Originally published at: Shopper has Louis Vuitton staff count $110k in cash, then leaves
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I guess that’s one option. I’d prefer another option, which would be to simply walk away and live a full and rich life without ever caring about Louis Vuitton again. But then I’ve never understood why anybody bothers with these status brands anyway. I guess if it makes you happy, enjoy. But it seems like chasing so much nothing to me.
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a store employee was rude to her during a previous visit.
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I find it hard to believe that a fancy smancy luxury goods shop in China, where the largest bill is worth about 14 USD, would not have a bill counter on hand for just such occasions.
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Unacceptable! How do you expect me to work without my best laptop.
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Work, like taxes, is for the little people, Rob.
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My mom did something like this once. Had gone into a high-end clothing store, but dressed in modest street clothes. The staff scarcely gave her the time of day.
She returned later on, dressed to the nines, all her best jewelry, makeup. Surprise! they eagerly helped her with anything she wanted. Tried on clothes for who knows how long; knowing her she probably tried every piece in the store. Left without buying anything.
Yeah maybe a little too passive aggressive, but I’m sure our friend Karma enjoyed watching it play out.
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I too miss the NYTimes sequence that included only the chicken and photocopier. In that vein, we have State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen, voiced by Rick and Morty.
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Assuming this story actually happened as reported, the woman not only seethed about this for months, but wasted at least as much of her own time to carry out this little act of revenge as anyone else’s. I’m really not seeing how she came out ahead here.
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She didn’t waste any money on overpriced LVMH tat?
That’s winning for me.
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Seems to me she needn’t spend her money or her time there.
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The best revenge is living well, which maybe doesn’t involve going back to Louis Vuitton.
The second best revenge is stealing all the desiccants from their inventory, so it will be noticeably musty within five years.
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Rich people. Who knows why they do what they do.
Some spend their time shitposting and punching down on social media, some write incoherent, deeply stupid, and hilariously self important screeds on their investment fund’s website, others wast hours of people’s time to express that they are in fact very important and rich (same thing).
All they have in common is that they are a waste of space, time, and money.
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I would have imagined that this kind of behavior is what most LV employees would call… Tuesday.
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Is that a reference to the Crazy Rich Asians movie? I haven’t seen the movie yet but in the book I know there were a couple of instances of revenge when members of the wealthy family were disrespected. One involved a fancy clothing store and one involved purchasing a luxury hotel for the singular purpose of firing the manager.
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Kind of a strange conclusion. are veblen goods worth it?
So, apparently, buying a bag in Paris is a luxury experience that partially justifies the stiff markup, but buying a bag in Chongquing entails rudeness. Odd, that.
Asia (excluding Japan) accounts for 30% of LVMH’s revenues. Why would the company bite the hand that feeds it?
I’d be very surprised if rudeness is company policy(there’s probably some really weird veblen good where an adversarial buying experience is part of the appeal; but I don’t think this one is one of them); but it seems much more plausible that an employee did something that a customer perceived as rude (whether on reasonable grounds or with the assistance of either loose or overtightened screws).
Even fairly brutal labor discipline isn’t necessarily enough to keep the people stuck working retail smiling; and one can only suspect that people buying stuff to signal status and flex on the poors are particularly charming to work with.
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