# Sam's Club, and their aggressive outside salespeople, can bite my shiny metal ass! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 5, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club-and-their-aggressive-outside-salespeople-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass/654921 "2013-04-05T14:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club-and-their-aggressive-outside-salespeople-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass/654921/61 "2013-04-23T02:45:23Z")
The main reason they don’t see declining sales in stores because of these jerks, is because, at least in the two Sam’s Clubs I frequent, these pushy sales types are stationed right in front of the pharmacy/drugs/soaps/cosmetics section, which has to be a high-value section that people specifically go to the place to visit. So it’s either get what you came for and tolerate the assholes, or get everything but that and go home. Most people, I suspect would rather buy their toothpaste in bulk and will put up with it. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club-and-their-aggressive-outside-salespeople-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass/654921/62 "2013-06-03T21:51:02Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > This might be a good place to note, for both those interested and the cadre that follows me from topic to topic to make snide remarks about old threads, that I have a solution formulated, and hope to unveil it before summer. Consider this the equivalent of hearing something about a new kind of bomb in the spring of '45. So, it’s June now. Spring’s essentially over. Have you conducted your Trinity test, yet? How many kilotons was it? Are you going to now lay it on my ass? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club-and-their-aggressive-outside-salespeople-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass/654921/63 "2013-06-03T22:23:05Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > So, it’s June now. Spring’s essentially over. Have you conducted your Trinity test, yet? How many kilotons was it? Are you going to now lay it on my ass? Huh! Was wondering the same. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club-and-their-aggressive-outside-salespeople-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass/654921/64 "2013-06-03T22:55:28Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Huh! Was wondering the same. Maybe we’ll find out what his ‘nuclear option’ consists of. Or not. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club-and-their-aggressive-outside-salespeople-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass/654921/65 "2013-06-04T00:14:22Z")
Was headed into BJ’s for the sweet jebus pack of plastic forks, knives and spoons to get ready for the goddaughter summer invasions and on the way in got buttonholed by someone wanting to sell me a treadmill. They started their spiel before looking up and after I said no they asked if I went to a gym and then looked up to see me in a wheelchair \ ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club-and-their-aggressive-outside-salespeople-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass/654921/66 "2013-06-04T00:56:13Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > Maybe we’ll find out what his ‘nuclear option’ consists of. Or not. Two words: vanity press. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sams-club-and-their-aggressive-outside-salespeople-can-bite-my-shiny-metal-ass/654921.md?page=3)