Rude Salespeople, a new trend?

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In the last five years my husband and I have noted a rise in the number of rude sales people the seem to be frequenting sales counters in grocery stores, department stores. .. just about everywhere. Many of them are teenage girls with bad attitude problems. For instance about two months ago my husband and I stopped at our local grocery to pick up a gallon of milk on the way home. It was around nine, an hour before closing and they only had one check yourself lane open. We go through the check yourself aisle and get to the end and find an entire back of groceries left on the bag hanger. So my husband goes to the front desk where there are three girls employed to be working and no one is there. He waits... nothing. About five minutes pass and the three girls finally come back but they stop and start chit chatting with each other away from the desk. They looked right at him standing there and went back to chatting. He gave them two minutes before he said, "Excuse me." They ignored him. He said it again, and then finally said, "EXCUSE ME!" in a loud and rather perturbed voice. One of the girls rolls her eyes at him, excuses herself from her chat and comes over. "Did you need something?" That just made him even more angry. "Someone left their bag of groceries on the bag hanger and I wanted to bring it up here in case they come looking for it." "Oh." She takes bag without much enthusiasm. Never says thank you. He shakes his head and walks away and as we're walking away she TSKED him like he was the one with the problem. So he turned around and asked her to speak to her manager. I was glad because usually he's really passive about that kind of stuff, but who teaches these kids to treat the customers that way? I grew up in a time when the customer (no matter how rude, arrogant, pompous and evil,) was alwasy right. I didn't argue with my elders and I certainly didn't tsk them and roll my eyes at them while they were still there. Has anyone else had these kinds of problems? How do you handle them? Personally, I shope online whenever I can just to avoid the rules sales teens.