We all know that some salespeople can be pushy and will say anything to get your money but Annick Robinson refused to let this slide when she was approached by a store employee at the airport.
She was making her way through Calgary International Airport earlier this month when she was enticed into a shop with a “free” bar of soap. The salesman then tried to sell her a number of anti-ageing products by making comments about her age and skin.
As you would expect, Annick wasn’t impressed and answered him back, as she explained in a Facebook post. She recounted their exchange before adding that she is shocked that her story is getting so much attention.
One of her responses to the sales assistant went like this: “What’s wrong with my eyes? I have a miracle baby at home and haven’t slept in 2 years, so if I have bags I am grateful to have them, and my husband and I laugh a lot. Those are his fault. He loves how I look… I don’t think I need your cream.”
However, this didn’t put him off. He persisted with his technique to the point that she finally told him: “I look fine now, and when I’m 45 I will look fine, and when I’m 50 I will look fine, because there is nothing wrong with a woman aging. Old age is a privilege denied to many, and I don’t appreciate you marketing youth instead of your products, and denigrating aging women as a sales tactic. Thank you, but I don’t want or need your cream.”
Annick explained that she was so “horrified” by the pitch that she took a selfie. She said: “This is the face my children and my husband love. I think I’ll keep it.” The mum was also taken aback by the response she has received and is concerned how her reaction is being viewed as the exception.
She wrote an update which read: “I have been reading some of the comments and wanted to clarify that this wasn’t a post about natural beauty over those who wear make-up, its not about being insulted by a salesman. Its not even about the salesman, who I am sure is very good at his job and following a script. Its about a billion dollar industry that depends on women hating themselves.
“And its not about how pretty or not I am. According to whose standards can we decide what is beautiful anyway?… Women have more important things to do in 2016 than spend a single other minute worried about our wrinkles or the acceptability of our thighs.”
She also addressed the people who believed she was too hard on the salesman by insisting that she was “very, very polite.”
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