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[Bellabutterfly]

lovestoteach...

I here you...This is exactly why I hate shopping in Malls.  I hate it.  I truly buy almost everything on line anymore.  I can shop in a relaxing environment without being bullied by Vendors...  

[VaBelle35]

Our small town mall has both legitimate gangs and aggressive cart salespeople.

I avoid that mall at all costs.  I went recently to the watch store to have the links in my IM ceramic watch removed and the gentleman in the store said I could go shop while he worked on my watch and I said, no thanks, I'll wait here where it's safer.

I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

[VaBelle35]

My personal take on the cart vendors is that they know you don't want to be approached so they make a game out of it to pass the time.

It has to be a crappy way to make a living.

[Spurt]

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@Ms X wrote:

I agree with the advice not to speak to or even look at these aggressive sellers.  Any interaction gets them going.  It's the same thing if someone you don't know is at the door.  Just don't answer it or say anything.

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@Ms X

That doesn't always work...some come right up to your face if you ignore them....they think you didnt see them...so they try the up close and personal approach!

[LTT1]

@VaBelle35
I have wondered about that too -- about it being a "game."
In the case of this business and this guy, I am wondering if a relative now OWNS the mall!
However, the security guard told DH that he had to give the salesman a citation or a ticket... or something. He said this particular store has been "cited" many times.
I don't like this being treated as a "joke" by this guy! It flies in the face... if you know what I mean!

[wilma]

I totally avoid all eye contact with those kiosk vendors and walk quickly away from them.  I have never had one follow me, thank goodness.

[viva923]

i have had this happen with me at the mall (I rarely go to the mall).  they follow you around or step in your path as you are trying to walk. I have fallen over a couple of these sellers.

i know these companies are from foreign countries (at least the ones at our mall). 

Maybe this is the way they do business in the country where they are from.

[Tinkrbl44]

@LTT1

If I were you, I'd call the Administrative office for the mall and give them holy hell ..... and then call the Security office for the mall (if it's separate) and do the same.  

You might feel better after venting here, but it does nothing to alleviate the problem.

[athenian]

Find out who owns the mall, and contact them directly.  Give them specific details.  Ask if the money they receive from these vendors will replace the money that you and many others will spend elsewhere because of the harassment.  

 Malls are on the downward slope and many of them are already huge white elephants in their communities.  I wish we had stuck with downtown shopping.

[151949]

When we got married we built a home in a quiet rural neighborhood, but urban sprawl happened and after 25 nice quiet years there someone decided to build it up there. They built 2 large open shopping areas and a closed in mall. There were certainly not enough people in the neighborhood looking for work to staff these places so they put in bus lines from some very unsavory areas of the inner city to this newly established shopping area and it brought in not only workers but much crime , gangsters etc. Drugs, the whole horrible business. They totally ruined a very nice place to live. This was one of our reasons to sell our house there and wholly move to Florida. Thank goodness we did because the county bought tthe house next to ours and uses it as a halfway house for people who have severe mental illness and can't be cared for by their families at home, and our neighbors from there tell us it is very awful, screaming and noise all night. people standing around all the time in the streets smoking  up a storm constantly, cars parked all over the lawn so you can't even walk by. Police and paramedics there all the time.