Oprah and the Swiss Shop Clerk - Racism or Consideration

exactly. ANd it is not even meant that way. Its just a general habit . Plus: Europeans are not as friendly as americans in general. There might be several reasons for that, but to dive into that cultural differences is too much for now. I remember when I was starting to work as an escort and went to luxury boutiques for the first times. I was so angry all the time because I was treated like shit. It made me just appear like an arrogant person myself and then all of the sudden it worked . Nowadays I buy online mostly, I am tired of interacting with people at all when shopping. Shops are too mindboggingly huge and it gives me anxiety attacks . I love small Wolford shops where you have a hard time turning around and don`t get ADD like attacks of "WHAT THE HELL SHALL I BUY HERE" because it is so overwhelmingly much! Originally Posted by NinaBrooke

Soooo.... tell me how she was supposed to buy that bag? So Oprah isn't used to shopping in other countries? Is this something that shouldn't be new on her?

And I've never been treated that way in Saks, or any place. And Coach is too cheap to turn anyone away. ESPECIALLY here in Dallas. Yes, I know for sure they treat you like you look, so I make sure that no matter how casual, they know that I am capable of buying what I want.

I don't disagree about the marketing ploy, but it was still uncalled for. And that's no reason to rationalize unacceptable behavior. When you have a multi-billionaire client walk into your shop and you work on commission, you schmooze!

I'm with Nurseguy on this one.

Well I chaulk it up to lazy workers. Do not want to reach for a bag for nothing. It is just like the strippers that do not want to sit with the guy with the flip flops and the sweat pants want to go sit with the Armani suit, Judging a book by it's cover....And the Armani suit guy is in a rental and it took all his two pay checks and the sweats guy locked his keys in his porshe going down to grab his wallet and black card out his car before he left the Omni..The strip club was right around the corner he decided to go grab a beer while he waited for the lock smith....And the girl that finally sat with him banked...TRUE STORY

A like situation happened to me in Dallas at the Galleria. I was 30 just started this business and ran a 100 special for 10 days before I got my children for Thanksgiving . I had SOME SERIOUS CASH ON ME.... nothing compared to 40 thousand but lets say on top of what I already had put away I had about 10,000 on me it was black Friday the day after thanks giving and I had all my 5 Hispanic children with me. My hair was pulled up and I had sweat pants on. I think it was Macys or something like that could of been DIllards one of them that had Dock Martins and all 4 of my boys wanted a pair.. and I wanted them fitted and the lady said those are $150 a pair and no discounts are available. OK I said fit ,my kids,, she sighed and the way she treated me was bitch you are waisting my time you know you are broke with all these Mexican kids ...so I let her fit them all went to the register.. And said you get commission right.. I pulled out that wad of CASH counted out about lets say 2 or 3 grand and stopped put the money back in my purse and said you wont be getting a dollar from me.
I always say looks looks looks judge them and it can hurt your pocket book.

I think the braud was just a lazy worker did not want to put in any work.....and because of that she got zero money.