A young woman walks into the store in early January 2021 with a mask that keeps slipping below her nose. I don’t say anything for the first 10-15 mins. But after that I ask her politely to pull up her mask. She listens, buys a product and leaves. Returns after 10-15 mins to say “only if people cough or sneeze on you will u get infected. Otherwise masks are useless”. I respectfully disagreed. She said: “I am a nurse and all this covid news is conspiracy by the government”. I said politely (without rolling my eyes) that it is a federal mandate to wear masks in public places like gyms, stores, other enclosed spaces, so regardless of what she believes she needs to wear it properly. She said if she gets it, she gets it, its gods will. I just shrugged.
Customer walks into store asking for a specific testosterone product (he calls it tetsorone). I say we have it and I ask him what he wants it for. He wants to look like the guy who does the advertisement for this product on TV. I asked him what his diet and lifestyle is like. He says “I don’t need no advice or questions on diet and lifestyle..life is too short. I want to live hard and die young”.
Woman says she wants the new Apple Cider Vinegar gummies because her friend lost 10lbs in 2 months on it! I asked her what else does her friend do in terms of diet and exercise, she said she exercises regularly and also eats well, mostly vegetarian food. I gently said that maybe her friends diet and exercise is what is really contributing to her weight loss, not the ACV gummies. To which she replied “how do you know its not the ACV gummies that are causing the weight loss”? I said I really don’t know for sure but that given my health and nutrition background and my understanding of supplements, I am pretty sure her friends exercise and diet contributes quite heavily to her loss of weight. She thought about this for a second and then said, “well, I don’t really have the time to exercise, and I like my meat and potatoes, so just give me something that will make me lose the weight without having to do all this exercise and eating sh*t”. I told her we don’t carry any miracle pills and that any pills she takes will have minimal effect unless she changes her eating and moving habits. She said she wants to see what we have. So I showed her the weight loss supplements best suited to her sedentary life and she ended up spending $125 on them!
Woman walks in to buy Ashwagandha, an herbal supplement. I say it is a great supplement for a lot of health issues, but I ask her politely why she is taking it. She says, “my friend said it is good for your health and lifespan”. Wow, I thought to myself. Are we humans so easily swayed by other’s random opinions? What would it have taken her to look online and find some relatively reliable articles explaining Ashwagandha’s benefits? I suggested some sources to her and also mentioned what I thought MAY be some benefits to taking it, but also stressed that an overall healthy diet and lifestyle have to go hand-in-hand with any supplements. They are not magic pills. She looked quite confused and decided to “think about it” and left.
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