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There were other customers "around" but they were not trying anything on, he was the only one trying on shoes.
You are making an assumption based on nothing. You know what they say about assumptions...
If you go through your days with your prejudice radar at full power, the pump is already primed. You are more likely to find something to get indignant about.
BTW, I've been offered only one shoe for the initial test fit a very few times. Once I'd narrowed the options down I asked for the other shoe to make a final decision. No problem. I am plain ol' white. The shoes happened to be expensive and the mall store was busy. Lots of people in and out. Tough for the staff to keep track of. All it suggested to me was a theft deterrent. Hard to do much with one shoe.
Last edited by Parnassia; 10-06-2019 at 01:50 PM..
I would never buy a pair of shoes that I couldn’t walk around in with both on at the same time. That’s the best way to make sure that they fit correctly.
Go back again by yourself, you'll probably be given both pair.
Good idea. Go back by yourself or, better yet, send in a friend who is white. Find out how he was treated and report back. Without knowing if that was store policy or not, I can't draw the same conclusion as you. It's possible the clerk was just busy and overwhelmed by herself and didn't have time for multiple trips to the back. But I also believe that racial profiling is a thing, so...who knows.
I don't know if you were profiled or not, but I would never buy a pair of shoes after trying on only one shoe. The clerk was certainly losing lots of sales or causing lots of returns by doing this. I'd wonder what the official store policy was - you could go back and ask the manager or another clerk.
I would never buy a pair of shoes that I couldn’t walk around in with both on at the same time. That’s the best way to make sure that they fit correctly.
This. I need a wide width and one of my feet is slightly bigger than the other one, so I need to try on both, not to mention you need to walk around in them to see how they feel.
I think the one shoe thing is something relatively new, like the last couple of years new. I buy most of my shoes offline, so when I did go to buy some shoes at the store they only brought one shoe out. I asked 'when did they start doing that?'. I was told that some of the popular shoes, people would try them on and run out the store. So they give you one shoe and you get the other shoe at the cashiers counter once you pay for it. So, unless you tried some shoes on at the same time and the gave you both pairs you have no real way of knowing whether it was a case of discrimination or store policy. Don't read to much into it, there are bigger fish to fry when it comes to discrimination.
If it bothered you so much, you really should have observed how other customers were treated.
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