Bra shopping is the worst, especially when your girls are bigger than the supposed average.
It's not as easy as cups and band sizes. If you're short, then the underwire of certain styles may stab you in the armpit constantly. If you're tall, then the straps may be too short.
And there's no way you're getting out of there without trying something on. Any new style or brand requires it.
And we trust that the store is clean and has proper standards in place for checking all the merchandise before it gets restocked on the shelves.
Initially, she thought she'd found a unicorn: a bra that fit nicely enough to actually buy.
More often, nothing is quite right, and you either give up or resign yourself to the fact that the "gore" of the bra you bought is aptly named.
Turns out that the bra had no tag because it didn't belong to the store. It was a "swap," meaning that someone stole a new bra, leaving their own on the hanger.
And apparently, these swaps aren't that unusual in the world of retail.
Some of the responses were from current and former retail employees who caught people in the act of trying to swap.
In stores without fitting room attendants, it takes an extra special kind of dumb to screw it up.
Even if the swap wasn't caught, isn't someone inspecting things before restocking them?
Does it take a few extra seconds to make sure each unpurchased fitting room item has a tag?
This probably isn't a corner retail stores should be cutting if it's already employing attendants for the change rooms.
The attendant is already folding and hanging the clothes, so my guess is that this mistake is far less likely to happen.
It's totally not cool to insist that the customer flash you before leaving the store.
It makes sense, sort of. It's easy enough to just stick your old shoes in the box and wear the new ones as you leave. Even easier than a fitting room with an attendant.
Most stores are set up in such a way that the customer is even responsible for putting the box back on the shelf themselves.
It's like being boob-to-boob with a stranger.
Her friends quickly predicted the story's virality, and they were absolutely right.
I mean, sure, the trying on was kind of icky, but it was a comfortable bra that would probably be free.
You don't turn that down!
