Don’t you often like to go for window shopping and pass some time when you’re either extremely bored, or you’re waiting for someone to pick you up? And when you specifically want to check out some reading stuff while you are at The Forum in Karachi, nothing beats Liberty Books. I used to have this perception before what happened with me last Saturday.
It was such a pathetic visit to Liberty Books for me that I’d rather think a thousand times before stepping in one of its stores the next time. I have no idea why salesmen in such shops try to put pressure on the customers while they are trying to skim through the shelves of books. That’s what one of the objective of Liberty Books is is a premium bookstore..that the customer has the leverage to do select books at his own pace. Last Saturday, I just happened to be at The Forum, while waiting for a friend when I decided to pay a visit to the newly built bigger Liberty Books.
Since I went there with an exploratory mind, I started to swift through various shelves trying to read book synopsis and summaries. But these two stupid ass idiotic sales reps pissed the crap out of me! They just did not want to leave me alone to let me relax and go through the books at my own pace. The stupid guys kept on standing on my head even though I told them a few times I was just looking around. It seriously looked either they were trying to put pressure on me to buy a book or were trying to make me leave immediately. I even checked myself in the mirror a few times just to confirm if I look like a thief.. But I seriously couldn’t get what were they suspecting or was it just their way to treat customers.
I was so damn pissed off with them as they kept making me feel weird by staring at me with weird angles and by standing right on top of my head no matter to which shelve I moved. One of them also kept on greeting me with ‘Salams’ quite a few times time and again. It looked as if he was trying to make me feel that I was at the wrong place.
It was a horrible experience and I seriously thought of complaining to their management. Pathetic training to this idiot staff I must say and I seriously would not like to go back to such a shop even if I have to buy anythng from there. The whole idea of having a big shop and making customers feel at home is just not being followed by this stupid bookstore and its just simply plain IDIOTIC!
