Depends on the store. I worked at a big box hardware store and every public holiday you’d have old geezers just milling about wanting to strike up a 30 minute conversation with you about some esoteric project they’ve been working on for the last six months while you’re frantically mixing four different customer’s custom paint colours and trying to point other customers in the direction of things that have huge signs already directing customers to.
It’s a degrees of the same, they’re lonely and would be telling their kids/grandkids if said family weren’t also being forced to go to work. Next time you’re run into one, I’d encourage asking why they aren’t with their family/with loved ones.
Depends on the store. I worked at a big box hardware store and every public holiday you’d have old geezers just milling about wanting to strike up a 30 minute conversation with you about some esoteric project they’ve been working on for the last six months while you’re frantically mixing four different customer’s custom paint colours and trying to point other customers in the direction of things that have huge signs already directing customers to.
It’s a degrees of the same, they’re lonely and would be telling their kids/grandkids if said family weren’t also being forced to go to work. Next time you’re run into one, I’d encourage asking why they aren’t with their family/with loved ones.