If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.
This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun.
There’s a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on these groups or the labels so you’d gather [there] and it would be like a library. - Lenny Kaye quoted
Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't s...
Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.
Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.
The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.
Bumpy Johnson: This is the problem. This is what's wrong with America. It's gotten so big, you just can't find your way. The grocery store on the corner is now a supermarket. The candy store is a MacDonald's. And this place, a super fucking discount ...
I'm too sexy for a grocery store. John Carter Quinn
Inherently, department stores have significant advantages compared to all other retailers.
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.
Liquor Store Clerk: Is there a problem here, sir? Fogell: [shakes head] No. Liquor Store Clerk: [looks down at the spilled beer on the floor] Sir, did you do this? Fogell: No, no I didn't and you should really clean this up, someone could really hurt...
[first lines] Bill, candy store owner: All right, all right, all right, what's it going to be? A Triple Cream Cup for Christopher. A Sizzler for June Marie. And listen! [the children fall silent] Bill, candy store owner: Wonka's got a new one today. ...
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.
Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.
I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.
Hard-ware store guy: He'll never make it to the Grotto.
