Listen Up!

Ok, to all you major sports-equipment-authority stores out there... listen up!

When a fat person finally gets it into her head to exercise, and comes into YOUR store to buy something to work out in, don't tell her "the larger sizes are all mixed in with the others".

I'm fat. I didn't get this way by putting tons of effort into physical exertions. Same is true for the majority of fat people. Don't make a fat person wander around searching through all the skinny people sizes making them feel worse about being so big. We are a HUGE untapped market (pun intended). Put all the darn large sizes together!!

AND... you need to change your inventory so that sizes larger than X-Large are provided IN THE STORE! Don't tell me I have to order a 2X, or 3X through the website. I'm fat, I don't want to wait around. I want to try it on NOW. I want to buy it NOW. If a fat person has decided to exercise, Carpe That Diem! Don't make it hard for me to spend my money in your store! If I wait for something to be mailed to me, I might get distracted instead by the Hot Fresh Now sign of Krispy Kreme, purchase a dozen orgasmic sugar goodnesses, and wake up from a sugar and grease induced haze in a back alley days later.

Also: Many fat people are extremely smart! We've spent years figuring out the quickest way to do something with the least amount of effort. We've spent years developing our brains instead of our physique. We've spent years on our fat asses in front of computers with the internet. SO..
When a fat person who's decided to exercise goes to buy shoes for said exercise at your Sports Authoritative store, and takes the time to examine differences in models to best guesstimate which shoe will hold up the longest under their extreme tonnage (and thus get the best value for their money)... and asks YOUR staff what's the difference? Don't let them answer in a way that makes them sound like they don't know what the hell they're talking about and just work there. If it's all just marketing ploys about SPEVA and whether or not the shock absorption is connected from front to back and how this one has a medial bar and this one doesn't... then SAY it's all just marketing.

Thank you.

oh, and PS: I decided that today, the first day after my birthday, is the start of my new life. So yeah, I'm exercising dammit.