I find the one good guy in the shop get his name and ask for him everytime I want something...if he's not in I walk straight back out...If I do have to talk to a numb nuts I like calling out when they get something wrong....
Do your own research, ask people on Seabreeze and figure out what you really want or need first before you even go to a surf shop then ask the attendant if he or she has that product you require.
I worked in a surf shop with a Hyper active girl who had no idea about how to select the correct gear for the individual customer.
She told every guy to get whatever popped into her head. When i tried to get her to read the (kite) manufacturers literature she looked at me like, "Hand to the face."
it was pathetic. Fat old dudes on Wake style rigid boards.
Really good wakeboarders on free-ride Naish Sols.
It was retardoooooo