22 - Sunday, October 17, 1993 - North Shore News

Service somewhat lacking for |teceotavaesie con yu steed a
those seniors who like to shop

Mel Hurtig, Leader, |
CLERKS IN stores — we probably can’t really blame National Party of

she might need help, so she
sashayed over to the entrance

then: for not tripping over themselves to give us

seniors service.

Old people are not at the top
of their hit parade when they
work out their profit
demographics.
‘Instead of displaying a
serious bent for shopping
~-we’re most of the time trying ©

to figure out how to shed some.

, of the stuff. we’ve already ac-
cumulated.

’ But every, once ina while we.

. “do runout of shoe-leather. or.
; mineral ‘water or writing paper
or pias and some poor souls
° groan when they see us com-
ing.
a “Holy cow, here? s ‘that ‘old
guy again, wants to ask about
‘Phillips screwdrivers. Won't
believe they’re obsolete, for
-Pete’s sake.”?.
woo If.it’s the shoe clerk’ s turn,
‘she braces herself for a solid
half- hour of. trying on and |
‘casting aside.’ ;
‘Poor things. They may in-

deed, love their fellow man, but -

= they’ ve also got stock to are
“range and quotas to reach and
y gales ‘pinnacles to climb, ‘and .
“We: don’t. help a lot... :

shopping Ly personal enter
ainment, let's face, itso

yourself to, keop up, don’ t
your 2.
o when salespeople don’t
pant: with j anticipation, don’t.
hang around breathlessly” :
awaiting our pleasure, it’s no
surprise. We understand that. °
ut:when we do get ready, ~
When’ we finally have found ‘

Eleanor

THE VINTAGE YEARS

_the very thing, we’d then like

to finish the transaction and

» take the load off our feet.

A recent phone call from my
sister-in-law underlined this

for me.

She lives in a small Interior
town where it’s pretty hard to
be anonymous.

She’d got her mind set on
fixing up a sturdy shelf, just

: bricks and boards, you know
’.what I mean, basic storage,
and her husband trundled her
off to Beaver Land, Lumber
: Land, one of those huge cav-
.» ermous places where you can
: find almost anything. .
. Inside the door, hubby went -
~ Soff with his own agenda whilst

she cruised through the aisles
noting the position of her

“ various needs... *

No one offered to direct her;

‘no one indeed seemed to see

her; aproned staff passed to
and fro on other urgent er-
rands.

So piece by piece, from here
and there, she assembled what

‘she required and stood beside
ite

-No one questioned whether

area and when she saw a hur-
rying body she’d say ‘‘Uh, can
you uh —”’ without getting a
single response.

So by the time her husband
surfaced, she was in a towering
snit. ‘‘No, thank you, ] don’t
want anything,’’ she coldly
answered, and stomped off the
premises.

And heard the cashier snig-
ger behind her about maybe

‘missing a million-dollar sale.

When the same treatment
got to me a while ago I
resorted to desperate measures.

It was in another of those
vast places, this time a super-
market, not my favorite shop-
ping place, but someone had
said they carried ends of
discontinued cosmetics.

As happens, some firm or
other had changed the formula
on a tried-and-true cosmetic
pencil, and I longed for the
original which had been
perfect. 1 didn’t find it, but
yather a not-bad approxima-
tion.

I headed for the cashier.

She was in the area, but
engaged with a couple of her.

-contemporaries, all earnestly

consulting about some Product
or other.

- So I fished out my money,
pius GST and PST, and waited
nearby. :

And waited. And some

_ more.

One’s own situation is

always paramount, of course,

but I had little leeway — my
bus would pick up across the
street in very short order, and
missing it would cost me time I
didn’t have.

The three girls moved over
to another counter and started
on something else, so I edged
alongside, giving a deprecatory

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