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| - I'm sad that this is the only Lush store in Las Vegas because not only is it a pain to get to (being on the strip and all), the employees are insufferable and make it impossible to actually shop.
I'm not new to Lush. When I walk in and the employees ask if I've been there before, I tell them yes, I have, I've been using their stuff for years and I'm familiar with the products... so they don't really need to give me their whole handmade-vegan-natural-organic-crap spiel. BUT THEY DO ANYWAY. And then they follow me around the store asking if I need help, or if I want to see how a shampoo bar works, or have I tried this before, etc., etc. Normally I would appreciate a friendly sales staff, but here they are absurdly pushy! Do they work on commission?!
I give them two stars because I love the products and the first girl who helped us was very nice and friendly without being annoying, and helpful, while still knowing when to walk away and leave me alone. But I have to take off stars for the creepy male employee who followed me around the store and would not leave me alone, making it impossible for me to actually shop. Even when I said, "All right, thank you, I'm going to go do the rest of my shopping now," HE FOLLOWED ME ACROSS THE STORE. And the other male employee who started an impromptu hipster dance party in the middle of the store, directly in front of the products I was trying to see, forcing me to walk through said hipster dance party with an annoyed expression on my face, causing another employee to say to me, while laughing at his oh-so-random antics, "I'm sorry if he's making you uncomfortable! He's such a goof! HEHEHE" in this "I'm-sorry-you're-such-a-square-and-don't-appreciate-our-hilarious-RANDOMNESS" tone. And the lady at the cash register who told me I could get a WAY better deal if I bought the larger version of one of the products I was purchasing, even though when you do the math on price. vs. size you only really end up saving about $2 while actually spending twice as much, which does not qualify as a way better deal in my book, and kept asking me if I wanted to buy more things while she was ringing me up!
I'm doing my Lush shopping online from now on, because I cannot handle the intensely social, intensely pushy sales experience at this store. Even my extremely friendly, sociable husband was put off by the atmosphere. I would actually have bought more stuff and spent more money if they had left me alone so I could, you know, shop.
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