[HIDEK6]

You act like the sales person is in charge of the situation.

His employer wants him to be in charge of the situation.

That's the whole purpose of his beginning the encounter with a remark about the item you were perusing.

[Ditter]

I know the store wants his sales person to be in charge but that doesn’t change the fact that they are not, it is my money, my choice. I know there are weak minded shoppers out there who can be talked into anything. Those are the people with the over loaded credit cards, I’m not one of those.