The place I so happened to observe was none other than an AT&T store here in town. The purpose of the AT&T store is to sell technology to people so there's a lot going on with technology in my extravagant observation. It was upgrade time for my brother so we were there for a bit of time and in that period a handful of things occurred.
Before you step into the actual store there are a variety of advertisements for new products on the outer windows that are there to grab people's attention. Once stepping into the store a person is on standby for customers, holding an ipad and will immediately ask what your intended business is and your name so you can be called on to be assisted. Looking around the store it's a very simple, open layout, several tables and chairs set up, displays of phone accessories, televisions with the same exact AT&T commercial on repeat, and the main attraction, the display phones and tablets that have a million fingerprints on them. The store itself is busy with people either waiting or looking around at the display models. The workers are all wearing the same black AT&T shirt with a name tag and are all helping customers with their purchases. As for the customers, well there's people of all sorts but are just waiting around. There of course was that one family with three small children, two of them who happened to be twin boys of about the age of five that were a comedy show in their own with their big sister trying to calm them down but essentially making matters worse.
The types of technology I saw were mainly cell phones and tablets with a few televisions strung around on the walls. All of the people inside the store were literally using a piece of technology. The workers had their ipads, the kids and people waiting were playing on the display models or on their own phones, even the father of the three hyper children was just playing on his phone and say "stop it" but didn't bother to look up for more than a few seconds or actually approach his kids. The duration of my observation was more than an hour I'd say since passwords were forgotten and my brother wanted to be on his own line for once so setting that all up took quite some time. About 90% of the time I spent in the AT&T store was spent talking about technology, the other 10% of my time was spent people watching with my brother and laughing endlessly at what we saw and the jokes that were made. All in all, the people inside the store still would've been on their phones and ignoring their children even if they'd been in a different store or at home.
Before you step into the actual store there are a variety of advertisements for new products on the outer windows that are there to grab people's attention. Once stepping into the store a person is on standby for customers, holding an ipad and will immediately ask what your intended business is and your name so you can be called on to be assisted. Looking around the store it's a very simple, open layout, several tables and chairs set up, displays of phone accessories, televisions with the same exact AT&T commercial on repeat, and the main attraction, the display phones and tablets that have a million fingerprints on them. The store itself is busy with people either waiting or looking around at the display models. The workers are all wearing the same black AT&T shirt with a name tag and are all helping customers with their purchases. As for the customers, well there's people of all sorts but are just waiting around. There of course was that one family with three small children, two of them who happened to be twin boys of about the age of five that were a comedy show in their own with their big sister trying to calm them down but essentially making matters worse.
The types of technology I saw were mainly cell phones and tablets with a few televisions strung around on the walls. All of the people inside the store were literally using a piece of technology. The workers had their ipads, the kids and people waiting were playing on the display models or on their own phones, even the father of the three hyper children was just playing on his phone and say "stop it" but didn't bother to look up for more than a few seconds or actually approach his kids. The duration of my observation was more than an hour I'd say since passwords were forgotten and my brother wanted to be on his own line for once so setting that all up took quite some time. About 90% of the time I spent in the AT&T store was spent talking about technology, the other 10% of my time was spent people watching with my brother and laughing endlessly at what we saw and the jokes that were made. All in all, the people inside the store still would've been on their phones and ignoring their children even if they'd been in a different store or at home.