>>Heh...little do they know, I save hints like this for when I become a cantankerous old man...
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>>Meanwhile, way back in my college days, I worked at a dept. store. One day I was cutting thru housewares and spotted a couple trying out toaster-ovens. Literally. They had a loaf of bread, had found an outlet, and were sitting on the floor taste-testing the results.
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>>Wasn't my department, so I didn't say anything.
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>Why stand in the way of their shopping experience?
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>When I moved to Idaho last year, I needed a Mountain bike so I went to the department store, and looked at their bikes. Then I test drove them around the store. The employees just smiled, and I found the bike I wanted.


A friend in the Bay Area says Targets there have extra wide aisles for exactly that reason.