There ought to be a law that you are not allowed into a retail store uinless you've worked in one first.

I own a chain of wine stores, which if possible, is likely the only retail category with more inherent snobbery than bikes. So yeah, you can dispense with the "you guys just don't get it" rhetoric. I deal with hundreds of customers every day that range from the giggly milf who wants our "cheapest, sweetest blush" to the condescending tweed and pipe crowd looking for a bottle of '82 Latour and willing to pay the equivalent of the GNP of a small country to get it, and there are sure to be a handful of customers that are challenging to say the least. In the event a customer crosses the line and is verbally abusive (which happens MAYBE once a year) to an employee, I will remove them from the premises, but that's not really what we're talking about here.

My response (as well as several others here) was to your continued insolence regarding customers in general, perpetuating the subject of this thread. Why don't you do us a favor and instead focus on those occasions when you offer exceptional customer service, instead of banging the drum of "customers are so irritating sometimes!" Yawn.