Throughout our lives we all have been to dozens of shops, seeking multiple needs in a variety of endless choices. While being busy in minding our own business, we never quite realize what type of business we ourselves represent! Now, after intense scrutiny, I’ve come to conclude that we – Egyptians – typically fall into these types of shoppers:
1. The one who scans shops for the joy of killing boredom
This type of shopper is a latent power inside each one of us, usually awaiting the convenient circumstances to come out. When you’re free and broke, well, what sounds better than a homeless-wanderer attitude and sweeping the shops for the sheer satisfaction of the “Khod fekra w ta3ala bokra” concept?
2. The “Feesh deeskawn?” shopper
This shopper walks in, asks if there’s a discount, surveys the entire inventory, asks if there’s a discount, examines each commodity individually, asks if there’s a discount, picks whatever he pleases, asks if there’s a discount, then pays whether there actually is a discount or not. Oh, and – typically – asks before leaving, after having gotten whatever he was seeking, if there will be a discount anytime soon.
2.The government inspector shopper
This type of shopper is mostly each and every parent of ours. The one who gets the shop staff to seriously wonder whether he’s a government inspector, tax officer, a competing shop’s emissary, or just an FBI secret agent. They usually have the tendency of inspecting things inside out, upside down, right to left and left to right. And never ever forget the “Ana 7attak f dmaghi, w bar2bk, w har2bk” look.
3.The “It’s not me, it’s you” shopper
This shopper usually has insecurities, which end up ruining everything they try on (in their eyes). He/she could be too overweight, too skinny, too dark-skinned, too white-skinned — or so they think. They buy the product and have that puppy-eyed look on their face while paying for it. They usually make shop owners (who actually care) confused and perhaps sad, wondering why they aren’t satisfied or content with what they bought. So the answer to that dear folks is quite simple: It’s not you, it’s us.
4.The “I’m too good for you” shopper
Now, this particular type more of a syndrome than a personification. This kind of shopper tends to be female. They believe that they were meant to be a Victoria Secret’s model – or Mrs. Victoria Beckham herself! The symptoms of this syndrome usually ranges between: endless gazing at oneself in the mirror from each aspect humanly possible, lots of hair (or veil) fidgeting, quite some duck-faced, fluttery-eyelashed poses in that same darn mirror, and a content sigh to end with. OK, honey, you can pay and return on your mother ship to Planet Babes now!
5.The one who picks, pays and leaves with a smile
THANK YOU!
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