I’m shopping for a new suit, and although SuitSupply is a little below the price range I’m considering, I figured I’d pop into their store at Brickell City Centre in Miami to get a sense of the quality.
As soon as I walked in, a woman greeted me and asked how she could help. I started describing the style of suit I was looking for, but she cut me off, turned over a phone, and presented me with a QR code stuck to the back.
I scanned it, but cell service in the store was terrible and the page wouldn’t load.
After standing there for about 30 seconds staring at a blank browser, I asked if I could just speak with a salesperson and look at some suits.
She told me they needed my email address or phone number to pull up my customer profile.
I’d never shopped at SuitSupply before, so obviously I didn’t have a profile. Presumably they wanted to create one.
I asked her directly whether providing this information was actually a requirement to receive help in the store. She said yes.
At this point, getting increasingly irritated, I told her that since the page wasn’t loading, and I wasn’t particularly interested in providing my information anyway, I wasn’t going to do that.
She curtly replied, “Have a beautiful day,” and gestured toward the entrance.
So I left.
Am I crazy for thinking it’s ridiculous that I can’t walk into a clothing store and speak to a salesperson without first handing over my contact information?
I realize I’m probably being a little petty, but this experience has pretty much guaranteed I won’t be shopping at SuitSupply anytime soon.

My wife loves everything Halloween so I wanted to make her a Halloween themed goodie basket for our anniversary coming up. TJ Maxx completely gutted the halloween section and stocked Christmas stuff and we’re barely halfway through October 😐

As the title states, I thought my new tv would work out of the box, but it wont let me use the smart tv or even set it up properly without downloading and connecting the tv to the ”Smart Things” app and force agreeing to several ToS. If you try and skip it, the tv functionality is heavily restricted.

Maybe someone has a workaround for this but to me it seems like I have no choice.

Edit: Most suggested returning the TV while others are positive they all are like this (all new smart tvs). However some users suggested there was apparently a workaround by doing a factory reset, pressing right button and setting up without internet connection. This works fine, none of the smart features in the TV is available this way but I prefer this solution over selling myself out to some big Corp. Thank you for this info!

TLDR; my brand new Samsung tv wont function correctly unless I agree to shady spying ToS and connect to a personal account via an app on my phone.