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2001connections-article0025
Wearing a baseball cap when shopping.

Why not start wearing a baseball cap when shopping? Remember, taking off your hat or other head covering traditionally signifies trust and/or respect towards the place where you find yourself at the moment. From my experience, only a minority of retail establishments deserve trust and/or respect. Observe and notice that most stores express neither trust nor respect towards their customers. Lack of trust is evident in looking upon almost every customer as a potential shoplifter. Lack of respect is evident in tricky pricing and other questionable tactics.
    One-way mirrors represent another symptom of the sorry state of retailing today. Regrettably, the small percentage of dishonest customers make the shopping experience less inviting for the rest of us.
    Another compelling reason in favour of wearing a baseball cap when shopping is video surveillance and recording. To some extent, the stores intrude upon your privacy when they record your image on film or other media, and store the footage for who knows how long. Not to mention that they usually don’t ask for your permission to record your image. Common sense would suggest that the store has no business recording video footage of you the honest customer. Especially since you probably don’t use a camera or recording device of your own when you are on the premises. So, to alleviate the imbalance and this intrusion to some extent, wearing a baseball cap to obscure at least part of your image, makes good sense. Particularly in department stores and large shopping complexes in general. I find that quite a few of these places seem to be just a bit to sure of themselves. In some cases, even as wicked as talking down to customers from a high horse (figure of speech). Wearing a baseball cap and/or other forms of carefree, casual attire represents a widely available means of re-affirming the proper hierarchy. Which means you the customer = the boss of this interaction. And they the retailer = your humble servants.

Need more insight on putting some retailers in their place? All right. My second favourite personal tactic is to sip a coffee when waiting in line at my favourite department store. Particularly when the string of customers has grown too big and time-consuming. But a few words of caution are in order at this point. In this scenario, I only drink coffee in a take-out paper or foam cup, properly covered with a lid, through which only a small aperture allows 2 plastic straws to pass through. Why 2 straws, you might ask. Simple: so I can drink coffee twice (2x) as fast as with only one straw. Just in case events accelerate. But usually however, there is no rush, I sip coffee at a leisurely pace.
    Before you even consider duplicating the above technique, please make absolutely sure that you can do so safely. As well, I ask that you ascertain that the possibility of accidentally dropping the coffee cup [and spilling the contents] does not present any hazard whatsoever to any person or other life form or to any property of any kind, belonging to any person or entity. Also, better be an expert in multi-tasking, as I am. And remember that coffee cups are often spilled accidentally. Unless all these safety considerations are fulfilled, please refrain from copying my idea in your own situation.

In conclusion then, baseball caps and the like, are fine in most contexts as described above. But please don't go too far. For example, wearing a ski mask in retail outlets is definitely not recommended at this time. Particularly in banks and liquor stores. Personnel in those places might get really nervous. So forget about wearing any full face cover inside commercial establishments in general.

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