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[highstreet]

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[ChrisLamp]

my girlfriend and I refer to this as "getting pounced." if I get pounced I ignore and leave the store. do they think that the fact that I can smell their breath will entice me to buy?

[rainism]

the solution is to buy nothing in Korea. Why would you want to overpay by a factor of at least 2 in the first place????

[Sticks]

Stick a pair of earphones/headphones on and turn them up to full blast?

[DejaVu]

The E-mart workers also annoy me. Who would have thought that I would ever turn down free bacon?

[cdninkorea]

If I absolutely must go to a department store in Korea, I try to go when it's busy. Otherwise you end up with 5 salespeople starting at you and following you around.

Once, when shopping for a tie at the Myeongdong Shinsegae on a weekday afternoon, I had different salespeople hold up any tie I even looked at next to a shirt, all around a large tie display. It got very annoying, but I couldn't get angry at a group of bored salespeople who genuinely thought that kind of thing constituted good service.

[ZIFA]

The older ones are watching you to make sure you don't steal anything.

The younger ones are just trying hard to be seen to be doing their job.