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We have 4 seperate displays of £2 lip gloss on our counters at work. One has flower-shaped lip-gloss, one is cup-cake shaped, one has little rings that open to reveal lip-gloss, and then you have my personal favourite, the tiny little Japanese kokeshi-style dolls (no one else seems to like them 
). Needless to say, kids grab these. They are now sealed up with plastic because the types we used to sell in the past, the little bleeders would stick their fingers in the lip gloss and smear it and wear it and then we couldn't sell it. Kids certainly like to have a look, and for the most part they just look and put them back (especially once they realise their puny lil hands can't get through the seal
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I was serving a woman and her daughter recently, on the till that displayed the dolls and rings. I was ringing up the mother's stuff when she turned to grab something else. The daughter was idly touching the lipglosses. During the time when her mother was getting whatever else it was, the daughter picked up a little lip-gloss ring and then put it in her mouth.
Wouldn't have been much of a surprise if she were a toddler. But if I had to guess her age I would have to say about ...hmm...11!
The mother came back. I said "You daughter just put that ring in her mouth. I can't sell it now." I couldn't outright say "so YOU buy it" and the mother idly said "Oh don't do that, put it back." The daughter put the ring back in the display. She gave me a rather insolent look as she did this, so I made a real show of picking it up with tissue and throwing it in the bin.
Seriously though. I've not yet caught a toddler trying to put it in their mouth- probably because despite the fact they often mistake them for sweets, their mothers see them and don't want them choking. Surely an 11-year-old would know better -_-
). Needless to say, kids grab these. They are now sealed up with plastic because the types we used to sell in the past, the little bleeders would stick their fingers in the lip gloss and smear it and wear it and then we couldn't sell it. Kids certainly like to have a look, and for the most part they just look and put them back (especially once they realise their puny lil hands can't get through the seal)I was serving a woman and her daughter recently, on the till that displayed the dolls and rings. I was ringing up the mother's stuff when she turned to grab something else. The daughter was idly touching the lipglosses. During the time when her mother was getting whatever else it was, the daughter picked up a little lip-gloss ring and then put it in her mouth.
Wouldn't have been much of a surprise if she were a toddler. But if I had to guess her age I would have to say about ...hmm...11!
The mother came back. I said "You daughter just put that ring in her mouth. I can't sell it now." I couldn't outright say "so YOU buy it" and the mother idly said "Oh don't do that, put it back." The daughter put the ring back in the display. She gave me a rather insolent look as she did this, so I made a real show of picking it up with tissue and throwing it in the bin.
Seriously though. I've not yet caught a toddler trying to put it in their mouth- probably because despite the fact they often mistake them for sweets, their mothers see them and don't want them choking. Surely an 11-year-old would know better -_-
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