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The last time I was in an RS it was for a capacitor. I found the bin (in the back of the store), dug out what I needed, and went to pay for it.

The salesman just sneered at me and didn't even trouble to ring it up; he just gave it to me and waved me out the door.

I haven't been back.

I'll stop by one this morning, I'm curious if they've changed at all.

Since when is free stuff an insult?

One of the metrics they kept track of was something like "dollars per sale" (they had a slicker name for it, of course). That salesperson had probably just checked the store's $/sale listing (quickly available to the salespeople on the sales terminals) and was grumpy because his wasn't quite right.

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