Unecessary.

Retail stores usually have a set time that they open and a set time that they close. This allows for a specific amount of hours in which the store is admissible and available for you to shop in. For many stores it's a good twelve hour chunk of time, sometimes even longer depending on the type of store. It is true that for smaller shops the hours can get trickier, closing early, opening later, possibly being closed completely for whole days. But for the most part store hours are pretty generalized and I think it's fairly easy to get the gist. These hours however, are not merely a suggested guideline that you can manipulate to whatever fits you best. You should not expect to saunter into a store ten minutes before it closes and start shopping at your own leisure. There are things that need to be done to achieve the actual closing of the store, and you continually touching and unfolding the neat piles is not helping us accomplish them.

Quite frankly, there is no way that it is absolutely imperative that you get a Graphic T at 8:58pm. If at that point in time you don't already have an outfit picked out for your evening, just go home, and get into bed, the night has no possibility of success anyway. I understand that it is impossible for everyone to be gone immediately as the store closes, but once that music shuts off, I think it's necessary to at least acknowledge the oncoming close, and start swiftly making your exit. Being the last customer in the store gives you no benefits in any way. You will not get an exclusive prize, you will not score on any extra deals, and believe it or not you won't be treated special in any way. In fact, there is a much higher chance that we will be short with you. So don't be rude.

Just because you have managed to wander around the store, oblivious to the fact that most of the people have vacated, and the store is looking more put together, does not give you the right to be rude to your cashier. I sympathize, what a drag, you have to wait in line! Well guess what, while you're standing in line, your cashier is dealing with the 12 idiots in front of you. Do you still wonder why we don't have any expectations for your IQ when your turn finally arrives? Not to mention the eye rolling is not encouraging me to scan those barcodes faster. The line is long because the store is CLOSED, and most of the employees are off for the evening.  Shouldn't have waited til the last minute to buy those sixteen pairs of flip flops. Procrastination is never really rewarded. I would know; I procrastinate my procrastinating.

So get your shopping done early;  Make an event out of it! Grab some lunch, enjoy the daylight! And if for some extenuating circumstance you must enter a store right before it closes, pick up the pace, and at least try and be quick about your decisions. If nothing else, I'll appreciate the effort. .