"How much is this?"
Turns around product to show price tag. "Oh..."

"Are these the only ones you have?" No, follow me to the secret room where we store the 'Other ones'.
(technocore, Fri 11 May 2012, 1:19, 6 replies)

the "secret room"
also known as the stock room?
( real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Fri 11 May 2012, 2:24, closed)

^This^
We used to have loads of other sizes etc. in our stock room when I worked in Burton when I was a Saturday gimp. Seems a reasonable question to me.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 11 May 2012, 8:21, closed)

I agree it's a bit
of a borderline moan, but I have always had the unshakeable feeling that all shops are only displaying 3% of their stock at any one time.

I do have a mental image of the place beyond the 'staff only' door being something like that place at the end of the Indiana Jones film, rows upon rows of mile long 100m high shelves packed with the stuff I want, in the correct size.

I may be mistaken though.
(username failed moderation, Fri 11 May 2012, 9:03, closed)

I think sometimes busy shops don't always replenish stock as quickly as they would at other times.
If I'm looking for something in a certain colour (for example) I don't see any reason to not ask. After all, at the very least its an opportunity for sales staff to say no, but that they do have something else in the desired colour. Easy way for them to gain a sale and for me to be happy.

Most of the time they just grunt and go back to having a chat with their mate.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sun 13 May 2012, 18:05, closed)

Oh you forgot,
'what colour is this?'
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 11 May 2012, 22:43, closed)

I've asked shop assistants that.
But then, I'm red/green colourblind.
(EvilTerran rearranged his letters on, Sun 13 May 2012, 19:46, closed)