The most self-depreciating experience of my life was working in retail, and the automation of social interaction was a large part of it. I did exactly what you did to try to push the envelope a little, and it invariably did nothing to change anything.
Also, people tend to leave you alone when you read Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" in the break room.
In the end, people want to feel safe, and strangers aren't safe.
So just buy your stuff and leave, consumers. That's how I felt as an employee, and that's how I feel when I go shopping.
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