Social Experiment

Since my last application of the 3 principles of - How to win friends and influence people - was not really satisfying, I tried it on last Saturday again. This time, I interacted with an employee named Morgen at the Man's Warehouse in Rockville.

I had to get a new suit and I thought this is probably a good opportunity to try it again. As I went into the store, an older gentleman came up to me and introduced himself as Morgen. I was just thinking that he messed up my social experiment, but then I thought that is fine because now we can skip the first step of the 3 principles.

Therefore as a reaction, I introduced myself as well and continued by telling him what I'm looking for. And he responded by asking me what the reason for a new suit is. The conversation went on for a while. But I was much more interested conveying an interests on him, so I changed the subject.

I wanted to know how long he has been working here at this store and how long he has been working in retail. He said that he can't remember, but he started working at this store for around 4 years. Then I continued asking if there has been any decline in sales since the economic downturn.

The result of the social experiment was that I got a 20% rebate on the suit I bought that day.