Way to communicate contempt for your customers. If you’re in the business of selling decorative replicas of cartoon swords, you need to be in on the kayfabe. Nobody is expecting to take one of these to a real swordfight. What they are expecting, however, is to have a cool prop to show their friends, and it’s not unreasonable to expect the cool prop to feel like it’s not trying to fly across the yard if you swing it around.
If you don’t want people to touch the merchandise, the second sign is all you need.
it’s not unreasonable to expect the cool prop to feel like it’s not trying to fly across the yard if you swing it around.
You might think that, but most of these are called wall hangers for a reason.
Many of them have rat-tail tangs or are made with stainless steel. They might feel balanced, but are liable to snap if you swing them around.
And if someone wanted to check if it is a cheap wall hanger or a replica that could be swung, they might want to do more than just look at it on the wall.
Right, exactly what all store owners want. For potential customers to go somewhere else instead.
Agreed with your other points but some mall ninjas genuinely believe these could be used haha most people that don’t know any better wouldn’t know why they couldn’t
Right? If you don’t want people handling your cool replica swords then maybe stop selling cool replica swords.
Each to their own, of course, but the people who are picking them up to “expertly inspect the heft and balance” certainly think they’re cool.
If you don’t want people to touch the merchandise, the second sign is all you need.
True, though it would probably help if a significant amount of it wasn’t obscured behind said merchandise…
Not true. I for one can’t see a sign without wanting to read it out of pure curiosity of what it might say and I’m sure others feel the same lol.
Whether people reading it are all OBEYING the instructions is another matter, though 😁
