Most fitting rooms are open here. I’ve asked about the ones that aren’t, and the answer has been the same. They just don’t have enough staff to man the rooms.
While I found it annoying last week to come across closed fitting rooms, I certainly understand it.
To say shoppers can be inconsiderate slobs is a massive understatement. Think about the shocking heaps of clothing left inside-out on fitting room floors. People take the clothes off hangers but are too lazy to rehang them. They leave plenty of damages behind, too - makeup stains, destroyed zippers and torn seams.
Shoppers wander grocery store and decide they don't want the meat, frozen or refrigerated items in their cart so they drop them on a shelf wherever they happen to be. Can't be bothered to return it to where they found it. Stores are required to trash those items because there's no way to know how long they went without refrigeration.
In our small uniform business we kept ALL our stock behind the registers and handed people samples to try on. They returned with the samples, chose what to buy, and paid on the spot. If they soiled it with makeup, they had to buy it.
We not only kept theft and damages to a minimum, we could immediately restock what they opted against. No surprise that our prices were by far the lowest in town.
Despite knowing they had to bring the garments back to the counter, a goodly percentage of those returns were balled up or inside out. You'd think people would have been embarrassed...
Yeah, I understand why stores are keeping their fitting rooms closed for as long as they can get away with it.
