the clothes back where I got them from (with the clothes neatly hung back up on their hangers), it must be the OCD in me