>>11141940This is how the majority of store worked before the 1930s(?)
Even grocery stores (dry goods) had a desk you walked up to with your grocery list and one of a dozen workers would go into the back to bring you all your shit.
I mean, fucking Sears and JC Pennys were operating as a mail order company for close to century. It was a large chunk of their business all the way into the 80s and 90s. Traditional stores like we know them didn't actually become popular until the 60s. Before, the physical shopping we enjoyed (until the 2010s) were all small mom and pop shops, custom tailoring, and bazaars. Even then, it was a pretty limited experience and full of employees telling you not to touch anything.
Yes, asshole employees telling you not to touch anything is a hold over from how retail used to work in ye olde days, because some of those workers still remember when everything was kept behind the counter.
... is anyone here even old enough to remember asshole employees doing this?
>>11142180>FAO SchwarzOne of the first stores to give shoppers that physical experience we used to know before the internet made us shut ins.
A lot of luxury stores were that way too. Peasants weren't allowed in though. The 60s (maybe 50s) showed how profitable it was to offer that same experience.
Will this tradition become popular again? Probably not.
