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| - I went to Arrowhead Towne Center for the first time today. As it seems, it was also my last time visiting there.
From a few seconds of entering the mall, I was harassed by sales people at kiosks the WHOLE time I walked down the mall. Literally...I counted 9 separate times (in the ONLY 15 MINUTES I was there!) I was stopped or followed as I was walking. SO. RIDICULOUS.
It is tacky, a huge turn off, and very rude, not to mention.
I was at the mall mainly looking around to see the different stores that were there, but I couldn't even barely tell you what kinds of stores there were, really, because the whole time, it was like a battle to avoid being bombarded by these pushy, annoying people!
At first, I was nice and started telling everyone "No, thank you." But it got me more and more mad the more it happened! Some man at one of the kiosks actually startled me by brushed up against my arm and followed me with product as I walked! I told him to please stop and I picked up my pace. Up ahead, I would see another sales person looking to harass someone, so I would go in another direction to avoid her, but wouldn't you know, someone else would come up to me on another side and harass me again! A group of moms with strollers ahead of me while I was walking at one point even were disgusted by these salespeople and their behavior. One of them said to the other, "Wow, I can't believe they're allowed to follow people like desperate beggars. That's extremely wrong." I also saw another older woman become visibly angry and shake her head in disgust after a sales person at a makeup kiosk wouldn't take "NO" for an answer.
I was warned about how bad the sales harassing is at this mall by a number of friends and family before I visited today, but, I figured it couldn't be THAT bad. I was wrong....
Mall management needs to do something about this. Immediately.
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